The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-04-24
NO. 30.
All Sorts of Paragraphs.


hour after his appointment he was on
duty with pick ak and shovel
The Boston TroUeHer dealere, William
Lloyd Garrison to be better representa-
tive Of Massachusetts sentiment to day
than Charles Sumner.
a Pitts6eld, Mass, woman advertises
her husband for sale for Sl00. She has
not very exalted opinion of his worth,
but is probably justified.
A mosquito taper is Pittsburg inveh.
ton. 1t creates such smell when burn.
ing that the mosquitoes ask to be excused.
1t drives human beings out Of doors also,
which is its only defect.
In Fremont. Nebraska, you can buy
potatoes for thirty cents bushels, eggs
at twelve to fifteen cents dozen, and
beef at ten cents pound but ii is rather
FAR to go to market.
The number of persons out OF employ.
meDt in Philadelphia is appalling One
insertion of little advertise nent for a
clerk in railroad Office brought 9S5 ap-
pllcants in single day.
Deunsion, that Texas mushroom city,
is growing rapidly into metropolitan
ways. 1t has already dedicated ccme-
terry, and got excited over dclalcation
| by bank clerk.
The trustees of the Episcopal Tbcolo.
| gical Seminary at Cambridge, Mass, have
refused an offer of Sf00,0O0 from cit.
/ Izen of Boston on account of the objce-
tiopable conditions imposed.
/ y Georgian went down to Augusta lass
week aud sold $1,000 in gold at sl.l4i
that he paid 81 50 for in 1866, and has
been keeping ever since Cor rise.
At the recent opening of Vernon.
court, clergyman prayed that wisdom
and grace might be impaired to the
jurors and the judge, and even to the
| lawyers.
| 1t is common occurrence in New
! I ork, for opulent men to give from $780,
/ 600 to S500,000, to endow institutions Of
learning. 1t is rare thing in Pennsyl-
| vania
a Minnesota farmer has just sold his
farm OF 100 acres, forty acres broken and
Fall plowed, With good frame house,
stable, and all his farming implements
and utensils, for 500 cash and an old
sheepskin overcoat.
Gardner. Mass, with population Of
1000, has 10 chair manufactures, giving
employment to over 1000 men, women
and children. The annual product is
over 1000, 900 worth, including soma
200 varieties of chairs
Two young ladies' in Minnesota town
volunteered to nurse TIE family of neigh
Dor during an attack of a contagious dis.
case, aud both were taken Ill. died, aud
were buried in a common grave.
a gentleman in North Carolina built
fire in his house on his wedding dav,
twenty i've years ago. and has kept il
burning night ond day ever sioce, and
declares his intention never to permit it-
to die out while he lives.
The we'll known Sherman House. Of
Chicago, destroyed during the fire. ha,
been rebuilt on the old site. and was
| opened on Monday week. 1t contaius
| three hundred fine rooms fitted UP in
splendid style, with all modern i'm prove.
ments.
John Dixon, the fourdcr Of the flourish.
ing city of Dixon, HI. is the only survi-
vor OF twenty young men. who, in 1900.
in New York, formed the Young Mems
Bible Society, the first society of the kind
In this country, if not in the world, to die
tribute the Bible without note or con-
ment
An illustration of absent rsi1dedness
Is told of an excitable young drug clerk,
who hlled his customers bottle with the
linlmert desired, and received therefore
nice twenty five ceut shin plaster, past
ed 1t on the bottle aud put the label in
| the cash drawer.
4 fady living at hotel in TROY al.
lowed her baby to lie aound loose, and
the result was that it got mixed M in
lot o! dirty clothes, and was carried off
unobserved, by the laundry maid of the
establishment When the loss was dis.
discovered, diligeut search was institu-
I ted, aud eventually, after sorting over
the contents of the Laundry, the bady was
discovered.
The Jonesborough Nago ond Adcerftse,.
hears OF curious marriage in the FLAG
Pond district. a young man won his
sweetheart by lying about his rival, took
out his license. and went with her 10 the
minister. But, meantime, she had touna
out his peridity, and punished him pub
iicly by saying mo. - at the altar. and
marrying his rival on the spot.
The export of apples has become a
important branch of the trade of Boston.
Over ten thousand barrels of green ap-
Piles were sent to Europe by three steam.