The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-07-03
MISCELLANEOU S.

A busy watering place all the year
milkman's.
Human nature is so constituted, that
see, and Judge better. in the affairs Of
men than in their own
A young lady in Oregon reprimanded
her flirting lover by pouring a pot of glue
on him. He stuck after that.
Mrs. Maria Parker, of Stamford, VT,
is the happy mother of ten sons and
sixteen daughters.
The Lowell Courier suggests that the
Iowa schoolmistress who rides TO school
on an OK must know all about oxides.
The married ladies of a Western towu
have formed a Come home-husband
Club" 1t is about four feet in length,
and has a brush at the end of it.
There is a young lady in Yorkshire
who is six feet five inches high and five
feet six inches round. Could there be
more beautiful proportions?
A Scranton journal states that the
ladies there wear stove pipe biiurcated
undergarments, and the men have their
pants lined with barrel slaves, and all be
cause mad dogs are plenty there.
Humbolt, Tenn, is building up fast
A local paper says: "a man lay down
on a vacant lot the other day to sleep of
a drunk. He was astonished on waken
ing to find a two story house built over
him.
The Macon Telegraph gives this "awn
ingpost conversation - "Well, Jim, the
world owes me a living, anyhow" Tc
which Jim replied, "Well, George, per
haps 1t does, but III be blessed if you
amt too lazy to collect it,"
A camp meeting will be held at Higl
Bridge, on the Central Railroad, com
mencing July %, to continue during the
week. Abundant provision will be made
for all who attend. The meeting will be
held under the auspices of the n. j. Cen
trail Preachers Association.
The naughty married ladies of Biug
hamton lure on foppish young men with
the handkerchief game" until their hus
bands are met, and then there is a scene
One young fellow, the other day, who haC
been following one of the heeting shows
had the basement Of his trousers filled
with kicks by an indignant hubby,
Henry Ward Reecher says that some
men will not shave on Sunday, and yet
they spend all the week in shaving theil
fellowmen aud many folks think in very
wicked to black their boots on Sunday
morning, yet they do not hesitate t.
blacken their ueighbors reputation or
week days.
The half million postal cards sent tc
the New York Post office were disposed
of in less than three days. The princi
pal uses to which they have been put
thus far have been for advertising ana
perpetrating jokes. Their novelty vii
soon wear of aud they will come down tC
their legitimate use.
THE Committee of White and Color
ed Citizens" in New Orleans, at a meet.
ing on Monday night, adopted resolutions
defeating themselves to the uniication
of the people of Louisiana, and to the
adoption of perfect social as well as poll
teal equality for both races. They also
appointed a committee to call a mass meet
ing when deemed expedient. The re.
solutions are signed by a number of pro-
miuent white and colored citizens, with
G.. T. Beauregard as chairman.
The New York papers publish a report
that the New Jersey Railroad Company,
which was organized some time ago un-
der the general law of that State, recent.
ly obtained a controlling interest in the
Philadelphia and Newtown Railroad, now
building in Pennsylvania, and intend u.s.
ing it as a part of their through route be
tween New York and Philadelphia. A
considerable portion of the Philadelphia
and Newtown road is already constructed.
and the charater gives them power TO
bridge the Delaware River. The engi-
ueers of the New Jersey Company are
running their line so as to meet the Phil.
adelphia and Newtown road at the Del.
aware River. The Company will soou be
ready to place several sections of their
road under contract.
The theory that Gen. Grant is a dicta.
tor and that Congress only registers his
decree, has long been a %favorite one with
the opposition. Yet it is wholly incon
sistent with the facts. Gen. Grant asked
Congress to embody civil service reform
in law, but it refused. He asked them
to take some action in the Louisiana mat
ter but it did not. He urged it to pass
some measure to facilitare the operation
of the Federal laws in Utah but it omit.
ted to do so. The consequences which
the President predicated have come about.
The courts are substantially at a stand,
because legal @juries cannot be obtained,
and the criminal law of the Territory is
as good as void for the time being. Nor
is there any apparent remedy available
until the opening of Congrcss.-New
York Times.
We have now the annual discussion
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