The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-06-11
NO. 4.
MISCELL A N E0 US.

| y ldi &c HuChlcoeiIy crop Is pTeucVou
| by the mountaineers.
A Lehigh pa. man trails a beard four
feet three inches long.
There were twenty two deaths in Har-
risburg during the month of May.
Peter Starr, Sr., died in Riy township,
Schuyllill county, on the 31st ult, aged
ninety-nine years
A Georgia girl has been the cause of
three duels and ten fights, and she's a cross
eyed girl at that.
West Chester has lost another ''old land
mark :" Ann Taylor, aged ninety-four
years, died on Monday
Harrisburg has IA Millers, and 125
Smiths, eighteen of them Johns, while the
Jones family numbers only seventy.
William Small, hostler, of HonesdaIe,
Pa, has fallen heir to $4,000 by the death
Of an uncle, but he cannot be found
a Lancaster man walked distance of
torty-five miles in ten hours and fortv-fiye
minutes, feat worthy of Weston himself.
West Lampeter, Lancaster county, comes
to the front with a calf having eight legs
and two tails The animal is alive and do
ing well.
The emigration to the west is very heavy
From 2, 900 to ), 900 emigrants pass through
Harrisburg weekly on the Pennsylvania
railroad
The Board of Control of the borough of
Easton, Pa, levies $33,75O school tax to
meet current expenses, and S32, 900 for
building purpose,
"What are you doing there, you rascal ?''
Merely taking cold sir" 1T looks to.
me as if you were stealing ice. ''Well, yes,
perhaps it will bear that construction"
A Mrs. Strabaugh, of Indiana. has pre-
sented her husband with healthy and in
teresting child, which, beside the head or
dinarily allotted by nature, has second
one growing from the right hip.
A wildcat shipped by Mrs General Gus
tar to Central Park, New York, escaped
from its cage in the United States Express
office at St Paul the other day A sponge
filled with chloroform subdued the beast
and it was secured.
A farmer sold small load of hay in
Erie recently for SO on his way to un-
load it, another man offered him 81 which
he accepted and went home The first par
ty prosecuted him, and it cost him just for
ty dollars to pay the damages and costs.
''Who hath woe q inquiries the Brooklvn
Argus, to which the Detroit Free Pros
says "Well, there's compositor on this
paper who lives next door to an old maid.
with five parrots, and a family with bass
drum, harp and fiddle, lives across the way.
Do you refor to him?'
An old negro Woman was arrested and
brought before the Mayr of montgomery,
Ala, for picking up some drift wood at the
edge of the river Her defense was that
God sent the rain that raised the river that
brought the wood. The Mayor thought it
a good defense and discharged her.
The Indiana judges stand no nonsense
from the bar A lawyer there lately in the
course of his argument used the word dis
paragement" Stop using Latin words y
said the Judge, cor sit down" The poor
lawyer, undertaking to explain, was ruth
| leSSly hned SZU for contempt
The skeleton of the whale caught at
| Perth Amboy is to be presented to Rut-
gers College 1t took two yoke of oxen to
/ haul the whales head to where It was buried
and one yoke had all they could do to drag
the snout. The owners expect to realiza
about $500 from the oil, and about $3.50
from the whaebonc, which, added to the
1925 they have obtained as fees from spec
tators for seeing her whaleship, will make
profitable days fishing.
At Harrisburg, on Monday, post
mortem examination was made of the body
of George Cords, who died from the effect
of eating ham containing trichine BY
powerful microscope thousands of moving
trichine were visible, moving ike snakes,
and resembling boa constructors In the
space of an eighth of an inch sixty-fye
were counted. There were doubtless
millions of worms in the body of the
deceased, who suffered terribly before
death.
Vice President Henry Wilson, who was
the guest of General Kilby Smith, at Tor
resdale, in this State, last week, is now at
home in Massachusetts,, He intends soon
to make a trip to the Northwest. The mn
preston is quite general that he will never
again be able to occupy the chair and pre-
sTfe over the deliberations Of the Senate.
He is nearly blind in his left eye, and the
duties of presiding officer are such as to ag-
gravate his ailment
According to the Green Bay (Wis)
Adrocate, they have an improved method
of making responses in the marriage cere-
mony at Oconto. On recent occasion
man whose mind was somewhat obfusticated
by an injury he had received was married,
and IN reply to the all-important question,
] AANill Won take this vonnan 10 h. ,n,Ir law