The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-06-04
NO. B.
MISCELLA E0 US.

Forty thousand cattle are said to have
pcrished in Utah and Nevada, during the
winter.
1t has been estimated that the world
uses 10000 900 pounds Of tea and 49,
100000 pounds of coffee every year,
Nice place, that New York There were
over twenty thousand prisoners brought
before its police court during the first
quarter of the present year.
A Louisville man complains that his wife
is an infationist. She blows him up every
day, and makes him circulate until he ac-
tually feels he is beyond redemption.
A Hartford baby performed the mar
velous feat of falling from fourth story
window without being seriously hurt
Which shows how hard it is to spoil scme
children.
The crusade in Ohio has injured many
branches Of business. Among the coopers,
hoop makers, iron workers, box makers,
SC, many laborers have been thrown out
of employment.
The shipments of wheat from Montreal
since the opening OF the season are about
400,0 bushels, and the stock there nov
Is about 100000 bushels, with large stocks
at points in Western Canada
Father" said a cobber's lad as he was
pegging away at an old shoe ''they say
that trout bite good now" Well, we'll"
replied the old gentleman, ''you stick to
your work and they won't bite you"
On Monday night, at Newport, four
miles above Easton, Martin Cunningham,
a railroad labor, stabbed and killed far
mer named William Smith, in quarrel at
dance. The murderer was arrested.
The town of North Providence, RI,
has one pauper to support. This individual
has farm all to himself, with carriage, horses
and cattle, food provided by contract and
poor master and family to take care Of him.
Returns from ali the cotton States indi-
cate that in all except Texas the area
planted in cotton, this season, is consider
able less than last season, while the acre
age Of corn is about torrespondingly iu-
creased
4 good brother in Miami county. while
giving his experience, not long ago. said,
'Bretherin I've been tryin' this nigh unto
forty years to serve the Lord and git rich
both at once, and tell yer, It's mighty
hard sleddin''
"Heres your money, boy, and now tell
me why your rascally master wrote eighteen
letters about that contemplate sum" I'm
sure, sir, [ can't say but if you'll excuse
me; sir, sort o reckon twas because seven.
teen didn't fetch it.
Among the European economies is the
gathering mp of segar-tips, cut off before
smoking. In Dantzic one boy is fed, cloth
ed and schooled, each year, from the pro
ceeds, and in Berlin small osylum is sup
ported by him.
1t Is Estimated that not less than one
hundred thousand northerners have, dur
ing the winter months, visited the south
on pleasures or business. The daily amount
of money disbursed to hotels and railroads
must have been nearly million Of dollars.
A citizen of Detroit, who removed to
Lone Tree, Nebraska, several years ago,
writes to a tobacco house in the former city
to send him five pounds of fine cut" by
express, adding: Il am a candidate for
Sheriff Of this county, and | think
judicious use of FIVE pounds ofgood tobacco
l can secure 200 majority
A man bought horse. 1t was the frst
one he had ever owned. lie saw in news-
paper that side window in a stable makes
horses eye weak on that side; window
in front hurts his eyes by the glare a win
dow behind makeg him squint eyed a win
dow on diagonal line makes him shy when
he travels ; a stable without window makes
him blind. He sold the horse.
The Shelby (Ky.) Courant relates how
about six months ago an old negro woman of
that town was seized with a great longing to be-
able TO read the Scriptures, and communion
ted to her friends her intention of attend
ing the night school for colored people, with
a view of attaining this end. As she was
sixty-fve years old, and did not know let
ter of the alphabet, the idea was regarded
as an evidence of approaching imbecilitv,
and she was laughed to scorn bv all those
who knew her. But this did not deter her
iIoni licr purpose. one went 10 school, and
now, strange but true, is able TO read the
Bible with the utmost ease aud accuracy,
The case is one of the most remarkable on
record.
We should not have believed that a
Scranton jury could be found capable of
getting up the following verdict. was it not
vouched for by the Rep@1ican Of that city.
The verdict was rendered few days ago
in case. Of some prominence in that local
ity
''We the jurors in the case of
Collins
VS.
The city Of Scranton do say tha; our
city Fathers have been NEGLIGENT in not So
curing that place on the Hydpark Hill
where the accident happened and we blame