The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-03-26
MISCELLAN E O q S.

500 65.
i There are 80, 900 Of the Ancient Order
4 of HiberniaBs in this State.
A large number OF new buildings will
be erected in Reading this season.
i The Cumberland county mammoth
steer is said to weigh 1000 pounds.
The number of schools in Pennsylvania
in which the Bible is read is over 10, 600.
Thers are over $4,000 idiots in this
country, who are acknowledged as such.
The grand jury of Pomeroy, Ohio, has
found two hundred indictments against
liquor dealers.
An exchange says it is easy enough to
get rich if you "start right" Yes start
right off and do it.
Praying in houses of ill-fame is the
next reform. 1t has been introduced in
| Cincinnati.
The rate of taxation in Lancaster city
. is 60 cents on the s100; the total valua
tion Sl2 2,s20, 500.
The Women's Medical College at Phil
adelphia turned out eighteen graduates
this commencement.
"Cremation" has nething whatever to
do with the small quantity of cream
which gathers on your milkman's milk.
Quite a number of Wisconsin indians
have lately applied for naturalization pa
pers. Many of them can read and write
Notwithstanding the mutterings of the
temperance storm, Fred. Lauer, of Read
ing, has slowed $500 barrels of beer in
his vaults.
Black skunk skins, which formerly
sold for shilling, now command one
dollar each; such are the freaks of
fashion.
The number of people who died in
Philadelphia last year would make
procession mile long, marching ten
abreast
Angel. and ministers of grace defend US
There are said to be twenty four drum
corps aud an equal number of brass bands
in Scranton.
The cold weather of the past few days
seems to have extended to all parts of the
country. At many places in the North
west the mercury is below zero.
Joseph Wietz, charged with the MUIR
der of Harmon Butcher, was found guilty
on Saturday, at Catskill, N. Y. and SEN
fenced to be hanged on May l.
About forty tons of gresnback paper
is the quantity expressed from Glen Mills,
Chester county, to Washington and New
York per month.
About three hundred and thirty hands
principally girls between twelve and four
teen years of age, are employed in the
silk factory at Scranton.
1t was recently shown in a case in
Minnesota that two men can start bank
on ten dollars capital, take in money and
run away with $4,000 in thirteen
months time.
Rural rhetoric. A country girl in
Kentucky who had a quarrel with lover,
remarked to friend that "she wasn't on
squeezing terms with that fraud any
more"
In ten years the expenditure for clean
ing the streets of New York city has
swelled from $4,000 to 1000, 900, and
their uncleanlinsss has sweled in cor
responding ratio.
Twenty five ladies in Bethlehem have
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temperance reform in that borough
through the instrumsntality of street
prayer meetings.
The Union Pacific Road i, now in the
hands of Jay Gould-he owns 167 900
shares out of 100000 and is putting the
screw on to declare a dividend of four
per cent.
A popularity of the women's temperance
movement at the West is the toilug of
bells when they make the whisky seller
visit. In the middle ages bells were often
rung to disperse evil spirits.
The Reading Eagle of the 10th inst,
says that on Monday young man named
Edward J. Keffer was sent by his father
to the bank to deposit $3.50, but failed to
do SO. Detectives we're sent to work, foul
play being feared, but they soon came to
the conclusion that the young man had
voluntarily left the city.
ANebraska judge, not long 2 since ,convic,
ted and fined a man in the following novel |
manner: There being no evidence against
the prisoner, the judge declared he knew
something of the man himself Whereupon
he solemnly administered the oath to him
self, gave his testimony, and convicted
the prisoner thereon.