The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-11-26
NO. 27.
M ISCEL l. A N E O US.

fhty Drlck DulldlngS nave gone up at
Greenville, Pa, this season.
One brewery in Reading ships $500
worth Of beer and ale per day.
In Jenner township. Somerset county,
| there are no less than seven churches
At Fairview, Butler county, water sells
at fifty cents barrel, and oil at forty
cents.
Hon. Adam Woolever, of Lehigh county,
is spoken of as a candidate for Clerk of the
House of Representatives.
Col Noyes, of Williamsport, will be
prominent among the Democratic candi-
dates for Governor, next year.
An Ohio man has been converted to
temperance ninety-eight times, and says
he'll go up to hundred or die.
4 musical critic out West says of
vocalist of local celebrity, She has a
magnificent voice for fog whistle"
Careful estimates put the yield of the
precious metals this'ye in Utah at S10,-
OOO,0O0 This is against s5,000,OOO last
year.
Auditor General Allen will 90 back to
Blackstone on retiring from his present
position. He will practice at his home in
! Warren.
Frank ", Hughes, of Schuylkill county,
is mentioned as the Democratic working
mems candidate for the United States Sen
atorship.
The oldest barn in Berks county is a
stone structure on the farm of William
Merkel, in Ricmond township 1t was
built in 1744.
The parents and friends of the little Ross
boy have already expended over one hun
dred thousand dollars in their fruitless
search for him.
The entire stock of pig iron in the She
mango Valley is reported to be thirty tnou-
sand tons, while in the Mahoning Valley
! it is said not to exceed ten thousand tons.
The tanning trade in this State repre-
sents a capital of S12 900. 900. There are
800 tanneries employing 5000 hands, and
producing annually S2,000,000 worth of
leather.
Chicago still marches in the van of hu-
man progress. Thirty-three divorce cases
there in one week 1t is the home of the
brave, but it is more particularly the home
of the ''free''
The Cincinnati Gazette says that within
the next sixty days over one hundred
million dollars in good crisp greenbacks
| nd ho,, |,
among Western farmers.
Sir said the astonished landlady to
traveller who had sent his cup forward for the
seventh time" you must be very fond of
coffee" ''Yes, madam, l am, - he replied,
cor | should never have drank so much
water to get little.
A Scotch old maid who was asked to
| subscribe to raise men for the King during
the Peninsula war, answered, Indeed, I'll
do no such thing | never could raise
man for myself, and l am not going to raise
men for King George
1t has been ascertained that on both
sides of the Mississippi, from Cairo up to
point not yet ascertained, the coal fields
stretch out in almost illimitable productive
ness /; indeed it is questionable whether the
region is richest in metal or carbon.
In a little town in Missouri a lady
teacher was exercising class of juveniles
In mental arithmetic. She began the oues-
ton, eff you buy COW for S10"-when
up came little hand "Why, YOU can't
buy any kind OF COW for $40 Father sold
one for $50 the other day, and she was a
regular old scrnb at that
A married man, hearing that the eating
of certain kinds of animal food would aid
the same tissues of the human body-as,
for instance calves brains would nourish
the caters brains, or beef's liver the eaters
liver-immediately gave strict orders to
his butcher that no more tongue of any
kind should be sold to his wife or mother
in-law
1t is estimated that the buffalo hunters
OF Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and Southern
Nebraska kill $4,000 animals each year for
the skins alone that the Indians killed
three times that number, and that perhaps
10000 more are killed by sportsmen and
those pioneers who depend on the buffalo
for their winter meat, thus we have the
enormous figure of 10000 as the annual
slaughter.
Ahaz Poxon may be called a miser He
lives near Buffalo, and is rich. Lately he
was drawn on the jury in that city, and
this is how he turned the event, usually
considered misfortune, to actual profit.
The pay was dollar and half day for
four weeks, aggregating thirty-six dollars.
He found lodgings at fifteen cents night
with poor and dirty family, the total bill
being four dollors and twenty cents He
bought tin pail for twenty cents more,
and there his expenditure ended, How
did he eat EYnrV morning he wont To- q