The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-03-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

Decrease in the public debt during
February, $2,590,047.
Mrs. Esther Levan, of Reading, has
a pewter bowl l75 years old.
Chester has had duck and rooster
fight for $50. The duck whipped
Harrisburg has been reveling on fresh
southern shad for several weeks past.
A Montgomery county farmer sowed
wheat as early as the 18th Of last month.
According to an Ohio mathematician
one man dies from the use of alchol every
seven minutes.
The demand for postal cards has now
settled down to between 100000 and
5000 900 per month.
In Keokuk ladies' society has been
formed to hunt up husbands who remain
at "tho lodge" after II p. M.
In the local option town Of IIazleton
Luzerne county, liquor is said to be dis
pensed from seventy bars.
The fsthom (six feet) is derived from
the height Of a full grown man. A hand,
in horse measure is four inches.
Henry Filbert Levan, of New Berlin
Berks county, a youth of four score years,
is cutting his third set of teeth
The proudest man in the United States
is in Montgomery, Pa. He carried of 81
premiums at the Doylestown poultry show
The aggregate wealth Of Pennsy lvania
in real and personal property, banking
minerals, etc, is estimated at 500, 900,
900.
Whitelaw Reed, editor of the New
York Tribune. is soon to be married to
Miss Ida Greeley, d; ushter of the late
Horace Greeley.
The Grangers Of Illinois turn out to dig
the graves of deceased brothers, thus
preventing extorticu on the part Of the
"middlemau,' the sexton.
We sleep but the loom of life never
stops, and the pattern which was weav.
ing when the sun went down, is weaving
when it comes up tomorrow
The newest idea is that Of Wisconsin
legislator, who demands that travellers BY
rail shall be weighed and made TO pay SC
much per pound By weight of fare.
A remarkable incident of the woman s
war against whisky, iu Ohio, is the for
NAL Endorsement Of the movement by the
entire body of the State Graugers.
There is now little doubt that immense
numbers of people are likely to suffer the
horrors Of famine in India \ telegram
Informs US that over million persons are
starving to death.
The Grasgers Of the West are making
a movement against some of the Paten
laws, and especially against extension o
patents which have run seventeen year!
or more already.
An immense fruit prospect prevail!
throGg hout Central Illionis, unless here
after cut Of by some uufavorable event
The cherry crop, in particular, promise.
to be enormous.
The largest tree in Brookliu, n. ri.
has just been cut and sawed. 1t was ;
pine, l30 years old. The first log, IL
feet lodge, made 500 feet of inch boards
the whole tree, 3,3l1 feet.
A young lady school ma am in Peorii
was astonished lately at seeing all the lit
tie hands raised in the air and yiolentl,
agitated What do you want 2" saiC
she. Chorus Yer hair is falling off 2
Minnesota has given 100000 acres
or one quarter of her territory, wortl
81 900, 600, to railroads, and yet the far
mers are starving because they canno
get their grain to the ssaboard at pawn!
rates
The old swindls about hearing th,
murmur of the sea in a shell is hum
bug For, ifyou will hold a beaver hat
or goblet, or pickle bottle, or an oys
ter can to your ear, you will hear tn
same delicious murmur.
Santa Anna, who has been in Danish
ment at Nassau for some years, is on hi
way back to Mexico He returns unde
the amnesty proclamation of Presiden
Lsrdo, and has firmly resolved not t
meddle again in Mexican politics
As the train which left Philadelphia a
four o'clock p NJ, on Saturday was cross
ing the Susquehanna river, near Havre
de Grace, some unknown person fred
shot into the train, the ball passing i
close proximity to two of the passen gers
At the recent sale of Scranton coal. i
New York, on Wednesday last, the 70
lowing prices were realized: Steam boa
St,50 to 81 90 Crate, $3.50 to S4 55
Egg, 81 I5a to Sl.75; Stove, S5.l78 t
SO 20; Chestnut, SALT! to 81 20. Sixt
| thousand tons we're sold.