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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-03-04

WE have nothing of that dancing school
yet, and here is spring right upon us. Pos
sibly after the rights of woman to suffrage Is
settled, something will be Gone Let US abide
with patience, the time.
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Puzzles.

The following is the solution of ]. Zabris-
kie's arithmetical problem.
The BOYS first sell their apples at seven for
one cent, thus the boy having 10 apples sells
cents worth and will have 8 apples left the
second boy with 80 apple. can sell 4 cents
worth and have apples left; the third boy
with so apples can sell cents worth and have
apple left. They then agree to sell the re-
naming apples at cents each and the first
boy receives cents for his apples. with the
one cent in his possession, makes 10 cents
The second boy gets cents for his 2 apples
which added to cents in his possession, makes
10 cents. The third boy gets cents for his
apples, which added to his cents, makes IL
cents. thereby each boy sells for the same price
and receives the same amount, 10 cents each.
ELLA II. Carman," "J. A." and "Willit
LaBars" answers are correct.
"School Girls" answer to the Enigma il
verse, asia" is correct, but she will see by
the above that she is wrong in her answer t.
the Puzzle.
rs. d." Henryville, your solution to Mr.
Zabriskie's problem is not correct Thank
for your contributions.
&C. w. Nick" Philadelphia, your solution
to Mr.. J. Zabriskie's puzzle is correct.
Samuel S. Brown" Williamsport, Pa, you
answer to Zabriskie's problem is correct. lie
us hear from you again.
IF you take nine from six, and ten from nine
and if fifty from forty be taken there will jus
half dozen remain.
S. DATESMAN.
A man sold his watch for fifty dollars an
then bought it back for forty dollars, and the
sold it once more forty-fve dollars. Ho
much did he make by his speculation?
| S. DATESMAN.
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THE FLOODS,
Ice Gorge at Port Jervis-Part Of tbo
Town Under Wafer 'uo

PORT JERvIs, n. Y, Feb. 28-y...
day morning the ice in the Delaware ,%,eF- r;~
at this place broke up and formed t,v' t'
mendous gorge, suddenly rising the wa,s We
twenty feet, and flooding part of tba o@,S' rS
lage on the river bauk. The ice is r;,a5 I'l
up so high that it is CANNED hard aop;ri p;,oI
the new suspension bridge, twenty i,,o. GO.
above the water, and fears are eptert,;n.5 ~
for its safety.
The suspension bridge at Milford e;cl.
miles below, is also in a critical coBdi,;9a
and will probably be carried of. The wa
ter is rising steadily, through ice is not NOV
ing. King street was rapid rupnin,
stream. and residents were removed in bo,to9
and wagons. The gas works near the rivos
are surrounded by water.
LATER FROM PORT JERyIs.
The water is now slowly recedipg and
as the wheater is growing colder, no furtbe,
damage is anticipated. The residents q
King and Second streets are all safely 70
moved, although the water is at the seconl
stories. The ice gorge here is about on
mile in length. The river is clear for TWEEN
ty-fve miles above.
Two million feet of lumber is piled ,
Lacytown, Tionesta creek, Forest county
Pa, awaiting spring trade.
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IT was jolly time we had last week, at
tending Court, and putting our nose into
evcrybodys business except our own. Anc
then the pay too, it was so liberal 50 pei
day, and for five days SO. Well it was ful
enough for the tax payers and parties in sui
to pay, but no man would grow rich from th'
proceeds of the business of juryman; anC
we don't feel exactly that we want to grow
rich in that way. We much prefer the JEFF
Office, with its presses and its types, and th'
lots of good friends that drop in upon u.s. anc
help both the honors and the labors along b,
their genial chat What we and the Cour
did last week will be found set forth in thi
weeks Jeff. of course.
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AND now, how about the Normal School
Have we given that importsn. matter the 90
By altogether
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-03-04

ayr Senator Morton of Indiana, who has
been cripple from paralysis for many years,
is now expected to get we'll
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THURSDAY, MARCH 4. 1875.

HG- Mr. J. NJ. Berlin, has been appointed
Postmaster at Kresgeville, in this County.
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WE would call attention to hs,, .no,her
Chapman's Essay, to be found ID
column.
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The House has passed the repeal of the Lo-
cal Option law
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Ifyou take nine from six, and ten from MIN
and, if fifty from forty be taken there will ju
half dozen remain.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-16
A SCENE FROM LIFE.

A young man entered the bar-room
ola village tavern, and called for q
drink. NO" said the landlord ::
"you have had delirium tremens
once, and / cannot sell you any
more" He stepped aside to make
room for couple Of young men who
had just entered, and the landlord
waited upon them very politely. The
other had stood by silent and sullen,
and when they finished, he walked up
to the landlord, and. thus addressed
him: "six years ago, at their, age, I
stood where those young men are now
II was man with fair prospects.
Now, at the age Of. twenty eight, I am
q wreck, body and mind. You led
me to drink. In this room ! formed
the habit that has been my ruin.
Now sell me a few glasses more and
your work will be done!a / shall
soon be out Of the way i; there is no
hope for me. But they can be saved.
Do not sell to them. Sell it to me
and let me die, and the world will be
rid of me ;but for heavens sake sell
no more to them.'' The landlord lis.
tened, pale and trembling. {. Setting
down his decanter, he exclaimed
"God help me, this is the last drop ]
will ever sell to anyone2" And he
kept his word. }..:;s. e. s:..
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OLD SOLDIERS STORIES.

Several powder-begrimmed veter-
ans gathered in the police station the
other evening to keep out of the rain
for a few minutes, and while there
discussed the late war.
II remember" said one, that a
bullet passed clear through George
Gray's body and never killed him"
Il recollect," said another, "that a
ball lodged in Bill Payson's lung,
and never was taken out, but he iv-
ed.''
"I," said third, 'Fknow we'll when
the doctors thought HenV Hills life
was gone up, as mimic lodged with
in an inch Of his heart, but he lived" !"
"Jake Johnson's head was pierced
by ball, and he lived" exclaimed
the last man but one. These remarks
produced considerable surprise and
excited speech from all save a tall
slim and sleepy Individual, who
waited till his companions concluded
and then drawled, in piping accents !:
"Those fellows was little tough, I
allow; but Jim Jones, who fit aside Of
me, was shot in the neck so that his
head just hung by the skim
"G1eat heavens p CALCULATED all !;
"you don't mean to say he lived do
you?"
"Oh, no he died." drawled slim
and sleepy"
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CENTENNIAL PATRIOTISM.

els you gwine down to dat meetin'
at de church to-night?" asked ST
when he met Pete at the Kimball
House corner.
"What meetin' is dat?"
"De ents-tenyal meetin'."
els dat some new tangled kind O.
pertracted meetin' days a gittin up
'reund hyar?" asked Pete.
"No, you ignoant niger! Dis hyar
is meetin' about de celebration of
the Fo'th O July Indemancipashun
Declyrashun next year at Filmun-
delphy, and dey calls it de cents-ten-
yal kase all de niggers isn't suspected
to glib more'n ten cents lords de tx
penses!'
mo, dis niger amt gwine, kase
dat's some more OBJ dat tomfoolish-
ness what swindles niger on sibil
rites and gifts 'um into desc hyar in
skurreptions! I'd rudder spend my
dime for prize box wild a tin bres-
pin in it. I wouldw @e
ST thought a minute, and then
said:
II b'lieves you's got me on de hip,
Peter
And they both went their ways
atlanta Constitution.
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SHE PADDLED HER OWN CANOE.

The train was approaching Allan.
ia, and the obliging conductor went
up to the homely old lady who was
evidently travelling alone, and said
"Madam, have you a companion p
"Oh, yes, sir; Martha Ann made
me fetch along her little black ridi-
kule that she calls a kumpanionp'
"No! mol I mean an escort!"
"a what, sir?" and she looked at
him hard enough to break her: spec.
tacles.
"A fellow traveller with your" ex.
planned the conductor desperately.
She rose. Her uplifted hand look.
ed deadly in its black mitten garni
ture.
"You good-for-nothing scamp; nc
sir! The idee of me, a lone woman,
with no natural protector but a sheep
skin kiyered New Testament, having
a feller traveller with mel Your
mother ought to weep over your i'm
perdence, young man, and I'll .hav'
ye to know that 1 kin git along il
this world about as we'll as any sixty
year-old widow that you ever strucl
agin!" 2&>>'T '3ss.. p: -
By this time the conductor wa
out on the platform. a, wipiing ilpi the per
spiration from his face, and swearin,
that the old lady might Ego it alone
to her hearts content.-Atlaata Con-
situt;on. 'z- -. ''>~ 4>'s, '5>:5
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FLOORED BY A DUTCHMAN,

A crowd of yonng chaps about
town were in one of the popular beer
saloons of Atlanta the other day,
where they met a jolly old German,
who often gets soaked in beer and
maudlin funny.
"Helloa, Kaiserlicher, have you
heard the news?" said one
"Nein! vas ish das? ?".
"The Water orks are blsted"
"Vel, dots bad mid dem temper
auce beeples, don'd id, poys ?"[Laugh-
ter all rornd.]
eyes, aud the rolling-mill's gone
up!" said another of the boys.
'Vell, chust don'd got skeered
about dat; it's so heffy dot it goom
down again, eh ?" IA grand peal of
laughter.
"And- -and-the ice-machine has
exploded !" cried third.
"1sh- dot bin pozzible? Den dots
bad, midout some mistake, and id
don'd rain midaut it pours-de vasser
oud-de rolling-mill ub--no more ize
unit all you yuug shackasses broke
oud of de shtable lot! Dot makes
me gry|
And nobody thought it necessary
to laugh at this point. - = s... =.
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NATURES REVENGE.

3
The Imperial Academy Of Sciences
at Vienna has taken up question in
which all Europe. may be said to be
interested, namely the decrease of
the quantity Of water in springs,
streams, and rivers. A circular, ac-
companied by an able and instruct
i've report, has been addressed to sci
entific societies IN other countries, in
the hope that they may be persuaded
to take observations which, in course
Of time, may furnish data for practi-
cal use. The Academy calls atten.
tion to the fact that for some years
past diminution Of the waters Of the
Danube and other great rivers has
been noticed, and especially since the
modern practice of cutting down for
ests without regard to consequences
has prevailed. The Austrian Engi-
neers' and Architects Union have also
taken the question in hand, and ap-
pointed Hydrotechnic Committee
to collect facts and prepare report.
The Danube, the Elbe, and the Rhine
were each assigned to two members.
while other two were to examine into
the meteorology Of the subject, and
into the influences which glaciers and
Alpine torrents may have on the gen.
eral result. The committee regard
the question as urgent; they recon-
mend the immediate adoption ofrem-
edial measures, and they are unani-
nous in declaring that the prime
cause Of this injurious decrease Of
water is the devastation Of forests.
It cannot be too strongly impressed
upon all the United Kingdom that
the injudicious drainage of agricul-
tural districts has seriously interfered
with the natural condition of all our
rivers.-London Atlaen0eum.
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THE BOY AND THE CIRCUS.

"They won't do all that in the cir
Gus, will they?" said a small boy to
this chronicler as he gazed admiring-
ly at the picture of an elephant
limbed female who was carelessly
holding . 24-pounderon her shoulder,
from which . fragile youth. was dis,
charging q washtubful Of grape can
lister, and q ,shrapnel, while another
youth danced sailors hornpipe on
top Of the gun. "Oh, yes,. sonny,
and moro too" replied the unblush.
ing journalist. "Well, that settles
It," said the diminutive sscound1el;
Il see the we'll chain has 70 Co." and
there is no earthly doubt now but
what some family will be pulling wa.
ter with q rope and tin bucket the
day after the Shows, Joseph (Mo.)
Herald. !: .z.,:.. ,.-....;, ...........:..
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yillainl People won't put up with
that kind of thing. It makes ''em

yillainl People won't put up with
that kind Of thing. Il makes 'em
delirious and murderous."' .s /. ~ r..
"Too bad" said Stack. II forgot
what I said about her eyes, when I
wrote that scene with the vii.
lain" 80. - : +.
"And here, in the twentieth chap
ter, you say that Magruder was stab
bed with. bowie-knife in the hands
of the, spaniard; and in the next
chapter you give an account of the
post-mortem examination, aud make
the doctors hunt for the bullet and
find it imbedded in his liver. Even
patient readers can't remain calm un-
der such circumstances. They lose
control Of themselves"
cts unfortunate" said Stack. =.
| ".Now .1>'ow the? way you manage the
Browns in the story is also exasper-
ating: First, you represent Mrs,
Brown as taking her twins around to
church to be christened. In the mid
die Of the book you make Mr.: Brown
lament that she never had any child
rem, and you wind Up the story by
bringing in Mrs. Brown with her
grandson in her arms, just after hav-
ing caused Mr.. Brown to state to the
clergyman that the only child he ever
had died in@his fourth year. Just
think Of the effect Of such q thing. on
the public mind &, Why this story
would fill all the insane asylums in
the country" ,r,s.@s.
."Those Browns don't seem to be
very definite somehow" said Stack,
thoughtfully. 81
Worst Of all,' said the Colonel,
"in Chapter 81 you make the lovers
resolve upon suicide, and you put
them in a boat and drift them over
Niagara Falls. Twelve chapters fur
ther on you suddenly introduce them
walking in the twilight in a leafy
lane, and although afterwards she
goes into nunnery and takes the
black veil, because. he has been killed
by pirates in the Spanish West In
dies, in the next chapter to the last
you have a scene where she goes to
surprise party at the Presbyterian
minister's and finds him there max
ing arrangements for the wedding as
if nothing had ever happened; and.
then, after you disclose the fact that
she was a boy in disguise, and not a
woman at all, you marry them to
each other, and represent the boy
heroine as giving her blessing to her
daughter. Oh, it is awful thin. It
won't do. 1t really won't You'd
better 60 into some other kind of bust
ness, MI. stack." ", <-.--
Then Stack took his manuscript
and went home to fx:it up, so as to
make the story dovetail better. The
Argus will not publish it.
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The Pail MaN Gasette publishes

The Pail Mall Gazette publishes
the. following from its Copenhagen
correspondent, Sept. 6: Harvest IS
now over almost everywhere through
out Denmark. The quality and
quantity will be greatly above the av-
erage. There will be large surplus
Of Danish wheat for expectation" !"
The information from Sweden IN re-
gard to the crops is also favorable. 9a
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-16
THE HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT AND
WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

The House of Parliament-the
House of Commons and the House
Of Lords-stand close by the river at
Westminster, with the Abbey at the
rear. Probably you will be more
pleased with them than with the 9th
er buildings that you have seen in
London: For, while they are large
and imposing, they have a sort of
airy grace, which is produced by nu-
merous towers, spires, and abundant
scroll work. To what can I COM
pare them? They seem so finely
wrought that they might be woven of
lace instead of stone, and they real
ize all ones ideas Of palace, even
Of fairy palace. At night, too,
when the Parliament is in session
and all the windows stream forth
light they are still more beautiful
and still more inviting to the fancy.
The interior is also exquisitely grand !;
and this is the great legislative hall
where the Queen, the Lords and
Commoners meet in council to frame
laws for the people.
Westminster Abbey is a much
older and nobler building than the
House Of Parliament. Within its
walls rest the remains or monuments
of all those Englishmen who have
distinguished themselves by brave
deeds in peace and war. "Victory
or Westminster Abbey!' cried Lord
Nelson in entering one of his sea-
fights, and he echoed common am
bition. Burial in this sacred place
is the highest honor that can be paid
to an Englishman, and it is only al
lowed to the greatest. At one side
there is small space called the "Po-
ets' Corner" containing the fresh
grave of Charles Dickens. Silent
neighbors to him are the memorials
or remains of Chaucer, Spencer,
Shakespeare, Camden, Ben Jonsoo,
Milton, Dryden, Addison, Handel,
Garrick, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Ma
caulay, Thackeray, Palmerston, and
others no less famous in history and
literature. Another part of the ab-
hey is divided into tea chapels, with
in which repose the kings, queens
and princes and the transepts and
aisles also shelter illustrious dead
st. Nicholas for September.
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WTTCHCRAFT IN GLoUcEsTER.

|. In 1892, about the time of the Sa-
lem tragedy, Beelzebub, with a legion
If evil spirits, was reported to be
marching on Gloucester. It was as
serted that men were seen at various
times in the neighborhood of the town,
resembling Frenchmen they were
repeatedly pursued, surrounded, and
fred upon, and occasionally fell as if
hit, but started up again and fed into
the bush, leaving no footprint on the
soil, and making no audible sound.
These occurrences became so frequent
and alarming as to shake the doughty
souls of the men of Gloucester, inso-
much that they garrisoned their, fort
for some weeks, and kept constantly
on the alert against the powers Of
darkness, peppering away at them oc-
casionally with what seems to have
been an ine8ectuol waste of powder
and ball. But so real and universal
was the panic that a reinforcement of
sixty valiant men was actually sent
from Ipswich to assist in the defense
Of the place against its imaginary
foes. Finding the town too vigilant-
ly guarded to be carried either by
coup de main or siege, his Plutonian
excellency brought off his forces in
good order, and, calling up his re-
serves, made a combined, more insid-
ious, and decisive attack on the Puri-
tan settlements, which well-nigh sue
ceeded at Salem.-Ho,per's Magazi,e
for September. ~
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CHILDREN's FEARS

Mrs. Kemble, in the September
atlantic, discourses upon a subject
which seldom receives the attention
1t deserves, the subject embodied in
the above caption. She says: "The
objects that excite the fears of chill
dren are often as curious and unac-
countable as their secret intensity.
Miss Martineau told me once that a
special object Of horror to her, when
she was a child, were the colors Of
the prism, thing in itself so beauti-
full that it is difficult to conceive how
any imagination could be painfully i'm
pressed by it; but her terror of these
magical colors was such that she used
to rush past the room, even when the
door was closed, where she had seen
them reflected from the chandelier,
by the sunlight on the wall. A
bright, clever boy of9, by no means
particularly nervous or timid, told
me once that the whole story Of Alad-
din was frightful to him but he nev-
er was able to explain why it made
this impression upon him. A very
curious instance of strong nervous ap-
prehension, not, however, in any way
connected with supernatural terror,
occurred to a young girl about s
years old, the daughter of a friend of
mine. The mother, the gent]est and
most reasonably indulgent Of parents,
sent her up stairs for her watch, eau
tioning her not to let it fall; the
child, by her own account, stood at
the top Of the stairs with. the watch
in, her hand, till the conviction that
she certainly should let it fall took
such dreadful 'and. complete possess
sion Of her that she dashed it down,
and then came in a proxysm Of the
most distressing nervous excitement
TO tell her mother what she had DONE
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"A colored man, employed as a
deck hand on propeller, was rush.
ing around town yesterday, and in
quiring where the polls were. "Poll
Polls p repeated the citizen, "why,
there's no election going on now 81
+ "There hain't!" 'sNo, sir" The man
stood for . moment looking greatly
disappointed, and turned for. the river
with the remark: "And now dc
programme is to find dat sleek young
man who said dey was paying six
dollars apiece for voters p
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BY the steamer from Aspinwal

s5s1 BY the steamer from Aspinwal
there is news from Central America.
An organization has been started to
pursue those who were engaged in
the massacre and robbery at San Mig
uel. Numbers Of bandits captured,
and many of the leaders shot. One
day fifteen rebels were shot,. and eigh-
ty hanged. During the riots the
women excited the men to commit all
kinds Of exce@as. - Il
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The French harvest this yeaD is
satisfactory, though inferior to that
Of 1874. The crops il the north are
better than those id the south, but
the floods Of course have much to do
with this. .s. ......... ..z.=.
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: REAL ESTATE AGENCY
=, OF Six
Cooper & Hinchilwolod,
: ST. CLOUD, MINN.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE.

No. So. Corner lot, with history house.
... Good we'll in kitchen, good barn,
and good picket fence; with fruit
f.. trees, &C., in yard. Good location.
:. Will be sold cheap for cash. or ex-
" changed for good land.
No. 81. Lots 4, 5 and 6, in block 40, St.
Cloud City. Good well and small
barn on premises. Good location.
I, Will be sold very cheap, and on
L. terms to suit purchaser.
No. IS. A dwelling house in lower town,
opposite the Normal School.
E. Good barn, well, etc. Will be
sold very cheap and on easy terms
No. 81. Two-story house; containing 1a
rooms ri lots, on which are fine
fruit and shade trees, good we'll,
cistern and barn. Very desirable
neighborhood. Must Be aold.
No. 58. 100 acres land in Benton county
4 = = good timber; 20 acres meadow on
- - nice little stream running
g. through the place; 40 acres in
+ CROP, good log house and stable
! ..e@. good well; and within half mil,
I'll 5Zf Of school house, store and saw
! !, :, mill !; will be sold very cheap
%zs ~, and on easy terms.