The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-04-29

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pasburgs Centennial Tea Party netted
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FAyfour passenger trains enter or leave
4 o,,nding each week day.
i r.,zen earth has been found nine feet
] ,.iov the surface, in Reading.
calf with eight legs astonishes the peo-
] .o Of Morris county, New Jersey.
The Record says the wheat crop of Ches-
,.- county, this year, promises to be an
acreage one.
new fve-dollar counterfeit note of the
First National Bank of Paxton, H., is in
circulation.
You can hardly pick your way in the
,,ods of Florida, just now the black-ber-
rss are SO thick
Sixtv-ive thousand persons have been
.,ristered in the Florida hotels since the
fr.t of last October.
One of the richest deposits of camel
,oaI in the country has just been discovered
I near Bay City, Michigan.
Eight feet and nine inches of snow has
allen in Minersville, Schnylkill county.
since the beginning of winter.
Oregon being asked to contribute to the
Centennial said she wood send on fir
nlank one hundred feet long and twelve
ride for exhibition.
Two acres ofground have been purchased
in Newburg, Ohio, for the purpose of erect
ing silver smelling works, for the reduc-
ton of Lake Superior ores.
One million dollars in silver blocks were
received at the United States assay Office
in New York last week from California.
The blocks were worth $3.50 each.
Apes, of an intelligent breed, are used as
slaves in the Malayan Peninsula, and seem
to take to labor almost as naturally as the
average Southern White Lacquer
A New York father has just been sent to
prison for five days for simply boxing his
boys ears. Young America will get out
an injunction against spanking, next.
A black bear, fat as butter and weighing
three hundred pounds, was killed by
Henry Bowers and Albert Ritchey, near
Dry Springs, Bedford county, last week.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Of Eastern Pennsylvania is about to take
measures to establish an Old Mans Home
for the benefit of the members of the
order
The Centennial Bachelor Association of
Chester has resolved, "That we have no
intercourse with the opposite sex either in
thought, word, or action" The members
must be awful homely-or else the Chester
girls are.
To clean and restore the elasticity of
Canc chair bottoms, turn the chair bottom
upward. and with hot water and a sponge
wash the cane woak well, so that it is well
soaked should it be dirty, use soap let it
dry in the air, it will be as tight and firm
as new, provided none of the canes are
brOken.-.ScieTtitic american.
4 new phase of the "bee" mania has
broken out in Lancaster political circles.
1t is proposed that the candidates for Of
fee "whose name is legion" shall stand
up and spell each other down until only
the requisite number to FIJI the Offices shall
remain. That's the best "spell" We have
yet heard Of
A Reading milk dealer has been inter
viewed, and tells some bad things concern
ing the dairymen who supply that city
He says there are hundreds of diseased
cows in their stalls, the milk from which
produces scrofula and other diseases in
children and that much of the milk sold
for fresh has been previously skinned.
An easy method of breaking glass to any
required form is by making a small notch,
by means of file, on the edge of piece
Of glass then make the end of tobacco
pipe, or rod of iron about the same size,
red hot in the fire, apply the hot iron to
the notch, and draw it slowly along the
surface of the glass, in any direction you
please crack will be made in the glass
and viii follow the direction of the iron.
Round glass bottles and fashs may be cut
IN the middle by wrapping round them a
worsted thread dipped in spirits of turpen-
tine, and setting it on fire when fastened
on the glass.