The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-03-30

far West.
445 public schools in Phiiadel pbia, vita
90, 552 pupils.
Women attend vendues in Barls county
IN great force.
a brass band is organizing in Maine,
composed of women.
Since 1910, 1921 coo COO have been ex-
pendedin England alone in building aud re-
storing church edifces.
An old Dutchman frozen his nose.
While thawing the frost out, he said. II
haf carry DIT nose fordy year, mt he nefer
freeze himself before. | no uuders.an dis
ting"
Mrs. Swisshelm hits the mark in letter
to the Chicago TriJune, in which she says:
I'VE need a religion which means sixteen
ounces " sugar f0r pound, anl no s1at
in it.
\ process has been discovered in which
syrup is made out OF ground corn or meal
at the rate of over two gallons to the bush
el IF unshelled coru, only water being used.
What Is left Of the corn is good for cattle
and the cobs make good fuel.
A romantic young girl Of Chris.ian
County, Kentucky, clipped of her brown
curs, dressed in boys clothes, and clan
destinc'y started f,r the Black Hills On
foot On the first might out that Indiana
tornado found her on a muddy road. and rolled
her around for about 4 quarter OF mile.
She returned home.
Mr.. Horace Bingham, carpenter, of
Fairbauit, MINI, recently had removed
from his stomach dark brown water
snake four feet long. lie remembers
while drinking from a stream sixteen years
ago that something Of foreign nature"
passed down his throat, but he only found
out the nature Of it seven years az.
\ child afflicted with diphtheria in
Pittsfeld, Mass, was poulticed with large
Indian meal poultices which, after being
used, were thrown out where u dag and
flock of hens fed OH the meal Of which the
roulices had been made Seventeen of
the hens and the dog died, it is supposed
from the poison absorbed into the puultice
from the diseased throat. The child re-
covered.
A grocer in the town of Santa Car,
Cal, has adopted an original method Of
business. Elch side OF the store is fitted
for business on It's own account In the
general arrangement, each side is a dupii-
cate Of the other, the difference being that
one side is cash Snd the other credit When
Il customer comes in the first question asked
is, DO you wish to buy for cash or on ac-
count :? Ii 1t Is Il cash customer the goods
and prices on the cash side are shown, but
if 1t Is one who wants credit he is shown
the other side, aud made TO realize the value
of rcady money.
y good many years ago Thomas Jeffer-
son remembered one morning that he had
some business to trans let at the capitol. So
he ordered his horse to be saddled, noun
ted and rode down Pennsylvania avenue
; llitching his horse to the fence around the
capitol, he went IN, attended to his busi-
ness, rcmounted and rode back. 1t should
be added that the business he had to trans
act at the capitol that morning was to be
) iuaug gurated President Of the United States.
There wasn't as much style in Washington
then as now.
The grangers expect to purchase 2,000,-
GOO feet Of lumber at WillAmSport for GEN.
tenniaI eiIcampmert purposes. y few days
ago they negotiated for $4,000 feet TO be
used in TIE construction Of dinning room,
which Is to uccomm ldate / 80 people az
one time, at Elan station the camping
ground oS the grangers. There are about
200 rooms completed. It IS designed that
sufficient buildings for the accommodation
of 3,GU0 persons viii be ready 10y the 9th
sof May. aud when everything is Completed
5000 will be able to find home at Elm
station.
A Maine man, being refused by a
widowed lady for whom he worked, and to
whom he mtd9 IN offer of IN rri,go wans
into the kitchen, empiie,l pail OF water on
the floor, spread ou. red blndInnl hand
kerchleF on 1t, tied another around his neck,
laid down, III the puddle and uttersd q
sound half way between the notes of a
dying swan and calf with the co,ic The
, lady Of the house went to the spot as soon
as she could, but when she stepped in the
water, and in the dim light Of the m prninr
saw Tuttle stretched out among the red
stuff, she WAS sn terrified with his sln.uin-
airy appearance that she went into swooa
from which she was not restored until
three hours had elapsed. Tuttle was ar
rested aud put under bonds to keep the
peace-so ended his dream of love.
For many years past the result of the
town elections in New York has been re-
garded as sure indication Of the state of
political feeling. Last year, ia forty-fve
counties, the Republicans elected ~ and
the Democrats 485 members of the Boards
of Supervisors, corresponding to our Com
misunderstanding Democratic m inrity
,, of 90. In the elections held this year, in
the same counties, the Republicans have
chosen 523 ana the Democrats 393 super
visors-showing a Republican minority of