The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-02-10
A Lycoming man is seven feet two in

SAASS
G Bismarck's official residence in Berli
cost S3,O00.00O.
e 1t is estimated that there are $500
), tramps in this State.
IS Harrisburg's death roll for January foot
ed up twenty-eight.
The price of gas in Philadelphia is nov
= 81 90 per thousand cubic feet.
There are II 1873 blind men and s,97i
blind women in the United States.
Live snakes in Berks county, in mid
/ winter, according to the Reading Eagle.
The Odd Fellows Of Hawley are get
ting-up an insurance company. A really
sensible move.
An Allentown woman has brass kettle
and a brass candlestick which are over two
, hundred years old.
The newest thing in twins is the product
Of Glasgow, Ky, They only weigh two
pounds and a half each.
How is this for hotel business Over
$4,000 We're taken in one day at the
Palace Hotel, San Francisco.
Two Canadian girls skated IS miles the
other day Their last stage was worse
than the first, for it was coach.
w H. Smith, of Lehigh cunty, has an
English shilling 119 years old 1t has
been in the Smith family century.
A statement of Adjutant General Latta
shows the cost of sending military to sup
press the riots in the coal regions last spring
to be S106,743.44
The Philadelphia Times will issue an af
ternoon edition during the continuance of
the Centennial Exhibition, and have an
Office on the ground.
Since Lehigh county young women have
taken to swallowing ROSTERS hearts as
charm to make men marry them, poultry
men fear chicken femme
The Coroner of Reading was sent for to
hold an inquest and after summoning
jury, it was discovered that the supposed
victim was only dead drunk
A New Hampshire man sends fourteen
of his children to one school, and when
they combine against the teacher he knows
he can safely bet on the result.
Mr.. George Engle, of Pottstown, has
grapevine that shot upward during the past
season eighteen feet, which he thinks a
pretty good growth for one season.
At the SheriG's sales in Hollidaysburg
on Friday last over $4,000 worth of pro.
perty was disposed of Many valuable pro
Perties brought only nominal sums.
The Trinity Lutheran church of Read
ing has commitment congregation off
1900, and catechumen class Of l43 to bel
received into membership at Easter.
Il stand upon the soil of freedom r'I
cried stump orator. "No,' exclaimed
hls shoemaker; "you stand in pair ofI
boots that have never been paid for.
The accumulation of silver coin in the
National Treasury is now fully S12,0O0,-
600, in view of an early retirement of the
fractional currency now in circulation.
1t is claimed that of 541 persons admit
ted to the Franklin Reformatory Home for
lnebriates, Philadelphia, since 1872. about
fifty per cent.-have been en-
tirely reformed.
During the Doyle trial in Mauch Chunk
q prisoner there confessed the murder of
Police Officer Iost on the 9TH of last july. I
The confession implicated FIVE other men.
all of whom have been arrested.
The Pennsylvania State Grange has Sc
cured forty acres of ground three miles
from the Centennial grounds, on which
will be erected for the accommo
iatIon OF Changers and their families.
A Schoolcraft, Mich, apple tree. planted
3orty-fiye years ago and still fruitful. meas
lres seven feet seven inches in circumfer-
ence, and at the height Of six feet branches
nto three limbs, each over a foot in diane .
er.
An act extending the exemption law to :
include homestead of the value of 81 OOO :
gearlng apparel, furniture, tools and i'm
Elements, materialr of trade, libraries and
cemetery lots, was introduced in the State
Senate few days ago.
The United States courts have inst de-.
ided, in a case in bankruptcy. that
atcheioI, though he keeps house with an
dopted son and servants, is not the head
family, SO as to be entitled to the
omestead exemption.
There are now over 81 900 volumes in c
he State library at Harrisburg, of which i
here were added during the year ,445
olumcs, as follows: Miscellaneous books
y purchase, 500 law books by purchase, n
lo; by presentation, 70 received in ex- il
hanse, 456. In addition 163 pamphlets
'ere received.
John Duphny, who was elected from
train on the Erie Railway beyond Bing- =
anton, though he had passage ticket
'om New York to Rochester, good for five
ays, which time had not expired, because C
IS ticket had been punched on another g