The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-03-02

All men should live on fruit the fruit
of their industry.
The value of the wares manufactured in
the West Chester prison, last year, is set
down at S11, 900.
Mr.. Levi Bennett, for nearly half CEN
tury prominent citizen of Easton, died on
the 10Th u!t
"The rich," said a Dutchman, "eat
venison because it ish deer: eat mutton
because it ish sheep"
New Orleans is Dragging about her new.
potatoes. That's all right but good
many Of them are mighty small.
Forest planting is thriving in Minnesota
1t is estimated that 20,0O0,0 900 trees have
been planted on the prairie lands
Tennessee editors are appreciated. One
of them has just been presented with pig
having two tongues and eight legs,
During the Centennial show it is said
that Philadelphia hotels will charge three
dollars day-board and lodging extra,
Grindstones are considered safe property
to invest in; because, if you cannot self
them for cash, you can always turn them.
The late Auditor General Allen has
struck 'pay dirt in Colorado, assaying
s4,34O 16 in gold and S45 % in silver per
ton.
From November to date Chicago has
slaughtered 1,489,85O hogs, against l.
595,325 for the corresponding period last
season.
A Rhode Island fisherman recently
caught ten thousand pounds of Goldfish in
four days. He must have been regular
old salt
l. P. Durham, of Northumberland, is
the boss chicken raiser. He has six chick.
ems, hatched last May, which weigh 4OA
pounds.
Nearly 20O,00O,O0O feet of log; were put
into the waters of Puget Sound, Oregon,
last year, and $50 teams were engaged in
the business.
The public schools of New York taught
232, ,440 children last year In schools ofa
charitable character $4,000 more children
were instructed.
The most glowing passage in minis
| ter S sermon will attract scarcely half the
attention that centers on the man who
blows his nose in church.
Jersey City has population of 116, 900,
and five per cent. of the population are
paupers, or one in. every twenty. This is
an astounding exhibit.
Mrs. Jeremiah Cooper has been elected
school director in Bart township,
Lancaster county 1t is expected she will
make staving good officer.
| Do YOU know, that yon can cure the tooth
ache by dissolving half drachm of bicarb-.
onate of soda in an ouce of water, and
holding the solution in your mouth?
The shipments of lumber from Lock Ha-
ven, Pa, up to February 5th show a total
of 1,740,0 900 feet, an increase over the
same period last year of $4,000.
The revival in the Presbyterian church,
Huntingdon, has resulted in the admission
of one hundred persons to membership, a
large part Of the number being gentlemen
A Memphis prisoner, who hated to see
two lawyers disgrace the courtroom by
fighting, walked out, and was unfortunate
enough to get lost. He has not been heard
Of since.
Our aggregate hog exports since Novem-
Der |, 1875, are 164,069,36S pounds,
valued at 0,005, ,037 and of beef pro-
duct, 26,695,51O pounds, valued at 81
50S,691.
There were 1910 failures in the United
States in 1875, of which the gross liabilities
were S201 ,060, ,353, This is nearly treble
the number of failures in 1871, and 1000
more than in 1874.
A bill to abolish the death penalty in
Maine and substitute Imprisonment at hard
labor for life has passed the Senate by a
vote of IS to II. The measure had pre-.
viousl ly passed the House.
The pen with which President Grant
signed the Centennial bill was made from,
the quill Of an American eagle shot in the
vicinity of Mount Hope, Oregon. The pen
, and eagle will be exhibited at the Centen-
} NAL
Mr.. John Brewer, of Pottstown, has on
exhibition at Breidenbach's tavern near
that place, heller calf, three months old
that is a curiosity It is mixture of the
Alderney and Holstein breeds, mouse col
: olred and hairless
We don't suppose there is any truth il
the report that the pickpockets have ap
piled for permission to erect builuing OF
the Centennial grounds. Moyamensing i.
: good enough for them.-No,ristor Her
aid.
A clergyman of a country village church
desired to give notice that there would b.
no service in the afternoon, as he was 90