The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-08-31

pressure. linen httle bunny puts Its little
nose up to the cows nose and appears to
kiss it, after which the rabbit nestles up and
goes to sleep. 1t is a singular bedfellow-
ship, the tiny bundle of fur and ears of per
haps three or four pounds with the UNI
wieldly carcass of six hundred
There are 105 prisoners at the Luzerne
county Jail at present.
Cattle thieves abound in Berks county.
Stock Is driven away from the fields and
sold to butchers
A poverty-pinched child was lately sen
fenced to Imprisonment in New York for
stealing loaf of bread.
For forty years past no epidemic has
caused such loss of life as is now attending
the small poz in Chill.
Appropriately enough, chap who,
pleaded guilty to watch stealing in Phila-
delphia last week, gave his name as James
Pickup.
The hard times are felt more in the
smaller German towns than in this coun-
try, and it's estimated that 2OO, coo Germans
have Of late gone into France after work.
Mr.. Sankey contemplates living perman-
emily in Boston, in order to give his child
rem superior educational advantages. He
declines all invitations to camp meetings.
Dogging her steps: 4 large Newfound-
land dog in Connecticut takes and
bears proudly along in fashionable way
the skirts Of his mistress, when she Goes
out to walk.
1t is estimated that at least 1000 per-
sons have died from sunstrolee throughout
the country during the present term The
death rates have everywhere increased to
fearful degree.
Hardin county, Iowa, has an immense
snake, that kills horses and cattle, and the
people are armed and searching for the
''varmint" They must drink crooked
whisky out there.
1t was a New Jersey wife who said
''NIy dear, if you can't really drink bad
coffee without abusing me, how is it that
you can, always drink bad whiskey without
abusing the barkeeper !"
An eminent New York physician attri-
butes much Of the prevalence of diphthe-
ria to the common practice Of turning down
the wicks of kerosene ol-lamps until they
emit a strong smell of oil.
Child-"Papa, Mr.. Wrinkle that died
went to Heaven, didn't hc-he taught in
Sunday school ?'' Papa-"We will drop
chat subject, my child Mr. Winkle was
president of a gas company"
1t is affirmed that Mexico is abundantly
able to produce all the coffee used in the
United States, and of the finest quality. In
the production of coffee alone the country
has source of wealth far greater than her
mines of gold and silver.
The grasshoppers made clean sweep of
the mountain ranches around Central, Col
orado one day last week. Crops that were
all right in the morning, growing beauti-
fully and promising abundant harvest, were
mown to the ground before nightfall.
On recent Sunday at Lowell, Mass, a
collection was taken up at one of the
churches, As the box reached the pew
occupied by lady, her daughter and little
son, the two former found themselves with
out cent of money, Master Hopeful reach
ed over and deposited cent in the box,
and then whispered to his sister "There,
| just saved this family from being white
washed"
The sale of Cireassian girls to Turks
continues. 4 correspondent of the Lon
don Times says that Maslem dealer makes
choice of four young, unsophisticated girls,
imports them to Constantinople, sells them,
and then goes back for more. If he can
achieve four such trips in "a year he can
make good living out of sixteen women.
Many of the Circassians are settled in Tur-
key, and there actually breed children for
SALE having no more shame about it than
fashionable English mother may feel about
| bringing out her girls for the matrimonial
market.
The Dalrymple farm at Casselton, Dako-
ia Territory, numbers 10000 acres, 1900
of which were sown with wheat this sea-
son. Harvesting was done in week with
the aid of nine self-binders, twelve men fol-
lowing each machine and shocking the
wheat as fast as it was cut The entire
cost of breaking, sowing, reaping, thresh-
ing and marketing is estimated at 50 per
acre, and as the yield averages II bushels
per acre the profit will reach $1,000. Next
| year 5000 acres will be sown to wheat
One hundred teams are employed during
the 'breaking" season, the burrows turned
being six miles long If Washington
thought farms were too large in his dav,
what would he say now