The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-11-30


Gen. Crook has commenced a vigorous
campaign against the Indians.
The woodcock has gone where the wood
bine twineth-or, rather to a more con-
genial climate.
Sixty thousand wishing to be office hold
ers are palpitatiug fearfully during the
anxious hours of waiting.
Chicago has 653 teachers for 21 ,637
pupils in private schools, and 700 teachers
for 43,lO5 pupils in public schools
The official returns for Minnesota show
the majority for Hayes to be 24,OO9. The
three Republican congressman are elected
by the following majorties Dunnel, s.
945; Strait, 4,T30, and Stewart, 2,040.
A Connecticut company is getting up
new thing to protect trees from worms.
The invention is rubber band with a
single bristling row of brass pins set very
close to each other, like the teeth of comb,
in the middle of the strip, and the worms
cannot crawl over it.
Utah now contains, besides Mormonism,
some ninety mining districts, and some
10000 people engaged in mining. The
mines and improvements are valued all the
way from SIS 100000 to $50, ,000, 900, and
the annual yield of lead, silver and gold
has reached S5,000,00O.
Step up to a citizen and tell him that
his father and grandfather were lunatics,
and see how quickly he will crook his ell
bow. Yet, let that citizen shoot somebody,
and he will bless you if you'll help him
prove that all his ancestors were not only
crazy, but the biggest fools in the neigh
borhood.
This from the philosopher of the Bur-
lington Harok- Eye: "One of the discover
les made by the latest Arctic explorers, is
that the length of the polar night is one
hundred and forty-two days. What
heavenly place that would be in which to
tell man with bill to call around day
after tomorrow and get his money"
An eminent Englishman affirms that the
wort case of smallpox can be cured in
three days, simply by the use of cream Of
tartar. One ounce of cream of tartar dis
solved in pint of water, drank at inter-
walls, when cold, he says, is certain rene
dy. 1t has cured thousands, never leaves
mark, never causes blindness, and avoids
tedious lingering.
The following, which is suggestive, to
coffee drinkers, from tombstone in Con-
necticut
Here lies, cut down like unripe fruit,
The wife of Deacon Amos Shute;
She died of drinking too much coffee,
Ammo Dominy eighteen forty.
a barber named Thompson, who lives
in Independence, Mo, met with very
singular accident while chastising his son.
He raised his arm to strike the boy on the
back, and while the blow was descending
the boy lodged, and the uplifted hand came
down with all its force on this lads skull.
The blow was given with such force that
the man S forearm was fractured The boys
head showed no signs of the punishment.
1t was only few years ago that swire
breeders were vying with each other for
the greatest weight of carcass but this is
now all changed. Hogs that will weigh
500 pounds are sold at less price per
pound than those of $50 to 800 pounds
The market in England has long favored
light weights. London is chiefly supplied
with pigs of less than 200 pounds weight.
And this tendency of the market to pigs
we'll fatted but of small weights is just what
the farmer should encourage, for it is ex-
actly in the line of his interest. 1t costs
more to make the second hundred pounds
of pig than the first, and still more to make
the third hundred pounds, and so every
pound added becomes more expensive
ITaHace's Monthly.
Years ago an agricultural writer OBJ.
served his bull to be free from lice, but not
so the rest Of his cattle i and, thinking over
the matter, he came to the conclusion that
the habit Of paving dirt over himself must
have the effect of keeping ice off the bull,
and he tried dry earth on the rest of the
cattle with the best effect. Ever since read
ing the above [ have used nothing but dry
earth, and have repeatedly put it on cattle
having lice, and have found it perfectly eff
Gcacious, both as preventive and as cure.
If in winter [ find it needed, and cannot
get earth otherwise, go into my cellar
and obtain few quarts (no fear of using
too much) and dry it on the stove [ then
sprinkle it over the back from head to tail,
and the earth working into and through
the hair, soon destroys all the lice. l be-
lieve the earth to be just as eficacious, less
dangerous and less expensive than tobacco
or any of the acids recommended.-F'ar
nlers' AdUocdte.
A Bank RObber Escapes.