The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-05-04
NO. 40.
Ole Bull is in Paris.

Ole Bull is in Paris
4 Wisconsin calf weighed 115 pounds
at birth.
The Main Exhibition building has eleven
miles of walks.
The average population of the Eastern
Penitentiary is 720.
At Easton's Lafayette College just now
are 335 students.
The Mayor of Oil City gets salary of
one dollar a year.
Bcrks county farmers are exchanging
their horses for mules.
Boston is said to have sixty firms with
capital of 81 100000 each.
The cost of keeping convcts in the State
Penitentiary is 81 cents per day.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad is 1Ot miles
long, 90 miles being double track
Judge Pierson, of Harrisburg, has de-
cided that venders Of patent medicines must
pay license.
Hon. George Lear, of Bucks county. has
been confirmed as Attorney General of
Pennsylvania.
Jacob B. Wolf, of Bethel township.
Lebanon county, has an apple tree that
bears black apples.
Houtzdale, Clearfeld county, has eighty
one voters and sent up eighteen applica-
tlOns for license to sell liquor
The Montague Paper Company, Turner's
Falls, Mass, have wound an unbroken
sheet of paper four miles long and weigh
ing half a ton.
Reading has base ball club calld ssThc
Lazy Nine" The members sit on the
fence and look at hired nine play the
game for them.
IF you want relic of the Empress
Eugene you can buy an inkstand she once
owned, now in possession of citizen of
Galveston, Texans, for $3.50.
Two hundred and fifty dollars in geen-
backs were found sewed up in an old vest
belonging to a gentleman who died in
Ebensburg, Pa, few days ago,
An aged colored woman died recently IN
| Crawford county, who two years before
! her death began to turn in color and at
last became as white as any one.
Do you go to church? There are g.
522 churches in the United States, with
sittings for II ,395, 542 people The total
value of church property is S349, ,790.
Some people regard it as singular that $
man "who never played cards in his life,
because it's wicked, will exact fifteen per
cent. interest from widow Detroit Free
Press.
Out West the agriculturists are crumb-
ling bits of clod in their horny fingers,
wondering if they contain anything over
eight thousand grasshopper eggs to the
peck.
The question. "Can any good come out
of Nazareth ~ has been answered in the
affirmative. Annie Good came out of Naz-
areth, and was arrested in Reading for
vagrancy.
Any one who is fond of pigeon pie should
have been in the beech woods of Pike coun-
ty a few days ago. A boy who counted
the roosting birds gives the number at
twelve billion and eighteen-"more or less"
\ clothier in Danbury excited public Gu
riosity by having large apple painted on
his sign. When asked for an explanation,
he quietly inquired ''If it hadn't been
for an apple, where would the ready made
clothing stores be to-day p
It is dangerous understanding to express
ones opinion of the personal attractions Cor
lack Of them) of the average Scranton
feminine. One of the strong-limbed Anna
IONS of that city cowhided a man a few days
ago because he called her ugly
There was some excitement in Penn
sylvania Sunday school the other Sunday
when little boy, whose teacher had sent
him home for her cards which she had
forgotten, returned in a breathless triumph
brandishing euchre deck, with the joker
on top.
The fact that this is the one hundredth
anniversary of the work of George Wash
ington, the man who didn't resemble gas.
meter to any alarming extent, will proba-
bly, explain why no falsehoods from Wash
ingtou have appeared In the newspapers
this year.
At Otter Creek, Ind, VIM Ross, an old
citizen, took poison. Ten days before he
had stolen two bushels of wheat from "a
neighbor named Stalkner, and was to be az
rested, hence the deed He had been long
known as very honest man and the theft
was perpetrated to procure food for his
starving family,
1t is set to music and sung with great
applause at Harrisburg. The words run
thus
Boom, brothers, boom boom with care,
Boom in the presence of the manajare.
One straight vote for four hngare
! Dodging vote is two hugare
Each finger up one hundred dollare
0fdvvy go TO each roostare.
Boom, brothers, boom boom with care
Don't be afraid of Uncle Petare.