The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-09-14
NO. Is.


Hendricks is pardoning voters ont of the
Indiana penitentiaries.
There are Al Roman Catholic churches
in Brooklyn, against 6 iu 1850 and Is i'll
1860.
Forty-one cities of the United States
have an aggregate debt Of almost $780,
100000.
IF you wish to get sheep cheap, go to
Oregon, for there the meek creatures are
sold at dollar a head
Notwithstanding the hard times. about
81 10000 have been expended in base
ball so far this season.
Spurious quarter-dollars, very we'll exc
cuted, have come into extensive circulaticn.
So look closely after the change you trke
Wild geese are going South, which is
considered to mean that winter will come
early and stay long, and be very hard, as
geese are great gazers Into futurity.
The milk in the New York Democratic
breast is curdled. Seymour, the great
dairyman, refuses to come ont Of that
cheese, aud tells his tormeutors to 90 awhey.
A woman in Council Bluffs, Iowa, has
sold out her husband for a COW, calf and
and $50, and the man has gone back to his
first wife, from whom he had been divorced.
The American Bridge Company has the
contract for building the Poughkeepsie
bridge, which is to take Pennsylvania coal in
to New England by rail. Eli Poughkeepsie
has subscribed and looks for work out of
the enterprise.
Ohio now exceeds all others of the West
crn Commonwealth in her contribution of
Centennial visitors, the registry at the
State headquarters showing not less than
400, and occasionally as high as 600, fresh
signatures per day.
Sealing wax is no wax at all nor does
it contain single particle of wax. 1t is
made of shellac, Venice turpentine and cin-
nabar Cmnabar gives it the deep red
color, and turpentine renders the shellac
soft and less brittle.
There is horse at Jackson, Mich, that
is ffty-oue years old. He was foaled in
Clarence, Erie county, n. Y, in 1924, and
his name is Romp. He hasn't a single
puff or windgall on his legs, and does
good days work every day.
The Pail River mills, for the first time
since 1873, are all running on full time.
Orders are received for goods enough to
occupy six months or a year. This revi-
val is the prelude to general return to
activity throughout New England.
The Philadelphia street railways in the
year 1875 carried 5,3S7 ,331 passengers
and earned S5 ,631 ,316, of which 81 ,962,-
936 was profit. The cost of the roads be-
ing SS,31S,47 the profits earned are equal
to nearly one-fourth of the cost.
A white school teacher named Harris
was assassinated at Anderson station,
Tenn, Saturday night 1t is reported 8
misunderstanding in the district as to the
selection of teacher is supposed to be the
origin of the murder.
Grasshopper stories have come to in
clude the following One of the ''little
fellows is said to have been captured on
August 81 near Fillmore, Nebraska, with
label on its neck "Custer City, August
TO-" showing that it had hoped 500 miles
in fourteen days.
4 cool young gent, all of the modern
days, entered menagerie with a cigar in
his mouth, when the proprietor politely re-
quested the visitor not to teach the other
monkeys bad habits. The young man
proved himself equal to the occasion, by
producing his cigar-case and saying, Try
one"
The African pigrnies who were captured
and taken to Italy three years ago, are now
receiving experimental instruction at the
hands of royal educators, although the
English Geographical Society asserted that
they were incapable of instruction. These
wild dwarfs have proved otherwise. They
are now intelligent, affectionate and CRATE
full. They speak Italian with elegance and
clearness fenunciation, and read and write
with facility Their handwriting is good,
and their thoughts are expressed in their
written compositions with clearness and
simplicity, and with wonderful originality
They also read Latin with comprehension
and intelligence. The eldest, Tibo Tukuba,
studies arithmetic, and adds, subtracts and
multiplies mentally. He also has passion
ate love for music, and from hearing the
lessons given on the piano to others is able
to repeat them by ear.