The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1877-01-04
CORN AND HOGS.

From carefully conducted experiments
by different persons, it has been ascertained
that one bushel of corn will make little
more than ten pounds Of pork gross TAX
ing the result as basis, the following de-
duction are made which all our farmers
would do well to lay by for convenient
reference, that:
When corn sells at 123 cents per bushel
pork costs ( cent per pound.
When corn costs II cents per bushel
pork costs cents per pound.
When corn costs % cents per bushel
pork costs } cents per pound
When corn costs 80 cents per busheI,
pork costs 4 cents per pound.
NheH corn costs 80 cents per busheI,
pork costs cents per pound
The following statements show what the
farmer realizes on his corn when sold in the
terms of pork
When pork sells at cents per pound, it
brings % cents per bushel in corn.
When pork sells at / cents per pound,
1t brings 81 cents per bushel in corn.
When pork sells at ) cents per pound,
1t costs 30 cents per bushel in corn.
So long as man drinks every minute,
he has but little opportunity for sober Sc
cond thoughts.
A Newark policeman had pair of boots
half soled last fall with a boarding house
beefsteaE; and he hasn't had wet feet all
winter.
"Ma, go down on your hands and knees
a minute, please" ''What on earth shall [
do that for pet" cause want to draw
an elephant"
There is lady in New York who is such
a stickler for polite formality that when
she can't attend church she sends her card
to the clergyman.
a shrewd Yankee said he didn't believe
there was any downright cure for laziness
IN man. But, he added, "Tve known
a second wife to hurry it some"
A little FIVE year-old of Dorchester some
what surprised his mother, few DAYS
since, with the remark: 'God is every
where he is all over me, and when YOU
0PohA n'S yeu spank UOu-
A prudent man advised his drunken SER
want to put by his money for a rainy dav.
In few weeks his master asked how much
of his wages he had saved Faith, none
at all, he said, 'it rained yesterday and it
all went"
"What do you charge quart for your
milk Z" asked woman of milkman the
other morning. "Six cents" was the
reply. Amt you got any for FIVE cents ?"
mo, said the mllkman, ''but | can make
you some"
Their little girl gets confused. After
being tenderly tucked up in her crib, mann
ma said "Now your prayers, Janet" The
response came from the little one, half
asleep: ''Now | lay me down to sleep,
when the wind blows the cradle will rock.
Amen
Il quaint minister once said, "Now.
brethren, | propose to throw this HYMN
book at the man who used profane lam
guage yesterday" He made the necessary
gesture, as though he would hurl the book.
and, curiously enough, every man in the
congregation ducked his head.
''Pa, what does it mean to be tried by
jury of ones peers p 1T means my son,
that man is to be tried by Jury COM
posed of men who are his equals-on an
equality with him, so they will have no
prejudice against him" 'sThen, pa. T
guess you'd have to be tried by Jury of
bald-heaaed men -
At the breakfast-tabEe of certain board
ing house, the landlady gave Mr.. Jones a
severe look, aud said Mr.. Jones, | under
stand you have been circulating injurious
reports about my house" How madam ?''
Il understand that you said you had used
better butter than | have here to grease
cart-whecls with" Il did so, madam.
but not to injure your house. | have used
better butter, madam, to grease cart-wheels
but | wouldn't do II aCain Iid san - 20