Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-12-27
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- The Judge who suspended hisopinion,:
isin favor Of capital Punishment
- Bonnets are no longerworn on the head,
but attached to the back hair with long pins
- 1t is not the false teeth Which should
be objected TO, but the false tongue behind
them.
- There are lS5 Sunday Schools in New
York under the supervision of the American
Sunday School Union.
- y Lead Mine has been opened in the
heart Of the city Of Galena, just beneath the
new Baptist church, into the hin close by.
NE are now in the midst of the winter
solstice, and in q few weeks more we may
! look for slight elongation of the days.
- Five years in the life of every sober
and industrious man, who reaches the age of
forty FIVE, so to support drunizards, and the
| criminals that dIunkeness makes.
- Twenty thousand tons of lead are pro-
duced annually in the United States. About
the same amount is imported from foreign
countries, chiefly England aud Spain.
- Walter Scott's son-in-law, Lockhart,
| recently deceased, leaves no children, and the
family of the great novelist, in direc. descent,
is extinct.
- Diogenes informs the British public
that railway companies are like laundresses,
because s.they have ironed all England, and
sometimes do a little nangling.'
An exchange tells an incredible story
OF boy who caught q hungry dcg ;.,l tied
him by the tail, then coaxcd bin out Of his
skin with piece OF liver.
a man has been arrested in New York
on the charge of selling several mail bags,
knowing them to be the property of the Uni
ted States.
- In five years the number OF believers in
spiritual rappings has increased in this coun-
try to over two hundred thousand, and they
now support eleven newspapers.
- Joseph Ritner, a grandson Of e1-Gov-
ernor Ritner, was recently crushed to death
by the accidental falling Of load of boards
from cart, near Crescent City, California.
a paper manufacturer in Manchester.
n. =, has lately purchased eighty tons of
the back numbers Of GIeason's Pictorial, as
waste paper.
- The jail in Windharn county, Conneti
cut, is to be let for a boarding-house. The
operation of the new anti liquor law, it is said,
has brought about this result.
- Now, then, Thomas, what are you burn
ing off my writing table 20 said an author, to
his scrvent. seonIy the paper that's written
all over; haven't touched the cIean,'' vas
the reply.
- Many Of the new houses in New York
are so high and narrow-''fonr houses on three
lots''-tl,at an arrangement similar to dumb
waters has been introduced, for hosting peo-
pie to the upper stories!
- Daddy said : young hopeful. let's go
mp to the ninepinaily and roll Roll! boy
what do you know about rolling sllfe know
about it. Why can roll your darned old eyes
ont in less than ten minutes
- The Panama Railroad viii probably be
completed from the Atlantic TO the Pacific
the present month, when travellers will only
require six hours fer transfer from steamer to
steamer. -:-
- Friendship has i noble effect upon all
states aud conditions. 1t relieves our cares,
raises our hopes, and abates our tears. q
friend who relates his success, talks himself
into a new pleasure: and by opening his mis-
fortunes leaves part Of them behind hin.
Sis that clean butter ?:' asked . grocer
of boy who had brought quantity to mar
ket. 81 should think ii ought to be- replied
the boy, ssfor marin and sal were more than
two hours picking the hairs and Notes out oft
last night
- The man who can preserve his equa-
nmity in a neighborhood where there are
ssyoung beginners on the drum, claronet,
trombone, violin and asthmatic flies, will do
to teach s.Young Ladies' School, read
newspaper correspondence, or listen to the
sstalk'' of old calico. Move into that region
and 'sexperience''a few.
- Every tradesman who has daughters
growing up, should let them acquire a knowl-
edge of bookkeeping, since, in the changes
of fortune, they may have to get their own
bread. Many young lady who is a proficient
on the piano, can scarcely earn her board,
such are the multitudes of music teachers;
but to an accountant, situations are always
open.''
- There is petition before the Legisla-
ture OF Canada asking FOR the charter of a
Northern Pacific Railroad Company. The
plan is to start the road at Montreal, and pro-
ceedcG by way Of Bytown and the vally of the |
Ottowa to the western boundary of Canada, |
thence along the rout surveyed by Gov. Ste |