Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-01-31
ITEMARIAy.
Seek every opportunity to do eooa

seek every opportunity to do good
- ne times are getting SO hard that pec.
pie can't pay attention.
Sir Philip Sidney defines health :,
these words: .Great temperance, open air. easr
labor, little care.''
- The onion, it is said, destroys the AZ.
| tractive body of the magnet. 1t has the samo
| effect with young ladies.
a young lady in Paris lately made he,
fortieth ascent in balloon, and landing in the
country, the rustics matreated her as witch
- The last case of jealousy is that of a
lady who discarded her lover, because, in spea-
king of his voyage, he s'hugged the shorer
- As a proof of the hardness of the times.
there is man in Ohio who kills only half .
pig at time.
-. Capello, was fined $50 and costs, at
Cincinnati, for selling five cents worth Of
whiskey TO two little boys, who were made
drunk.
- There are six hundred and seventy five
grogShops in Chicago, Ill. OF these, three
hundred and eleven are kept by Germans, and
the remainder mostly by Irishmen.
- bashful printer refused situation in
printing Office where females were employed
saying that, he never ssset up'' with girl in
his life.
- little boy once said to Ais grand
mother, GRANDDAUGHTER, hope you will die
first s'Why SO. my ehild3'' because can
stand trouble better than you cam
"a, =; 49, Al.
els Joseph of Austria is in delicate situation,
an heir to the throne was, at last accounts,
daily expected.
- \ correspondent ofthe augusta (Ga.)
Seminal states that rich golI vein has been
discovered on the land OF Mr.. Jas. Brown, in
Hart CO.
- \ new secret order has been Instituted
in Texas, called the ssTemple of wisdom = the
mysteries and ceremonies of which are con-
Quoted by a.young lady.
81 see him on his winding wav.n OBJ
served Mrs. Smothers. as she perceived the ell
der Smothers corllskrcwing his way home
with brick in his hat.
- An elderly spinster writes to a friend:
.sA widower with ten children has proposed,
and have accepted. This is the number
should have been entitled to, if | had been
married at the proper time"
"A gentleman asked little boy in Lon
don, sswhat occupation does your father follow
for living ~ He replied with great simplic-
ty, she is dreadful accident maker for the
newspapers .
= President Yo&ng, of Utah, slys ST.
Paul'S declaration that bishop should have
'sone wife, does not imply that he should have
but one. II means simply, according to Brig
ham, that he should not have less than one.
- y doctor and military officer became
enamoreI Of the same lldy. \ friend inquired
of her which of the suitors she intended 10
favor. Her reply was that it was difficult for
her todetermne, as they were both such kii-
iing creatures,
- y Southern paper exritiasiy annoua-
ccs fiat the editor us fine boz, promising
son whom ne hopes may live to inherit the
fortune his fatller MAKES, publishing news
paper. Which is equivalent to the Eastern
salutatiou, 'sMay you live forever
- An Irish I'd having been askeI if the
man who had just 1oegel him WAS his own ia
ther, he replied, yes, sure enough, he's the
parent over me-; but hc treats me as if l was
his son by another father and mother
- The expansive nature of scandal is de-
scribed By the poet thus:-
The flying rumors gathered as they rolled,
Scarce any tale was sooner heard than toldi
And all who told it added something new,
And all who heard it made enlargemcnts too.
- = Mo5ilian, wanting little coiored
girl as child's nurse at home, inquired of his
sister, ..How old is Lzzyi,' said he. ssShe
was eight, sir when We parted, but may b.
more now, as I have net seen her lately
- Mr. John Lentz was shot in Charleston,
Kanawha county, Va, recently, in the follow
ing manner: On going to bed he hung his coat
in the pocket of which was loaded revol-
Yer-on the bed post. The coat fell down, and
the conclusion caused the pistol to go off, lodg-
ing a ball in his foot near the heel.
-The editor of the Milwaukee (Wis.)
Free Democrat, has received the sum of S25oO
from one Henry Burchard, who took the lber-
ty of cowhding said editor some two months
since. Won't some pugnacious individual,
with large bank account, give q lick or
two?
- \ stranger in printing Office asked
the Youngest apprentice what was his rule OF
l set up.as long as / can hold
my BREATH and then put in comma; when
rape, insert a semicolon; and when want
chew of tobacco. make paragraph