Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-03-14
fTEaIARIAN.
- Peas and other vegetables are blossom

ted in the Cincinnati Jail.
- There are three nunneries in the state
of Massachusetts,.
-- The U. S. Treasurer's statement made
up to the 26th ult., shows $50, ,439 500 in the
treasury subject to draft.
- A bill has passed Congress appropria-
ting S125, eco for the erection of fortifcations
at New Orleans
- In New England only one adult out of
four hundred is unable to read and write. In
this respect the Yankees cheat all creation .
- There are some things you can learn
from fools. Among the number is the value
of holding your tongue.
- student in want of funds sold his
books, and wrote home. 'sFather rejoice, for
now derive my support from literature.
- It is rumered that Mr.. Breckenridge, of
KY, who recently declined the mission to
sofa.
- Never be critical upon the ladies'. The
only way in the world true gentleman viii
ever attempt to look at the faults of pretty
woman, is to- shut his eyes.
- There are persons with 'malice pre-
pense, who have dared to assert that the let
ters NJ. D. which are placed after physicians
names, signify, 'sMoney Down."
- .:Why don't you go to work and stop
picking your nose 20 ssIt's my nose amt it
and it is the Fourth of July, too. I'n pick
thunder ont of it, if Eve mind to-
- A gentleman wishing to teachhis horse
to do without food starved him to death. 81
had a great loss,' said he, esfor just as he
learned to live without eating he died.
"A young man on being requested TO
looking old maids, objected on the ground
that pickles didn't agree with him.
a Medical student wishes to know in
what portion of the animal economy the from
bone is found. He says that he has frequent
ly heard of it, but cannot find if in the medi-
cal books.
- It is said that the Prohibitory Liquor
Law passed by the Legislature of Illinois, can
not be found, though it has been signed by the
Governor! That is rum circumstance, truly.
- The Chinese are queer people to go
to market. a friend at Canton writes that a
netghbor Of his had just laid in his winters
proyisions-a hind quarter Of horse and two
barrels Of bulldogs.
s:Iiave you Blasted Hopes?'" asked
q lady Of a green librarian. whose face was
much swoolen by the toothache. No, ma'am,'
replied the youth: ssbut I've got blasted
toothache.''
ALL the Church property of the Catho-
lie Church in New York, except that in dis
pute at Buffalo, is vested ii the hands Of one
man-Hughes. The HeralI says it amounts
to Twenty-Five millions Of doHers in real estate.
- Mountains are considerable up and
down in Vermont. 1t is related that a coach
man driving up one, was asked if it was as
steep on the other side. seSteep,'' he answer
ed, 'Fchain lightning couldn't go down il with
out breechin' on!''
- In the Municipal Court Boston, on
Monday, the Grand Jury returned sixty-eight
bills of Indictment against sixty-eight priso-
ners, for committing various crimes in the city,
and out OF the whole number sixty were for
eigners, and mostly Irish.
- If there is heaven on earth, it is on a
soft couch by your own fire-side with your
wife on one side, 4 smiling baby on the other
a clear conscience, dozen cigars, knowl-
edge that you are out of debt, and don't fear
the tailor, sheriff: or the devil.
- The enormous quantity of forty-seven
million gallons of whiskoy, rum and brandy,
and thirty-1ve million gallons of strong beer,
were made in the United States during the
last year, being more than three gallons a piece
to every man, woman, child, sucking baby,
black and white, in the country.
- Cheeks grew pale when tidings came
of the going down of the Inflated Arctic, and
its living freight. Intemperance will this year
slaughter enoughto freight thousand Arctics.
And they all, bound as they are to hearts that
Nrithe in agony, 'go down by authority.
- The following oath was administered
to a little boy ten years of age, in the Iowa
Legislature, chosen to doup documents: esYou
do solemnly swear to support the Constitution
of the Unitdd States, and of this State, and to
you Cod
"A Mn HERAND, author of sEThe Descent
into Hell,' was annoying Douglas Jerrold
with importunate questions, at unwelcome
time. Among others he queried-ssBy the by,
Mr.. Jerrold, did you ever read my Descent
into Hell?'' s:No, sir,'' replied the infuriated
dramatist, ssbut should like to see itl''
An Irish girl in Oregon the other day
complained to her mistress that the COW