Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-04-25
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religious subjects.
AfTectation Of wisdom often prevents
our becoming wise.
- or all poverty, that of the mind is the
most deplorablc.
-- He who makes an idol of his interest,
will make a martyr Of bis integrity.
..- .Capital punishment as the boy said
when the mistress seated him with the girls.
g--- Mrs. Darlington says one is obliged to
walk very ycireumscrulnptiously these muddy
times saa5
y DrUnkard's nose is like a lighthouse,
warning us of the little water passing under
meath.
"A rugged countenancc oftenest con
ceals the warm heart, as the richest pearls
sleep in the toughest she'll. -.
The difference between carriage
horse and carriage wheel is this--one goes
best when tired and the other don't.
.----- elf our past actions reproach Us, they
cannot be atoned for by our own severe refec1
tions so effectuafly as by contrary behavior. =
- Laugh and Joke after dinner. II helps
digestion more than cheese or champagne.
Moderate fits OF laughter are better than pills.
- The man who has nothing to boast of
but his illustrious ancestry, is ike potato
the only thing good about him lies under the
ground
- 4 letter from Rome says :-s'There are
various rumors that the city of Catania, in
Sicily, has been well nigh destroyed by an
eruption of Etna.
When one lady kisses another,what COM
mand OF TIE Scriptures does she fulfil? 81 do
unto. others as l would that men should doun-
to me- af
- man sent a tersto witty friend,
requesting the loan of his noose-paper, and
rao-,ir,ea in retar" his friends. marriage Ger
tifcate.
- Kiag James of England said the itch
was too good for his subjects, on account of
the pleasure to be derived from scratching the
affected parts.
An old bachelor, on seeing the words
Families supplied, over the door of an oyster
saloon, stepped IN and said he would take
wife and two children.
One Of the original Mormons afIfrrns that
the founder of the creed was opposed to pol
ygaIny, and would, if he were alive, denounce
IT as an infamous doctrine.
They must dress cool in Lafayette, Il.
y young lady, on being asked if She intended
to wear that new bonnet 20 church, said that
she did not intend to wear any hing cIset
- Wedloc!l without love is like a feast Of
dishes mere show and deception. Wewould
sooner wed an aImshouse than female minus
heart. Wen now we would.
In late speech, Lucy Stone said eve
know there is cotton in the ears Of men. Let
us look for hope in the bosom of women
May we not find some cotton there, too, Miss
Lucy?
Sam Slick says that book-learned men
seldom know; anything but books, and there is
one that never was printed yet, butwhich they
never read, nor even so much as cut the leaves
of, for they don't understand the handwriting
and that book is human nature.
- In one of the towns of Indiana, a short
time since, a liquor dealer sold a man brandy,
from the effects of which he lost his life.
jury, under the new liquor law, awarded the
widow of the deceased $500 damages against
the dealer.
- A distinguished physician writes to
friend who is in delicate health: "Take to
yourself young, healthy, yirtuous and amia-
bic wife. twill do you more good in one
winter than all the medicine and mineral wa
ter in America viii DO for twenty years.
- One of our Western villages passed an
ordinance forbidding taycrns to sell liquor on
the Sabbath to any pers' MS except travellers.
The next Sunday, every man intown was walk
ing around with valse in ono hand and two
saddle-bags in the other. Ingenious people
those gin and sugar imbibers.
-..--- One day little girl about five years
old, heard a preacher of the Ghadband order,
praying NEST Justify, till the roof rang with
the strength of his supplication. Turning TO
her mother aud beckoning7 the maternal ear
down to speaking distance, she whispered
Mother, don't you think that if hei lived near
ertoiGed he wouldn't have to talk SO loud 8
- A lady on Jamaica Pond, "a famous and
fashionable place in the neighborhood of Bos-
ton,) who is very expert on skates, offered the
privilege of kiss to any one who could catch
her, The offer was made rather louder than
she intended, for when she darted off: dozens
started in pursuit. She was captured by a me-
gro, who, however. did not insist npoa the
forfeit -, -