Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-02-28
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- Be wise, for in gaining wisdom you al
so gain an eminence from which no shaft of
.jeolousy and malice can hurl you.
- Monkeys have been dying of cholera in
the Island OF Trinidad; and their nearest rela-
tives, our dandies, are all of tremble in
consequence.
- There is a maiden lady in Connecticut
who is so extremely nice in her notions of fe-
male modesty that she turned of her washer
woman because she put her clothes in the
same tub with those Of young man.
- If your sister, while engaged in a ten
der conversation with her sweetheart, requests
you to bring her glass ofwater from an adj
Joining room, you can start on your errand,
but you needn't bring the water.
A Coroner's jury in Mchiganwere cal
led on latelyto :ssit'' ona hat and jacket found
on the bank of the lake, and after six hours
deliberaton returned a virdict Of 81 ound
Empty
"A successful inventor has offered the
English war-ofice anelectric rife, which great
ly surpasses any weapon in use: flinging ball
from 1000 to 2000 feet, at tie rate Of some six
ty shots per minute.
- Truth and female beauty do not always
go together. Pretty girls are famous FOR fib-
bing; while ugly ones run with the gospel
The poets always harness truth and beauty to-
gether, but The world jerks them apart.
- ssDo you thinl, you are fit to die ?'' said
stepmother to her neglected child. 81 don't
know said the little girl, taking hold of her
dirty dress and inspecting it, 4 guess 50: if
ant too dirty"
a new poor house, in Cook county
Illinois, was recently inaugurated by grand
ball. The idea is indicative of progress, and
the example may be useful. Opening poor
house with a bali! ''This is great country =
- 4 deserted husband in Baltimore ad-
vertises his wife as having left his bed and
board and offers a reward of $50 to any man
that is white. and has never been convicted of
stealing. who will marry her and take her to
California.
- Mrs. Parfington is said TO nave anxious
I
Enoch, of Biblical memory. She grounds her
INQUIRY on the fact that she heard that Uncle
Tom has been translated seven times, while
Enoch was translated but once.
- One Of the novelties in London, as an
exhibition, are man, woman and child, of the
| tribe of Nianl-Niams, or tailed people from
Central Africa. DR.. Sexton lectured on them
:,
Ladies are not otadmitted.
- The editor of the Detroit times says he
heard a day or two since, the following illus
tration of early piety: .'Pray God bless father
and mother, and Anna, and by iinks I must
scrabble quick to set into bed before Nary
does"
- The wine growers Of Ohio, it is stated,
are considering the propriety of petitioning
Congress at its next session to pass bill to
encourage the cultivation of the grape and
the manufacture of wine in this country, eth
er by offering bounty or by some other fea-
sible mode.
- The Yarmouth Register cautions hotel
and boarding house keepers againsta plausible
rogue, with snakey eyes, and one crooked leg,
pretending to be printer, and calling him
self II. T. Thompson. He is about 35 years
old, and shows his teetha good deal like '.Car-
kerr in :.Dom5ey and Son" 1t would be easy
to identify him. we should think.
- A serious if not fatal accident occurred
on Tuesday. at West Point, in the riding school
during the exercises of the cavalry class. Two
horses, ridden at the top of their speed, came
in collision, and the rider of one-Cadet Gay,
of Yermont-had leg broken in two places.
At last accounts he was in very precarious
condition. Cadet Childs mounted on the 9TH
er horse, was borne to the earth senseless by
the shock, but afterwards recovered.
"A nice young army officer, now in Con-
stantinopIe, writes to his cousin in London,
that the concluding line of Payne's popular
balled. There is no place like home,' is de-
cidedly more poetical than true. sEConstan-
tinople,'' he writes, isis the place. Here, for
the paltry sum of -f500 sterling year, a man
of moderate desires may live like prince
commodious habitation-the best of wine-the
most glorious tobacco-three beautiful wives,
and no going to church,
- Perhaps the Oldest tree on record is
the cypress of Somma, in Lombardy. 1t is
supposed to have been planted in the year Of
the birth of Christ, and on that account is
looked on with reverence by the inhabitants;
but an ancient chronicle in Milan is said to
prove that it was tree in the time of Julius
Cesar. B. c. IL. 1t is 123 feet high, and 20
feet in circumference at one foot from the
ground. Napoleon, when laying down the
plan for his Great road over the Simnlon di-