Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-04-04
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the head IS always the Cupe Oh the
heart.
- To study men is more necessary than to |
study books.
The area of Clearfeld County is 1909 !
square miles -N
- Clearfield town WAS laid out in 1865,
and incorporated in l840.
- You must command by example, rather
than by authority. f2o
- When is a lady's neck not a neck
When it is little bare, (bear.)
- Tattlers and hypocritcs are twins-their
father, the devil.
- The first school in Pennsylvania, was
established in 1888.
- Why is dead duck like a dead doctor?
Because they have both ceased to quaci.
- When we record our angry feelings,
let it be on the snow, that the first beam of
sunshine may ob!iterate them forever.
- No man was ever ruined by being lib
eral. There is vast difference between lib
crafty and prodigality.
Thomas Mifflin was the first Governor
of Pennsylvana, under the state Constitution
which was adopted in 1870.
- Men of genius are frequently dull and
inert in society. The blazing meteor when it
descends to earth, is only stone.
- In Karsas it costs man only fifty dol
lars to have city named after him; towns and
viIlagesip proportion.
- Byron was born on the % nd ofJanuary
I7SS in London. He died at Missolonghi, in
Greece, on the 18th of April 1924.
a gentleman never prizes into other peo
pies business. lie always pays the postage on
his letters and pays in advance in good money,
for his papers.
- Pan taught the Thracian Shepherd to
carve his love notes or the nvisibe air, and
| fill the summer night with soft, flute ike mel
| ody.
The cost of the extra inch on the tail
shirt collars of our young men is equal TO the
sum necessary TO put the Bible into the hands
ofeverv of the Patigonian giants.
- There ale about seven million pores in
the body of man of ordinary size. If these
were joined lengthwise, atube would be formed
twenty -cightmiies long
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moreland County. Virginia on the Goth of jan
| uary 1882. He died on the 10Th of Jnne 1874,
| aged sixty three years.
- It is said our County and town derive
their names from certain clear fe!d,, apparent
" old Indian corn-ields found in different
parts Of the county by the first settlers.
- Money is so scarce in this neghbor
hood That when two dollars meet, they are
such strangers to each other, that the fortu-
nate possessor has to give them an introduc-
ton. -. ..-..-. .z-..-..s-. -.
- How does ii happen that whenever yon
chance TO stop out late, upon Your retirement
| as quietly as possible, every door crcaks ten
times as much as usual, and the stairs go of
like parks Of artillery? :.
| An editor ssout Vest says, that be
| hoped to be able to present marriage and a.
| death, as origina! matter for his columns but
! a thaw broke up the wedding, and the doctor
/ fep sick. SO the patient. recovered! II
| TT A certain newiy-eleeted Irish Mayor
! speaking of certain articles. in viyaeious
newspaper, observed, Il desplse those under
| hand attacks. When write an anoOymous
! letter ] always sign my name 10 it,
| "A philosopher who is fond ofdVing TO
! the bottom of things, thinks that when young
| ladyis offended with a kiss, the only remedy
is to give her another, according to the theory,
| similia similar-bus carautur Veg likely.
IL Cash helps along courting amazingly.
1 Astonishing what oyster suppers, bracelets,
| ..love of bonnet suburban rides and balls
| will de towards expanding the feminine heart
and getting into the parsons house.
- The men of .76'' have goae down to
the grave, but to their country they vet live,
! and live forever. They live in the recorded
| proofs OF their own great actions; in the deeply
/ craven lines of public gratitude; and in the re-
| spect and homage of all mankind.
/ - a witness being requested to give in
his testimony, az court, respecting the loss of
! shirt, gave it in thus, ,s.Mother said that Ruth
said that Mel said that Poll told her that. She
seen man that seen a boy ran through the
street with streeLsed flannel sliuct, all checker
1 and our gals rconf lie, for mother has licked
! them more than II hundred times for it!'' sid
Tho following Paragraph we clip from
i the regular report Of the Connecticut Legisla-
I ture.-sBllbto tax geese, cats and bachelors.
4 Mr. Harrison was opposed to the bill taxing
1 bachelors There was q tax already laid upon
a goose, and any man who had lived twenty
|, five years without getting married. could be
taken under that sectioo.z 80 G. aziel