Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-01-09
CLIPPINGS AND scRIBBLINes.


les WQueer genius-the chap that wears
-ge 'kaker' hat. II
ng $3.50 slow-a man up the river,
he can't catch his breath. low
UThe wind is the only creatur
that gets high on water. - by let |
es Fact-children dresses wea'
ON ting them reach to the ankles couldn't set
of VIn bad fx-the b'ho lad the tooth
type clean because his littr
, ache .Iways be washed
be ~Woolen rags sbls made into flannel
in sweet oil before tb
cakes. king fund, throw Your
= EH you wantr, or invest it in lottery
+ money into the
l., tickets. irI 10 sort of divinity TO
p UA swe Scriptures do not forbid us to
whom eveEeryice.''
render 'oded-a camphene lamp in N : York
S by whch'a house was fired, and six
last y were burned to death.i
Pe[<The politician who got out of breath
.ning for an office, has purchased pair of
elbows and proposes TO run again
~Marks d. Whitman Esq, a member elect
OF the Pennsylvania Legislature from Dauphin
county, died on Sunday the lst inst.
WTo enjoy good eating keep good natur-
ed for an angry man can I tell whether he is
eating boiled cabbage or stewed umbrellas.
OyGrown-a new kind of cotton, in South
Carolina. The fibre is nearly two inches in
length, and is as fine and glossy as floss silk
nTThe police of New-Y ork comprises no
less than 1914 men, and the pay roll amounts
to S75 900 per month. This is paying dearly
for bad government.
nTPutting sand in cotton to make it weigh
is another peculiar institution down South
lot received from Macon, Georgia, contained
fifty-five per cent of sand!
rvThe estate of Boston firm that went up
in '67, has been settled, and the creditors VIII
receive one-fifth of one per cent. This is ''cut-
ting up'' for very small hgure.
nvRemember-the most influential man, in
a free country at least, is man who has abli-
tv, as we'll as the courage, to speak what he
thinks when occasion may require 1t.
r-When a young lady laces her waist small
Ter than nature made if, we wonder if her fl
cure will not shorten life some dozen years or
more, besides making her miserable while she
does live
OyA Charlestown (Va.) correspondent says
the bodies of Copeland and Green, the two ne
groes executed at that place, were Inferred de-
Gently, but were afterwards dug up and taken
possession of by the medical students.
DAt Watertown, n. Y, there is manu-
factory of chewing gum, where, within the last
SIX months, mas Deen manufactured anu oOi'
over twenty five thousand boxes of the gum,
each box containing 200 sticks or rolls.
| ~Captaiu, what's the fare to st. Louis p
ssWhat part of the boat do you wish to go on
cabin or deck % 'Hang your cabin" said
| the gentleman from Indiana, 81 live In cabin
at home give me the best you've got"
TThere is now living near Athens, Alaba
ma, a woman who is married to her eighth hus
| band She generally becomes widow every
I t----Ssars.- -a9d gets married again the mrs
Rv.sDid You presoise -.yoof tRcc. tifls :, -,
defendant a'' inquired lawyer of his client
| ssI did sir ,, ssh"d what did he say 90 s'H'
| told me to go to the devil.' cane what die
you do then ?'' ''Why then l came TO you
uTThe Cleveland papers state that two hun
| dred cOnvcts are now sick in the Ohio Peni
tentiary, with what is denomnated cornbreaC
d arhoea. The disease has assumed an epidenii,
form, and appearances at present are alarming
UThc following may he seen on grave
stone in Derwen (Denbighshre) churchyard
| s'Husband died aged l0S; wife died aged 98l
| their son died aged 9S; their daughter age,
l07 /; their grandson aged 9S. Total 497 av
erage 99R.
~Whcn the Union meetings are all over
the churches OF the North are to declare thei
attachment to the Bible. There's Legre
down in South Carolina that doubts their OF
thodoxy, and says he will break-'em up if the
don't speak.
WThe office of the receiver of the Unite
States Land Office at Eau Glare, W is, was rot
bed of over five thousand dollars in gold, o
the night of the 23d Dec. The receiver wa
gagged and tied to the desk in the office, an
the booty taken from the safe by the robber.
OyThe students of Roanoke College, at 81
lem, Va, met on the Sd instant, and adopte
resolutions that they would burn in efigy W
II. Seward, Joshua r. Giddings, and Wendc
Phillips, and that they would ever be ready
defend Virginia and her rights. Good boys
The peculiarities of the female constitution an
, the various trials to which the sex is uhjectet
| demand an occasional recourse to stimulants.
is important, however, that these shall be of
harmless nature, and at the same time accomplis