Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-12-22
CLIPPINGS AND scRIssLINes.


tY-For bringing out hilarity there is nothing
| like sleighing.
ry-To cure the toothache-let an omnibus run
! over your foot.
70 Makes red-cheeked grls-plenty of work
and outdoor exercise.
| 70 Sighs-the small artillery of coquettes and
the eloquencc of beggars.
- The Mayor of Philadelphia has ordered the
arrest of all street beggars.
| .y1A thousand divorce cases are pepding in the
several counties in Indiana
| ES More than 400 lads seeking appointments
at Albany, as legislative pages.
| .SFThe bills of the Old State Bank of Indiana
will not be redeemed after January lst, 1859.
! sy-The Warren County Bank after hutteriny
| for some time, has at last closed its doors
! .-Y'In Australia. dinner terminates with queer
desscrt-a dab of mortar swectened with molasses.
| ~ Never nod to a lady-it looks as if you were
sleepy. Touch your beaver graccfulIy-that's
| genteel
.yPoliticians maize fools of themselves; petit
| fogers make fools of others and pretty girls make
| fools of both.
70 Smooth quarters taken at par at this Office. in
exchange for receipts. Persons in arrears will
please make n note of this
IT-It is said there is a skipper who has crossed
Lake Ontario SO often, that he knows every wave
| by sight. W-h-ew,
| s-y Do one thing at time-thats the rule
| When you have done slandering your neighbors.
| tnch oeSin 10 say your prayers.
20 Two ancient colored persons now inmates
| of the Cincinnati Infrmary. One of them is aged
| 100 years, and the other ITO.
tB new species of shipment to California re-
Gently took place. Two elephants were shipped
| to San Francisco, via Cape Horn.
y Count Du Chatel, of Paris has bought for
his wife a ruby, single ruby, for which he has
paid $4,000 Fools amt all dead, yet.
20 Bishop McIlvaine, of Ohio who is in Paris
| kept the American Thanksgiving Day, by preach
| ing sermon at the church of tn C Oratoire.
Cy John Neal says tho eagle 'has a contempt
| Tor all other birds. The owl, however, is more
! contemptuous stilI-hc boots at everything
70 An Indiana pork packer is stated to have
cleared $4,000 on single lot of hogs. That was
saving his bacon to some purpose, certainly.
EY-A bill has been introduced into the Legisla-
ture of Georgia, to suppress the sale in the state,
of the book containing Brown.ow and Pryne's re-
cent discussion on Slavery
sT-''If you wish to make n shoe of durable ma
terials said faceious Lanesbergher, you should
take the upper part of the mouth of a hard drink
CT, for that never lets in water
10 It is said that gentleman who has for ma
ny years been member of the Georgia Legsla-
ture, can nsither read, spell. nor write his own
name. A democrat without doubt.
Eg'The Mobile Register, with more frankness
than wisdom. says: Let the Democratic party be-
come, in its intentions, al essential
orgGnt-ation. n southern sectional party.
~ An exchange paper says that Hon. Edward
Everett has under consider alton offer of $50 900
to dance on the tight rope for the benefit of the
Mount Vernon Association. Not bad hit.
"a The ladies in ST, Paul, wear thick high boots
that defy the mud, snow and frost and are none
the less charming much healthier and more COM
Portable Why not adopt the same fashion here
20 The cost of the franking privilege is mea-
surabiy illustrated by the fact that it costs So 900
to pay for the transportation of public documents
belonging to Mr. Bernheisel, the delegate from L.
tab Territory.
icS'A White Owl was shot by Mr. l.. Marks of
JunIata county, lately. 1t was magnifcs mt spe-
cimen of the feathery tribe measuring four feet
ten inches from tip TO tip of its wings and weigh
ed three pounds and a half
70 The purchase of thousand cameIs for army
transportation is urged: The camel experiment
the desOrt plains of the West he does on the de-
scrts to which he is indigenous
isTA son of Mr.. L. Bartlett, of Ncwbury port
Mass about seven years old, fell with a needle in
his hand, short time since. The needle entered
the knee joint and broke Off occasiOning conyul-
siOns, from which he died on the next day.
~ How folks differ, We chew tobacco; the
Hindoo takes to lime. The children of this coun
try delight in candy; those of Africa in rock salt
A Frenchman "goes his length on fried frogs
while an Esquimaux Indian thinks tallow the eli
max of luxuries.
s15The Erie Observer tells story of resident
on the line of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad who
signed off the right of way for $500, payable in
stock. week or two since Mr.. Jones called for
his pay. and said he would take yoke of steers
and n chunk of horse -
l3-In Vermont recently young man fogged
his brother severely for preventing his father from
hanging himself. On being demonstrated with
for whipping his brother for saving his fathers
life, he replied-.I wanted him to know that it
was his business to let father hare his ray.
157'0n searching the house of an old gentleman
who died in a town New Bedford, lately, a
bag was found containing about 81 900 in Mexican
dollars and half dollars and 200 in bills of one
of the New Bedford banks, being among its
liest issues, and dating back nearly thirty years.
Iz5A western preacher, after stating that tea,
coffee, sugar, spices, pickles preserves milk meal
snuff and tobacco adulterated, stretched him
self up to his full hight, and with great emphasis
exclaimed "Who, then, will dare to deny the fact
that this is wicked and adulterous generation ?"