Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-02-10
CLIPPINGS AND scRissLlNos.

s feii-snow yesterday.
EF Ditto-crinolne on the street.
Exciting--the sfree- Fl ght'' in Congress
-sufering-Lawrence NJ. Kett, from Gro,c-
ing pains
SCant shine-a young man without money
among the girls.
IL rEstablished-a Grand Lodge of the Io.O.F
recently in Kansas.
- Y-Crowded out-the educational column this
week. Couldn't help it.
e In noperation-about thirty artesian wells, in
Iroquis county, Illinois.
~ -FIoored-an old Wig, during the fight in
Congress on Friday night
fF-If small boy is called a lad, is it proper to
call bigger boy LADDER
w'Fact-that some go to church to close their
eyes, and some to eye the clothes.
DrWants to iuvest-an English millionaire,
half million dollars in property, in Cincinnati.
EY-Arrived-during the year 1857, at Chicago,
449 022, ,95l feet of lumber. nice little lot that
Sold-at a recent sale of books in London,
copy of Wicklife's version of the New Testament
for S725.
gPublished-three thousand three hundred
and sxty-four newspapers, in the United States
and Territories.
wInsuIts are like counterfeit money: we can't
hinder them being offered, but not compel
led to take them.
f~Why does lady wearing erinoline appear
eomical as well as conical? Because she is very
ftsn5tckkY dressed.
E7-Can De seen-the calcium light on board the
steamship .Adriatic' a distance of 30 miles 1t is
said TO be very brilliant.
ESTPaid-sixty million dollars, for revolutiona-
ry pensions, thus far, and sixty million acres of
land have been also donated.
EF'Coined-during January, at the Philadel-
phia Mint. 07l40 including 100000 cents,
S550.O00, and SI4l140 in gold
gDiscovered-the following placard upon
post lately, out west: ..for Sail too story Hows
And hnr fhan Nf,nx f.( q. =
Ey~Patrick 0Flahcrty said that his wife was ve-
~ ungrateful for '-whin married her, she hadn't
rag to her back, and now She covered with en-
~ Smart-very-the chaps who ordered meals
at all the houses which they passed whilst out
sleighing. Wade in Tag" did you see anything
green, thar?
tgCan draw thirty. ton engine, a load of
seventy-six tons up grade of four-hundred feet
per mile, or one thousand six hundred and eighty
tons on a level.
Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth, Deputy
Superintendent of Common Schools, by the State
Superintendent.
.zyExpelled-Mr Robertson of the Omaha Ne
braskian, from the sittngsof the Nebraska House
of Delegates, for calling one of the members
'smal potato
ig funny fellow-thc man in Algiers who
tells such good stories: that his friends say it is
dangerous to walk with him in the forests for all
the hyenas come round him and laugh.
yRecovercd-Esther Leopold Jewess in the
Court of Common Pleas of New York. damages in
$4,000 for a breach of promise of marriage. from
Morris Meyers, wealthy Southern merchant.
fy-Bequeathed-by Lemucl Putnam Grosver-
nor, who died in Pomfret. Conn. to the Connecti-
cut Historical Society the sword that owned
and used by General Israel Putnam during our
revolutionary struggle
Writes-Horaee Greedy, from the west, if
50, 600 shoemakers would emigrate to the tributa-
ries of the Upper Mississippi, there would be
pie work for them and they would be better CON-
pensated than at the east
EyThrew-a circus rider in Mobile, seventy-one
somarsets in succession That tumbter stands moro
tumbing than some tumblers wot of, or he
would have tumbled to pieces before he got thro'
with seventy y-one tumbles-
70 Compatibility writer that a has
lost half her chances of marriage at her twentieth
year; at twenty-three she has lost three-fourths
Of her opportunities and at twenty-six, seven
eights of her chances are gone.
gStated-by San Francisco paper, that ethe
Of the wharves, nicely packed and directed ready
for shipment to their long home in China. The
freight money on the lot is 1000
e S-Exists-a lake covering 1900 acres inWright
county Iowa, about $50 miles west of Dubuque
which is surrounded by regular stone wall. five
feet wide at the top, and in some places where
the water would be likely to overflow the prairie,
ten feet high.
Jewell versed in Scripture-a certain Buffalo
lawyer. In summing up case he said "therc
gentlemen of the jury. is witness who has taken
the stand unmindfu of the command of the ttvelre
apostles, which says, Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbor.' p"
Worthy of note.-SeveraI captains of YES
sells recently arrived at New York state that the
Gulf Stream runs this year 40 so miles nearer
the American coast than heretofore The fact Is
mentioned accounting for the extraordinary
mildness of the winter wealth er thus far.
sCouIdn't think of any thing to say for a
| long time-the youth who came to town to see his
| intended wife. At last, great snow falling, he
| took the occasion to say that his fathers sheep
| would be all undone. WELL said She taking
| him by the hand, 'Ill keep one of them"
| w-Annoyed-a physician, by an old lady, who
always to accost him in the street for the
purpose of telling her ailments Once she met
| him he in n great hurry. 'Ah L see you
quite feeble, said the doctor ''shut your eyes
| and show me your tongue - and the doctor, qui-
ety moving Off left her standing there for som C
time in this ridiculous position, to the infinite
muscment of all who witnessed the scene.
| 3 When, during the last Presidential contest,
a Republican journal or speaker in a Free State
| expressed apprehensions or convictions that
| the triumph of Buchanan would render Kansas
Slave State, yell of derision and iDdigna-
| tion was set up by the supporters of the Ne
braska bill. We were accused by them, not
merely of exciting fears of an impossible
| evil. but of knolcinG that no such result We
predicted was possible. But now Mr.. Buchan-
| H., T.