Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-07-28
CLIPPINGS Ano scsrs slIncs.

SO a hiSn rene-a hole In the crown of your
hat
70 Being Test-ed-who is to be the next Dis
trict Attorney.
ID On edge-Cuale-ry in general, and candi.
dates in particular.
. Made a sudden spread-hoops in the street
the other evening.
lY Make themselves useful-some folks prying
into other peoples affairs.
70 Well educated the Irishman who tried to
read French out of Greek book.
70 Injured his eye-sight-the chap who is in
the habit of looking through thick bottomed
tumbler.
70 Mrs. .Partington says that gentleman laugh
ed so heartily that she feared he would have burst
his JocHt1r vein.
~ In Mexico, everybody is supposed to be an
ex-presdent who wears q clean shirt and keeps
his hands washed.
tg-A tale of terror-a spaniel's continuation
with four punches of fre-erackers and three tin
pans fastened to it.
20 Stated-on high authority, that there are at
present sixty thousand children in New York who
never attend schools of any kind.
every polite-a man in Jersey Shore The
other day, as he passed hen on her nest he was
heard to say, Don't rise, ma am ~
tg There are seven hundred cells in the Ohio
Penitentiary, and six hundred and ninety nine
convicts, leaving only one cell vacant.
% The best liquid remedy for badness s:Use
take 1t internally to ctinch Me roots.''
u No less than 40 so persons have come to
their death wileW Working in the mines OF Schuyl-
kill county, within the last fifteen months.
q An exchange. in putting a soap. says SIT is
the best used for cleaning dirty man g face
We have tried it, and therefore know
S~Wheeling people call things by their right
names. Whiskey is familiarly known as Bust
head; and Ginger Pop as ''RattlebelIy Pop
Estimated-by the Tribune. the population
of New-York city at 100000 and its environs
would probably swell this amount to 100000
- -Drowned-fve young girls, from the New
York House of Reformation, while bathing at the
foot of Seth street, North river on the 18th inst
q Sacked-a husband by his wife, in Harris
burgh, lately. She tied him up in a sack when he
was drunk, and whipped him till he got sober.
~ Didn't get much hurt-the young man that
party at Curwensvillc, last week. Says he'll try it
again.
IS-Quoth Patrick of the Yankee-s-Bc dad if
he was cast away disolate island. he'd get up
the next mornin an go round sellin' maps to the
inhabitants"
"Heres Webster on bridge" said Mrs Par
tington, as she handed Ike the Dictionary Study
it contentively. and you will gain great deal of
inflammation
E1gDrowned-by the police in New-York 2. 500
dogs, since the dog law went into operation this
summer. Too much waste of bark for one city. in
so short :ime, that.
igA western editor having published a long
leader or Hogs" rival paper in the same vii
lage upbraids him for obtruding his family mat
ters upon the public.
20 William I Porter, for many years editor of
the Spirit Of tie Ttmes sporting paper publish
ed in New-YOrk. died on Monday a-week in that
city, after n short illness
5-Wm. Graft, at Wareham Va has been SEN
fenced to six months imprisonment at hard labor
for kissing young woman against her will Rath-
er expensive luxury that
u The quantity of land advertised to be sold
under the Presidents proclamation, in California,
next February is 5000 900 acres What a
fine chance to buy farm.
iE>The trains on the Penn a Railroad now pass
from Philadelphia to Pittsburg without changing
cars at Harrisburg, as heretofore. This wll save
travellers much annoyance.
10 -Found-ninety five dollars by LAWYER in
Lowell, who returned it 10 the owner One of the
papers says, "the act may be honest and honora-
ble but 1t is unprofessional'
ES Aunt Betsy has said many good things-a.
mong the rest, that a newspaper is like wife
because every man ought to have one of his own -
Aunt Betsy was right that time.
Eg So they might.-Brigham Young says "If
our enemies were to come here in proper spirit
they would in one month mbrace our religion. -
Most likely your ,ctUes, old fellow.
ry-Odoriferous Some wag writing from Cairo
Illinois, since the subsidng of the flood, says there
in that city 452 distinct and different
smells, and severai Wards get TO heur from,
~ Used-by the Mohawk Dutchmen. ladies'
framed skirts for scarecrows The birds think
''there is some trap about them. and keep n safe
distance An empty crows nest, perhaps.
~ Would drown himself-the young man who
was crossed in love last week, if il were not for
getting wet. He viii probably compromise the
matter by shooting himself in a looking glass
70 The q. 5. troops distinguished themselves
remarkably during the recent battle with the In
dians in Oregon by the wonderful celebrity with
which they retreated. They fed ninety miles in
day
t5@Some planters in Russell county, Ala, have
lost stock by turning them upon fields of oats in.
jured by rust Not only hogs, but horses and
mules also. it is said have died from the effects of
eating these oats
tg'The Health Officers of New York have deci
ded that swill milk Is healthy and swill fed beef
nutritious for Nesc YorkerS. Probably like Man
fred, they have fed poisons till they have be-
come a kind of nutriment.
sey Thaddeus Stevens is spoken of as candi-
date for Congress from the Lancaster district He
knows buchanan like book, and that functiona-
ry would sooner the old fellow with the eloyen
foot IN the House, than Stevens.
Is A man named Melton, a few days since shot
Mr.. Spicer and battered out the brains of Mr..
Vail to obtain the sum of 500, by subseque ntly
threatening to murder Mrs. Vail The tragedy
occurred near 0yersburg, Tennessee.
sc5TThe creed of the political '.whang- doodle''
party, according to the New Orleans Bulletin. is
extremely simple, to wit Office and Whiskey.
Occasionally it is reversed, and it is Whiskey and
Office. The ''whang -doodles'' can be found every
where.
~ Halls Journal of Health says that spirits of
hartshorn will permanently cure the bites stngs
of poisonous animals insects, and even of mad
dogs it believes. Strong wood ashes and water
will answer the same purpose. Apply freely to
the part affected
70 The wild pigeons in Marion county, Ohio,
are literally sweeping the late planted corn fields
and devouring every grain One man lost sixteen
acres, another eighteen, another ten. and n.
They cannot be driven away, for when fred at
they only rise to light again within few rods.