Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-08-18
CLIPPINGS AND SCREENINGS.

10 Love-1ike measeis, is all the worse when it
comes late in life.
l15-Thcre said to be sos nunncries in Spain,
with 20,olS nuns in them.
~ new idea-sealng love letters with mo-
lasses. They must be eweet
t15 A fellow who got drunk on election dav.
said it was owing to his efforts to put down party
spirit"
sS Lyes-in Cincinnati, man who rejoices in
the twenty-cne letter patronymIc of Sehem5erge1-
tcetieSSoUS.
p SThe Charleston Mercury says that its party
rs against all the iSms.' Especially patriotism:
we suppose.
. Rich-the idea of claiming the successful
laying of the Atlantic Telegraph as great Dem
ocratic'' achievement.
s-g-Three hogs have died in Georgia from eat
ing n drunken mans yomit 1t is supposed that
the liquor killed them.
ET"Thou rainest in this BOSOM as the chap
said when n basin of water thrown over him
by the lady he was serenadng.
tBAn Oregon correspondent of the Knickcr-
booker says rains there twenty-sx hours per day
for seventeen months in the year.
sJMr. c. j. Bower of Newbern, whipped his
wife and she left him, She was right. She was
the right Bower, and he the left one.
EsT Samuel L. Cooper, of Salem, n. j., is likely
to be adjudged heir to the Jennings estate in
England, and will receive 81 .0Oo, 600
~ The yell)w fever Is raging very badly at Ha-
lost her entire crew of twenty-four persons.
~ railroad traek-Iayer in Massachusetts, has
absconded with a considerable amount of funds.
He preferred making tracks to laying them.
.s-A letter from New FrnunfeIs, Texas states
that the Government camels increasing in
number and that the young camels are thrifty.
ES710n Sunday the Sth, the Hatter's Bank Beth
el Connecticut entered by robbers. who car
ried of SOS 600 nearly all of it in bills of the Bank
IL little boy returning home from Sunday
School, said to his mother, Ma, ain there n Kit
tea-chism for lttie boys! this cate-e-chsm is too
hard
tS There has been great advance in the price
OF sugars the last few weeks. Sugars that could
have been bought for eight cents. quoted
at ten.
for robbing his wife of several hundred dollars
which she had accumulated by hard labor II
committed for trial.
5The dignitaries of the colored church at Elk
ton, Nd, have resolved to turn out of their con-
gregation "all ladies guilty of the immora prac-
tice OF wearing hoops"
E9- Stated-by the Erie Rsps5Itcau that Mr.
Walter johnson. of that city. has invented bull
dog which being wound up By an ingenious mech
anism, will howl all night.
g-f7-An old lady of Tuscum5ia Ala. offers re
ward of $4,000 to any young lady. not over sew
cnteen years of age. who is willing to live in the
capacity of an adopted daughter with her
"a" The crops in the Northern part of New Jer
IL
abundant yield, and there is every for be-
Iieving that the potato crop will be large one.
70 They have steam plow in operation in Lam
caster county, which is said to do its work well.
1t was invented by n Lancaster county man. who
will remove to the West to turn up the sod of the
prairies.
fy-Mary Ann Buswell has been indicted in Bal
timore for having three husbands. If her per-
sOnal accomplishments are in Keeping with her
name. she can no doubt get just many husbands
and lovers she plcases.
Ey-.t city urchin on hearing his father reading
of the new invention of glass bricks, exclaimed
"Glass bricks-I know what them isl ''What are
they ~ inquired one of the family. "Tumblers Of
liquor shouted the juvenile
E-TMr. Buchanan has returned to Washington
from Bedford springs. 1t is said he has not been
as sociable this visit. as formerly lie is not now
a candidate for the Presidency. and that may ac
count for the milk in that cocoanut.
TEA New-York paper noticing the death of an
experienced navigator, says that he doubled the
Horn 90 times" We know some fellows who, not
satisfied with doubling the horn. always treble and
quadruplc and quintuplc it-and don't stop then.
E-G-The Russian Mission now at Pekin has in
recent report, made known the result of the last
census taken by order of the Emperor of China
The present population is said by this document 20
amount TO As, 10000; that of Pekin is I,64S3l4
rS-The Episcopal rectory at West Chester was
entered by burglar, on Sunday night last, who
stole GOLD watch. pair of gold spcctacles,
six silver tea spoons, four gold shirt studs and a
palr OF SIccNe buttons belonging TO thc rev VI m
Newton.
II The sinking of the Artesian well at Colum-
bus Ohio has developed fact in Geology which
is 10 the dcvotces of that science. The well
has already reached the depth of 170S feet, more
than one thousand feet Of which are through solid
limestone.
- Last week little of Judge Donaldson.
in Montezuma. Ind, bitten the arm by a
| spider, while sleeping in n cradle The swell
led rapidly. Inflammation spread to other parts of
the body, and the second day after the injury the
| child died.
t1Y' Hard plaee-Coumbus Kentucky. An old
| farmer. who had been badly swndIed there. said
of it: IF the Angel Gabriel happens to light at
| Colunbu thcrelI be resurrection, for they IL
swindlo him out of his trumpet before he can make
| single toot -
.SA man sitting upon the verandah of an up
country inn hailed lone of the oldest inhabitants,
| and inquired the denomination of the church up
| the opposite side of the road. The reply was
Wal, she was a Baptist nat rally, out they don
run her now