Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-23
CLIPPINGS AND scRiesL,Ncs.

bS Ihanksgiving-to Thursday.
- Getting muddy-the roads, hereabouts.
0yRather leaky-the weather, now "a days.
Oy-That's so-a light purse is heavy curse.
AT an end-Indian summer, from all an
pearances.
Gy-To become rich-grab all you can, and
keep all you get.
GSHealth preservers-temperance employ
ment, and cheerful spirit.
WMany dashing fellow is like the golden
Heece-a fine outside on sleeps back.
US-Not good swimmer-our tile. 1t tried
mudhole, but couldn't make the landing.
EFact-beauty in women is like the flow
ers In spring but virtue is like the stars of
heaven.
GVSomebody defines character ssthe only
personal property which everybody looks after
for you.''
GyW anted-corn, oats, and buckwheat, at
this office. Couldn't some of our clever sub
scrlbers bring us a little 2
G-There is bell in the French Cathedral,
in Montreal, Canada, which weighs $4,000 lbs.
and requires sixteen men to ring it.
0Red cheeks are only oxygen in another
shape. Girls anxious to wear a pair will get
them where the roses do-out of doors.
" The tongue may be, as David calls it, a
two-edged sword, but most men will find
wooden dagger better weapon to fight with
~In of the Methodist churches at
Newcastle -upon-Tyne, in England, upward of
nine hundred persons have been admitted into
the church.
@We can perhaps tolerate a man, who
has just ignorance enough to talk among fools,
if he has discretion enough to be silent among
men of sense.
Dy-It is better for man to send his children
to good evening school than to permit them
to graduate at the schools kept at the corners
of the streets.
GIThomas G. Rutherford, the late Super
intendent of the House of Refuge, at Pitts
burgh, has been convicted of Adultery with
certain girls under his charge.
GA down-east editor says he has seen the
contrivance our lawyers use when they 'swarm
up with the subject He says it is a glass
concern and holds about pint.
OyThe four s 900 bank notes lost in Can
ada some time since have been returned by a
| Catholic priest, supposed to have reached his
hands through the confessional.
~Goethe says that modern authors put
too much water in their ink. Some of our
fashionable writers, agreeing with him in
pinion, seem to substitute brandy.
~Among those at Charlestown who shoul-
dered a musket for duty against the Harper s
Ferry inSurrectioniSts, was the Rev. Mr.. At
kinson of the Presbyterian church.
Gy-A lady in Brewster, Mass, gathered this
fall, from about three acres of ground, two
hundred barrels of cranberries, for which she
received over two thousand dollars.
%Two extensive conhagratons occurred
at Atlanta, Ga, on the 10Th Nov, which des-
troyed property, in buildings and merchan-
disc, valued at $4,000. Two children were
also burned to death.
EScarlet fever has assumed an epidemi:
form in Allegheny city, and deaths have oc-
CURED there daily for several weeks. One un-
dertaker says that he has buried two and three
a-day for some days past.
OTwo sheet-iron cars are in course of
construction, at the machine shops of the Hi
nois Central Railroad, for the purpose of car
rying powder and other dangerous combusti-
bic materials. They have India rubber joint
lngs, and close up perfectly aIr-tight.
~The Paris Pdtrie says that during the
time the French troops occupied the Italian
peninsula, less than three months, there were
more marriages contracted between French
men and Italian women than had taken place
between the latter and the Austrians in twen-
ty years.
~The wife of Geo Kennedy, Cwho is in
the Cincinnati Jail charged with the murder of
Nahon,) visited him the other day, and con-
cealing him in her clothes, let him pass out,
| herself staying in his cell. Kennedy ar
rested shortly after on the street, down which
he was making his way fast as his petticoats
would permit.
UThe Yirginians still distress themselves
with rumOrS OF a plot to rescue Old Brown and
his companions. The Richmond correspon-
dent OF the Petersburg Express says that or
ders have been given to the guard in the e.
vent of such an attempt, to shoot the prison
ers at once, and Sen defend themselves from
the attacking paWy.
HssHen Fever Burnham So mild desgna-
tion of poisonous adulteratiOnS as 'sertcnding''
liquors is likely to become favorite slang in
stead of brandy and water, tipplers call for
s.extended brandy bars called sseXten-
sion tables" An exchange suggests that his
success in the shanghae trade led to his seec-
tion the man to make ''cock-tails' for the
Commonwealth.
writ yphn Va