Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-08-10
THE RAFTsMAN's JOURNAL.
CLIPPINGS AND scRissirncs.

CLIPPINGS AND scRiBstINcs.
! EMost desirable-the back seats at ths
Theatre of war.
0-No disputing the fact-that the first .4rk
nc expedition was got up by Noah.
| GEssFidgetting bliss is the latest defini
tion for love. Not bad definition.
WDiscredited-the Monongahela Valley
| Bank, located at Monongahela City.
0yPloughing up the side-walks-the pork.
! ers under charge of the borough fathers.
~Harrowing-the feelings of those who
| prefer to have the space smooth and green.
WHas his day-every dog. sBoxer', had
his; he's dead and buried by the honors of ,car
EGoing ahead-the committee with the
Improvement OF the South ward public ground.
WAsserted-tbat there is sugar in tears
No doubt of that; as we have frequently seen
sugar hogsheads an hers.
UWas gathered-corn, sufficiently ripe to
grind, on the Sth of July, in the neighborhood
of Greensburg, Louisiana.
"Went down the river-severa young
men, in a fat-boat. Nice way of travelling,
no doubt, specially on low water.
gStarted new paper-a Mr.. Hen. in Iowa
He says he hopes by hard scratching to make a
living for himself and little chickens.
UBefore you commit suicide take cold
bath. What people term despair is very often
dirt. Does the writer speak IRON experience ?
WGrcatly shocked-a fastidious lady the
other day, on reading that male and female
strawberry plants are frequently occupying the
same bed
GEAn incurable old bachelor,who seeming
ingly rejoices in his infrmity, describes mar
rage as "a female despotism tempered with
puddings."
Accommodating Engineer on the
Snow Shoe railroad. He'll stop for a passen-
gers hat if it blows off, and permits cattle to
cross the track at their leisure.
OgRoaches are said to have so much good
sense that they Immediately leave any place
where the rinds or refuse parts of green GU
cumbers are left lying. Try it.
WCongratulate himself-a friend of ours,
upon having recently taken very pleasant
trip. Upon inquiry we found that Ire had trip
ped and fell into young lady's lap.
WCulculatcs-Cassius NJ. Clay, ESQ.,, that
the birds visiting his thirty acres of fruit and
pleasure grounds destroy not less than 500, :
459, ,200, 900 caterpillars and insects in year.
DBorrowed-the term :shung jury from
the sportsman's phrase s.to hang fire. There
is this difference, however--thc jury, when il
hangs, is discharged and goes off, the gun
does not.
0yA Maine newspaper, in announcing the
death of Henry Johnston, Mayor OF Newbury-
port, says: s.He was an uncle of the Hon. Ca
leb Gushing, but otherwise respectable and
worthy man.
GSA cargo of six hundred Africans has
been landed on the Florida coast, near Smyr-
ma. If this piracy cannot be ended by any
cheaper means, six hundred vessels should be
lifted out by the government as guard.
UThe Purdy (Tenn.) Whig Banner says
that during the session of the Circuit Court,
Judge Walker fined certain pious individual,
once in good standing, $50 for kissing a res
pectable lady against her wish and consent.
~Prcvailing- drought, in parts of Mont
gomery county, Md, bordering on the Poto-
mac, and seriously injuriug the corn crop
en- it. In Alexandria and Fairfax counties,
Va, the drought is also becoming serious.
OJHas discovered-a physician in Louis
vile, that by living principally on buttermlk,
human being may prolong existence to the
period of two hundred years. Has he tried it
'Spect next we'll hear of COWS giving pure but
termilk, and that men never die by using it.
~Some chap who has been trying the Or-
entail Flea powder, just invented by a Yankee,
and not finding it to answer, thus breaks forth:
ga flea, naturalists say,
Has smaller ieas that on him prey.
And these have smaller still to bite 'cm,
And SO proceed ad IN tinifem.'
I.s1t is interesting to us,'' says the Brit
iSh Messenger, ssand it will, no doubt, be inter-
esting to our readers to know that since Octo-
Der last,a daily prayer meeting has been carried
on in coal pit in Statfordshire.'' All right,
Mr. Messenger, they are dorn in a black pit,
and, perhaps, wish to free themselves.
Cr~The degree Of A. NJ. has been conferred
on Miss Martha Haines Butt, of Norfolk City,
by the Harrisburg (Pa.) Female College.-E1.
Miss Martha had better take the degree of
ga. BE- Ga bride) from some nice young man,
and in due time she may como fairly by the
only title of GA. NJ" a young lady should ev-
aspire to.