Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-10-19
CLIPPINGS And scRIsslINcs.

"Qute common-pugilistic performan-
ces, hereaboutS.
~Lecturing-Bayarl Taylor, in San Fran
cisco, California.
~Cricketing for the hursery-give child
BAT and it'll bari.
VAmounted to s23 ,000-the receipts of
the Pennsylvania State Fair.
~Dangerous dose-that sstonnage taxi
1t seems to scratch two ways.
~A6opted-the Kansas (Wyando) con-
stitution, by about 4, 600 majority
~Folly-to ask full hooped lady to take
a seat in an arm chair. 1t can't be did.
~Gentlity-eating meat with silver
fork, when the butchers bill is not paid.
~Consists-our naval force in the Pacific,
of vessels, with 2 $50 men and 157 guns.
UPicked-ripe strawberries, at Hartford,
Connecticut, on Tuesday the llth instant.
UDrank-annually-a 25,000 barrels
of lager beer, in Milwaukee. So it is said.
OyNot quite down to 40-Linn's majority
in Centre. Rather premature, that big crow.
UU Undeniable-that in America it takes
three to make pair--he, she, and hired girl.
GyUp to the scratch-Hal, our Senatorial
candidate, on the Second Tuesday of October.
~Destroyed-nearly one half of the corn
crop in Nebraska, by heavy frost, last week.
rocking chair, with his ssgal,'' on Saturday
night.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 4, 500 miles of Rail-
road in france, during the present Napoleon's
reign.
DNeyer return-the broken word, the
sped arrow, the past life, and neglected op-
portunity.
rKind 20 short-that 1000 majority for
Durbin, in ssCamberry.' 1t lacks about one,
| ID Robert.
~Men cannot subsist wholly upon glory.
Fame, taken without meat, is decidedly un-
wholesome.
WGrows wild-cabbage, in Sicily. Ifthis
| be true the tailors in that country can afford
| to he honest.
! ~Right side up-Isaac G. Gordon. That
| chap that was Benton being elected, couldn't
! quite come 1t.
| ~PIenty-egrimmac in this ''neck of
| the woods,'' on hearing of the defeat of Gam
be, Durbn & 60.
! OgPlease s.Exchange.'' as we heard our
| s'devil'' say to young lady, when he kissed
| her the other evening.
| yAsserted-that dogs 'sspeak with their
tails.'' Would it he proper to call short
tailed dog stump orator.
| TDied-Augustus Washington, a lawyer,
! and distant relation of Gen. Washington, at
Pittsburg, on Friday a-week.
! TDiscovered-a rich vein of gas, at Mans
! field, Ohio. Soon after being opened it caught
| fire. and has burned brilliantly ever since.
| nrEntertaiued- novel idea in astrcnomI-
cal CIRCLES which will be startling to every enc.
! 1t is that OF pricbing the great comet: so that
be will carry up his tail.
neThe Raptlsts have, like the Methodists
| and EpiScopalians formed Sunday School u
nion, and henCeforth will be supplied with
| their own denOminational books
| 0-Sentenced-a woman, by Justice Trek
! of " ilIiamsburg, n. Y, to three months inn
! prisonment in the penitentiary for stealing an
umbrella. That didn't pay we'll.
| roWhat's in a name 20 One of the can
didates for county officers in La Selle CO., H.,
I is Wait. and another Waitmore. If Wait is
elected the other must Wait-mcre.
| "Detected-a we'll dressed lady in Alex
andria Va, with thirty five pounds Of stolen
/ bacon hung to her spring skirt. The MEL eTchant
| pardoned her, she was so good looking.
C~Stated-by one of the city rapers, that
| the whipping post is one of the best institu-
| tipns in Delaware. IF this be true, her other
| constitutions are not of a very good kind.
| rrOut Of iail--our friend George Richards
| with his tailor shop. He can hereafter be found
| in Shaw's row. up stairs, ready and willing to
give customers s:fits.n See advertisement.
rTSaved by hoops-a servant girl who fell
! from an attic window in Wbeeling last week.
| She came down Ikea parachute, and received
| but little injury, although she fell forty feet.
~Afirmed-byGerman physiologis SITS, that
| of twenty deaths OF men between eighteen and
twentv-eight years of age,ten originate IN the
waste OF the constitution induced by smoking.
| n-Receives a S3 900 salary-the Superin-
tendent oil Publication, in Louisiana lie is
required to sign his name only four times, thus
| getting $3.50 for each time he writes his name.
"Remarked-a surly Bachelor, that the Ia
dies fashions for the ensuing season show d
| persistent determination in the dear creatures
| to crawl out of their dresses through the up
per part.
~Thirty iounces per dress, and not one
less. is said to De the last order from the head
quarters of fashion at Paris. The ladies are
requested to take notice and prepare them
selves accordingly.
~An awkward man, attempting to carve
goose, dropped it on the floor. 'EThere, now,
exclaimed his wife, s'we have lost our dinner.
e.Ob. no, nv dear,'' answered he, sits safe
I've got my foot on it,
w-Couldn't get along--the world, without
old North Carolina. Her tar, pitch and tur
pentine are used in every corner OF the glooe
The amount shipped to England during the
wear 1859 is valued at 81, ,of0.
~Prevailing-a great excitement among
the people of California in regard TO the deatf
of Senator Broderick. They regard the atal
as a COOL deliberate murder His assassin ma
been compelled to flee to- avoid popular indlg
nation.
0v-If Won have any sore painful disease
purchase a bottle of Du Wallis Gavanlc Oli
II will give YOU relief in few minutes. Twt
bottles will cure the worst case of Piles, an'
three bottles will cure five cases out OF sever
of Rheumatism.
0y-A lady has recovered Sooo damages iron