Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-01-12
CLIPPINGS AND scR,sslINes.

"a Commences-our Court, or Monday next.
Prettiest sleigh .belles'-rosy- -ch eeked girls.
~ What's back-biter? Perhaps it be flea.
Eg Down-the mercury, to Is below zero on
Monday morning.
TO Master NJ. T. Tucker, aged IA, of Todd CO.,
Kentucky measures feet inches in height
Eg@A statement of the Irish potatoe crop of 1858
shows that it has been of the finest raised
since 1910.
.g-Thc amount of taxes annually collected in
Cuba, is S2s000 ,000 which is equal to about $40
for every inhabitant.
70 The newspaper is sermon for the thought
full. library for the poor, and a blessing to eyery
body Try ours and see.
EgAdvertses-a Texas schoolmaster. that he
is prepared to teach the inyeaiie HHdergyotrth of
that country how to shoot.
GsS'- Paradise regained-hugging a blue eyed
girl on pile of freshly cut clover Go way straw
berries, you have lost your taste
t-g-A bed of iron has been discovered within the
enclosure of the Clinton n. Y, State Prison. and
the prisoners have been set to work it.
E2SA new railroad route to the Pacific, directly
thro' Mexico, from Texas to point on the Pacific
coast near Maxatlan, is now being advocated.
~ The planet lately discovered at the
Dudley Observatory has aptly been called by Mrs
Dudley, whom the discOycrcr gave the honor of
naming it, Pa7idora.
STAt an inn in Sweden there the following
inscription In English. on the wall: You will
find at Troi6athe excellent bread, meat and wine
provided you bring tholu.a
- According to the statistics published in the
New York HeraId. the gold Inines in North Caro-
lima have since 1888, yielded the sum of S9,45S,-
323- and those of Georgia S7,519.052.
.yThc bronchial epidemic by which so MANY
ladies have been afflicted, has been traced to e-r-
painted skirts. and hence it is suggested that the
disease is in reality species of hOoP-ing cough.
Tho.c probably will come a time when ori-
ginaiity will give out. and nothing will be in
vented, &c test Sav
''sartersH right out. after Il long mental conflict
as 10 its proprcty.
iEs-Thc London 1I.dical Tiates SAYS dresses can
be rendered bIaze-proof by simply soaking in
weak solution of chloride of zine, aud when thus
protected, they may be burnt without the other
garments being injured.
Eleven foreign ships are now in Savannah
or will be there in the nexttwenty days after tim
bcr. One firm has contract for forty-seven mil
lions of feet. and soma of these vessels are now
loading with 4 portion of it.
.gS Several weeks since. Miss Heat of Crosby
tp-, Ohio, aged years.went to bed in good health
but on arising the next morning she perfectly
blind, having lost her eyesght during the night.
Her eyes assumed CLASSY appearances.
II An exchange says Thirty years ago, house
in the wool commission business in Phila Ielphia
could not purchase $1,000 worth of WOOL west of
the AIleg III henies: now. the same region can furn-
ish wool exceeding Sl00000O in value.
,gA woman in Cincinnati recently made appl
cation for divorce on the ground that her hus-
hand was a confoundcd fool. If this is good rea-
son for divorce, half the married women in the
country would be legally entitled to Il matrimo-
nial separation.
~ Adviees from Honolulu state that Lieutenant
Brooke. of the United States navy. who has been
making deep soundings from San Francisco to
China. is of the opinion that Pacific telegraph
can be safely and easily laid between California
China and Japan.
~ The railroad disaster between Co!um bus and
Macon, Ga, caused bya flood. The cars were
precipitatcd thirty feet into a running stream II
lives were lost; IL bodies recovered and the road
was washed away at many points within an ex-
tent of forty miles
~ A letter from Rome. in the Gq,stt> de Liegs,
states that the Sacred College of Rome has resoy-
ed to prevent the recurrence of any similar
to that of MOrtara in future. by directing that
Christians shall not in future be allowed to enter
the service of Jews.
~ The simplest mode of asccrtaining Interest
Is to multiply any given number of dollars by the
number of days of interest desired separating
the right hand figure. and dividing by six the re-
suit is the true interest of such sum for such num-
Der of days at six per cent
- The funeral Of little orphan girl in the
care of the Sisters of Charity at Wheeling. Va
was delayed for day in consequence of the wealth
er. In the meantime, while one of the Sisters
was arranging something about the coffin the lit
tie girl raised up and asked for a drink of water
1t is supposed that she in trance and moth
ing but the heavy rain averted from her the hor-
rible fate of being buried alive.