Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-02-22
CLIPPINGS AND scRtssLlNes.

Gy-Over-the spring elections.
g-Gone to Harrisburg-the editor.
UElated-the .sswine-ish'' candidate.
WDown-the chap that took too much la
ger.
W-Query WHO voted the "pale- faced''
ticket?
WMeets-the Peoples State Convention,
to-day.
WFact-by cheerfulness half the miseries
of this life might be assuaged.
DThe National debt according to Secreta-
ry Cobb's showing, is S60, ,202 ,277.66.
UDo all the good you can in the world
and make as little noise about it as possible.
Gy-An enemy to the Domestic Circe-the
husband who objects to his wife wearing hoops
1T home.
~At West Rosendale, Wis, few days
since, the mercury egiStered 54 below zero.
Cool that.
U-It is asserted that there are not less than
700 persons engaged in counterfeiting money
in the State OF Ohio.
EThc priest who christensd the new born
child of the Queen Of Spain deserves his fee.
For it received sixty-one names.
rThe Beaver Argus records the marriage
of John Coburn, only three feet high. No
wonder he wanted to get splced.
GA wolf hunt in Wayne county, Iowa,
few weeks since, resulted in the capture of
seven prairie wolves and one deer.
THolmes, after telling that dog was shot
for biting woman's leg, said it was pity to
shoot dog with such fine taste
U-Who is she ?-There is said to be a lady
in this neighborhood so ignorant of all domes-
tic work that she cannot Knit her krows.
DJThe average number of letters deliver
ed in n. York city, per quarter, during 1859,
was 2,400, 200; or 100000 during the year.
"The Boston Post says that the age is
pregnant with events. We have been afraid
it would get so. She hasn't been behaving
herself.
OJThe franking privilege originated in
England in the year 1860. Under it, members
of Parliament used to frank ssentire bucks and
packs of hounds
upon the scaffold with ropes impending over
their heads, they will think there is an ''im-
pending crises and no Helper.
0g-A jolly affair-the leap year sleighng
party which came off at Curwensvlle on the
evening of the election. OF all evils, I'VE would
advise Zach to choose the least.
nyA heart-rending affair came off recently
at Mount Vernon. A lady was found weeping
bitterly at the ice-house, having mistaken it
IOT w tOuiD. AHeiH
UThe total emigration from all foreign
countries into the United States for the year
ending December 31st, 1859, was 100 900, be-
ing about ten per cent gain on 1858.
Gy-It is calculated that the United States
census, to be taken this year, will result about
as follows: Whites. .2S 900, 900; slaves 4 OOO,-
600; free blacks, 600. Total, 80. SOC: 600.
UPrentice says: s:We have not yet read
o solitary message of Southern Democratic
Governor in which there wasn't an oder of
treason as strong as the stencil of assafetida. -
GTA Lawyer engaged in a case, tormented
a witness SO much with questions, that the
poor fellow at last cried for water. ssThere,'
said the Judge, 81 thought you'd pump him
dry.'
0-A lawyer has lately given up large and
lucrative practice, for the express purpose of
following out philanthropical pursuits. He
intends opening dairy to serve out the milk
of human kindness.
GyThe Kansas Legislature has been carry
ing into practice the principle of unfriendly |
legislation. On the I'd instant, it passed bill
by 80 yeas to nays, prohibiting Slavery. 1t |
takes effect Immediately.
~The little island of Barbados, it may |
not be generally known, is the most densely |
populated country in the world; with an area |
of one hundred and sNty-siX square miles, ii |
contains l25, ,S64 inhabitants.
GyA late writer says one can want food |
and remain virtuous. Making shirts at ten |
cents apiece, would put the devil in the head |
OF a vestal virgin. Low wages and dear beef |
lead to more seduction than Byron's Don Juan. |
GA comb manufacturer of Connecticut, |
being applied TO for aid in getting up the man
utacturers Union meeting, to show the South |
they were sound, answered ssNol if they |
don't want to buy my combs they may go lou
sy, for aught / care