Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-06-20
CLIPPINGS AND scRlBslimos.


Retreshing-the showers, yesterday.
UPatriotie-the chap that would fight the
old gentleman with hoois and horns
WCorporeal punishment in the public
schools of New Jersey is about to be abol-
ished.
WSomebody says to dream of soap, be-
tokens combat in which you may expect to
get lathered.
0S~The army worm is said to be commit
ting sad havoc on the wheat crop in different
sections of Maryland, and especially in Dor.
chester county.
The peach crop in western New 7 York is
represented to be more promising than for
several years past.
DDFrom every part of New Jersey the good
news comes of glorious fruit crop, and more
particularly peaches.
Gg-Pike's Peak don't pay 1t has turued
out an unusual number of beggars, who are
begging their way from it.
00Just so-A man in tight clothes shouldn't
eat and drink too much. He might not be a.
BILE to bear the inside and outside pressure.
UA machine to skin eels has been invented
and patented by Long Island fisherman. 1t
strips the slippery customers of their jackets
in short order.
UThey are establishing Sabbath Sunrise
Prayer meetings in some parts of this State.
Sunset meetings we suspect would suit some
lazy Christians better.
USnow fell at Cumberands Nd, on Sat-
urday week. The weather was quite cool
on the mountains. Snow in June can hardly
be reckoned in season.
WPublic meetings being held in Chi
cago, Illinois, and other western cities, for the
relief of the sufferers by the fearful tornadoes
in Illinois and Iowa.
OG-It is alleged that the pleuro- -pnemonia
is disease born of the distilery COW stables.
The report of the New Jersey Agricultural
Society, just out, says so.
0D-A disastrous tornado occurred in Lykins
County, Kansas, on the Sth inst, doing serious
damage at Ossawatomie, Indianapolis and
Santo. Several lives were lost.
DgThe seventeen year locusts have made
their appearance in Nockamixon, Bucks co.,
and are already at their work of destroying
everything green in that vicinity.
OS-Old Bachelor Sheer would like to know
what kind of broom the young woman in
theslast new novel used, when she swept the
raven ringlets from her classic brow.
GgThe population of the world is estimated
at 1 ,279 100000, viz Asia, 755, 900 ,000 Eu-
rope, 272,000,CO0 Africa, 20O, 200, 900; A
merica, SO, 600 GOO; Australia, 100000.
CDThe Democratic members of the Senate
have determined that there shall be no change
in the Tariff. Very good, if they think best.
Now let us hear what Pennsylvania and New
Jersey will say to it,
G5-A band Of Yankee minstrels recently
gave concert at the Hervey Islands, in the
Pacific, and for want of a currency among the
savages, took at the door sundry live animals,
and the products the soil.
UThe census takers find great difficulty in
ascertaining the ages of girls, large majority
of them being only sixteen. In one family in
an eastern State, there was found to be twelve
girls between ten and sixteen years of age!
0IThaddeus Hyatt was released from pris-
on the 10Th by a unanimous vote of the Senate.
This was a matter of course, as the Harper's
Ferry Committee, whose account he was
iCcidteu; It's idUOFS anu
made its report.
G-A machine for making button holes is
said to be the latest thing in the way Of inven-
tions. 1t will work, it is reported, ten but
ten-holes in a minute. The next thing will
be machine to on buttons, and then
ssHurra for the bachelors.''
-Whiskey is now tested by the distance
a man can walk after tasting it. The new Ii
quor called ssTangle-leg,'' is said to be made
of diluted alcohol nitric acid, bootleg and
tobacco. and will upset a man at distance of
four hundred yards from the demiiohn
DFhe Methodist Conference at its session
at Buffalo. n. Y, resolved that the marriage
relation can only be dissolved by violation
of the seventh commandment, or by death,
and that a subsequent marriage by either par
ty, while both are living, is contrary to the
teachings of the Holy Scripture.
A TREE-MENDoUs Blow AT Farmingtoh, |
Iowa, recently little girl four years old, was
carried by a sudden gust of wind and lodged
in cherry tree a few rods distance, her clothes |