Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-11-07
CLIPPINGS AND scslssllncs.

| 1gA lady whose dress is on fire hay be said
to stand in her own light.
! ULades should be sweet, but not too for:
NAL Be roses, but don't be prim roses.
UIt is a current belief that wolf is neyet
more dangerous than when he feels sheapfsh.
~Dont. locate yourself on the back OF a
wild horse, unless you want to be dis-located.
~One penny day will buy food in China
sufficient to enable man to live comfortably.
ULabor lost-huntng for your dog when
you live in the neighborhood Of a sausage fac
tory.
I"Pray, madam, why did you name your
old hen MacdUf!'' ssBecause, sir, want her
to sslay on.''
~Despise nothing because it seems weak;
the flies and locusts have done more hurt than
ever bears and lions. -zs~ssss
UHalow Eve has come and gone and the
boys as usual had their say peltIng doors,
stealing cabbage, &c.
"An eminent artist is about getting up a
panorama of-a lawsuit. 1t opens in the year
l, and closes at doomsday.
NDeserves apremium-thet teacher of PEN
manShip, who, in twelve lessons, taughta law
yer to read his own writing.
~Prof. Anderson estimates that the farm
ers of Great Britain expend annually over $50
GA mar who strives earnestly and perse-
veringly to convince others, at least convin-
ces us that he is convinced himself
~A man in love has little need of victuals.
So if your landlady doesn't give you enough
to eat, fall in love with her daughter.
GA flirt is like the dipper attached to a
hydrant-every one is at liberty to drink from
it, but no one desires to carry it away,
~A challenged gentleman, at Trinity, , CAL,
lately, replied by tearing up the challenge, and
then Gaming the bearer. Itproved .ssatisfac-
tory
0vThe Baltimore Sun states that four hum
drcd and ten persons were confirmed in one
Roman Catholic Church in that city, on Sun
day the 14th October.
WContains-Mi Minnesota, a population of
l76, ,553 as per late census, the number of far
mers in the State is 9,195, and the manufac-
turing establishments sos.
uy-The Univcrsalists have in the u. States
652 preachers, 969 meeting houses, 1876 So
ceties, IL periodicals, 3 colleges, l theologi-
cal school, and 9 academies.
GvStated-by Methodist paper, that since
the erection of the first Methodist church in
America, in 1850, there have been $4,000 c.
rected-an average of three week.
rThe richest man in Great Britain is the
Marquis of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. annual income
is about 81 900 ,OO0-as much as the whole es-
tate probably of Mr.. Astor, the New York
millionaire.
OGlf you want to make pair of boots last
four years, melt and mix four ounces of NUT
ton tallow; apply the mi Xture while warm, rub
1t well then put the boots in some closet, and
go barefoot. a
0TThe gold dollar viii soon be among the
things that were, and only to be seen in the
collections of those curious in numismotology.
Three millions Of the little sinners have alrea-
dy been melted into double eagles.
GA gentleman in Texas who bought flock
OF sheep, two years ago, for 5000, has since
sold $500 worth of wool from them, and now
his flock is worth $4,000, making a profit of
$500 on his investment in two years.
i0DThe wife of wealthy merchant prince
of New York wore dress at the great Acade-
my of Music Ball, the three founces of which
alone, cost thousand dollars each. The lace
used upon the dress was only two hundred and
fifty dollars yard.
~Late statistics show that Eve million per-
sons are supported in England by cotton; that
thirty million spindles are employed in the
production of the yarns and that the capital
absorbed exceeds $3.50 600 900. Four ifths of
the cotton consumed in England-S0O: o 10, 900
American.
UAmOng the curiosities exhibited at the
Mechanics Fair in Richmond, Va, were a doll
which has becn-played with by five generations,
deposited by Mrs. q. Powell diamond ring
800 years old, deposited by Mrs. A. p. Allen
a book 22i years old, deposited by Mrs. Benz.
Davis-and last, but not least, the cradle in
which Henry Clay was rocked!