Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-01-17
CLIPPINGS AND scRlgeLlKes.

E-FickIe-the weather
Ey-A ''mutal friend-money
Eg Not popular nag-the nightmare.
q To remove stains from the character-get
rich.
g+Died-a lady aged IO6 years, at St Louis
last week.
ty-KiIled by the plague-forty thousand cattle
in England.
Tin, silver and golden weddings are benefit
nights for married beggars
y Issued-by the War Department an order,
to muster out ,022 general officers.
- There are but two survivors of all those
who participated in the Revolutionary war.
e Beware of pretended friends. they make
much of you, to make good deal out of y.,i-
p In one ofthe letters opened at the dead
letter Office inv ashington wereS 20, 900 in bonds
- Being asked-a wag-what kind of ,oooa
he supposed the Freedmens Bureau was made of
q The hardest thing to hold in the world is an
unruly tongue. 1t beats hot smoothing iron
and kicking horse
z The young lady who tainted away has been
told by ber family that it would be more delicate
for her to faint at home.
r He that cannot forgive others breaks the
bridge over which he mustpass himself for every
man las need 10 be forgiven
= SSambo which race has the harder scull,
the white or black? Guess de white race cause
many of 'em copperheads
EBTPut on new dress-the Pittsburgh Gzzette
last week 1t is the oldest, and one of the best
papers in Western Pennsylvania.
Ey Forbidden to sell anything but stale bread
the bakers in Quebec the medical faculty hav-
ing decided that new bread promotes cholera.
- Expresses the opinion Halls Journal of
Health. that buckwheat cakes contain more
nourlshment for less money than any other arti-
Gle of food
p Some people are never abreast of the age
They dive into the stream of the past and don't
come up again their heads stick in the mud at
the bottom.
Ey Charles Lamb, when a little boy, walking
in church yard with his sister, and reading
epitaphs, said to her, Mary, where's all the
naughty people buried 2'
ES7We see eggs of i.Pharoahs s serphents'' are
for sale at some of our business places. Our devil
thinks if these .'sarpents'' any connection of
the eopperhead breed the eggs should be de-
stroyed-ExchQnge
I-A fact-bad men are never completely
happy, although possessed of everything that this
world can bestOw and good men are never
pietely miserable, although deprived of every
thing that the world can take away.
sJy-A greek maid, being asked what fortune
she would bring her husband, replied Il will
bring him what gold cannot purchase heart
unspotted, a virtue without stain, which is all
that descends to me from my parents
EFA-h hem "A man, in stopping his paper
recently, wrote Il think folks doant ort to
spend thare munney papers, my father never
did, an eyry boldly sed he was the smartest in
the kountree, and had got the intellygentest
family of buoys that ever dugg taters."
-YThe rebeIlious South are now kicking at
the doors of Congress and begging to come in
That it viii be opened no doubt But it should
be remem bered that they thenasetUes closed the
door unleremoneously in 1861. They fought
hard for five years TO keep it closed. Suppose
we now insist upon five years of praying Would
ii not be fair