Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-02-27
A Little of Everything.

- oiStio u hFoi 1AihS'
-Mutilated and worn out currency is mac
into envelopes for the Treasury Department
Nineteen States have thus far ratified
ana three rejected the Constitutional Ament
ment
! "A beggar woman died recently in Pari.
and 5000 were found in the ashes on he
| hearth
Three shocks of earthquake were expe
! renced at San Deigo, California, on the Is
instant
He who pokes his nose in everywher
VIII sometimes poke 1t between thumb an,
forefnger.
Dear me, said Mrs. Grundy. s'and 5,
they have put telegraph poles all the wa,
cross the ocean! | shouldn't wonder i
they tried pontoon bridge next.
The Louisville Journal says mob com
posed OF the remains OF Quantrell's guerril
las, broke open Mr. Corrie house, at Parks
vile, and seized aud hung Corrie.
"A teacher OF vocal music asked an ole
lady II her grandson had on ear Tor music
Wall, said the old woman, Il hardl,
know; won't you just take the candle and
see?''
a census of Alabama, taken in 1866,
shows that the population of that State has
only increased 5000 in the past SIX years.
The total population is given by this census
at ga, 2S5,
At Newark, n. J., a burglar got his de-
serts. Thompson, the negro who shot Mrs
Aaron Ward, wounding her, while robbing
her house on New Year night, was SEN
tenced to thirty years in the State prison.
Whatever we may think of woman 5
right TO vote and legislate, there can be no
disputlng her right TO bare arms, and the
prettler, the better, and more irresistible
his Is right descended from Mother Eve.
-Democracys is still gradually yeering
around towards negro suffrage, and in few
years ii viii be nothing unusual to see a
white Democrat linking arms with an ETH
opian, and begging him to vote the Demo
cratic ticket
A correspondent of the Louisville Jour
nal treats at some length ON the best way to
prevent hydrophobia. A wag, in reply,
suggests that he once prevented case of
this dreadful inalady by getting on a four
teen rail fence and staying until the dog
left.
"A spread-eagle orator OF New York
State wanted the wings Of ii bird to fly to
every village and hamlet in the broad
land but lie wiited when naughty boy in
the crowd cried out Dry up. you old fool,
you be shot for a goose before you flew
mile II
The dwelling house of Samuel Apple
ton, In Boston, was entered Sunday night
by two burglars, and Mr. Appleton beaten
senselesS but not seriously. The thieves got
a large amount OF booty collected together,
but rencontre caused their fig ht with on
y $1,000 in Treasury notes.
"A glutton of fellow was dining at a
hotel, who, in the course of the 'sbatte of
knives and forks, accidentally cut his
mouth, which being observed by Yankee
sitting near by. he bawled out: Il say,
friend, don't make that ar hole in your coun-
tenance any larger, or We shall all starve to
death -
A military board for some time past
has heen examining the subject or educa-
ton in the ENGLISH army, and they report
hat out of III, 430 men examined, there
are 81, 700 who can neither read nor write
Is, 009 who can read but cannot write To-
BOO who can do both, and nearly LOCO who
have received a superior education.
-You are coward, if afraid to tell the
truth when you should DO So You are a
coWdfa wren yOH lnSuit tHe weak. on are
a coward if afraid to do right, if you shrink
from defending your opinion, from main
tanning that which you know to be just and
good and you are especially a coward il you
know certain things of yourself, and dare
not own them to yourself.
A successful worker was asked the 9th
er day how he mad risen in business so rap
idly, Why" said he, ii was very sim
pie. Whatever had to do, however hum
BILE the work. | went at it as if | thought
the world would come to an end if didn't
do it well and promptly. The result was
that my employers began to think they
couldn't do without me. and so gave me
promotion.
According to letter from Matanzass,
Cuba, the mission of Dir. L. w. Seward,
Assistant Secretary of State, to st. Domin-
60, was to secure some part of that island;
the Bay of Samana possibly, fer naval
station This caused a riot at St. Domingo
during the presence of Mr. Seward there,
the people being opposed to the cession Of
any part q the island, by their government,
to the United States The acquisition of a
naval station in the Bay OF Samana has long
been favorite idea with our naval author
tiles.
MY POLICY-I.