Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-12-04
rae RAFrsmAn's JouaNAl,
Clippings and scribblings.

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| v- Down-rbe price of pork and beef sE
~ In dcmand-good butter and eygs
~ Ditto-greenbacks. grain and yobbIers. 4
| ~ beauty-the chap who carries q flask in
his coat pocket 5s.a t.r...r-.tsa
~ Progressing-a protraetsd meeting in the
Lutheran Church. Ecii1a ~
| II shot--a large lynx. in Rensalaer county
| New York, last week
IVery Polite-the fellow Who was bowling te
sign. post the other night. 7-t7.
II A .tambler"-the lady who fell on the
pavement, on Monday last
II Suspendsd-building operations in this
place, on account of the cold weather. }t}
V Prevailing-scarIet-r rash, to some extent in
this borough. No fatal cases, however.
n Why is an old mans hat like On Indian
matron! Because it keeps the wigwarm
II man in Memphis is NAM ed Africa Bailey
Wonder if his children all little Africans!
v 'One- -Mule-Town" is the unique legal des-
ignation of place in Shasta county, California
II man in Hartford, out Of spite to his wife
sat down on a red hot stove; he stuck and she
loft .r- aa-- ts
B Rats have destroyed the great Swiss che eese
at the Exhibition. Rats not on sho so th ey
sat inside and ate.
6 A swan recently shot in Kentucky
measuring eight feet six inches from tip to tip,
and weighing 6fty -iour pounds.
IB Ahe naVor OF DUCKS Is said TO De much hner
if they are stewed alive. What? Stew 'em aif0e ,
Never heard of such doings before.
~ The Island of Tortugas was washed over
by heavy sea during the late hurric ane That
can hardly be the Dry TOrtugas now.
u We understand that the great cheese at the
great Exhibition, fell in being carried out and
mas broken. How have the tnitey fallen
II DR.. Hall says. '.To be great orator, a peer
less beauty, or q star Of social circles whether
IN ian or woman, is the next door to being lost"
~ A Scotch gamekeeper has shot golden ca
gle: and the papers talk Of 1t We know man
with pocket full and nobody IL entions the fact.
v The Prince of Wales during his six weeks
soJourn in Germany, lost some twenty thousan!
pounds at the gambling tables of Wiesbaden and
Homburg.
ga New York paprr thinks that it is all
very well to talk of self M ade men, but they are
just as often badly made as those who didn't make
themselves. -,.
r TO see a man with re L. swollen proboscis
is often not so much of sign that he has had his
nose punched, as that considerable punch hes
passed just beneath it.
Es~ The Penobscot river has closed earlier this
season than it has for fifty years Is it not re-
bic how many peculiarities of weather and
temperature occurred fifty years ago
S The editor of the Savannah RepuHirau
pronounces the prize Fl ght 1.-The twin sister of uni
the bruiser both attain their ends by boxing
tY- Gen. Zachary Taylor his wife, and Old
Whitley. are ali buried few tiles from Louis
vile without q stone or cross scuiptured thing
to tell the passing traveller :hst he treads near
hxllowed ground.
EY- OF all the para dsIical things, think
stove is the most so Because to keep it hot you
must keep it .-coaled." And the more it is .coal-
ed the hotter it grows This not CRATE" joke :;
those things are barred"