Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-10
A Little of Everything.

Without the dear ladies, we should be
stag nation.
mClerk n1 Mcpherson is writing the Life
OF 1haddeus Stevens.
TO what race of giants do tipplers be-
long? To the Titans tight 'uns.
The aim of an honest mans lifeis not
the happiness which serves only himself, but
the virtue which is useful to others.
Jones called on the man who restores
oil paintings, and requested him to try to
restore one stolen from his residence year
ago. 49,
james Russell Lowell says the positive
and negative polls of song are the warbling
of nightingale and the braying of jack
ass.
"A lover has been pithily described as a
man who, in his anxiety to obtain posses
sion of another, has lost possession of him
SELF
If the ornithological emblem of the
! United States were taken sick, why would
| it be contrary to law? Because it would be
| ill-eagle.
An Irishman once observed that mile
stones were kind enough to answer your
questions without giving you the trouble to
| ask them.
How do you define black as your
pills Darkness that may be felt, replied
the youthful wit.
The following question is now before
Sand Lake Society: (Which do women love
the best-to be hugged in polka, or
squeezed in sleigh? --
"A little wrong done to another, is a
great injury done to ourselves. The sever
est punishment Of an injury is the conscious
ness of having done it.
The Salt Lake City Nems SAYS that
business continues dull, and sellers have
an excellent time, as a general thing, hunt
ing rabbits over Jordan.
| Twelve quarts of SCOT in hogshead of
water, will make powerful liquid manure,
which will improve the growth of flowers,
garden vegetables, or root crops.
| "A chap who was told by colporteur
to remember Lots wife, replied that he
had trouble enough with his own wife, with
t.out remem bering other mems wives
"A man was asked what induced him to
make law student of his son. 'Oh, he
| always was a lying little cuss, and thought
l would humor his leading propensity.
Nobody likes to be nobody; but ev
erybody is pleased to think himself some
body; but, when anybody thinks himself
| to be somebody, he generally thinks every
body else to be nobody.
A pretty girl says eff our Maker
| thought it wrong for Adam to live single
when there was not 4 woman on earth. how
criminaly guilty are old bachelors, with the
world full of pretty girls.
| A grim old Judge. after hearing forid
| discourse from pretentious young barris
ter, advised him to pluck out the feathers
from he wings of his imagination and stick
them into the tail of his judgment.
There is in almost every family daily
waste of bones, that if saved and applied
to the roots of the pear trees and grapevines
in the garden, would supply, yearly, sufi-
cient manure for one hundred plants.
An impatient boy waiting for the grist,
said to the miller, Il could eat the meal as
fast as the mill erinds it. . How long
could you do sop inquired the miller.
It'll 1 starved to death - was the sarcas
! tic reply.
A Pixies peak miner, writing to Min
nesota paper, SAYS the miners are much dis
couraged in that region they have to dig
through d solid vein of silver four feet thick
before they reach the gold.' Theg're in a
| bad fix, surely.
| In order to get an enemy, lend man
small sum of money for day. Call upon
him in week for it. Wait two mouths.
In three insist upon his paying, you. He
will get angry, denounce you, and ever after
speak of you in abusive terms.
In Massachusetts, there is place called
Sanberry. where Mr.. Nehemiah Blackberry
married Miss Susan Elderberry, niece of
! Deacon Dunsenberry, of DaEberry. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. Cranber-
ry, at the house of Mr.. Huekleberry.
Goats furnish small supply of very
rich milk, and as their food costs but little
/ they have been found very profitable AMI
mails by families needinga'but little milk
Some of the best yield three quarts per day,
/ but generally from three to four pints.
The following Irish conversation was
heard In the streets of st; Loqls Fat;
what do you think of President Johnson2"
Faith, an he's good merchant. How
so, Pat?'' ssBe Jabersl he sold arms to
the Fenians, and then sold the Fenians. .
An editor declaims against the immod-
esty of tilting hoops, lnasmuch as they ex-
pose too much of the extremities of the la
/ dies who wear them, and then exclaims:
I'VE grieye for the good old days of Adam
and Eve Our memory isn't good, but TO
/ the best of our recollection, the wardrobe
Adam and Eve started life with, wouldn't
| be much of an improvement on filters.
A boy was caught in the act of stealing
dried berries in front of store the other
day, and was locked up in dark closet by
the grocer. Then the boy commenced pes
ging most pathetically tor release, and a!tef
using all the persuasion that hls young M ie
agination could invent, proposed NoM ns. Il
you II let me out and send for my daouy,
he'll paw YOU for the berries, and hex me
besidesl'' This appeal was too much Tor
the procarrr,on to stand out against