Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-05-08
4 Little of Everything.

"A ''seedy'' institution-the Agricultu
raj Bureau Is'
,-Grasshoppers are so thick in Kansas
m mtnat they scoop them up BY the peck meas
a million of dollars is annually made
by the sale of Florida cedar wood for lead
pencils
"A thirty pound shad is reported to have
been caught at ughkeepsie, New York. a
lew days since. Doubtful.
IS The Astor House in New York is as
sessed for S7000 600, and is said to be worth
probably FIVE times that sum.
Mr. Pardee, of Illinois, has found that
lime Stacked in salt brine, sown broadcast
has kept insects from strawberries.
The amount of real estate for sale. in
New York at the present time is said 10 be
greater than it has been for years.
.-Wm. B, Astor owns real estate worth
sixty-fve millions of dollars, and is constant
ly buying more. He never sells any.
The brain and the stomach seem to be
| IN opposition to each other; when the lat
Ter IS empty the former is most active
| The Masons of New York city have de-
| termined 10 build Il home for widows, or
phans, and the disabled Of their own order
"A mutton chop, in boarding house par
| lance, means piece Of the bone of sheep
from which the mutton ha. been chopped Of
Ladies are ike watches-pretty enough
TO look at-sweet faces and delicate hands,
but somewhat difficult 10 regulate when
| once set ''a-going.
The New Orleans Crescent denies the
statement that Tx Mayor Monroe and lam
lily, of that city. had gone to Canada, and
says they are still III New Orleans.
A bachelor friend of ours has left
boardug house, in which there were num-
Der Of old maids, or account Of the nisera-
bic fair set before him at the table
Pilgrim Rock has been called the cor
ner-stone of civilization. The Erishmans
toast at New England dinner: Plymouth
Rock, the blarney stone OF America y
a-eyoul,i 5.ssyti.i,is; be than Z,
gro's reply 10 a young lady whom he OF
fered to lift over a gutterI 'Lor' mIssns,
said he, L III used to lifting barrels of su
gar. -
Horace Greeley says that the darkest
day in any man earthly career IS that
wherein he first fancies that there Is some
easier way of gaining a dollar than by
squarely earning it.
A little girl, four years old was recently
called as a witness in police court, ard be
ing asked what became OF little folks who
tell falsehoods, innocentiy replied that
they were sent to bed.
Three Prussiaus, resident at East Sagi |
nav, Michigan, have received official notice |
from the authorities of their native land, to |
report themselves for military duty, on pen
atty OF disinheritance.
A short time since, two young ladies. |
well known, were holding high converse over
the virtues of certain new dress. And |
does it fit weH?" asked one. Fit it fits |
as if had been melted and poured in. .
Look here. boy, said gentleman 10
an urehin, who was munching. sugar candy
at lecture. you are annoying me very |
much" ''No, I amt neither said the
urchin, Z IN a gnawing this ere candy.
A rural editor, speaking of a quill dri- |
wing cotenporaIy. SAYS: His intellect is SO |
dense that it would take the augur OF com
mon sense longer TO penetrate 1t than to |
bore through Mount Blame with boiled |
carrot.
An old fellow who has been there, says,
stopping the stream OF alcohoiic Iuld, |
that finds its way down the throats OF hu-
man beings and checking the slight water ,
fall existing in the Niagara river, are mat
ters of equal feasibility.
At one Of the schools in Cornwall the
Inspector asked the children 1t they could
quote any text of scripture which forbade a
man having two wives One of the ehil-
dren sagely quoted, IN reply, the text NO
man can serve two masters.
-"Iarry, y said coquettish young lady
to her cousin nrematurely bald, Why is
your head ike heaven?" Don't know,
I'm sure, replied the swell, unless, in,
deed. because it has a shining crown.
Good, but not correet. Because there Is
no more dyeing or parting there
-SreakiDg of ''hard currency, friend
remarked that the hardest he knew OF was
at Berea. Ohio. the land of grindStonea;, lie
stated that in that delightful place, when a
man wanted to treat friend or two, ln-d
stead of producing Government Scrip as an |
equivalent. he would roll a grlndstone to |
the door of the grocery keeper, estimate Its
value, and take il out in drinks
An editor, hailing from the Badger
State makes his appea for sympathy: I'VE |
cannot help thinking how much easier an
editors life might be made If his generous
patrons could only hear hls better halt
scraping at the bottom OF a flour barrel a
man that can write editorials with SUCH nu-
sic sounding In his ears. can easily walk the
telegraph wires and turn somersaults IN tfe
branches of thorn bush.
Commander Henry a Wise, Chlet OF
the Ordnance Bureau of the Navy, is SAID TO
have written one of His characteristic letters
to clergyman of Pittsburg, who complain
ed to Secretary Weles that two large can can
non cast in that city have been respsesctiyrehly rh
christened Satan and .Buciter. me
gallant Commander thinks that death-deal- els:n
ing instruments Of war should not receive
Christian names.