Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-03-27
A Little of Everything.

-hoW 10 make pantal0onS laSt-make
the coat and vest first.
Why talk about never sleeping wink,
when people in their sleep never wink
In some places out west the grass-hop-
pers have destroyed everything but grass
widows.
We know of fellow so crooked he al
ways reminds US of Dickens charact er-
All-over- Twist
"A negro toast-s'De late gobner of the
State he came in with little opposition
HIM go out with none at ALL.
Soldiers carelessly losing carbines and
revolvers hereafter will be charged $3.50 for
the former and $50 for the latter
Josh Billings says there is nothing more
touching in this life than to see poor, but
virtuous young man struggling with nous
tache.
The most common things are the most
useful; which shows both the wisdom and
goodness of the Great Father of the family
of the world
"A bill posted on the walls in country
village announced that lecture will be
delivered in the open air, and collection
made at the door to defray expenses
"A widow said one day to her daughter,
when you are of my age, you will be
dreaming of husband Eyes, mamma, .
replied the young lady, for the second one. %
Six thousand dead letters were destroy
ed in the last year in the Post Office De-
partment at Washington, and $3.50. 600 in
drafts enclosed therein returned to the own
erS.
The following is one of Josh Billings
best sayings: "a man running for office
purs me in mind of dog that's lost: he
smells at everybody he meets and wags him
self all over
An Ohio editor has recently had a new
shirt collar presented him, and he is now
waiting for some one to give him a shirt, so
that he may be able to put the collar to
use, ''at present it is perfect superhuity.
The decoration of the Regal Orders has
been conferred upon private Samuel Hodge,
eolored, of the 4th West India regiment.
while America fails to pay the simple debt
of gratitude she owes her defenders of Af-
rIcan descent.
~ lecturer was dfiating upon the POW
ers of the magnet. defyins any one to show
or name anything surprising its powers A
hearer demurred, and instanced young
lady who used to attract him thirteen miles
every Sunday.
If you love others they will love you.
If you speak kindly to them. they will speak
kindly to you. Love is repaid with love,
and hatred with hatred. If you would hear
sweet and pleasing echo speak sweetly
and pleasantly yourself.
-What.a glorious world this would be, if
all its inhabitants could say with Shakes
peare' Shepherd: ''Sir, am true laborer;
L earn what L wear: envy no man 5 happl-
ness; owe no man hate glad of other mems
good. and content with my fare. y
The good people of Kansas ere alarmed
at and deprecate the expected coming of
green eyed monsters in the shape of
grasshoppers. They should let them go
to grass, and not annoy themselves by an
tlcipation of what may never be among
them in reality.
Thirty y-eEght years ago an Indian wo
man rode on horseback from Los Angeles
TO Santa Barbara, using a piece of grape
vine as switch On reaching her destina-
ton she stuck her switch into the ground.
1t took root, and sixty barrels OF wine were
made last season from its fruit.
The entire northern part of the island
of Borneo, in Asia, with three adjacent
islands, fas been granted for trading pur
poses to what is known as the American
Trading Company" who are to have juris-
diction over the inhabitants. America, it
seems, thus has an East India Company
Vera Cruz (Mexico) correspondence to
the 4th inst. says that Marshal Bazaine, on
his trip from the interior, was robbed of
S352, 900 and that Maximillian was so great
ly annoyed by the guerillas that his winter
wardrobe was reduced by forced loans to a
shirt, pair of socks, and a piece of soap
Vera Cruz was being fortified.
In the Prairie Farmer, one of our most
valuable journals in the cause which Its
name indicates, we find the following recipe
for paste: dissolve an ounce OF alum In
quart of warm water; when cold, ada as
much -four as will make it the consistency
of cream: then srtew into it as much pow
dered rosin as will stand on dime, and two
or three cloves; boil it to proper consist
ency, stirring all the time When dry, 1t
may be seftened with water.
Almost everybody says onions are very
wholesome, and what everybody says must
be true. | spent day with cousin, not
long since, who eats them FOR breakfast and
dinner. chopped raw with salt; She told
me they acted on the liver and dld her "a
a great deal of good and recommended them
for liver COMPLAINT. She said one day her
youngest daughter, about twelve, had bad
| spell of the gravel and she mashed up some
raw onions and applied them warm, as
| poultice, and the child was soon relieved.
Scarcely too much can be said in praise
of onions for fowls. They seem to be a pre-
ventative and remedy for various diseases
to which domestic fowls are liable. Having
frequently tested their excellence, we can
speak understandingly. For gapes and IN
fiammation of the throat, eyes ana heau;
onions are almost specific. we "ouiu Il
recommend giving fowls, and especially
young chicks, as many as they VIII ear; as
often as twice or three times week. They
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