Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-02-20
A Little of Everything.

+ hitIle OI IFeIy tuiuS'
Y The member who took the floor at Har
5 rlsburg has been arrested for stealing lumber
e Parents saida solemn preacher, '.yo,
nave children it you have not, your daugh
tiers may have
T In Kansas colored children are admitted
to all the public schools on terms of equality
with the white pupils
There are nearly twice as many papers
published in the United States as in the rest
OF the world together
An Ohio furnace company has sent
specimens OF its coal, iron ore, limestone and
pig iron to the Paris Exposition
There is, it is said space of I,l3l.-
600 square miles around the North Pole
which is now blank on our maps.
Toast by printer "Woman-the fair
est work in all creation. The edition is large,
and no man should be without copy
Why is the journal like a tooth brush i?
Because every man should have one of his
own and not borrow that of his neighbor
The White House has been thoroughly
renovated, at cost of $500 The new
carpets and curtains we're especially import
ed from England.
Honest poverty is no crime. and God is
|
that makes the man." not worldly honor,
wealth or station.
The usual dullness of Athens. Georgia,
was enlivened the other day by woman
whipping her husband through the streets
with large hickory.
Smokes says: "The prettiest sewing
machine in the world is about seventeen
years old, with short sleeves, low neck dress,
and gaiter boots on.
| The man who undertook to make liv-
ing by putting halfdimes on a railroad track,
| and then, passing them for ten cents each,
has failed in business.
! is your house warm one?" asked
man in search of tenement of landlord.
| 1t. ought to be- the painter gave it two
Icoats recently" was the response.
The street cleaning contract for New York
city was let a. $500, 900 and re-sold for $780,
000 There is some inquiry just now as to
| who shared the other $3.50. 600
The Tennessee Legislature desires SEN
| ator Patterson, the President son-in-law.
to resign. Visitors to the Senate recognize
| him as the man with the warm looking nose.
One of the saddest things about human
nature is, that man may guide others in
in the path of life without walking in it him.
SELF that he may be pilot, and yet cast
away.
That young man to whom the world
| owes living" has just been turned out of
doors-the landlord not being willing to take
the Indebtedness of the world on his own
| shoulders
"A matter of absorbing interest, accor-
| ding to cotemporary, wos the case of
DIan who borrowed money at five per cent a
month. The interest absorbed large farm
in few years. -r
"A man in Memphis has lodged for
NAL complaint before magistrate that his
wife is in the daily habit of cowhiding him.
The magistrate recommended him to hide
himself in future.
A western paper strikes the names of
two subscribers from its list because they were
recently hung: The publisher says he was
compelled to be severe. because he did not
know their present address.
A widow lady, sitting by cheerful fire
in meditative mood, shortly after her hus-
bands decease, sighed out Poor fellow
how he did like a good fire. [ hope he has
gone where they keep good fires :"
A curious typographical error recently
| appeared in morning paper, In giving an
| account of an inquest it was stated, ''the de-
ceased bore an accidental character and the
jury returned verdict of excellent death. -
| An Elderly gentleman. who is troubled
| with lameness, was assisted into his sleigh a:
one of the horse railroad stations in Boston,
day or two since, By a couple of young
men, who, under cover of this act of seem
ing kindness, relieved his pocket of the sum
Of 81 800.
When woman won't, she won't You
can force them to do anything. Indeed,
the most of them are very much like the
old mans wife, who he said was woman
of so much contrabunction, that when she
took compinion of her own, there was no
such thing as consequentioning her.
A delighted father in South Bend, Ohio,
rushed into the Mayors office, the other
morning, and announced that during the pre-
vious night fellow came stalking into his
house stark naked and remained there.
Three policemen started on the run to oust
the intruder On making known their er-
rand at the house, the nurse brought out the
baby!
An Irish girl was ordered to hang the
wash clothes on the horse In the kitchen to
dry. Her mistress shortly after found a
very gentle family horse, standing In the
that had been washed that day. Upon in
terrogating the girl the reply was "Och,
to be sure, We tould me to hang the clothes
upon the horse in the kitchen, and the baste
Is the kindest | iver saw, sure.
"A good story is told of a rustic youth
and buxom country girl who sat facing
smitten with the charms Of the beautiful
maiden only venturing sly look, and now
and then touching Patty foot under the ia,
ble The uirl determined to make the lad