Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-02-20
Clippings and Scribblings.


nGa.Moscow had gas for the first time in
its eventful history, on the 18th of January
n@%In Jackson county, Iowa, one night
last week, three brothers married three sis
terS
GsaIThe peasants of England have not
more than three hundred words in their vo-
cabulary.
pea- Some of the French newspapers
speak of the American Minister in Paris as
General Dixie.
aTThirteen of the prominent railways
in Great Britain paid nearly two million
dollars for personal injuries in single year.
sR-Jonas s. Hoffman. living near New
Town, Rapho tp., Lancaster county, Killed
a hog weighing seven hundred and eighty
pounds. e
nAsA man in Fredericksburg, Va. was
knocked down by lightning, and cured of
rheumatism. He don't recommend the
remedy.
nsm-Mr. Cowan is the tallest member in
the Senate, but he has stopped to things
much lower than any of his colleagues
could do.
Bs7-The largest plow factory in the werld
is at Louisville, Kentucky. 1t has at the
present time, a capacity of one hundred
R%The dome of the Capitol at Wash
burners, which can be lighted in moment
by the agency of electricity.
aA-Rev Father Ashley Pool, distin
guished Methodist clergyman, died in his
eighty-ifth year, recently, at his residence
near Morgantown, West Virginia.
Battered shattered and dilapidated
Io II nf
apparel shipped from England to the be-
nighted heathen in South america
n@-A merchant of New York who failed
twice, inside of fifteen years, and who at
one time was forced to Dawn his wife ;
clothing for start, has just retired on a
half million. Nothing like perseverance.
Punch announces as his latest and
best conundrum: if you saw the Great
Kahn of Tartary laughing fit to kill him
self, why might you be sure he WASH a
Tartar? Because he would evidently be 4
merry Kahn.
sea-The New York 1ribmes special
says: Solomon johnson, colored man, for
merry President Lincoln's barber has been
appointed a first class clerk in the Treasury
Department in Washington, with desk in
the Secretary office.
saF Mrs. Henry Johnson late Miss Har
riet Lane, has given birth to fine boy, who
she has christened James Buchanan Mrs.
Major Williams, formerly Mrs Douglas.
gave birth to twins on the recent anniversa-
ry of her second marriage. &
HAThe Baton Rouge Adrocate says n
merchant of that city was astonished lately
at receiving bill of lading, in which, among
other articles, was the item, ten boxes tom
cats" 1t proved to be Cincinnati abbre
Walton for tomato eatsup." Did he rel
ish' the joke?
Concerning Barnum and his Con-
gressional aspirations Connecticut paper
says that sewing a monkeys head and
fish S tail together, to make mermaid, is a
performance well calculated to make man
notorious, but it affords no evidence of
craftsmanship. Rather severe on the great |
Snowman.
say-The New York World scolds the
Connecticut Democrats for endorsing the |
eight hour movement at their recent State
Convention. 1t says this isn't Democracy.
The Democratic practice used to be, fifteen
hours for days work, and ten cents for its
payment. Does the World want to return
to old times?
ba~Many persons injure themselves by
absurd and foolish trials of physical strength.
We are told IN one of our exchanges OF q
young man at Milwaukee, who, boasting OF
his strength, said he could knock the panel
out of door with single blow of his fist;
He tried the experiment, knocked the panel
out, but his hand has been paralyzed by the
injury inflicted upon it and is gradually
harrr