Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-11-18
A Little of Everything.

Fortune has It's tides as we'll as the sea
The beggar's vocation-preying for his
daily bread.
Some fishermen use cotton for bait; so dc
some women.
The New York Bloomers wear Scotch
plaid trousers
Knee breeches have at last been introduc-
ed in New York.
A new and delicious perfume is called
Sweet Sixteen.
One definition of corn dodger' is man
who refuses whiskey.
There are said to be many more Buffaloes
than horses in China.
Seymour, like Wallace coffee pot, ran en-
tirely too much into spout.
The labor question-what is the least we
can do for the most money?
Motto for sheriff-Render unto seizer
| the things that are seizer's
The length OF the north poleisn not known
1t has never been measured.
Dr. Livingstone, it is hoped, will arrive in
| England before the new year.
Tomabawk thinks ehignon is not the
well known ''Rightful Heir
The man who ieathered his nest is suppos-
ed TO have been dealer in poultry.
Seymour doesn't ''blow his bugle horn"
now He weeps and blows his nose.
Potatoes have been down to thirty five
cents a bushel in Chicago this season.
The market at Cairo is flooded with game,
such as wild geese, ducks and turkeys.
Kangaroos are becoming almost as serious
pest as grasshoppers in South America.
The most recently formed ''press club is
an association of New Jersey cider makers.
A man in Buffalo recently was sentenced
to thirty days Imprisonment for stealing an
umbrella.
A Scotchman in Scotland being ordered
leeches by his physician, took them boiled
/ in his Cruel.
| The Pope is going to re-organize and re-
store the order of St. John of Jerusalem or
the Knights of Malta.
| Louisiana planters are trying to get rid of
the negroes by advertising for white labor
ers to take their pl4ces.
There is sweet sixteen boy in Bellefonte,
Centre county, Pa. whose feet are sixteen
inches in length. He growed there.
The Alabama Legislature has appointed
h. -,
vestigate alleged Ku Klux outrages.
Extract from Walace's October procla-
nation: 1t is the last battle for the saliva
ton of the Republic She's saved.
The ancient scandinavians used the antlers
of stays for drinking cups. This is evidently
the origin of the phrase, taking horn.
Prentice thinks a paper should boast more
of its read matter than its reading matter
This is very excellent advice for some papers
The Republican candidate for Mayor of
Charleston, S. c., was elected by seventeen
voters. There Is talk of contesting the elec
ton.
There are ZOO watchmakers in Switz-
erland, and as some of them are dishonest
and prey on the public they might be said
to watch and prey.
Wallace, in October said to his clans :
''You have discovered the weak points in
your organization So have we. The diff
fculty seems to be general debility.
The Second Congressional district of Hi
nois is the Republican Banner District Gen
Farnsworths majoi ity at the late election
was l4,4lS, gain of 1000 in two years.
Nicholas Terry, James Conroy, Patrick
Whalen and Hugh Martin, of Yonkers, New
York, have been held to bail. The first is
charged with procuring, and the others with
using false naturalization papers
Mike Fitzgerald, politician of New York
City, has been arrested and taken to Phila-
delphia on requisition from Gov Geary,
| charging him with having violated the laws
of Pennsylvania in voting in Philadelphia
at the October election.
A bright little boy was asked by a lady
if he studied hard at school. He replied
that lie did not hurt himself much at it.
'Oh, said the lady, you must study hard
or you will never be President of the United
States. "Yes, ma am,'' he replied; 'but
| don't expect to be am Democrat"
Twenty four bills of Indictment have been
found in New York against persons concern
ed in the manufacture of fraudulent natu
rallzation papers. These indictments are in
addition to those retained last week. Re
form seems about to be pushed with some
meaning. So much for the Union League
of New York.
1t Is said that certain Democratic mem
bers intend to introduce bill for the resto-
ration OF the full privileges of the Presi
dency to Gen. Grant, and it is believed that
the Republicans will anticipate them. and
that an act will pass in December. to take
| effect from the fourth of March, which will
give the new President the full privileges of
his office
A couple of farm servants on plantation
In the Southern part of Alabama, who had
been asleep in a loft of large barn. were
Z wal ral