Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-11-19
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The man who wanted tho uinRo Of
bird, attained bis desire by going bn
a lark
Lovers, like armies, generally yet
along quietly enough uptil they are
engaged.
Prentice says that man was the
chief consideration at the crsstion
Woman was "sidc issue"
The eldest daughter Of "go,h Bill.
hngs" was married 20 a yousg Wall
street banker on the 7lh inst
A Paris belle has silver bathing
tub worth twenty thousand dollars.
We would like to battle in that tub
A farmer in Eastern Massachusetts
has made net profit OF four thousand
dollars on his onion crop this year.
Drinkers are said to sympathize
with the Spanish revolution because
IFS war cry was, "Down with the
Bourbon"
lie is happy whose circumstances
suit his temper; but he is more FORUM
ate who can suit HE temper TO his
circumstances.
Bury your troubles, but don't linger
around the graveyard. Try this re-
cipo and see If it don't do you as much
good as dose of caomel.
Brigham Young thinks he has suo-
ceeded in giving bis theatsr a "sacred
character" but regrets that boys will
thistle in the gallery.
Some oneasks very innocently ifit
is any harm TO siti in the lapse of ages.
1t depends on the kind of ages selected
Those from II 10 25 are extra hazard
Gus
At recent railway festival, the
following striking sentiment was
given: "Our mothers only
faithful tenders who never misplace
a switch"
Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, the novelist,
is writing a life OF Andrew johnson,
the manuscript Of which IL now nearly
all in the hands of New York
publisher
As the ferry was passing from
Cincinnati to Newport, The other day,
an unknown woman, young and beau.
tiful, leapod into the river, and found
watery grave.
Will asked Old "ten- percent"
what he wanted to accumulate so
much money for. Says he; "You
can't take it with you when you die,
and fyou could il toouid melt.
1t is said of belle, in tho habit OF
wearing low.necked dresses, who re-
Gently carried off matrimonial prize
in the shape Of rich old widower,
that "she won the race by neck p
The register of colerod voters in
Augusta, Ga, shows the names of
Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, George
Washington, John Milton, Thomas
Paine, and a score Of other patriots.
King Louis of Bavaria is distinguish.
ed for sort Of sublime selfshness, il
for nothing else lie enjoys an
orchestra of seventy performers to
play to him alone, no other person
being admitted.
Truth enters into the heart of man
when it is empty, and clean, and still;
but when the mind is shaken with pas
sion as with a storm, you can never
hear the voice Of the eharmer, charm
he never so wisely.
A lady asked her little girl, on re-
turning from church, if she remember.
ed the text. "Oh, yes p said she
ait was this "Tbe ladies' sewing So
ciety will meet at Mrs. MoEwen's
house on Monday evening next"
Brigham Young, having been mar.
riod the other day to five additional
wives, an Indian chief, who witnessed
the ceremony, shook his head and
his shoulders, and muttered,
Too much marry-too much squaw."
Odd typographical errors are con-
stantly occurring. A paper recently
made the surprising statement that
1.-TWO thousand car loads of cats had
come East over Western railroads"
The editor designed to say "oats."
A beautiful thought is suggested in
the Koran: "Angels in the grave
will not question thee as TO The amount
Of wealth thou hast left behind thee,
hut what deeds thou hast done while
In the world, to entitle thee 30 seat
among the blest."
Why do you drive such a pitldl.
looking carcass as that2 Why don't
you put heavier coat Of flesh on him,
PatY "a heavier coat Of hesh on
him? By She powers, the poor croa.
ture can hardly carry what little there
is on him nowlp
Gov. Scott, of South Carolina. has
the law about distraction on
account Of color, by Offering $4,000
reward for the arres, ofthe murderer
Of negro, while the amount offered
for the slayer of q white man is
$3.50.
A missionary meeting al Springfield,
Mass, raised $4,000 to "cOnvcrt the
That is, to convert them
into white men. IL they succeed as
well at this business as they have at
themselves into negroes,
-hey will haze much cause Of joy.
A farm of two hundred and twenty.
seven acres, in tho town OF Goshen,
New York, known SO the "Phineas
Ramsey Farm has been sold TO
lanes B. Martin, CT New York. for
twenty-five thousand eight hundred
md fifty dollars.
A young gentleman, five years Of
lgo, was approached with childish
'ndearments by an infant Of eighteen
months. "Don't you see" said the
mother, chat the baby wants to kiss
rouP "Ies, replied young maturi
y, chats because il takes me for his
,apa."
A lady recently advertised in a city
PAPER that she wanted "gentleman
or braa Z fact n "a 80 % Iii -