Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-12-23
4 Little of Everything

/ bitto-a i%uy on the slue-"aih-
Baron James dc Rothschild left fortune
of 100000, 600
Mrs. Lincoln is said to be very i'll att Frank
fort on the Main.
Punch thinks that black and blue are too
often election colors.
1t is said to be thought dishonorable in
England to lecture for pay.
A young mother in Ohio recently bit off
her child's nose in dream.
The Rothschilds have lent $50, 900, 900 to
the new Spanish Government.
A Boston barber has razor that has been
in daily use for hundred years.
Canada has only about ten thousand few
er troops than the United States.
Tnl646 Massachusetts did a brisk business
in trailing Indians for negro slaves.
Ten cents per bush i is all the corn sellers
get for their grain in Denton. Texas.
A philosopher does not..so much believe in
| promising young men as in paying ones
a New England paper thinks all the later
financial schemes are more specie Gus than
sound.
Known-the bows who broke the windows
in the Lutheran church. Next they'll find
themselves in jail
| There is man in Lowell so thoroughly
neutral os all public questions that he never
takes a side walk
Married Methodist ministers in the Gin
cinnati Conference average 1925 year, and
he bachelos< s545.
Anexchanee wants to know if Mrs. Bloom
er still pants for fame. She lives at
Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Two hunters of Roxbury, Canada, went
shooting, were gone six days, and killed three
hears and eight deer.
One million three hundred thousand tons
of coal have been Shipped this year from
Cumberland, Maryland
! Beauregard is the only rebel we know who
went 20 the last ditch" He is construct
ing sewers in New Orleans.
Mr.. Chimmlaler Mahary, of Bombay, has
paid $40 coo for vile which is rather high
tor Ma, hairy or any other girl
There are said to be 103 500, 900 hens in
the United States which are capable of lay
| ing Is, 80, 900, 900 eggs yearly.
A gen;Ieman--over the ieft-the chap
who took mp the whole sidewalk and made
a lady get off into the deep snow.
A physician thinks the Grecian benders
will soon ask his profession, 'Canst thou
nor minister to spine diseased?"
A tippler said to clergymen who was re-
proving him, 'You re right, sir. Whiskey S
! a bad thing-especIally bad whiskey."
Enjoying holiday-our neighbor Good
! lander and his printers, and hence no paper
will he Ssned from hat Office this week.
The New York Sun facetiousy remarks
that New York City is-now governed by
Oakley Hall, Tammany Hall and Alcohol.
| The Mormon elders find some difficulty in
! restraining the young saints from wearing
their hats in the tabernacle during service.
A butchers boy. according to lively re-
porter, is Juvenile vivisecter The same
authority calls a cock fight an chronological
argument"
Quite seven millions of people have emf
grated from the Old World to the United
States since the adoption of the Federal
| Constitution.
The total earnings of the American peo
/ pie are said to he 81 500 600 600 annually
| If there were but 1900 of us how rich we
should all be.
Brick Pomeroy says that the n orth
! should wear mourning for the South. 1t Is
suggested that the rebel gray is a suitably
subdued color.
A young lady has been admitted as stu
, dent to the law school at Washington Uni
ver-ity. in ST. Lonis, by unanimous vote
of the faculty.
| Vermont contains no house that is not
within half mile of school and scarcely
ore hundred native born inhabitants who can
not read and write
The Trustees of the Agricu tural College
of PENNSYLVANIA are reported to have finally
selec ed farm in Inaiar county, for mode
and experimental purposes.
VI farm Of ten acres is pretty idea
enough but would hardly satisfy an Arizona
farmer. one of whom advcrtises for sale his
little farm Of OO0OO0 acres.
\ Washington telegram says that ''as
matters now look, the Southern member,
hold the balance of power, and are inclined
to 20 for au increase of the tariff
/ The President complains that Congress
had not the good manners to listen to hi,
Message ongress replies that evil con-
municati"ns corrupt good manners.
InIs55 James L. Cromwell was sentenced
to solitary confinement for lifein the Michi
gan Penlteutiary for murder. He died on
/ November lJlh Of the present year.
Il IS Supposed that Hon. Hannibal Ham
lin will be elected United States Senator
from Maine ia place of Hon L. Nj. Morrill,,
whose term expires March 4yh, 1869.
a Snowman advertises that among his 9th