Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-12-02

The population of the United States is
supposed to be AZ, 900 900.
The Emperor of China is fourteen years
old and The Empress eleven.
Bedford county has abolished corporal
punishment in her public schools.
Massachusetts, the champion snow storm
State, it has had nine this season already.
Henry A. Wise is writing his own biog-
raphy. The poor fellow is Wise in his own
conceit
Top heavy-the chap who tried to walk
on both sides of twelve foot pavement at
the same time.
Increasing--the size of some of the mud
holes in our streets The Boro Dads should
suppress them.
| II is stated that one million sacks of
wheat are stored in the warehouses Of San
/ Francisco, California.
| A Connecticut Democrat has done pen
! ance for Seymours defeat by standing on
| his head fifteen minutes.
An unsophisticated Boston girl recently
inquired at dry goods stoie there tor three
yards of ''Grecap Bend.
The Boston Transcript says: The hand
| that can make pie is continual feast tor
| the husband that marries it.
Had to disgorge-the chap who pocketed
pair of mittens, in one of our stores. He
| should have been logged in Jail.
Passed through town-a number of dead
deer, last week They were being taken to
the railroad, to be shipped east.
a Vermont editor says in his paper that
he will take all kinds of vegetables in pay
for subscriptions except beans. y
| Miss Anthony thinks she would rather
marry COW than Timothy Titcombe. This
is undeservedly severe on the COW.
| Independent-the fellow who travelled
along the middle of the street, through six
inches Of mud. He pays street tax
Jacob Derr, near Bridesboro' Berks co.,
raised, this season, a pumpkin y inches in
circumference, and Weighing l25 pounds.
The jeff Davis capture money has all
been paid except General Pritchard's three
| thousand dollars 1t is said he cannot be
/ found.
A New Hampshire widow, who wants to
! sell her farm, refused to do so to a Democrat
| because she did not want any more of that
party in the town.
An exchange says: "There is something
sweet about little girls The Louisville
Journal adds: And it grows on them as
they grow bigger.
An exchange says that Bonner, Of the
| New ork ledger, has perhaps more Dexter
member of the press.
Il don know anything about your Tycoon, >
said an old III noisian to man who was
discoursing on Japan. but when you come
to raccoou you'll find me at home"
Senator Dooliitle. after twelve years ser
vice in the Senate, it is said, finds himself
poor, and viii be compelled to resume the
practice of law after his term expires.
A Mrs. Tucker, Of Georgia, who has writ
ten life of Brick Pomeroy, makes this sim
gular statement: His ears are large, and
| indicate the Democratic element of charac-
! ter ="
The Boston Post says: A Sunday paper
says it is in favor of women voting, if they
want to. We should like to see the man
that could make them vote, if they didn' t
want to.
~ IL lot al
of Webster (Massachusetts) man, who en-
gagged to take a COW back ride through town
if Grant was elected He tried faithfully,
but failed
An affecting sght-to behold at wedding
the sorrow stricken air of the parent as he
gives the bride away, when you know for the
last ten years he has been trying to get her
off his hands.
A very enterprising advertising agent
lately called on the superintendent of the
United States Armory at Springfield, to in
| quire if he did not want to advertise his
establishment.
What kind of board do you get at your
house?" said friend to Binks. the other
day. well. We pine during the week and
piaHk down good deal on Saturdays, said
the cadaverons Binks.
An elderly Pennsylvania woman with her
| daughter, looking at the marble statue of
Girard IN the college building, the other day,
startled the bvstanders by exclaiming; la.
/ Sally. how white he wasl''
! Bismarck has made enemies of the whole
race of office holders by decision that so far
as possible throughout the whole Prussian
kingdom. the present officers shall be replaced
! by the invalids of the war of 1866.
A letter from Egypt, dated October IS,
says: The Nile this year has been very low,
and famine is threatening Egypt. because
great portion of the land has not been
overhowed and cannot be cultivated
The Cleveland Herald says. there was
once conjurer who professed his ability to
get into quart bottle" But we know
conjurer who can do trick worth two of