Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-05-26
A Little of Everything.


Andrew johnson is said to be worth sf5 200
The Indians call Gen. Custar "Creeping Pan
ther"
When did Moses sleep five in a bed? When he
slept with his forefathers.
The ssGrand Army of the Republic has 2,056
| posts in the United States.
The Boston Post says just as the trees on the
common leave, the Ioafers come.
Bedford rejoices in four velocipedes, four organ
grinders, monkey, and game rat.
From New York to Sacramento the fare is now
sls3,S5 and the time about one week.
The Richmond Emqnirer advises young men to
give up the velocipede and turn to the hoe.
In Troy New York, there is a peanut vender
who returns an income of $4,000 per annum.
The Rhode Island Legislature is urged to ask
Senator Sprague to resign. 1t lnay but he won't
A New eJrsey father whipped his to death
to nuke him confess to the suspected theft of ten
dollars.
An exchange says that England is actually
afraid that Sumner will declare against that
nation.
| A snake with two heads-one on each cnd--was
recently killed in Bedford county. So says the
Inquirer.
Aman who gives his children habits of indus.
| try provides for them better than by giving them
a fortune.
Two brothers-in-law quarreled in Texas last
week about thirty sents, and one finally killed
the other.
An English clergyman identified his Billie in
court from the marks of its having been used as
a strop.
Imitation meerschaum pipes are now made of
stale bread which hardens, and, it is said, ,colors
equal to the genuine.
IsabelIas head still ornaments Spanish postage
stamps. 1t gives her rebelious subjects an op-
portunity to punch it.
The London Telegraph says that tho new En-
glish court dress is copy of the favorite costume
of George Washington.
The AHsgharian says good many of the trout
up that way will weigh pound. Don't doubt it;
but how many of themf
| In San Francisco there is exhibition a
revolving rifle capable of being fred off five
hundred times a minute.
Most of the boys in Corsica are christened either
| Napoleon or Paoli The Democrats prefer the
latter name Cor their sons.
new dictionary defines hash boarding
house confidence game; and quack as doctor
whose science lays in his bill.
! The New Y srk Ezpress says tina in the incomes
Of business men of that city, "those who adyer-
| tise make the largest returns"
In Lima Ohio confidence men have their
heads shaved, and coat of tar and feathers ap.
| piled to prevent their taking cold.
man in Connecticut has invented new ma
| oh; oh q les
hundred pairs Of shoes in one day.
| Portuguese inventor has recently presented
to the Cabinet of Lisbon hrdefous little engine
| firing eight hundred shots in a minute.
The most successful spectators in United States
bonds at the Frank fort tn e. Maine Bourse
Jews who lived n long time in America.
| 1t is said that in 7s6 libel suits now pending.a
| gainst American editors. the aggregate damages
to character estimated at SAT 100000
Prentice says the Office holders down his way
are greatly exercised with the apprehension that
they may be swindled out of the right to steal.
An infant was found few days snce,at Altoo-
with its throat cut from ear to ear From ap-
pearances the child was not more than a day old.
The father of Cornell student who sent as
an item in his cash account, "Charity. $50" re-
sins.''
Grant don't want to fight foreign nations, and
is of opinion that .'this administration will have
its hands full if it attends properly TO the affairs
| of our own country"
| If the ladies will ''camphor down. their furs,
that is after the cold weather is over for this
son, the "wooly critters will remain undisturbed
by moth until next winter.
"My son. said of doubtful morals, put
ting his hand on the head of young urchin. 81
believe Satan has got hold of you" II believe
SO, too,'' replied the urchin.
| The latest addition to the conscience fund as
been Webster unabridged large size, which
an Illinois soldier appropriated but found it to
weigh too heavily on his mind.
Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tri-
5nms, is about TO publish in that journal series
of articles political economy, designed to elu-
cidate the policy of protection
Mr. Henry Burley, mute, is the champion veoc-
ipedist in this place, up to the present. He has
become efficient as to stand upon the pony IS
back while under flu II llheadway.-Tyrome Herald
Washington correspondent writes that Admi-
raj Hof's Cuban dispatches lean to Spain because
they the result of &c astronomic Diplomacy -
| ne Deing ''hererQy Jonnsonlzed by the span
| iards.''
A dead man with his throat cut was recently
found in the East River at Brooklyn. At the Cor
oner's inquest physician testified that the
throat was doubtless cut by the action of the
water"
Quite n sensation was created in New YORK last
week account of the arrest of prominent
ward politician and banker, who is proved to
have deserted from the United States army nine
years ago.
An exchange asks: "What are all the young
men in our country doing There are none any
where learning trades" They all playing
ball, riding avelocipede and spending their dad.
dy's money.
That 'strong feeling in favor of annexation to
the United States" seems to be contagion Of the
most virulent sort. From Canada, at one leap, i,
has annhilated thousands of miles, and is now
heard of in the Sandwich Islands.
A festive stone-cutter in Detroit dram so many
times from a whisky bottle that he was unable to
distinguish between the mouth of that and the
muzzie of is pistol. In atemp ptng to drink from