Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-08-18
A Little of Everything.

| One of Burlingames suit is about to marry
French beauty.
/ ssspiritual sprightliness' is the last synonym
| for drunkenness.
fine beer. it is said, can be brewed from old |
boots in Cincinnati
Definition of pride by four year old walk
! ing with when you amt lame"
Seventy stores on Broadway, n. Y, are empty
High rents sometimes can't be reached
1t denied that Senator Morton is in favor OF
universal suffrage and universal amnesty
A Pittsburg girl of ght years has died from
lockjaw occasioned by the extraction of atooth'
| The first treasurer of Madison county, Iowa,
kept the funds of the county in his wiie's stock
ing
| A family of poor people from Virginia arrived
| in indianapolis on Sunday, after having walked
| 700 milo.
The Blair County Agricultural Fair is to be
held in Hollid aysburg on the 2sth, 29th and 3oth
of September.
George Francis Train says tsome people call
him fool" Yes, and he is always ready to re
spond to the call.
Stewards working girls hotel is to be frit-
class one which will not practice any of the COM
mon boarding house stewards.
From Rosecrans to Pendleton is great step
What can be impossible to the party that can go
over so much ground with one leaps
The water in the SchuylkiIl and all its tribu
tary streams is very low, and the entire Schuyl-
kill Valley is suffering from drought.
There is a female prayer meeting in Newbury-
port, Mass achusetts which was organized in 1914,
and has been continued regularly ever since.
A"wicked and adulterous generation seeking
after a sign may find West Randolph ST.,
Chica~o, that reads, "Kssh pade for ole rags
The Roman Catholic parsonage at Ebsnsburgis is
to be rafled off at 81 a chance the drawing to
place during the first week of the next court
, Thomas Beaver of Danville, not content with
donating s25 600 to Lafayette College, has dona.
ted similar amount to Dickinson College, Car
Isle.
yanderbilt's daughter teaches her daughters to
mend their own stockings because, she says.
'.there is no telling what may happen in this
country"
Winking at pretty girl through goggles like
doing business without having an advertisement
e in the newspaper. The venture is neither seen
nor appreciated.
= Catholic clergymsn in New York has been
S arrested for sbtsning money under false prefer
q ces. There are sixty complaints against him
from poor persons.
The editor of the Dayton Ledger says he has
endeavored several times to get the name of Sam
uel Bowles into his paper, but the peryerse com
positor always got it Bowels.
S An eagle recently presented to Brick Pomeroy
D is dead Being the bird of freedom, it couli not
\ breathe the Pomeroy political atmosphere, and
y live. If it had only been buzzard.
Democrats newspapers in Iowa disputing
about the spelling of the name of one Of their
candidates The gentleman's testimony is
rejected on the ground that .hs don't know"
He that pursues honor, applause or worldly
reputation, is like the foolish schoolboy running
after the butterfly and neglecting his book; both
f meet with disappointment, dissatsfaction and
n reproof.
The Nevada Inaians are greatly delighted with
riding the cars.aImost every freight train car
rying from ten to one hundred. The other morn
ing one of them fell under the weels and was cut
: to pieces.
A boy in Brookfeld Linn county, Missouri re-
cently found u small bird nest, which was duly
protected by cent revenue stamp, properly
cancelled, and thoroughly attached to the nest of
. the builder
2 The amount of money sent through the mails
by postal money order this year foots up thirty
million dollars against sixteen millions last year,
and it is estimated that the amount will again
double next year,
The Ohio Democrats are in sad plight over
the decination of Rosecrans, If they could only
improvise twenty millionaire now, they could
at least keep up appearances until the first class
1 whaling takes place in October.
Harper,s Weekly, Harpers Monthly, LesIie's
: illustrated paper, the Chimney Corner, New
York Ledger, Saturday Night, and all the other
/ weekly and monthly literary papers and maya
, zines are for sale at the post office.
D, ! Washington is alarmed. Her last assessed val
uaton for real estate amounted to some $50 ,000,-
600 This enormous ard auspicieus valuation
, would be cut down at least two-thirds if the st.
1 Louis specuators could remove the capital.
The Empress Napoleon contemplates visiting
the United States Here will be a chance for
Mrs Flunkey to eclipse all her former efforts in
the reception and celebration business. Mrs. Eu-
genie Napoleon proposes to stop at Saratoga.
The Cubans knocking Spaniai ds right and
= left, and beating them most numerically, if Gu
! ban news rta Washington to be relied upon.
The capture of a few zoos of tho invaders at
: time will soon tell materially on the Spanish
: army.
Our regular army is on the decline, in numbers
There has been very little use for troops since
p Grants Inauguration. a reduction of the army
. from forty regiments TO twenty five is to result
in a further saving to National Treasury of
many millions
=, Cincinnati having proposed excursion of
business to California, ,Chica go responds thus
: 1--WE do not believe there is 'gumption enough in
5 Porkopolis to send commercial excursion to the
U Pacific coast. is there any business interes
| that requires it"
n man passed through Allentown the other day
pushing wheelbarrow, in which was seated his
wife unable to walk from rheumstism, and who
, was trunded all the way there from II inois
y Two little children of the pair tramped by tn.
l. side of the father the entire distance
The Allentown Democrat cautions the Odd Fell
, lows of the State against person giving the
Il name of Rice, who is on collecting mission as
# he is arrant imp postor. He is about 2S years OF