Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-05-12
A Little of Everything.

Up-the new sign of Messrs. Hartswick 4 IT.
win.
The place to get job work done-the Journal
Office.
For sale-uagazines and papers, at the post
office.
In blast-the soda fount, at Shaw's drug store
Try it.
A Boston merchant has business ledger 100
years old.
"Fusil guzzle.'-is the latest definition of a
'tippler."
Minister Washburne sailed for France Sat
urday a-week.
Soid-the chap who bought the coal scuttle with
| hole in the bottom.
Bogota inclnes to reconsider its rejection of the
Gushing Canal treaty
Price of the Journal. only two dollars in ad.
vance. Subscribe for it.
Removed-the Drug Store of A. T. Shaw to the
room adjoining Mossop's
The Boston Post says that the discharged clerks
say that Boutwell, is turning out" badly.
Baron Rothsch i'd estate, which has just been
settled up, amounted to $40, 100000 in gold
X. A. Mackey. Esq, the new State Treasurer,
entered upon the duties of his Office on Monday
a-week.
A Florida paper apologies for shortcomings
with the frank explanation The publisher is off
on a bum"
man with a wooden leg is astonishing the
good people at Burlington, Iowa, by riding the
velocipede.
Amusing-to see church member leading
COW into town, on Sunday morning. with the bell
stuffed full of leaves
The ''oldest Mason has now turned up in Can
ada, in the person of Charles McKewen, who was
/ raised in Ireland in 1776
The Mount Vernon estate of Gen. Washington
is advertised in the Alexandria (Va.) Gazette, to
be sold on the 10th of June.
A citizen of Boston is of opinion that to have
the new Boston POstofice between Milk and Water
streets is ominous and ANOMALOUS
Some Belgian chemists propose to teach how to
make Grand Mousseux'' champagne out of in
gradients costing but two cents quart.
The Emperor Napoleon celebrated his sixty
second birthday by a grand dinner at the Tuile-
ries, on Tuesday evening. April 9th.
Gen joe Lane, who was the Democratic
national ticket with Breckinridge in 1860, has
lately Joined the Roman Catholic Church.
The British House of Commons, by majority
of ninety nine, have passed the bill repeating the
| prohibition to marry q deceased wife's sister
AshIey's troubles are not yet over. Montana
begs Grant to recall his appointment her Gov
ernor. They don't want the great impeacher.
There innumerable inventions for the AN
ufacture of bricks-a much needed article is
machine for their painless extraction from the
hat.
A successful office seeker in Washington had to
search Gazetteer to ascertain where the country
was to which he was appointed as Minister from
the United States.
In Des Moines, Iowa. two BARRIERS have been
fined 81 So for working Sunday The justice
said lit was legal to sell rum and cigars on Sun
day, but not to shave
New York jury has cast Gen. John Dix in
$4,000 damages for imprisoning in Fort Lafay-
ette, during the war, NAMED Daniel d. Bell.
of Rochester, New York.
Duck eggs are declared BY Philadelphia doc
tor to be sure cure for palpitation of the heart
1t is not difficult that the prescription is in
| the interest of quackery
Thirteen of the western railways earned, in
| the three months ending with March, total sum
of SI4,6I3,942, nearly two IN nillions more than
in the same period of 1865
The number of Chinamen living in California
and the adjacent States and Territories is said to
be about hundred thousand or nearly one
fourth of the adult male population.
There eight tunnels the Pennsylvania
| Railroad, ranging from two hundred to three
thousand six hundred and twelve feet in length
the one at Ga Galitzin being the longest.
In the word abstenr,ons the FIVE vowels of the
alphabet stand in their gramm atical order, e l.
ou. The word facetions presents the acci-
dental singulsriry and tacetiomsiy brings in the y.
shrewd but unenlightened school director
out West used to say, on examining a candidate
for the post of teacher, I'VE all know that b,
is vowels, but We want to know why they is vow
| els.''
Pardee College, Pike county, Missouri confers
the degree of NJ. A. (maid of arts upon young
ladies' Among the practices prohibited at this
institution is ''gallanting association of ladies
and gentlemen.
rustic deseribnr Louisville, said the finest
residence there belonged to NJ. E. Church, whose
name was cut in big letters the door, and
there was sharp pointed chimney on the house,
two hundred feet high.
The ordinary mode of churning in Chilli is to
| put the milk in a skin-usualy dog skin--tie it
to donkey mount a boy him with rowels to
his spurs about the the length of the animals
ears. and then run about four miles.
! Prof. Gabb, Government geologist of Hayti.
who lately went thither from Philadelphia. writes
that the whole people, from the President to the
native herdsmen in the mountains, are in favor
1 OF annexation to the United States
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Ex-Governor Curtin says he would feel still
/ prouder of his great State ''if the thousands of
wouHded. men who are at the corners of our
streets grinding organs and picking up scanty
living by begging were provided for.
| MANY man for love of self,
| To stuff his Golfers starves himself;
| Labor, accumulate and spares,
To lay up ruin for his heirs
| drudges the poor their scanty dole,
Saves everything-exccpt his soul
farmer in the neighborhood of St Johnsbury,
vermont, has all the years butter on hand, be-
tween one and two TONS for which he offered
/ last winter hfty-two cents pound. He asked
/ hfty-hve, and-keeps his butter, which will soon
be mt for wagon grease.
An Indiana clergyman makes his visits a