Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-11-17
A Little Of Everything.


Criminal acts-the labor of eonvicts.
thorough washer woman-Sal Soda.
Rather Coelis-the Chinese question.
Mean temperature is best, and lie an people the
worst.
A boarder, who gets his lodging credit, calls
it bed-tick
How much does a fool generally weigh? A
simple ton
Reads-a sign a Denver store: "FyNs
KUt bak Oh"
The ties that connect business with the
public-GdUsr-tiss.
Stockings are now darned by machinery. and
they darned nice
Pepperish-strong Pepper, the POstm aster of
Pepperville, Nebraska.
The surest way to lose your health is to keep
drinking other peoples.
medical questions opening dead letter a
post mortem examination.
The cold spell has brought out big represen-
tation of last winters clothes
In Italy they blow a horn before the start.
In this country they take one.
Kisses and apples very similar-they should
never be tasted without pairing
Ex-Gov. Thomas G.. Pratt of Maryland, died on
November 9th, aged si1ty-fvs years.
Sitka has already sixty bar rooms 1t is a cold
place and something warm is needed.
The King of Holland lis "hard up that he
has had to 'spoat' his picture gallery.
Poor whisky is called fifteenth amendment
in the South, because it's hard to swallow.
On the increase-emigratio from North Caro-
lima and other Southern States, to the West.
A Dsmocr attic paper out West is called the
Wlof. 1t Is not found at the DIOR of many poor
men.
Reported-that the President. in his forthcom-
ing message, will express sympathy for the Gu
bans.
Col Drake. the first who "struck oil' in
Titusville recently died in a poor-h house in Con-
necticut.
Seasonable Iuxuries-mush and milk cider
and apples, buckWh cakes, sauer krsut, oysters
and sich.
There will he six eclipses OF the sun and moon
next year, but of them will be visible in the
United States.
Three bodies, supposed to be of soldier. buried
in 1915. or thereahouts were exhumed few days
ago at Peoria, Illinois.
Nothing like perseverance Youngm begin
by turning a grind-stone, and you may in time
become organ grinder.
Four young ladies met in front of our office yes
terday, and neither of them looked back to see
how the others were dressed.
The cold nights ave put danper on gate and
door step sparkling. She now says, Come in and
shut the door," and he comes.
David Kendall, Past Grand Master of the Grand
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of
California, died few days ago.
The Emperor of Russia is in such feeble health,
owing to his dssolue life, that his ph yscians say
his death may be looked for at early day.
Oysters from Baltimore, eight days the road
created decided sensation in San Fra ancisco
| the other day. We should think they would.
Kentucky paper apologies for its unusually
poor appearance ION account of the abundance
of whiskyand the scarcity of printers in town"
Thomas Noble, London clergyman, is but an
inch taller than Tom Thumb. He more than
IN axes up for his size by the length of his SER
mons
Still continues-the m lining difficulties. in the
II Hazleton and Lehigh regions. Over two months
of idIeness have already been suffered at most OF
tn coil ieIies.
Strange as It may seem to some one of the
strongest advocates for keeping the Bible in the
comm OF schools in Cincinn att is Hebrew gen
teman OF education.
missrable le man in San Francisco unable TO
get work, wrote note stating that he was going
to make app iication for place as fireman to
the devil" and took arsenic.
ThanksgYin is likely to arrive in town before
our expected turkeys. Turkeys very slow
birds in these diggins. Can any one inform u:
of the whereabouts of our lot!
The past eight years exhibit the curious fact
that the higher the rate of duty raised the
| greater were the amounts of railroad iron i'm
/ Ported A little more duty, then.
Indications of further Spanish troubles are
brought in the announcement that parties there
differ other points than the selection of King
1t would be funny if they did not
The Venango Spectator, noticing the defeat o
t DR.. Early for Assembly, in the Clcarield district
piou sly OBJ serves, Those who seek Early in the
next Legislature will not find him.
Over nine Thousand men recently applied il
| one week to the New York. Free Labor Bureau
for employment For these there were but fou
hundre and twenty hit situations.
a man out West read that dry copperas put il
! bed of ants would cause them to leave He pu
some in his mother-in-laws bed to sec if she
wouldn't go. He says she was there at last ae
| counts.
In many places in Indiana, the latter part o
October, the corn, with blades as green a in Au
gust was laden with snow, and the ripe psachs
were picked from trees bent to the ground b,
snow and ice.
A fisherman of Montereau, France lately caugh
fish, within which was found a breastpin, orna
mented with thirty precious stones, diamonds
emeralds, rubies and sapphires, the whole value,
by Paris jewellers at $500, 900.
The Dauphin county Bible Society held meet
ing on Tuesday night of last week, and discusse,
the question, "Shall the combined forces of Ro
manism and Infdelity brea up noble sys
tenn Of general Education ?"
The Harrisburg Telegraph reports another CO
lossal fortune to a citizen of that place de
scendant of the great Hyde family of England
but says it is after of grave doubt whether tn
young man will next season build new hous