Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-10-11
A Little of Everything.


Good-the roads in this county.
Very low-the water in the river
Notes of admiration-Iove letters
Old men are moved down. babies are Graded.
Progressing-the work on the new brick hotel.
What has become of the water works question
Interesting-to see one drunken man lead
another.
Never turn blessing round TO see if it has a
dark side to it
The voting list of Liverpool contains the
names of $500 women.
Spiritualism, according to Carlisle, is the Lit
| urgy Of Dead Sea Apes"
Iowa horse thieves conf plain of too many ducks
ducks in horse ponds
Tact AID tasnt-talent is the locomotive tact
the engineer that drives it.
1t is announced lat the President will visit the
Sonth during the coming winter.
Delaware has shipped two and half mil
lion bushels of peaches this year
Lost sight of-the new Jail during the political
| excitement. Where is it to be built2
"A victim of bacchanalian immoderation'' is
the polite Chicago term for delrium tremens
No saloon keeper is an actor but still his pa
irons visit him for tn sake of his little dram -ah
Completed-the new bridge at the lower end
of town. The toll house is in process of erection
Experimental philosopby-asking a man to
lend you money. Moral philosophy refusing to
do it
Curtis gets $1,000 a year to sit in Harper's
Easy Chai. " A very nicely cushioned chair
that.
| Huntingdon county has maple tree which
measures 25 feet inches in circumference. A
big un.
There is folly equal to that of throwing
| away friendship in world where friendship il
| In Western city the agitation against rings
is so strong that it is proposed to take the city
hall bell
Introduce change in your reading and studies
Who reads but little at a time retains that little
| the better.
The ''original pre.s used by Benjamin Frank
lin is said to be In i76 different American print
ing Offices.
| Missouri has a clerk in her State Land Office
named Whist, but he won't allow any one to play
him games.
Brigham Young's family weighs fifty two hum
d red pounds. of which Brigham accounts for two
hundred pounds
Harsh words are like halstones in summer
| which if melted would fertilize the tender
plants they batter down.
| Mr.. Hockersmith, OF Kentucky, threw stone
thu ough the window at his wife, AID she imme
diately shot him for Ku-kluz.
Late potatoes seili1g at Alton Ill at TWEEN
| tyive cents per bushel One farmer in Madison
county reports his crop at 400 bushels per acre.
The London Ne,os publishes letter from G old
win Smith favoring the Independence OF Canada,
bu. opposing its anuexation to the United States
Secretary Boutwell, says he hasn't got through
with the Wall street thieves yet. and it is nil,
trusted that new financial plan is in contempla-
| tion
Princeton, Indiana recently had a mammoth
mush room grown in night. 1t was thirty
four inches round, and weighed nearly four
pounds.
New York is overrun with Spanish spies of
whom local paper says they insert their noses
everywhere, aad strange to say, do not get tn em
| twsaked."
western writer says if n much attention was
paid to improving corn as is given grapes, one
hundred million bushels might be added to the
annual crop.
1t is estimated that about $500 900 of the new
issue of ten and fifteen cent fractional currency is
kept out of circulation by people keeping one of
each for samples.
Gaulin. a, the Postofice, has the largest and
best stock of books and stationery in town. He
also keeps daily and weekly papers, monthly
magazines. &c. Give him call.
| Mr.. John Hastings, of Altoona has purcha
the Altoona Vind,ratoy flee and leased the same
to Mr. Campbell, the former proprietor, who has
resumed the publication of the paper.
An exchange says many a business man will
warrant piece of goods to be all wool. white
knowing it is part cotton, to innocent customer
His relationship to a thief is very close.
at cost Cincinnst ii youth $50 to kiss girl
| who didn't like it." He got off cheap. Many a
youth has kissed a girl who did like it, and 1t
has cost them twenty dollars week ever since.
Uncle Bob Martin of Melton county. Georgia.
died recently. aged ninety three years. having
been born in Henry county. Virginis,in l776 For
| seventy nine years he was a Master Mason in
good standing.
A wise clergyman now deceased, once said
''He had learned preach not only so that people
could understand him if they had mind to, but
also SO that they could not IN misunderstood him il
they wanted to-
The following i. Prench ans definition of a
| broker: ''Ah me make disco, erie Vat is
de rasen vot fore de people call de agent brokair!
1t is because ven de personne have Dizziness wild
him he become broke"
| MinnesO ia, renowned as wheat growing State,
| it seems has been outdoue by Montana territory
this season, where the statistics show large yied
of frst-class wheat averaging not less than thir-
ty-three and perhaps thirty-fve bushels to the
acre.
| A New York cotemporary thinks 1t rem arkabe
that there should be euch a ruth of candidates for
nomination to the New York Legislature, when
the pay is only $500 per year Our cotemporsry
| is mistaken The SALARY is only $500; the pay is
I another m after
Increasing-the demand for anthracite coal in
| this lace Would not a reduction in the price
of bituminous coal have ency to drive the
other out of use here? This is a question worthy
the attention of those who mining coal in the
vicinity of town