Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-03-03
A Little of Everything.

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Boarding house hash is now called mystery.
Spring violets have already appeared in Con
necticut.
Peach trees are pink with blossoms in Georgi'
and Mississippi.
The population of London, at the middle OF
| 1868, was g. 28,635.
| Lopez's victims. Bliss and Masterman, have ar.
| rived in New York
Pendleton county, Ky, presents man aged
one hundred and fifteen
The Aiiaskenes. or ladies of Aliaska are said tc
| be very fond of whiskey.
bunch of ripe cherries was picked few
| weeks ago in San Francisco.
Over $500 .oOe taxes on whiskey and tobacco
were paid in Chicago last month.
Two million of dollars in United States silver
coin has accumulated in Montreal.
sportsman recently killed Eve large eagles
in one day on Naush on Island, Conn.
Surgeons an ,ailors are much interested in
the We ocipede an ia. 1t suits both.
The Pork and ham trade of Philadelphia is a
good deal larger than that of Chicago.
Arrival to the mammoth is said to have
been discovered der Lookout Mountain.
In B, ston women are taxed on q, 200 600 of
real estate and $4,000, 900 of personal property
The Rocky Moun,a.n Hyald heads its column
of humorous and other paragraphs Noodle
Soap"
The popularity of Sol. Smiths funeral at st.
Louis was that seven of his sons acted as pail
bearers
The frame of q house in Paintertown. West
moreiand county, was blown down on Tuesday Of
last week.
When a man takes more pleasure in earning
money than in spending, he takes tho frst step
toward wealth.
Six hundred pounds of letters and pamphlets
is said to lie the regular daily allowance now of
General Grant.
Some one has estimated that New York has at
least sixty thousand females who have to earn
their own living.
youngster in oh 10 amused himself by pound
ing the lock ofa pistol with stono. and succeed
ed in shooting his brother.
High priced houses in Philadelphia have low
cred their rents this year, while low priced ones
have slightly raised theirs.
A Tombstone. in Maine, erected to the memory
of - wife, bears the inscription: "jesrs cannot
restore her; therefore 1 weep
Washington is said to be filled with insurance
agents, drawn thither by the report that Presi-
dent Johnson's policy is nearl run out.
A lady advertises herself in an Iowa paper as
an -'attorneyess at law" Why not say bar maid
1t is more euphonious term, and one familiar use
A venerable Puritan parscn in New York State
has built $500 church on his farm, which ex-
empts him from taxes to the amount of $500 per
annum.
On Tuesday of last week, two frame dwelling
houses, in course Of erection Indiana. were
blown down during the storm which prevailed at
that time.
One Irish banker in st. Louis sent, during
Christmas and New Years week, fI.l25 from the
Irish girls in that city to their friends in
the old country.
A very oiod map has nipped vegetation in south
ern Italy, andthe novel spectacle is presented OF
orage trees laden with ripe fruit and the ground
covered with
A rifle is being brought out in Prussia with
which at q recent trial. thirteen shots were fred
in thirty six seconds and all the bullets struck
tho target Good by. Cbassepot!
A gentleman in Hu ntingdon has made q caIcu-
Iation showing that over 100000 are spent in
that borough each year for intoxicating drinks,
How much for churches and schoolsf
Mr.. Davis advocate his amendment, which he
ssid the true spirit of brevets, which should
be conferred like the star of the Legion of Honor,
and the amendment as then agreed to.
Great number of young men nowadays are
subject to trance the result of two much med
ding with spiritsalism few years ago they
would have been described simply as tight"
The Republicans of the With Indiana Con-
gressionai district elect James NJ. Ty ner, by
largely increased majority, to fill tho vacancy
caused by the election of Pratt to the Senate.
The New Orleans Pieayuns. of Saturd ay, says
that Strawberries are beg inning to put in appear
anee at market. Cucumbers and tomatoes are
displayed in the windows of the principal resaur-
ants.
The Chicago Times has produced a word which
it applies to The new idea. 1t is '.Velocambipe-
dextIunism. aid ii is defined to mean swiftly
moving by power skIlfully applied with both
feet
There is a Lady in the city who hasn't washed
her face for fourteen years; cleans it with Indian
meal says wafer chaps it. Appearsto keep the
"cbaps" away pretty severely. Lady thirty nine
aud bids.
The Savannah Republican objects to a sta tement,
by Northern paper, that q en-. Lee sought to de-
strOy the Federal Capitol, gratuious false
hood. 1t adds that he might have done it. and
very properly, but he never did,
Through freig hits from New York to Chicago.
rated a few weeks since at ST. Ss per 100 psunds
are now taken thirty cents and even less 7 he
same competition between the Erie and Central
lines, is likely to reach the passenger tariff.
Mad dogs are q ute numerous in Westm orela nd
county just now. Many dogs were shot last week,
Look out for mad CANNES, a number of persons
in varit S, ctions of the country have recently
died from the effects of bites from rabid dogs and
cats
At a recent ball given by the Empress of the
French. the Prime. SIS Metternick wore q large
ehignon and green parrot on her head cor
res, ondent says this all she had her head,
aud We really do not how she could have had
N uch more.
committee of nine Baptist clergymen of New
ork city, having Investigated the matter, hive
come with perfect unanimity to the conclusion
that Matthew Hale Smith is not the man to be
ordained to the work of the ministry in the Bap-
tIst denomination