Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-02-10
A Little of Everything.

Boston has two potatoes on exhibition tor
which the owner wants fifty dollars apiece
Domestic eats have gone wild in San Joa-
ouin county, California, and are making great
trouble.
A Model surgical operation-to take the
cheek out OF young man, and the jaw out
ofa woman.
Solomon advises the sluggard to go to the
ant, but the shiftless in our day generally go
to their uncle.
One bull fighter in Spain made $500, 900
by his perilous profession, and then died
without using it.
A Kentucky farmer is exhibiting an egg
in the shape of dumb bell, laid by one Of
his eccentric hens.
Parsonages in Minnesota and one acre of
ground are exempt from taxation, by law
recently passed in that State.
The first Protestant church in China was
inaugurated during last November at Han
kow, by the Anglican Bishop of Victoria.
Johnstown has sensation. A young man
named Felon, it is said, inherits by grand
fathers will the greater portion of Cambria
city.
A cotemporary says 1--WE are panied to see
by our exchanges that Jefferson Davis is
spending the winter in three different places
at once"
Chauncey Wild, of the Kanawha region,
is visiting Cincinatti, is ninetee years old,
seven feet high, and weighs three hundred
and four pounds.
A Florida court has had to adjourn five
different times because the jurymen would
go to sleep ''and snore almost as loud as a
thunder storm
Is it sign that the present year will be
unlucky because it begins and ends on Fri
day? Superstitious ones may think SO but
we hope they are few.
Captain Joseph Metcalf the oldest mem
Der of the Masonic Order in the United
States, died in Erie on Feb. 9th, in the
ninety fifth year of his age.
A lad named Myers, died in Shirley town.
ship, Huntingdon county, recently from hy-
drophobia, caused by having been bitten by
a mad cat, about month previous.
The last attempt at suicide was that of
Georgia woman who drank whole bottle of
castor oil. 1t is presumed that the next
time she will try more sudden poison.
The Buddhist monastery of Hanle, in
Thibet, situated at height of JIG feet
above the sea level, is the most elevated hu-
man habitation on the surface of the earth.
An exchange says: Sixteen slow sub
scribers in several sections of our county will
be sold without reserve to the lowest bidder.
They will not pay and we can afford to keep
them
A Local poet indicted sonnet to his
mistress, entitled II kissed her sub rosa. -
The compositor knew better than that, and
set it up in printers Latin. Il kissed her
sn,b noSa.'
Gen. Meade has promised to be present
at the dedication of the monument to the
soldiers who fell in the Mexican war, in
Harrisburg, on the Goth of May, if his public
duties will permit him.
A wild turkey was killed in Washington
county, Ohio, the other day, and after hav-
ing been sold, was found to contain pound
and six ounces of railroad spikes He had
been dosing himself with iron for general
debility.
A son of Reuben and Louisa Myers of
Mt. Union, was bitten by cat about eight
weeks ago, from the effects of which it died.
The cat was rabid. and after it had bitten
the child it jumped at its uncle, who killed
it with blow from stick.
A man from the interior of Pennsylvania
lost his pocket hook day or two ago. A by
stander saw the theft, but refused to describe
the pick pocket. In explanation of this
strange refusal, he asked the victim, "Why
did you charge me ten cents for drink of
water when | was in the army at Gettys-
hurp I''