Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-10-26
A Little of Everything.
A high destinY-hanging


The round of domestic life-a hooP-skirt
Pleading at the bar-begging for drink
For neat job work call at the JouRsAL ofhcs.
Minuesoia jurors make verdicts for fifty cents
day
Mice are building thick nests. Look out for an
early winter.
Punch says that when Lots wife turned to salt
he got fresh one.
Out in Nevada little girls stub their toes over
$40 nuggets of gold.
A Judge in Indiana has been nicknamed "old
Necessity because necessity knows no law.
A Schenectady, n Y, justice fined white girl
$50 for walking with black men in the streets
Right!
Man-afraid of-his- horses, ogaialia chieftain,
makes other people afraid of their horses when he
| is about.
| lnwyer-''a gentleman who receives your est
/ tate from the hands of your enemy and keeps i
| himself
AGeorgis editor has had his pistol stolen. He
advertises to give the thief the contents and ask
no questions.
An old topper being requested to define hard
drinking, said at was sitting on rock and sip
ping cold water
Three cities in Ohio are running a close in
population Coum bus has 81 1888; Dayton 81 1866
and Toledo, 1898.
Perry county claims the latest snake sensation.
Two heads and four eyes find place about the
| body of the last one captured.
The gold mines of California yield, annually,
s23 900 600; the quicksilver mines, 81 500 eco,
and the eoal-feIds, 81 .oseO0s.
We have heard that in Russia the potato crop
is considered the apple of the devil, which was
the forbidden fruit of Paradise.
At Ebensburgh, on Tuesday, October 18th, it
showed a little and ice could be seen on barrels,
tubs, and other exposed vessels.
Governor Hoffman confesses that when the De-
mocracy elected him Recorder of New, York city
he had never read page of law.
Cider being plenty this fall and muriatIc
acid so cheap, il is hoped the price of champagne
wil not rise as high feared,
A city missionary was asked the of his
poverty. principally" said he because have
preached much without notes.
lady Of Morgan county Indiana, who had oc-
casion to discharge her husband, presented him
with $50 and told him to git" lie got.
Samuel Vogue, of Henry county, Indiana, re-
ports himself one hundred and seven years old,
!, and has voted at all the Presidential elections.
Nebraska girl speaks four languages sings,
plays the piano, dances, chews, smokes, drinks
and swears, and no boy of her age can beat her
That was a heated controversy between St.
Louis couple, which settled by the husband
pouring bowl of boiling soup on his wifes head
In Massachusetts,, the other day, though;
he could cross the track in advance of locomo-
tive. The services at the grave we're very i'm
pressivc.
Mrs. Partington says she understands the pickle
! the emperor has got into, but she would like to
know what this neutrality is that Victoria is try
, ing to preserve.
| At a Connecticut hotel, lately. visitor who
cider instead. as that only cost IS cents barrel
, while water cost 5 90
a lady aged SO years, died recently in Lafay.
ette, Indiana. The only property left $50
gold piece that she had kept carefully concealed
for thirty FIVE years. in order to pay her own fu
neral expenses.
Dick" said a certain lawyer to a countrymau
who considered mo re fool than knave, .wha al
should you call the two greatest curosities the
/
yer and river on fire.
The Bath Tunes mentions a fireman in th al
| place, who, OF recent parade. poured a glass OF
whisky into his boot to relieve its awful ightness
and in less than two hours was barefoot the whis
ky having eaten OF the ssles
Detroit queer shower rushes into a store
csntless, and wants chanse for $50. The store
keeper, anxious to accomm odate his neighbors
gives him four SIS and soon has the pleasure of
discovering that the $50 is bogus.
An old cynic, a concert the other night re d
in the pro5ramme the tit lie of a song. viz: oh.
give me cot in the valley love" Reading it
attentively, he growlcd out We'll, if L had my
choice, should ask for a bedstead.''
brief market report: Pens, ink and paper arc
stationery; milk is unchanged; brogans are
hesvy, but generally firm; wheat is a grain bet
ter than oats; wines and liquors generally have
downward tendency yea<tcakes are rising.
The present census will show that the United
States has fifteen cities of than one hundr ed
thousand inhabitants. There are but three eoun-
tries that equal this-the East Indies, with TWEEN
ty-One cities; Great Britain, with sixteen, and
China, with fifteen.
A Kansas lady on retiring to her room one
HlSht, fOund lt llLeraliynlIed with martins, hlch
had flown in during her absence. Instead of
harshly turning them out into the cold, the kind
hearted lady captured nearly all the little crea-
lures, and had them served up the next day in a
pot-pie.
dodge said to have been uTed in the Indiana
election was worthy of the ''check-raisers' Ger
tain candidates were to mark off the Republican
ticket in the interests of particular set of wire
pullsrs, who, in doing so. used invisible ink that
would not show when the ballot was first cast, but
would be plain after six or eight hours.
There is a soldier in one of the companies at
Sitka Alaska, who is near relative to a Lieuten-
ant General in Germany, and from whom this
soldier receives each month tn rough private par
. ties $3.50 Some soldiers in Sitka, although put
ting on but little airs, not so poor after ALL if
they are enlisted in Uncle Sans service.
| An unsOphisticated rural excursionist wrote
back homo from Atlanta, Ga, saying One thing
struck me. At the hotel where l am stopping a
tooth brush is provided for the guest At least in
my room it the case" An absent minded
person the previous occupant of the room, had
left behind his boot blacking apparatus Hence