Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-02-23
A Little of Everything.


Every astionable young lady in New York says
she danced with Prince Arthur.
Every Rep ublican in the county should have
the Journal. Price, 81 in advance.
An Indianapolis paper tells of man who ''re-
proved his wife with an axe handle"
man was frozen to death in Somerset county
last week He drank too much whiskey.
Never accuse man of intoxication until you
see him trying to light his pipe at pump
Get your job work done at the Journal Power
Press job Office, if you want it on short notice.
There are eight thousand ouakers in Iowa. AL
most enough for another Qnaker City somewhere.
Bohner and Bordenberg, the murdefers of the
Peightai family, will be executed on the 9th of
March
He who is ashamed to ask questions will never
learn, and he who is too saving to advertise will
never thrive.
They have big snow storms out In Nevada. The
last one continued two weeks, covering the ground
to the depth Of FIVE feet
Some of the town councils in Maine fine per-
son ten dollars if he does not pay doctor one
dollar to get vacoinated.
The subject Of building associations is being
agitste in Johnstown, Altoona, Huntington, and
other places. Why not here
unlendomovitchewegin means love among
the Choctaws. Almost anywhere else a word OF
that size would mean business.
Calcutta was illuminated on tho occasion of the
visit of Prince Alfred, and undertaken embla-
zoned ''Weicome - over his door
DR.. Chaplin says that every young lady should
jump at the chance of marrying n IN Mechanic Girls
don't jump unle ess they are scared
1t is said that "James Gordon Bennett never
made speech, never voted, never was naturali-
zed, and is still a subject of Queen Victoria -
1t is understood that the coming census will be
taken under the regu lations adopted in 1850 mod
flied to suit the am sndments to the Cons titu-
ton.
A man attempted to start writing school at
Denver, last N month, but they made him turn it
into saloon, not wanting any "fangles in this
town"
Mrs. Stanton advice about choosing wife is ::
Always LOOK for girl with good teeth, for the
teeth are a sample of every bone in the fair ones
body"
disgusted woman in Iowa sued for q divorce
because her husband had given her, during four
years of married life, only one present-a coral
necklace.
1t is said that if you take two letters from mon
ey there will be one left, but a Southern editor
heard of man who took money from letters, and
there none left.
Our devil will joke the most serious subjects.
He says that any fellow who would purloin PEN
nies from poor printer ought to be penned up
in the pfnnytentiary.
In North Carolina the law permits a husband
to inhict reasonable ~ corporeal punishment
upon his wife Wonder il this is the reason so
many people going to North Carolina
The fsh. in the Miami river lately got on a ben
der from distillers slops turned into the stream
whereupon some hard hearted speculator cauSh.
| n wagon load of them and sold them to the people
of Milford
Ratiand, Kane county, Illinois, has a majority
of Catholic inhabitants who, it is said show their
devotion to 'unsectsrian' education by compelling
the teachers of the public schools to give nstruc
| ton in the Roman catechism
The cliffs of the umberIand river in Kentucky
are swarming with robins One roost is three
miles long. They can be picked off the bushes
by hundreds. and persons come distance of ten
lies to fl their baskets with Poor robin red
breast"
The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided tie
of Brown, who robbed the Coshooton county
Treasury. writ of error. The judgment OF
! the court below. senteuciny Brown to ino Of
$4,000 ana ten years in the penitentiary. wa.
affirmed.
The ilexandria (Minn Post speaks of new
kind of legal ender namely IN rat skins which
| have recently been active medium of circua.
tion among merchants. The catch has been large
and furnished many a family with grocers. and
! provisions.
young lady in another State has Just secured
| position as school teacher upon the following
certificate This is TO certify that lamar Noye,
stands on medium with other girls of her ass
| and sex ard, for What know is as good folk,
in general"
| The HuntiLgd GloJs says a business house ir
Harrisburg has very large card hanging outside
of the store door with I'VE want to See, in larg'
letters at the top of it, and then follows list o
! dishonest customers who have failed to call and
settle, good idea.
Minnesota ed itor feelingly says that he dis
| likes to see old with one foot in the gra''
and tie other the brink, tottering along in
beastly state OF intoxicati STUN bling every now
and then over unseen obstacles, and then blaming
| the slippery sidewalks for his mlsfortuncs
| An italian in his 10th year, being asked the
| sesret Of his living so long. replied:
",'heu hungry, of the best eat,
| And dr., ana -Rrm keep my feet
| screen my n~sad fr3'n sun ana ram;
And let few cares psrplex my brain"
Lutheran Sweden has at last el;francaisea he'
dissenters and Jews If We are right ia the PIE
sumption that the former class includes all OF mel
nom Lu theran christians thus removing the disa
bilities of the Catholics we must regard this &C
of wise federation as a long step in the advance o
enlightened civilization.
The Roman Catholics of San Francisco ar'
building earthquake proof church 1t is t'
be constructed in such way that If the roo
should be shaken down it will fall outside OF IN
walls, thus preventing a catastrophe within /
perchance a congregation should be worshippini
at the time. 1t does not appear whicn way IN
architects intend tho walls shall fall
It is reported that the Russian Government ha
succeeded in securing the services OF the most e1
psrienced inventor of ammunition In the world
Colonel Boxer, of the English arsenai-oy sal
ary of 900 pounds year. The British Nav!
Department is much blamed for allowing toi