Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-09-28
A Little of Everything.


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long.
About this time we can look for the equinoxial
storm.
Pittsburgh ladies are building a home for aged
| women.
The birds have given up love making and house
keeping.
| The weather will soon be too cold for corner
lounging
Chestnuts arc ripe, and the crop was never SC
| promising.
Buckwheat cakes will soon appear as morning
appetizers.
The last day for registry will be on Saturday
| October lst.
| Minnesota this years produced 90, zoe 900 bush
els of wheat.
There is no longer any ciamor for the --latest
| French fashions
| America uses as much paper France and En-
gland combined.
| Short way to raise calves-let a mouse loose al
female tea party.
| Gen. Sheridan says our war has taught th:
Prussians how to fight.
| The hunt for the Nathan murderer, in New
| York, is quite given up.
| A patent has been taken out In Paris afor the
manufacture of steel type.
John Wilt of Somerset county was killed py
! lightning one day last week.
| Many Western cities having the census re-
taken at their private expense.
John Morrissey has been to a camp meeting
but proved an un-grace-ious subject
According to the Maryland law, potatoes mus
be sold by weight instead Of measure
How to keep yours elf dry-eat freely Of red
herring and salt beef and don't drink.
Raltimorean grand jury has taken ac tior
against ball playing Base Baltimore
People who think them selves weather-wise Fare
already predicting an unusually cold winter.
The flsral emblem for September is cluster oi
purple grapes, surrounded by wreath Of hops.
There is poor fellow at Bangor who says
Its working between meals that's killing him. ,
An Oregon man has just died from the effect
of an operation his foot by professional corr
doctor
| Since Red Cloud returned from Washington
| there has been no depreciation whatever in hi
region.
What are the most unscciable things in thu
world ? MiOst oncs-you never SEQ two of then
together,
! One boy hit another with bat, during a bas,
! ball quarrel in Pittsburgh, the other day, anC
! killed him.
/ Films of frost, more slight than severe, are al
! ready announced in various directions of GU
| great country.
The slowest going, sole leather saving morta
| in existence, catch lively cold, without of
| fort in this weather.
| An Aroostook tMe.l editor pays his respects t
the unhappy old rip who squats in the editorial
chair of the Supstde.;
! The mourning establishments arc the only
fashionsble shops the Paris Boulevaris which
| do thriving busin
1t is not the thing now-a-d ays to say, "T've 90
! corns." Rather observe, Il afflicted will
sebaceous excrescencss.
society for the encouragement of yosng meI
| ladies of Rondout. n. Y.
! The Indiana county papers claim that thcil
| new court house which 10 nearly finished, viii
| be one of the finest in the State.
o that we were visited for an hour or two will
the uncertain glories Of an April day." with it
attendant showers, TO lay the dust.
The population of Cameron county is 4, ,273. thu
smallest county but in the State. Fores
county wears the belt for littlenes'.
! Vice President CoIfax has written letter il
which he definitely announces his Withdrawal
from public life at the end of his present term.
There are two directly opposite reasons why
some men have poor credit-ene because they're
not known and the other because they are known
Ambulances used in our war and bought by
Prussia have been used in the recent battles
They were bought up years ago in anticipation
man and wife named Craig. residing in Hen
drick county, Indiana. between them managed tc
bring down the scale at I,sos pounds avoirdu-
pos.
The new hammer in the Bessemer steel work:
at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, weighs IS 600 lbs
1t cost S52 900, and is the largest in the United
States
a number of greenhorns were heeced out ot
I
by the game known as three card monte" Ser
we'd them right
Missouri juvenile satura ted the ancestral cat
with kerosene and touched a match to it The
result of this unfeline conduct the destruction
of the parental roof-tree
After October Ist no stamp will be required on
any receipt, and notes for any amount less than
sI0o will also not require stamp Bank ehscks
have still to be stamped.
fire occurred at Emporium, Cameron county
on the 18th, which destroyed seven stores, one
loon and two dwellings. The loss is heavy, and
but little insurance. An incendiary job.
TIVE dollars will pay for printing election tick
cts for township or borough. Make your nomi-
nations, send US the names and the tickets will
be printed in or two hours, if desired
Machinery has recently been invented in EN-
gland which weaves from the hair of cats and
rabbits sort of velvet tissue, distinguish abl c
from silk, but not inferior in fneness and beauty
Mrs Hannah Hawley, ninety-siI years Of age
and the oldest woman in Boston vas baptised on
Sunday last. Her father was lieutenant in the
battle of Bunker Hill, and her husband died in
the war of 1912.
"boy of the Emerald isle" who was appoin-
ted census taker in illinois, has sent in his report