Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-09-21
A Little Of Everything.

Most people are determined to have living if
they die for it.
They are having white frOfts and ice in some
parts OF Maine
Holland has twelve thousand uind-nills, and
blows about them
A woman's heart is like fiddle; it requires
bow to play upon it.
Men are like potatoes. never knowing h,w soon
they will get into hot water.
Montana Territory has 20 $50 population, and
also IS ,0e0 Indians in tribes.
In the game of mortality the last trick is the
sexton's, He plays spade.
''Confound all opposition as the owner of
strsst-sprinkier said when it rainsd- a.f.s.F
Poor pigs. they are doctored the wrong way
round-killed first aud cured afterward.
The census taker has discovered in Michigana
young lady named Luna Aurora Borealis.
During the past ten years. Pennsylvania ha,
produced 2S,oeO 900 barrels of petroleum.
The Indian Summer is natures sober second
thought and, to US, the sweetest of all her think
ing.
The census ha. revealed the remarkable fact
that very many young mothers have very old
| boys.
II you want to know how quick you can run n
mile, tell a redhared woman that her baby
s9uints
A Cincinnati orator wishing to apostrophfze the
national banner got it: Forever fleet that stan
dard shoat."
A young lady in a neghboring village says
she celebrated her wooden wedding by marrying
| a block head
| Jack Frost visited some portions of our county
couple of nights last week, to examine the gar
| dens He did but little mischief.
| The prayer of the selfish man is forgive us
our debts but he makes every man that owes
him IA red - fork over instanter.
| > They tell Of n man out West whose hair is so
red that he has to wear fv-nets over his oars to
keep the candle moths from flying in.
! portion of the community-the better half
of it will be glad learn that the cotton crop of
this is estimated at four millions of bales.
''SoIaced in durance vile by the radiant smi lies
! of connubisl love" Translation-His wife went
to see him in Jail, where he sent for stealing
A young lady strollng through the woods in
Jersey was hung up by the chIsnon to a limb.and
had to wait two hours for passer by to extricate
! her.
| Somebody said ''the moro honesty a man has
the less he affect. the air of a saint " Somebody
drove the nail and clinchod it, in that short
| tence.
Virginia wants her most gigantic intellects in
| the United States Senate, and accordingly guer-
rlIa Colonel ohm s. Mosby is suggested a can
didate
| An Iowa doctor told q man that he had "di-
| agnosis of the polyphemus." and it ared him So
| be shot himself dead. That isn't any way to use
! man.
The express messenger on Western road tho'i
a carpet sack in his charge rather lively, and o
| pening it, found young infant with limited
! trousseau-
| Michigan schooImistre,s has written book
| about The Boys in White" What can an limo.
cent young woman be expected to know of boy.
| in that fix?
| A Kentucky town has iron cage on the cour
house steps, in which young men who indulge toe
| often are put exhibition. Clsar6eld needs q
| lookup to keep such persons in.
Tennessee is declared to be the he1lthie.. plac,
on the face of the globe. and the most remarka
BILE for longevity ef life, the census mortality
lists are said to clearly indicate.
Denver is rem arkabIe for its shade trees With
in the past three years, over a half a million OF
small trees-mestly m ount.in cotton WOO Is-have
been set out within the city limits
A man committed suicide in Chicago, on Sat
urday because young woman said 1t is all
the same. lie would probably have done the
same thing in tim had she said yes.
| The Scranton Democrat says one of its boys
had his hand squeezed in job press. Our devil
often gets bis hand squeezed but as it is done by
handsome young lady he don't object
| The lHethodist says: Rev. 1. James NJ. D., of
| Busr'ston, Pa, has the honor of being the oldest
Meth hodist in the world, HI is in his ninety fourth
year having been born Janua airy u, I77T.
! Leavenworth, Kansas boasts of man who is SO
tall tn at his likeness cannot DO got into pic
ture. local artist has painted his head and
shoulders, and announces that no will be contin-
ued next week.
city exchange says that young lady of that
place. while rowing skif was upset and dres,
costing So 90 yard was completely ruined. 1t
also incidentally mentions the fact that the young
| lady drowned.
There are in Baltimore some thirty or forty oys-
ter packing houses, having n capital of from SIS,
600 900 to $50 e0a Gee. Fifteen thousand hands
of all races and ages, and both sexes, are en-
| ployed in opening oysters
An immense slaughter of fish has resulted from
the drying up of the Delaware and Hudson can al
and hundreds of acres of land manured with
! the fish. 1t is said a weeks rain will be needed
before navigation can be resumed.
At Vienna a manufacturer has carried out the
happy idea of printing pocket handkerchiefs 18th
maps of the theatre of war. They have been a
great successevery body wishing to poke his nose
| into Alssce and Lorraine without risk.
The receipts from internal revenue from the LIST
of July to the 18th of September have been
s45 744472 6s and the receipts fer the corresPon-
ding period of 1859 were s39, ,424,046 IS. showing
increase of So, ,32o 425 SO during the fiscal year.
ID. Rosenburg, of Weissenburg, Germany. last
! year examined the iron a1d coal deposits about
| st Louis and now be is in that city again asking
the citizens to subscribe s50oono capital in addi
tion to 81 900 coo raised by German capitalists to
establish steel rail factory in St. Louis.
| We have passed from summer into fall. What
asummer it was, The record shows that there
| w m heat than c0rresDondInp