Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-11-09
A Little OF Everything.


! than with the tongue
Does a mosquito draw his bill at sight when he
/ draws it in the dark
piece of calico mile long has been manu-
factured in New England.
! While the West is demanding the Capital, the
/ South merely asks for labor
Cards, Envelopes, Letter and Bill Hsads:neatly
printed at the JOURNAL ofics
! Cambridge, Crawford county, has cheese fac
| tory Of nine hundred COW power.
| The Good Templars of Tyrone have fzzIed out.
! Temperance has chance there.
/ The Cincinnati mode Of getting rid of mothers
in-law is greasing the cellar stairs.
A snobbish lady up town boasts of having
! century plant that blooms every year"
| For the first time in thirty years the New Haven,
| Conn, Jail is without female prisoner
An inverted SOUP plate is said to give good
/ idea of the shape Of the style bonnets.
| Five hundred women in one Wisconsin county
worked in the fields during the late harvest.
! live man in a town is like case of itch in a
district schoolit every body in 1t to scratch
I ing.
Content and Comfort are the names of two towns
in Texas. We are content TO dwell in comfort
here.
western graveyard yields cucumbers Its
occupants both eumber and cucumber the ground
/ then
party of respectable Chicago ladies have
formed society for rcclaimins disspated young
men.
blue eyed girl in Central Wisconsin, shenrsd
forty sheep in 4 Gay, anu received four dollars
/ fer it.
There are six hundred and five convicts in the
Nashville penitenIiary. That's hard on the De-
mocracy.
Over l.tse Geo acres of land in South Carolina
are to be sold for taxes. A good chance to buy
farm cheap.
Upwards of twenty young women studying
theology in the United States. with the view Of
becoming preachers.
1t is so hilIy in some parts of New Hampshire
that the people look up the chimncys to see when
| The COWS come home.
The compostors ofSan Francisco embraces MANY
ladies. The comPositbrs of San Francisco ought
/ to be ashamed Of themselves.
| Mrs. james Nolan, Of Grant, Indiana has com.
menced suit for her seventh divorce from the
duties and responsibilities OF married life.
! Josh Billings says that laosquitos were born of
| poor but industrious parents and some of the
! best blood in the country runs in their veins.
! The streets of Lafayette Ind are paved witk
/ two feet Of old boot. and Loopskrts The stree.s
! Of CIearfeli are paved with rzud, just now
! month 5 imprisennect IN jail W as thou gil by
/ an Irishrnan triGins scutence, because it was
! the depth Of winter, and the days short "
a wittv writer gays Lawyers and clients re-
mth4 me OF tne t"O lows OF peopIe nre one
! Pus'ins along full buckets and the other empty
9nvs"
! Fieksburg girl getting too fashionable
SC her father put stop to it by cutting off her
hair. To effect permanent cure he should have
| cut of her head
| The population of Ohio, as shown bv the full
census returns for lS10 is ,652 1872 against 339
oil in 1860; gain of 3I2,79l in ten wears. not
quite II per cent.
This good thing from Josh Billings lecture.
"a man that Starts, the day of his marriage as
first lieutenant in his family, need never ex-
! pect te be romoted.''
A man who lately shot and killed n bow in hi.
melon patch, when called to accoun; for the deed
said he did il in mercy to the boy who 9th erwi,e
! might have died painful death from cholera
morbus.
An exchange says that NEARLY everybody in
"iliaDsport swears a little girl after Iistenip,
to eonvcrsation between her father and another
man, ash ed her mother if her God s middle name
was DAM
young lady has just started from her home in
Biaekford county, on her way TO Calcutta India
where she is tc be united in marriage with her
'hFst love, III fuiGinent Of az engagem ent made
ten years ego.
The \. Y. Iri5Une OF Friday states that from
the first of January 1870 to that time IS7 5II EN-.
igrants have arrived in that city, and tha, during
the same portion of the year 1869 the number
that arrived Was 227 ls9
''bottomles hole has been found a. the nor
thorn end Of Blue Hill. Nevada One explorer
descended to The depth of tRo hundred feet with
out hndiDS any evidence OF its termination. The
walls abound with stalactites resembling coral.
he Philadelphia Press says Oxford England
's sseAding priest and thirty monks n a IN issio
to CbristiaBize Boston They have a great work
before them, but their apostolic error dou btlcss
equally as great, and faith will move mountains
r husband IN this locality, few months ago.
"e 'SSE " give MS Wlie taTeo uoIIars week to
maintain comparative silence dsdueting one cent
fol each superfluous word she uttered. She now
owes him nearly enough 10 pay the national debt
An old lady named Mrs. Moore, of Miller Farm.
Nehahgo county, attempted on tuesday to start
hre By pouring oil from can into .he stove and
with the usUal result. The exploded, and
the old lady WAS burned to death. A warning to
othars.
Margaret in Judd's famous novelsay in speak
ing OF what woman is ~It seems, after all, to
DC question OF boards and breeches, and since
nature has not furnished with the frst why
should We be anxious to supply ourselves with the
last2''
The people along the line of the Union Pacific
rHIlIoad. in ord get satisfaction for enormous
charges for freight and passenger fares. tax
ing that corporation proportionately, and will
probably collect from them about sI0o,oOo taxes
Ia wyoming territory, this year
octin G"ies5urg. Ill, young lady was ap-
preached the other evening in one of the city
churches by sympathiziug friend, who asked,
do yeu not wish to get religion p Yes" she
replied but until the I'd of January. 1 want
10 go 60 the grand hall first