Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-11-16
A Little of Everything.

Ihcre are ABOUT zVuUUO lslaeil'eS III 'ne = SHiSea
States.
Doe. large mouth constitute an open counte
nance
All Boston is humming new song, called ''Let
Me Be-
Noah's Ark is the first piece of Arch -itsoture
mentioned.
Flattery is like Cologne water-tO be smelled of
but not swallowed
Berks county owes only $4,000 and has the
money on hand to pay it
knowledge and success go hand in hand. He
| who would be successful must be wise
Wendell Philips and the Tyrone Herald have
re nominated Gen rant for President.
Cats and women have one thing in common
Tney addicted to rambling and squailing-
Truly ther. is nothing new '.Fli shu" is the
name of one of the oldest of the Chinese deities.
An exchange says the latest styles Of misses
hats looks like sardine box with brim around
1t ia very difficult TO keep your piece of
mind if other people thrust pieces of theirs upon
you.
bill has been introduced into the Georgia
Legislature making ''dissahfactiOn" ground for
divorce.
The Drake family are quackng about fortune
of Sl2O eOe .s0e which some old duck has left in
England
Weather prophets are emerging from their
holes again. The winter is to be very severe
they say.
Josh Billings says be believes. like Greedy, in
! the universal salvation OF men, but he wants 10
pick the
People are often allowed to their wild oats,
but nobody ever seems to encourage the growth
OF ach corns.
Thou art near. and yet so far" originated
with poor fellow who near broke and
| far from home.
Ignorance and coneeit swell some men into
great self i'm poT,arce; but like bag of wind
such must collapse.
Tie only newspaper in Alaska is "froze OUT
ard the material has been removed to Seattle,
! Wyoming Territory.
The New York Hsrald thinks that the dropping
of the gold premium to par before the end of 1871
is not impos.ibility.
The youth of st. Louis are being rspiIy thin ned
oct, owing their inOrdinsts indulgence il steal
ing rides-on locomotives.
1t is nearly as impossible to get money out of a
rAiser as it would be for butcher to get lamb
chops out of a battering- ram.
Loafers who make church pavsments their
sort on Sunday evenings to stare at the ladies,
| should be arrested as lounsers.
Pigs Eye is the ronlanti, Of one of the
new cities ct Minnesota. The Minnesotians seem
determined to stick to the hog.
Wild cat killed by boy in Columbia
| county last week ltpretty ,fsctually "chawsd
up" two dogs before it was dispatched.
Mrs PaTtingion is anxious to know, if the COM
pass has needle and thiity-two points, how long
it will take a woman to make a shirt with it
John c. Hiilega, OF Guena Vista Bedford county,
fell from a wagon while driving dswn the Noun
tain few days ago, and was instantly killed.
The Montgomery county almshouse has e1-
hibition another of the First Napoieon's soldiers
in the person of John Fisher, Pole, aged o.
The individual who is running for Congress in
| the Second Alabama District was chaplain In a
negro regiment. Tie next thing he Will be a
chap lain out.
richly dressed young lady created sensation
| on streets theothor dry by appearing without
false hair. Where she came from is my stsry.
She don t belong hero.
lady convert weighing 2ie pounds. was i'm
mersed out west the ether day. 1t required the
united efforts of four ministers get her safely
| through the ceremony.
| shoemaker, down street says that ne is not
only willing to give woman her rights, but her
| right and lefts' Witty man 1t Is his last
joke-bul ne may
Tho silver mine in Sterling Mass. which was
! worked before the revolution and its carried
to England has been leased by Fitchburg parties,
and is to be at once re- opened
The Brown Silver Mining Company of Colora-
do "a Lehigh county, Pa institution) last week
shipped east two more bars OF pure silver, weigh
| ing LBS pounds, valued at over $1,000.
The lately wrecked Morning Star" So well
! known as the ChIdren's Missionary Ship. is to
have successor its exact duplicate, constructed
at East Boston By the Ii. builder, Paul Curtis
1t is proposed in the titled circles of England
that women be admitted to the honors CT the Gar
ter. The Knights of the Garter ought to blush at
! having excluded the pre-eminentiy garterod sex
SO long from their order.
Evil and idle words may seem as they are utter
cd, as trivia things; ye. if light, they are like
/
tuft floating on the breeze bears with it the germ
| of some obnoxious weel.
| The Rochester Democr.t is responsible for the
| following Cider is so plentiful in some parts of
the country that they pay man fifty cents bar
rel to drink il, and good. ablc-dodied laborsrs
making from 81 to 50 day at the Business.
The japanese clergy stop every fifteen minutes
in their DISCOURSE and say TO their congregation,
| Let US have a smoke" If that clergy would
come along here and say. Lets take a drink"
| they would draw crowded houses every time.
| The population of London is 3,563,4lo, against
! 2473,75S twenty years ago-an increase of 0S9,
| 622, or over 81 per cent. This is remarkable for
so old and SO large a city Think of single city
| with population more than two-thirds as great
i as the largest State in the american Union.
The recent auroral displays were visible on both
continents. On Monday evening, October "a the
very night that they were so brilliant in North
America, London and all England was treated to
the same glorious spectacle, phenomenon o.
which century knows hardly three or four IN
that latitude.