Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-01-26
& Little of Everything.


girls.
Milwaukee drank last year SO ,aos,6oi mugs of
lager beer.
schooImas,e- struck .ile'' the other day
juvenile"
Eleven cattle thieves were recently hung to one
tree in Texas.
The Democratic party in Georgia bewaiis that
it has no leader.
Philadclphians have green peas, but they cost
two cents piece.
To let the public know what you have for sale,
advertise in the Journal.
Cards done cheap at the Journal power press job
Office Send in your orders
Fashionable young ladies-like letters-require
stamps, or the males reject them
In recent duel in Kansas City, the weapons
were a pitchfork and butcher knife.
The Committee on Ways and Mesns refuse to
make any change in the tariff on coal
The Tennessee Legislature is asked to make
drunkenness IL misdemeauor, to be punishable as
such
Salt Lake City has got Postmaster-Capt
J. Moore formerly of the army. and not a Nor
bill has been introduced in Congress making
il 4 misdemesnor TO use mails for swindlins pur-
poses.
An Iowa paper advertis.s for girl to learn
the printing trade, who will wear pants and saw
wood
The President has been sent suit of clothes
from Siberia made of Siberian furs and cut III ST.
berian fashion.
Old rags, of grecnish hue, and embellishel
with Chases photograph, cheerfully taken for
subscription at this ofiee.
Seventeen bridesmaids, four clergymen and
three bands of music managed to marry a pair
in England, not long since.
sShoo Fly don't boddcr me-" is the exclsma-
ton of debtors nowadays, when the collector
comes ouzzng around after his stamps
bill has passed the Senate to increase the
salary of the Governor from five to seven thous
and dollars year 1t should become a law.
The females of some Indian tribes, in order to
keep silence, fill their mouths with water. Our
wom en- fill theirs with tea, and gossip more than
ever.
One hundred recruits have been ordered from
TO Jefferson. Texas, to reinforce the fodrth and
sixth cavalry.
Envelopes. letter-headings bill heads circulars,
and everything in the jobbing line d one on short
notice and at cheap rates at the Journal power
press job ofi,o
The present winter has belici all the prophe-
cies of the weather quidnuncs The ffigid pre-
dictions that circulated freely 4 month Ortwo
ago are heard no more.
There is a steam hammer at Danville. in this
State, which cost $4,000, and which will crack
nut without bre aking The kernel, or crush can
non ball with sixty ton blow.
Gov Hof-ma n on Friday, restored to citizenship
Daniel Whitmarsb, who was pardoned from the
State Prison by G ov De Witt Cln ton in 1926, two
' ears before the Governor who restores him was
born.
While Congress is considering the repeal OF
modification Of the income tax; we may suggest
the propriety of substituting tax on 2"tgoss,
which, in these hard times. far exceed the in
comes.
The Governor of Ohio has parioned a young
man, who was sent to the State prison for man
sIaug ghter, on the condilien that he drinks no
fenced.
Jo.h Billings says, ''Any business firm that
hasn't got sand enough in its craw TO eIPend
few dollars in making its business known to SEQ
Or 1000 people, ought to pick up and go peddiingo
peanuts.
The laying of the last rail OF the Utah Central
Railroad took place on MonIay and communication
IS now complete between Salt Lake and the At
antic and Pacific coasts Brig ham Young drove
the last spike
On recent rainy day in New Orleans news.
boy accost ID with "Bub you :lu't remem-
ber Cromwe!ls advicc-.Trus, in God and keep
your papers dry >" No you don't, was the reply.
L don't trust :"
North Brookfeld man tied his horses head
and tail together and drove it in 4 circle TO cure
it of baking. In minute the animals spirits
were entirely broken, aud lis neck from
running against post.
GIoomy-the prospect of our citizens getting
their ice houses filed, Not one of them has yet
housed n single cake, and the chances of their
laying in supply for summer reference arc
growing beautifully less.
TIE announcement is made that bill is to be
introduced INTO Congress which PROVIDES that al!
and correspondence between authors
and publishers shall DO transmitted in the mails
at the rate of printed matter
A French child asked the priest the other day.
Why is it, father that ask every day for oar
dsily bread instead of asking for our bread for
week, month whole year," why you lit
tie goose, to have it fresh, to be sure was the
reply.
The United States Branch Mint property. at
bahlOncga, Georgia consisting of ten acres of
land, large two story brick building l35 feet
by 25, and ell go by IS feet. which originally
cost about s2u00OO has been sold ut auction in
Atlanta for I-3l3.
The Halifax Chronicle favors annexation, and
argues thus: The market of the United States is
necessary 20 our lives; the market of Great Brit
ain is not Dieams will Rot clothe our children
Tho warmth of the shade OF Il brave flag will not
com pensate fo- barefoot winter"
Some citizens of St Paul. Minn offered Gov.
Austin, on New Years day, the of furnish
ed dwelling house rent free. during the year, but
he declined the prof cred gift, saying he thought
that if officer of the State could not maintain
himself upon his salary and his private means he
should resign.