Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-11-02
a Little of Everything.

Christmas comes Sunday this year
Get your turkey ready for Thanksgiving
The needlc-woman's exclamatic cn-a-hem
A very difficult thing to remembsr-the poor
Is it wrong to take ary one in when it rains?
Love ia an internal transport. SO is a canal
boat.
Don't light fires with coal oil. 1t is very dan
gerous.
A good rule-b,ck your friends and fsce your
enemies.
Business men that advertise get the cream Of
the trade.
The most useful thing, after all, in the ''l0ng
rum is breath.
How to take ink out OF Iinen-jerk our devil
out of his shirt.
The tobacco chewer is like . goose in a dutch
oven-aIways the spit.
Blowing your own horn" cannot be classed
under the head of modesty.
While some ladies lace their waists tight, some
gentlemen get tight all over.
When good man dies the tears are shed which
he in life prevented from flowing.
Look out for counterfeit SIS on the Farmers
| Bank of Reading. They afoat.
The MormOns predict civil war between them
and the United States within year.
Grapes are now so abundant in some parts Of
the that they are sold by the ton.
| Some girls are like old muskets; they use
good deal of powder, but won't go off.
4 Maryland paper notices that kerosene is
very popular hair oil'' in that section.
Hops, in the country, on poles, but atfash-
ionable parties they spread on the floor.
girl of the tender age of ffty-two is among
the students of the Michigan University
New York city, according to the corrected cen
sus figures; contains 926 .9lO inhabitants.
! married lothario of eighty has eloped with
deluded maiden of fourteen in Minnesota
| Charleston, S c., has population of 4S,i3l.
! In 1860 it had 50 522. fact worth noting.
western editor says he is 'pained to hear that
dear friend of his has just gone tie heaven"
| Apothecaries should be careful in eompounding
| prescriptions, and physicians in writing them.
| Olive Logan says she will remove the myste
ries that surround girls" Oh, good gracious.
| dog is said to be biped when his tail curls
SO tight that it lifts his hind legs off the ground
| Philadelphia has population of 1873, an
increase of 81 .75O since 1851, about l6 20 per
cent.
Troy brute beat his wife's face with his fist.
! and then said nc .'onIy putting in some dim
pies"
! The man who would keep his head cool should
not put stove pipe 1t. Young swells, take
notice.
revenue collector in Missouri recently tried to
collect fifty cents head in ball rOom-the tax
on hops.
It was woman, perhaps who srst tempted ms
| TO eat but he took to drink on his own account
afterwards
| What is home withou: mother?'' said young
girl the other day she sent the old lady out to
chop wood
The Y. World says: Having successfully
invaded all branches, women now want to take
the stump"
What nuisance that word ''If is; it stands
in the way like the danger signal of railroad,
and stops everything.
friend of oura describing the dress worn by a
young lady up street, says, lit busts open at the
top and foams over"
Wendell Phillips says tarring and festhering''
can be traced to the Crusades. Why did it not
continue Lost Art?''
Fond parents around town are engaged in fix
ing up the front gates that were damaged during
the summer sparkling campaign.
An echange says An Indiana attorney went
quail hunting and killed $500 worth of pointer
dog. lie made that dog quail though.
! How much better it would be for boys to be
storing up usefu! knowledge at home these long
evenings, than to be running about the streets.
! 'Names nothing according to an old saw
bat call any of your lady friends perfect fright
and see the style of nothing you get in return.
! The Philadelphia Press says: 1T is a sad COM
mentary on French vivaety that news can be
trusted unless it bear the mark of erman origin. :"
The first coin made in the Philadelphia Mint
was the copper cent in 1898. The first silver dol
lar made in 1898, and the first gold eagle in
| 1895.
4 Louisville merchant has sworn off. Last week
he dccanted the last of a barrel of whisk-y ana
found in the bottom two plugs of tobacco and six
rats.
Texan began to think that possibly his pres
snce might be obnoxious to his neshbo when
they tarred and feathered and threatened to hang
him.
The largest bill ever drawn any bank in tn
world drawn on the Bank of England during
the war of 1912, and amounted to FIVE million
dollars.
sheriff in Minnesota last week, performed the
very dIsagreeable duty OF arresting his son
and lodging him in prison fer numbering prom
inent citizen.
Sawdust pills, says an old physician, would ef
fectually cure many of the diseases with which
mankind is afflicted, if every patient would make
his own saw dust.
physician of Valparaiso. Indiana, was out
seventeen nights in succession attending to Late
arrivals An anxious desire is now m anifested
for the census man to come back.
The plan of the Democrats is to abuse the mem
bcrs like pickpockets if they remain in the Cabi-
net, and TO accuse the President of more crimes
than the decalogue mentions if they quit it.
Charles 5. Swan has been expelled from the o.
nondaga New York; Democratic County Commit
tee for having accepted a nomination for the As
sembly from the Labor Reform organization.
EastTennessee woman stopped railroad
train BY waving red flag and wanted to know
OF the conductor if .Sairey Melvina Thompson