Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-08-31
A Little of Everything.


Hunting i, reported good in this region, but no |
game.
Jox says he prefers rolls in bed to rolls for
breakfast
San Francisco has child three ears old, weigh
ing 90 pounds.
Brigham Young /, the host of William H. Sew
ard at Salt Lake.
The tobacco crop of the west is said to be some
what unfavorabls
Four good habits-punctuality accuracy, stead
mess and dispatch.
Maltese cats, in Indiana, are trained to fight
black snakes and like it.
Boston has a wandering street merchant, who
| sells 'lobsters and maps
The cricket's lively chirp gives us the assurance
that autumn is near at hand.
Buffalo is said to be contemplating National
Asylu for Organ Grinders
1t is said that thore visiting Summer resorts
much afflicted with bill iousness
''Coae over to our house and see the bilious
| fever, is the Indiana .alutation
A Saratoga landlord rents a hammock on his
back piazza for three dollars a night.
Imagine more melancholy spectacle than a lot
of hens trying to roost en- ci othss line.
| The lovers of apples win rejoice that the crop
of this fruit is both large and of good quality.
| The ladies rganizins base ball clubs-and
ncxt year suppose they will have them here
Diamonds in the rosettss of her slippers are the
attractions of Saratoga be le's"twinklng feet"
The Memphis Fire Department turned out in
full force the other night to exiinguIsh the
borcalis.
| 1t is good sight to see the color of health up
a S face, but not to see it all concentrated
in his nose -
Lancaster county. Pa, official has sued anoth-
er for charging him with wearing woman kill
ing mustache.'
paper called the Magnolia Ho'rsr blossoms
in Arkansas, but the editor complains that it does
not make scent.
Warren, Pa. has twenty five hundred inhabi-
tants, an empty Jail, no paupers, no grOs shop
| and ,even churches.
Java grandee is coming to this country with
his eighty-one children and wants to secure board
iu some quiet family.
man Down torn took drink from bottle of
rucilage the other day. lie says he has felt
stuck up ever since.
The machinery for a large shoe manufacturing
establishment was recently shipped from the Uni
ted States to Switzsrlaad
Bridget F. gan lost her voice at Fayette Springs
from sleeping in a damp Her husband has
never enjoyed more peace
The waiter girls at the Profile House, Whit.
mers of the neighborhood.
The southern cotton growers want to colonize
| the English sparrovs there TO fight the insects
| that injure the cotton crop.
New York man has just got patent for a
sash holder. Tbs best sash holder" weever tri-
ed pretty girl s waist
New Yorker is said to have imported two
thousand dollars worth of Irish swaIlows-prob
ably meani ng peat whisksy.
Daily bulletins are issued concerning the
| health of the race hors. Lady Therne. she is as
| anxously pursed a queen.
man in Kansas made a corn crib of himself
10 the extent of twenty seven ears, boiled. 1he
| coroner has charge of his effects
The German ladies of st Louis will shortly hold
grand fair the proceeds to be devoted 10 the
/ lief of wounded German soldiers.
Always do as the doe.-look at the bright
side of everything For, while it is just cheap
it is three times as good for digestion.
Hoop skirts have had their day and are dwin-
ding away to nothing in their old age Report
says we are to know them not this winter.
Now and then they cat off the ears of thief IN
! Oregon, and then telegraph east that the crops
were never better than they are this season.
New Haven Temperance Convention got away
with thirty thousand glasses OF beer, and
twenty thousand bottles of soda in two days.
A .dose of Iowa whiskey killed a water snake a
foot long, which had slipped down the throat of
| farmer while he was drinking from the river
In the head lines to the Colum bus dispatch of
the Cincinnati Gaz'tte find this significant
com bination Dem ocrats in Council Safe Blown
OPEN
It is reported that the fall fashion for ladies'
hats will be funnel arrangement With the sm a IL
end behind. The idea, We understand, is brought
from China.
New Hampshire paper expects its Celtic
readers to excuse its reference to the suicide of
'colored Irishman," when it intended to say
Concord Irishmau.
We are ready to believe in almost any mon
strosity now days. The Wrinkle is a de-
cree that stockings to go out of fashion for
ladies' street wsar,and that bare feet and sandals
to be substituted.
Train has sailed for Cuba and shippers on the
sarne steans omitted to insure as usual The one
absolutely certain thing about George Francis
Train is that he always gets back.
Under the head of births, the Concord, New
Hampshire, Statesman, publishes the following
In Washington, ID. C , July IL, to II. and Em-
ma Morrison, two and a daughter
The Boston Post says til at it was once said CT
Boston none yDfendsr tn at he kept the trunk con-
tanning his securities the head of his bed,
and lay awake to hear them draw interest.
a lady who wished some stuffing from a duck
which gentleman carving at public table
requested him to transfer from the decease d fowl
to ter plate some of its ayfifcial iats,trnes.
young lady at Long Branch said the other
day. 81 think l have lost at least half dozen
husbands by putting on bathing dress and I'll
never do it again until my married future is So
cure"
Gen. Walker snyskc will have the census fig
in hand by October l. and thatthe total will
be about Al ,5o0.s 200. He viii have the figures of