Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-10-12
A Little of Everything.
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Backgamnon-a lady's waterfall
Every business man should advertise.
The Princess of Prussia makes her own dresses
They have been successful in raising tea in
Georgia.
Erie has Is 742 inhabitants an increase of s,4l9
since 1879
The best thing to give to the poOr-give them
employment.
Baptism by moonlight is one of the latest nov
elites out west.
The inhabitants of New Jersey are happy
picking their cranberries.
All our job work is warranted to give sntisfac-
tion. Send in your orders
! raft of one million feet Of lumber passed CO.
lumbia, Ky, the other day.
! Pnnchinollo calls cutting ones throat with
scythe new mowediof suicide"
"will my old overcoat serve M another winter"
is the question just now with many.
The number of Jews serving in the Ger man
/ armies amounts to upward Of $4,000
Ten counties of Illinois have more than doubled
! their population during the last decade.
| In Dresden the American ladies have Sewing
Society for the benefit of wounded soldiers
| The New York Commercial translates the Good
Templars' Il. 0. G.. t. Il Only Get Tight"
The railroads of this country are said to
$50 600 of good timber every year for sleep
ers.
The equinoctial storm this year travelled thro
| the State of Minnesota at the rate of 200 miles
! day
| Newport couple have jIst celebrated their
pearl wedding, having been married for seventy
years.
| Some twenty Cinnamon went to Mexico to gath
! er oysters, but the people there warned them
away.
| North Carolina girl shot herself the other
day, because her mother wouldn't let her go to a
picnic
| In Winchester, Indiana, bell is tolled every
half hour as a signal for the people to take their
quinine.
Somebody has discovered that in forty years a
snuff taker devotes twenty -four months to blowing
his
Murders in Denver are now forbidden by mu
nicipaI ordinance, the ground that they OBJ
struct the sidewalk.
The public debt was reduced over s9,ooo,OeO
last month. A heavier slice will be taken of
| this month, it is said.
Wyoming nominee in the late election was
defeated by the opposition candidate, who hap
peued to be his own wife
| A noted engineer in Glasgow, Scotland, has
| made steam engine so small that it can be COW
cred with lady's thimble.
man having been killed in New York by a
blow from a spade, contemporary heads its ac-
count, 'Shoveled to death"
Texan ladies who feel aggrieved by anything
in the papers, go to the Office and smear the edi-
tors face with printing ink
A sweet potato, weis ching sixteen pounds, has
been laid upon the table of an editor out west
A whop. .,er-the potato, we mean.
Bear. are ravaging the oat ieIdsin osgood and
Templetou, Canada, the late fires in the woods
having drivon lem from their runs.
TheI storm has done much damage in Vir-
| pinia. Many lives have been lost and much
property destroyed by the raging waters
A new Republican paper styled the State jour
nal has been established in Harrisburg. 1t is
lively in style and lovely in appearance.
In Decatur county, Ind Mrs. g. A Crosby acts
al constable. Her husband is justice Of the peace.
The New York Trfbane is next year to build
itself magnificent office, the site of the
present one.
! John Allen, once ephemeralIy notorious a, the
wickedest man in New York, is dead. We do not
know if he be the wick edest in his present
sphere or not.
In Trenton a petrifed cat has been found under
| the floor of a church vestry. She probably
starved to death while looking for church mice,
which were proverbially poor
| The wcalthiest people in the world the
Osages. The tribe numbers 5000, and have, after
all expenses paid. 100 acres of choice land
per capita and ST, 600 in money,
I'll commit you as a nuisance, !" said polico-
man to n noisy loafer day two since. mo
| one has a right to commit nuisance" was the
| apt reply, and the fellow moved on.
contemporary says that to prevent having a
red nose in winter, good remedy is to baths tho
face in ice water before going out, and to keep
| the mouth shut for five minutes after going into
| the open air.
The Strasburg cathedral is not seriously harm
ed. The rosf of the nave is burned. and the
windows pierced by shot; the spire has been
struck in several places; but the interior is al
most untouched.
The most fashionable marriages now a days
the simplest. Several have occurred lately
| in which there neither bridesmaids nor
groomsmen. cards, receptions, or display. The
fashion is one of the most sensible of modern
| times.
''Pere Hyacinthe is going to marry that Amer
lean lady whom he converted to Catholicism, and
who has lately modelled striking medallion Of
his handsome, stolid face" So says Rochester
paper If the rumor is true the lady's name is
| Merriman, aud she lives in Bucyrus, Ohio.
At Hartford is being burnt at present the lar
gc.t brick kiln that has ever been burned in this
country. 1t contains one million of brick, and
the whole enormous mass is now wrapped in
flames 1t is said that the burning Of this kiln
will require hundred and fifty cords of
| wood