Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-02-16
A Little of Everything.

! aedin Penaity.
Texas is enjoyin, ripe strawberries four inch
/ es in circumference
Troubles are like dogs-the smaller they are
the more they annoy you.
! Grand Jnnction, Iowa, has presented her first
native citizen, girl with a corner lot.
Senator Sprague has been in his seat in the
| Senate but once during the present session.
The house in Bond street, New York where Dr
Burdell was murdered, is still untenanted.
The latest fashion among young ladies is to Sc
lect suits that will match the color of their hair
They are cutting ice sixteen inches thick anf
clear as crystal the Penobscot river, in Maine.
Albany suspects that tallow is principal in
gredient in the butter used in Of its restau
rants.
The clerk of the Alabama Senate managed to
get 500 errors of spelling into enc bill few days
! since.
Josh Billings says s.If a man hsin't got we'll
balanced head like tew him part his hair
in the middle"
At Fox Lake, Wisconsin, old man ''who has
got drunk for eig Lty-six years, recently became
convert to Temperance.
The New York Express says. the Board of
Health of that city is called Bureau. because it
has so many drawers o. heavy salaries
| During the past year death has taken away &c.
teen members of the reigning royal houses of Eu-
| rope. against fifteen members in 1859.
! An astronomer predicts for this yesr a c,m,t of
such briiliancy and so the earth, that our
nights will be almost bright as our days.
The Utah Gentiles assert that no sincere female
advocate of polygamy can be found in the terito
ry who is not old enough to be grandmother
| The bridal presents at resent wei ling in
! Washington, Davis county. Indiana, consisted of
| q dimes worth of candy and plug of tohaccp
| A Clergyman who moved from San Francisco
to Philadelphia, on account of Its superior NOR
al tone'' had his overcoat stolen while preachi ing
/ there
An escaped convict in Ohio voluntarily rsturl
ed the other day, having concluded that actual
Imprisonment preferable to continual fear of
| arrest.
Under n big rock in Jasper county, Indiana,
last week, some woikmen found and killed two
hundred and sixteen snakes, of all the varieties
| known in that part of the country.
One Of the Governors of New Hampshire made
| ii rule to consider petition for the pardon
of a convict in he State prison, until he had serv-
ed out half the term tor which be was sentenced
Since the Supreme Court decision Chicago has
| figured up it's gold debt and finds that it a
mounts to S2.96i ,662. the interest am bunting to
sI93000, which will hereafter have to be paid in
| coin.
One of the qualifications of Jimmy Gallagher,a
candidate for Off .e in Memphis is that 'his fore
head extends to the gable end of his neck" This
means that the man is barefooted on the top of
his head
A young girl of ST Petersburg murdercl her
lover the other day, and packed his body in
trunk. and sent it by express to his parents at
Moscow, completing her barbarity by marking it
/ C o. d.
Minnesota maintains her proud position IA one
of the most prolific States. At recent dance
near Rounu Prairie, in Todd county forty one
babies were present, belonging to families within
n radius of two miles.
| Some of the western cities are utterly insol-
vent Galena, Illinois. cannot pay the interest
on its debt of $500 900 and the valuation of prop
erty, which il 1876 S2,2I2675, is less
than half million of dollars.
young gentleman. at Ch rries City, Iowa,
J
a method of writing without ren or ink. lie re-
ceived the following inscription, in large type,
! on card Write with pencil"
An extraordinary affair recently occurred in
| Bre.cla, Italy. Two boys caught mouse which
! they bathed in kerosene oil. and then set fire to
It, The frightened animal bit both boys
verely that they died within three days.
A Chicago ex Alderman about to take a trip
to San Francisco had presentiment of approach
! ing i'll fortune, and insured his life for So 900
! He was killed by accident to the Union Pacific
| express train some miles west of Omaha.
| Somebody in Keokuk. Iowa, accusing Mrs.
| Stanton of blunderns in her grammar, that in
domitabe woman replied "That is nothing !;
we women have TO hand in making these gram
| mars zen to one they are all wrong
! St. Johns Masonic Lodge, No. 3, of Glasgow,
/ Scotland, lately celebrated the eight hundred and
twelfth anniversary oft. existence. 1t was found
ed by King Malcom in the year 1853, nine years
previous to the Norman conquest of England
Some unruly boys awak ened sleepy sexton at
n prayer meeting iu Maine town. IA few nights
ago, by their untimely noise, and starting mp, he
exclaimed, the dismay of the assembled wor-
clippers, Maria, Maria, get up-its time to
/ get breakfast ~
Some idea of what the liquor trade of the Uni
ted States amounts to may be gained from the
fact that on the lst of December last, there were
in bond throughout the country, IL, ,402,541 gal
lons-cnough to make good sized lake Ana
this is exclusive of grape, apple and peach bran
dy.
The Providence Journal says: "Late hours
and the other things that go with hem, are de-
sired by fashion. and that IT is the end OF 1t
There is no use talking about it, Health com
4 fort, character and morals of no account. We
must do as other people do, or be content to be
nobody
Reports from Fort Benton say that the Indians
on Maria's riN dying at the rate OF twenty
five day of smallpox 1t is said that they are
begging the whites to spare their lives but If the
'pox is so rampant among them we should
think the whites would not come close enough to
trouble them.
The New York EOsnisg Post his Washing
ton dispatch making the announcement that ''i'
is the intention of General Negley, as soon as an
opportunity is afforded, to make an attack IN the
House on West Point alleging that its further
continuance is unnecessary. and needless ex-