Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-05-18
A Little of Everything.

One miiiion acres of wheat ianus ehiioh N"iiioI-
MIA.
japanese rabbit is San Francisco dainty. 1t
is baked rat
Can't call his sole his Own-the man who owes
for his boots
Woman's best gift to mana clean shirt with
the buttons all on it.
Altoona has l57 retail dealers who pay licenses
varying from 81 to $40
0ccurred-sevoral fires recently, in Altoona
The work ofincendiaries
Should be noted-the changes in the Railroad
Schedule. Send them on Daniel
Gypsies are hanping around Rhode Island and
Sprague's afraid they will steal it.
The only thing that troubles 'gen tie Anna is
that alas! she's not gentleman, an
The green postage stamps are like high-spirited
boys They should be licked cautiously.
The Boston Post says that California fruit pros
poets are pleasing, and only man is vile.
The Schoeppe case was again under revision in
the Supreme Court, at Harrisburg, last week.
Centre county's agricultural fair will be held
on the 4th, 5th 9th and 7th days of October next
George Baker, of Carroll county, Mo, killed
FIVE hundred and eight snakes in piowing an
eighty acre field.
The Lewstown Gazrtte boasts specimen of
hen fruit measuring leHx7J inches and weighing
half pound strong
When Sheridan's troops capture an Indian
camp, the soldiers secure the loose sealps to send
East for chignons
Two Tennessee rufians shot three men last
week and the citizens forced the Jail and hung
them the night.
The leaders of the Fenians call themselves,
Centers, perhaps, because they scent the battle
afar off-very far off
French farmer has just dug up box of gold
eoin-8oO OO0 fran cs-sup posed 10 have been bur
led in the first revolution.
A New York Judge couldn't see what three
thieves wanted with seven and half pairs of
Shoes so he committed them.
a New York lazy goes to Paris yearly and eS
pends $3.50 to be enamelled But it saves her the
trouble and expense of washing.
A fashionable clergyman in Philadelphia re-
Gently referred, in aristocratic mann er to the
transformation of Lots wife into a saline statue
Secretary Boutwell, in unofficial conversa-
ton is said to have expressed the intention to
fund some twelve millions more of the public debt
this month.
! Two Kentucky sportsnen lately shot eight hun
| dred ducks in nine days in Ballard county, and
sold them in Cairo, Illinois, fer hundred and
| eighty dollars
The Massachusetts, Lodge of Masons, of which
| General Joseph Warren was the first Grand Mas
/ ter celebrated its one hundredth anniversary on
| Thursday last
Peter Kaub, a worker in the Scranton rolling
mills was attacked and numerically beaten by a
gang of his late fellow workmen, because he
wouldn't strike.
man in New Hampshire the other day ate
fifteen dozen raw oysters a wager. The silver
| trimmings alone on his coffin cost twelve dollars
and thirty-ive cents
resident of Kansas writes to intending emi-
grants that they must expect to have six months
shaking with the ngue to begin with, after which
they will be healthy
! An Omaha damsel is subject to fits of sonambu-
lism, during which she gets up, saddles her horse
and gallops it through the streets, where she has
been taken fer ghost.
Tt reported that the New York liquor dealers
contributed SI2 zoe toward the election of Gov
ernor English, in Connecticut expecting thereby
to secure liberal license law.
While female suffrage is advancing g in England
| it is retrograding here. The United States Sen
ate has refused to make the experiment of uni
versal suffrage in the District of Columbia.
The Indianapolis Jowynal of the 9th says: at
| is generally conceded by the State papers that
the wheat crop, Notwithstanding the effort OF
croakers viii be fully up to the average, if not
little in advance.
AN exchange says our beautiful May has caught
colds mad about it-has put gloomy looks
and sour visage, and is generally out Of humor
with herself. whate, er else she does, we hope
she will dry up
Commenced to shine-the Altoona Daily SIN.
last week Itpresents very bright appearance
is got up in good taste and edited with consider
able ability. We wish the ProPrietors success in
their enterprise.
The GAINESVILLE Courier says Mr.. John Welsh
of Falls township, sold two fine steers which
wei ghed 1874 pounds. The price he received
was $3.50 81. These were the largest and finest
cattle remember to have seen
The bill which passed the House some time ago
to give soldiers artificial limbs or the cost of the
same in money, was amended by the Committe so
as to allow them the artificial limbs every five
years. but not the allowances in money.
The latest intoxicating fluid out is made in
Tennessee of sweet potatoes Practical expert
mentors say it goes farther, lasts longer, and
makes quicker and more enduring fuddle than
any tber liquid lightning now in use
Some fashionable ladies in Hartford having
applied to surgeon to repair their feet, distorted
by wearing tho high hesled shoes Of the period,
the Detroit Tribune advises them to go to some
wood turner and have their heads repaired
II we can credit the Cincinnati Itmes the eT-
| citing question out West is, whether Sauls-
bury, Chandler Dick Yates, Frank Blair, or A. J.
shall be selected to lead the Big Hsrn expedi-
ton. If rumor don't lie about them either
would fill the post credtably.
The latest reliable news from Washington is to
the effect that material change has taken place
in the views of General Grant and bis Cabinet on
the Senate funding Bill. 1t is stated that Gene
raj Grant is in favor of continuing the purchasing
of bonds by the Government to the full extent Of
| the surplus in the Treasury.
| Says the Rochester Union: The water on Lake
| Ontario has been rising steadily for month past