Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-09-07
A Little of Everything.

The best cosmetic is clear Conscience
) Philadelphians talk sons of a reform party.
NOwis the time to buy cheap clOthing-for next
summer.
The Almanac men say that this month will be
cool and wet.
September, being blessed with m R. opens the
oyster season
They are having white frests and ice in some
parts of Maine.
yarn in company generally indicates gap
in the conversation
The division into two of the present State of
California is spoken Of
Undertakers ssid lobe a mean set, always
wanting to screw you down
Beaver county boasts of pumpkin vine Sc feet
long and still lengthening.
Fourteen thousand three hundred and twenty
one Colonies inhabt Colorado.
Grocers who trust too much for their pay
green grocers in a double sense.
Pittsburgh highwaymen wear masks over their
faces and carry six-barrelled revOlvsrs.
"Who will care for mother now?" has beon
translated into both French and Prussian
Bismarck beer is for sale in the lager saloons
The Napoleon bier is, yet unnecessary.
1t needs woman TO get Bazaine out of his pris
on at Metz. An irresistible Sally could do it.
The customs receipts for August were sl5,645,-
265. increase of ST. ,325. .357 over August, 1869
A white gentleman in Altoona COW
hided one night last week, for insulting color
ed damsel-
1t is great fun to get in an upper window in
San Francisco and spit tobacco upon Chiaapsen as
they pass.
Setting man trap is the title given to pic
ture of pretty young lady arranging her curls
at mirror
The territory tributary to the head of Lake
Superior would make thirty FIVE States large
as New York.
The Portland AdU,rt,sey takes time by the fore
lock and nominat,s Chief Justice Chase for P-esi-
dent in 1872
An ardant admirer of the President has been
discovered in Ohio who named his only daughter
Ulysses Grant
MifIlin county contributed six TO the number of
inmates in the Eastern Penitentiary at a recent
session of its court.
There is out west who has such good
temper that he hires himself ou. in the summer
tie keep people cool.
A Huntington county grape grover named
Hooker has grapes three inches in circumference.
So says the M0aitor.
Down at Mariha's Vineyard they have citizen
who recently inquired: which side is Napoleon
on sir; on the Prus,ial
Three citizens of Jersey Mills, Lycoming coun-
ty- have killed thirty FIVE rattl=snakcs in that To-
cality during The summer.
Crawford county is emulatins Chicago. Over
twenty applications for divorce are to be acted
upon at its next term of court.
zen. M'ClelIan's various salaries are said to net
him ap income of $4,000 year-equai to two
Presidents of the United States.
The New York IV.yEd is not morally rospon.i-
BILE surely when it the British policy in India
isProtsction to native Hindoostry.
1t is reported that the New York Ttt5pme is
having Mr. Greeey's old editorial manuscripts
engraved maps of the seat of war.
Young lady physicians are multiplying rapidly
throughout the country. and consequently young
men are more sckly than they used to be.
Loafers do not toll, neither do thsy spin but
they manage ts keep BODY and soul together
without working, which is very fine art.
Professor Cox says that steel can be made out
of Indiana pig iron by Bes.emer process for
which English pig is now ssed exclusively.
To show their superiority to the Chinese some
Of the fairer portion of creation now wearing
two pigtails, while the celestials sport but one.
Is there any necessity for holding up tree. at
night? We saw an individual trying it on Non
day night and it was all he could 10 to manage it
Broad square toed shoes have come in again in
New York, and an exchange says the abomina al le
narrow corn cultivators will be regretted by no
one.
Soldiers discharged by roasen of being rendered
supernumerary by the consolidation of regi ne L is
arc lot entitled to bounty unless they served two
years.
A Kentucky bride, married three years and
eight months ago. has since presented her lord
with three sons and two daughters, delivered in
three lots.
1t looks as if the population of Philadelphia
would not be far from nine hundred thousand
souls, and that New York will not greatly exceed
this figure.
western editor demeralized by the heat, says
that at nirety-eight degrees in the afternoon the
| thermo ometer indicated twenty-five minutes past
| two o'clock.
| The census-taker in Fulton county, Illinois
reports finding family consisting of seven per
sons, of whom the eldest 100 years of age and
the youngest SO
Tbs San Francisco papers begin to indulge in
| the hope that the war between France and Ger
many will be the m msans ofcreating active de-
mand for California wines.
As Harrisburg convict was leaving the court
room, after being sentenced to the penitentarya a
| little daughter who had been sitting him af-
fGctionately cried out, "Geod by. papa"
Mormon has invented machine TO destroy
grasshoppers. It only mod ifcatisn of a wiring
| ing machine between the rollers of which he in
duces the insects to bop and be squeezed.
| The woman who is Ill years old and does her
own ooking has been discovered by six different
census takers in as many different counties in
three different States Sho seems to be lively
traveller for one of her age
Some old fogies arc trying to make the ladies
believe that wearing low necked dresses produces
sore throat. Don't you believe it girls; it's all
! humbug. gotten up by the old fellows who are
! angry hecause THAR ia