Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-11-30
A Little of Everything.


Our imp has been electrified with gai-vanic
battery. Poor devil,
Wendell Phillips is known in Boston as the
ssreckless rhetorician"
A woman's answer to Mrs. Stanton's"Why Not
Iecture-"oh, because"
LouiEville, an Elysian town in Oregon. has but
three female inhabitants
Fashionable seighs, with seat in the rear for
lackSy, will be introduced.
A daily newspaper at Rome, Georgia,w wants two
apprentices regardless of sex.
They are getting up another hue and cry in New
York against ''stump-taiI milk"
| Lincoln, Nebraska, has struck a pickle we'll
which flows two barrels per minute.
| man at wilkesbarre worth $40. 900. refused
| to pay his poor tax and went to Jail.
| Western woman advcrtises that she will not
be answerabe for her husbands debts.
Two English earls stopping at New York
hotel nd have fifty clean shirts apiece.
An Iowa court has decided that a woman
sue her husband for money borrowed Of her.
A man in Boston is SO short that whom he is i'll
he doesn't know whe ether he has headache or corns
charming girl in Covington, Ky. last weet,
giggled to the extent of dislocating her lower
jaw.
An Owen county Kentuckian has won admira-
tioD by marrying his girl when she Wasful of the
measles.
1t is often pretty good matrim onial firm that
consists of three quarters wife and ono quarter
husband.
Keep out of bad company, for the chance is that
when the devil fires into the flock he will hit
somebody.
Cincinnati mourns the loss by suicide of the
German who started the first lager beer saloon in
that city.
Mr. Henry Guiterman. of Port Carbon, Sehuy-
kill county, has raised II lemons which weighed
seven pounds.
"Unsasy lies the head that wears a crown"
without crown.
Russia, Austria. Italy, Spain, France and the
United States now have legal tender paper with
forced circulation.
Mt JOY. Pa claims the champion mean man in
the State. He stole tho cabbage from the Soldiers
Home in that place.
Chicagoian plying the missries of bachel-
ordom, has invented method Of wearing Panta-
looms with out buttons.
"Another fragrant fiction impaIsd upon the fork
of truth - is considered Improvement on
Another lie nailed-''
Scranton has SO Smiths and 60 Browns in the
City Directory for 1870. There are 10 of each
whose names are John.
Seventy five bushels of apples, of fair quality,
were sold at asction few drys since, in Grafton
, Vt. cent n bushel.
{ youth respectfully connected at Chicago and
no yet seventeen years of age, recently died from
the eff ects. of excessive drinking.
n2ss Resvy 16s 6ss q II ffesset fes fs FILM FIJI snd
small sized fat iron to take enc up.
The spectacle of a driving a twe-horse
team with tive black bears and COW chained be
hind, enIivered western city, recently.
; An Albany undertaken sports a dashing s. ,7Oe
hearse 1t is aristocratic vehicle. but thu PEG
pie who ride in it have ceased to be proud.
The population of the town of Salem, Conn al
though destitute of village doctor, lawyer OIL
minister, has decreased one half sin,e $50.
Tbere will be ffty-three Sundays in the year
1871, the year beginning and ending Sunday
1t ought to be good year and happy ono.
Power to do good is the best money. You car
spend it just as freely as you choose 1t never
makes either drunksrds, criminals paupers
Bachelors in th is section should make note OF
the fact that Harrisburg contains 6S5 more fem ale
than male residents No wonder it is capital
city.
Tunkhannock, since tho terrible conaagration
a t that place short time ago, has totally inter.
die ted the construction of other than brick build
ings.
Never mind the obituary, judge, faid Mon
tana culprit whom the court became pathetic in
pronouncing the sentence. Lets * the time for
the funeral"
An exchange gets eft the following: Harris
burg has scholars in her public sch ools th
she has voters Reason, the Legislature meets
there annually
An Ohio widow was requested by the aristocrat
ic rel iatires of the dear departed to give fslso
name when she won. out washing, so as not to
disgrace the family.
Stocking suspenders are a new article for Ia
dies wear just coming into use and they re-
garded a valuable substitute fer the barbarous
and injuriou. garter.
Miss Susan B. Anthony has been speaking .
good deal lately, and has caught what is called
able, however, to catch tho minister.
A large ball for little children, is.taiked of in
Now York Don't need to 60 to so much trouble.
Come to Clesrfeld and the little ones will give
you tho largest kind of ''bsnl,'' gratis
At Holyoke Mass a man was stealing wood,
when he tied it up with rope and '!ung it on
his back. The wood slipped and the rope got
caught around his eek, choking him to death
If you desire to your wife look handsome,
to ave a crimson IN antled cheek, eye of Are and
flow of speech get the photograph of a female
and lot it in your pocket until your wife sees it,
The Chinese aqueer people to go to market.
A friend at San Francisco writes that neighbor
of his has just laid in his winters provisions-a
nd-quarter of horse and two barrels of bull
dogs.
An exchange, speak ing of Anna Dickinson,
says: "she appeared before her audience attired
in modest but rich necklace" Tho necklace
may have been modest. but Anna certainly
wasn't
Printers are we'll rep resented in the North Car
olina State Government There are no less than