Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-08-24
A Little of Everything.


The chestnut crop promises to be abundant this
fall.
Chickens sell for fifty cents pair in Harris
bari.
An Iowa man aptly advsrtises kerosene and
cofins.''
New coal discoveries arc reported in Tioga
county, Pa.
People are beginning to study the fall and win
ter fashions.
The population of Maine is about 5000 less tn an
it was in 1860.
There fifteen hundred men employed in the
navy yard at Philadelphia.
Each wooden log is but proof that the glories
of war have artificial end.
number of our young men are raising base
ball lmoustashss-there are just nine hairs In them
A New Orleans paper says At the theatre of
it is always the relatives and friends Of actors
who sit in tiers.
Two negro women severely chastised a man in
Kentucky the other day tecause he voted the
Democratic ticket
The New York Post thinks it shameful for Ma
poleon to leave Eugene an 90 to Nancy, seeking
another engagement.
Pierce Butte killed a snake near Uniontown re-
| Gently, which contained fifty nine other snakes,
each about half foot long.
Celery is becoming famous as a medicinal plant.
1t is now reeomms ended the best anti scrobutic
and blosd purifier that grows.
Some hungry individu got into Sheriff hove's
cellar one night last week and stole two loaves of
bread. How(el is that fer lowa
Smallpox has made its apps sarance in Wiscon-
sin. An entire family of seven died of it last
week in the town of Grscnville.
Brass instruments develope the eountenance.
There are some countenances around town that
have lively development Of brass
Perhaps the oldest horse in America is owned by
Clarke Stevens of Greene county, No. The ami
NAL viii be forty years old next spring.
Miss Edins Howard's idea of temperance is
tn at nj had better get drunk once straight
whiskey" than waste all day in doing it on beer.
woman lecturer says woman's sphere is
bounded north by her husband east by her baby,
south by hsr mother -in-law, and west BY maid
en- aunt
lsctrophotomicogrsphy" means the art of
ph otographing objects magnifed by the micro
scope, by the help of electrical light. A simple
little word.
young gentleman in Louisville is advertised
to marry a Breckinridge county belle in the Nam
moth Cave. This looks like running matrimsny
in the ground.
There is Minnesota editor who says the sol
out thers is fertile tia skulls planted in Spring
time will grow new teeth. Does the editor speak
from experience!
The crop of prairie chickens in Iowa is said to
be enormous this year. One man uhs went shoot
ing the other day was gone but eight hours and
killed 80 of these birds.
THERE'S man IL Pittsburgh who says he i, in
fallible, and hat he can foretell the fsture. He
declares that bs7ond doubt the world will be de-
stroysd by fire in the year 1915,
man in the interior of Kentucky has brought
suit against a neighbor for braising his shins.
II tho jury award damages they should order the
amount to be paid in shin-plastsrs.
Chillocoths, Ohio. allows no beer shop, barber
shop livery stable, drug store, any other estab
| lishment of the sort to be kept open Sunday
We suppose the churches are not closed however,
Kansas has the champion rattle-snaks of the
pan of milk at a single sitting. Kentucky has a
topper in training modate in his boots this
interesting reptile.
People can take cold in the hottest weather,
somewhat after the fash ion of the Irishman who
suffered from sleeping in a pasture with the bars
down. Some folks should do as they did in war
tiInes-avoid the draughts
The Uniontown Standard says During a th un-
dsr storm the 10th inst, the lightning struck
the chimney of Capt. Hagan's store, passed down
the stove pipe and killed his sos Lucien about
eighteen years of age, who va. at ths time rest
ing hi, feet on the stove hearth.
A Troy farmer went to town and kissed sno th or
mans wife, and her husband has sued the farmer
for Sl.o0s damagsz. The agriculturist thinks the
price tso high, and wants the woman to pay half,
she had much fun out of it as he had.
The latest thing in fashion to take the place
made vacant by the grecan bend. is the ''Boston
Dip" 1t is simply limp with the north foot. A
wsman with the Boston Dip acts though she
was fouudersd, or had gum-bile on her heel.
We heard lady remark to her husband the
other evening, on her return from a short visit,
that after all home the dearest spot on
earth &" Yes, that is so,' replied the unssnti
mental husband 1T costs a deuced sight to
keep il up
Juvenile eagerness and m msternal solicitude are
ski!fulIy blended in the following lines.
'-Nudder. may sch uimmin went ~
Nix my grossa dotta;
1 bet twice more as footy cent.
Dat you get drowned in voter"
A man named James Jason who WI az sentenced
to the STATES prison iu 1876, from Possy county
Indiana, returned to his former residence the
Soth ult., and found it occupied by his grandson
and great grand children At the time Jason
was sentenced twenty four years ago, he was fifty
two years old.
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