Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-07-20
A Little Of Everything.

Michiganaer died il the act of pulling on a
tight boot.
$4,000 hogshsads is the estimated crop of Ken
lucky tobacco
| There are Eve American conyicts in German
/ penitentiaries
! Fifty-ons Mormons have rec antsd and are going
back to England
! 20 pound trout are among the attractions at
Lake Winnipiseogee.
| Nine cents per pound for choice cuts is the price
Of beef in RushviIls, Illinois
/ fwo-dollar bill, on which is written adver-
tisement for wife, is il circulation.
Spain claims population of 100000, forty
| three thousand of whom are clergymen
Rumor states that Senator sprague means to
employ Chinese labor in his cotton mills.
! Strawberries in California said to be SO
large that they plug them to see if they ripe.
/ Chicago youth has committed his father to
the House of Refuge ungovernable and vicious.
Enouye, a japanese youth, stands at the head
of the list of scholars of the Worcester. Mass,
schools.
1t cost England So 100000 to maintain Gi5ral
tar during lS83-59, and - o70,Oo0 was expended
/ in Malta.
An investigator has just discovered that rheu-
matte liniment is almost invariably purchased on
joint account.
= Nevada judge, the other day, fined him self
fvedolars for being lata-problbIT for tho ben
eft of the court.
New York lady received among her wedding
presents three sewing machines, ak large family
Bibles and ten ice pitchers.
The Eighth Internal Revenue District, which is
made up Of portion Of the city of New York,
/ paid last year S2,457 .3l2 OF income tax
A corresp spondent wants to know what has become
of all those shopkeepers who sometime age were
anxious to give their customers silver change.
Happy the man who free from care, findeth
his wifo content to wear the dresses sac last sea-
son toughtaud this year troubles him for nausht.
man in Albany bought of land three
years ago for $50, and during the present season
has netted 100 for Tie strawberries raised on it
1t is estimated that there were 80 .OsO Chimes,
this country the first of January, 1870; l5.Oas
of whom are already cas: Of the Rocky Noun
tains
It is generally conceded by both Democratic
and Republican journals that Illinois has now
the best Constitution OF any Of the States Of tbs
Sion
The most eminent physicians in Paris declare
that all the children of Prince Napoleon. being
serofulous to a high degree are bouLd to die
early day.
The widow CT workman who was killed in
Colt armory while testing ordered by the
Gear, has been pensionel fo1 life By the Russian
government.
man living in Boston Highlands, by suspend
ing small silver bell the neck of his cat, pre-
vents, by the sound that household pet from &C.
strcying the birds in his garden.
The Indiana Republicans are now closing up
tho payment of debt OF Sl3, ,eoo,0OO which the
Democracy ssdded upon the State whilo they
had possession of its government.
The Russian army is soon to be reviewed, and
for that purpose is to be mustered inte thirty -four
camps in variaus partr Of the empire At Warsaw
alone o7er So OJo men will be in camp.
man is now in the York county jail who was
committed over nine years ago for contempt of
court. During all this time he has refused to an
swer simple question put to him by the Judge
In the GAINESVILLE Ohio public schools there arc
forty six principals and teaeh rs,
and of this number forty-two are ladies and four
gentleman How will this dofsr woman's rights (?
Rather a disreputabls place of resort-a certain
shanty the river bank The persons who al
most nightly, congrogate there we presume would
hardly wish their doings to be made public Eh {?
An Irish girl wko pluned herself on being en-
/ p!oyed in 'genteel family" was asked deGni-
ton Of the term. Where they have two or three
kinds of wine and the gentlemen swear, was the
reply.
Arthur Helps sa-s There Is a secret belief
amongst some men that G cd is dispIeased with
ms happiness and in consequence they stink
about creation ashamed and afraid to eEjoy any
thing"
lawyer called on a Kentucky editor and told
him he must retract some uncomplimentary words
or fght. There was retracton, but when the
lawyer left the off;e his eyes were black and his
nose bloody.
Five thousand heases are said TO be "te let -
in Philadelphis They all of the better class
From. the way things look, the owners Of real
estate have been p+iing too many feathers upon
the back of the camel.
An editor who has been spending fortni ght in
the White Mountains, says he has enjoyed him
self very much, having fallen INTO six rivers
spraiuei his ankle, skinned his face and neck,
and broken three ribs the first nine days.
The bones of twelve hundred Chinese have
reached San Francisco on their way back to China
for interment, They we're picked up along the
line of the Central Pacific Railroad and are all
that remains of twelve hundred Chinese Iaborers.
an Alexandria Cva.) rufian the other day see
ing two little negro girl' the opposite side Of
the street, exclaimed well I'll Kill nigger,"
and picking up Z stone threw it with fatal aim,
striking of the children, who died in two
hours.
The census takers in different parts Of the
country are collecting; some very curious informa-
ton. They find that the highest age attained by
unmarried women is twenty-six years. 1t is well
to have the point at which they cease growing
older definitely fixed.
The Hon. Hiram Appleton, of Mystic, Conn.,re-
Gently forwarded a letter to Il neighborins town,
requesting the postmaster to "deliver it to any
respectable Attorney After ten days it was re
turned with the significant endorsement, None
here" Happy place.
Ling Wan is the name of Chinese doctor who |
adverti.es in the New York Tribune to cure every |
disease by three hundred remarkable Chinese |