Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-03-02
A Little of Everything.


The Washington Patent Office has just issued
its 80 s99th patent
The air line projects meet the same fate at
Trenton that the Hessiensdid.
Three ladies are studying law and one medi-
cine, in Coldwater, Michigan
The inquiry is anxiously made in Europe, Has
the Pope muzzied Pere Hyscinthe 2"
man in West Chester has been sent to pr ison
for one month for stealing an umbrella.
Rips strawberries are eaten by calfornians
who can afford to pay 81 quart for them
The original commission of Marion. The
Swamp Fox, p is on exhibition at Charleston.
There are IS4 church edifces in Baltimore, be-
longing to twenty three different denominations
The daily expenses attendant upon the Ecu
menical Council, in Rome, average about 81 500
in gold.
A porker weighing one thousand pounds when
dressed. slaughtered at Wiliansport not
long since,
A farmer in Indiana county, while threshing
one day lately, killed one hundred and twenty
five rats in his barn.
A girl in Wisconsin swallowed forty percussion
for fear of an explosion.
California regards 1t as a bad sign for to
die with his boots on. They are not so particular
when it comes to sleeping.
Wine is peddled on the Missouri railroad at
thirty cents a bottle-twenty-f cents for the
bottle and five cents for the wine.
Bears have been killed in seventy towns and
plantations in Maine the past year. The boun-
ties will amount to about fifteen hundred dollars.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad makes baggage
masters personally responsible fer smashes-
Good-other roads should follow their example.
Hanging was s.played'' out rather too effective
Iy in Baltm ore the other day. little colored
boy was hanged in play by two comrades until he
was dead.
dead ragpicker in New York was found lying
a pile of rags in his shnnty the other day,
with a bank book showing 500 to his credit in
his pocket.
Judge knight, of the Circuit Court, decided, in
a at St. Louis that debts con tracted by wife
must be collected from her husband, and not from
her separate estate.
A Chinese thus describes a trial in the English
Law courts: ''0ne man is quite silent, smother
talks all the time, and twelve wise men condemn
the man who has not said word"
Since the passage of the Fifteenth amendment.
Sambo no longer asks plaintively, .'Am not a
man and brother?" but sings gaily. "Shoo fly,
don't brother me- Mr.. Democrat"
A California paper reports a recent fish show
er" near Monterey, in which the fish varied in
length from six inches to three feet. Some big
fish, big story, in that shower
George Dixon. of Michigan who caused the
death of his little by ill treatment, has been
sent TO prison for fifteen years. He threw his
little boy down and stamped upon his breast.
select cOteris of ladie. recently held a m eet-
ing to gossip and drink tea. Some unannointed
william eetened their tea with EPSON salts which
led to many wry faces and other unpleasant re-
sultx.
curious fact in connection with the criminal
statistics of New York is that men most apt to
commit offences against the law between the ages
of twenty and thirty and women from thirty to
forty.
The Mormans have commenced their Iabors in
Chicago where they expect to reap abundant
harvest 1t is probable that they know whereof
they hope. Chicago is more like Salt Lake han
any other single community in the country.