Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-05-10
A Little of Everything.

Cheap-job wcrk-a. the JOURNAL Office
A high priced chap-the man who don't ad-
vertise
Looks well-the new window at Naugle's Jewel
~ store.
The popular house-plant, oleandsr, is extreme
ly poisonous
Visiting and business cards speciality, at the
JOURNAL job oaice.
Among the things that were''-a certain young
gents side-whiskcrs.
Oysters can now lay in their "little beds with
out fear of disturbance.
New rule at Harrisburg-seven dollars a day
and postage stamps. A-hem :
Ho he Burton Did you say you ''hOard it
strife five the town watch -
Order of the day-ups and downs. Crops are
coming up and RATS going down.
| fir-fetched joke-when lover IS reduced to
pine, he nc longer appears spruce.
| The Pittsburg tin whistle has reached England
and is calei the Bismarck whistle.
! Reviving-the spring trade in Chicago There
were 30 applications for divorce last week.
"Mary's little lamb was sheared on Saturday
last. Rather early in the to fleece sheep.
Frenchman says, equality means desire to
be equal to your superiors, and superior to your
| equals
Like counterfeit moncy-insults. We can't
hinder them being offered, but we are not bound
10 take them.
Nothing is made in vain,'' says an old adage
yet we know young lady down street who is
maid en- vain.
There landed in Canada, last year, 66.Ol9 em-
grants, of whom 42,O 900 afterward left fer the
United States
Neater than the neatest-bilI heads. letter
heads and all kinds of plain and fancy job work.
at the JOURNAL office.
The foreman of New Orleans jury indo-sed a
verdict for maIsiaughter thus: Verde gilty
with nuns sluter mathews
Waut r. sell liquor-seventy one Williamsport-
ers. Candidates for Associate Judgeships down
there must be good drinkists.
The season IL near at hand when you can 20 =
up the pike and get a mess of ice cream, > to use
the language of our ex-devil.
'.S?rawler," poor fellow, had a good cry on
Saturday, over a ten-cent cocoa nut which some
boys had "squashed" for him.
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caught 1875 pickere in two days-seyen at one
shot Ten weighed II Is pounds
Gen Spinner, during the ten years he has been
the Treasurer of the United States has handled
the large sum of $50 900, 900, 600.
That chap who stayed so late at certain hou se
down town, on Saturday night, must be severely
afflicted with the "scrooternooticks
married couple, who had been separated for
long time, recently went to the parsons and
asked for reconstruction of the union.'
At La Crosse there are two inches of snow AT
Charleston green peas sell for ten cents quart,
sheled. Such are the capabilities of our coun-
try.
The Bonnet Carre crevasse on the Mississippi
| continues. to extend The damage the Sugar
crop will probably lessen the ield by 10000 hogs
| heads
| Wanted-a barrel Of sugar-to sweetor ger
| tIenan, who has been s'sonred by. miaforiane-- =
fls girl sacked" him, in crowd, on Sunday
| night
Another of the spring styles of ladies hats is
turned down in front, down the sides and
sticks to the back "nsx like butter-fy to i.oI-
| ly heck.
An improved nursing apparatus is advertised
| 'Jox" says if they introduce any improvement
of that kind here, they can count him out al
milh ing time
/ There is boy in Jefferson county, this State
! eighteen years of age, who to day measures six
/ feet seven inches in height, and hasn't the heart
to step growing yet
Forty acres of land in Lancaster county Pa
containing mineral s--ing. recently sold for
/ $4,000 The water is said to possess extraorii-
nary medical qualities.
/ Physicians say that 10000 women have been
squeezed to death by corsets. Our devil" the
wicked little cuss, read the line and exclaimed
! oh, would | were a-corset!'
Persons troubled with corns ond buniou viii
find great relief, and soufetnes absolute cure, by
the application OF slice of eIhen to the affected
parts. secured by strip of cloth, upon going tc
bed
Newshunter have great leisure with little
thought-much petty ambition to be thought in
teIlgent without any other pretension than
being able to communicate what they just
! learned. J.
An Iowa paper, the Burlington RfW. Eye,
gives an encouraging account of the wheat pros
pect in the southern part of the State. 1t also
states that peaches and cherries have not been
materially injured by frost.
The editor of western paper in his last issue
rays: We cannot exist any longer fire. wood
maple sugar and sheepskns. We bid patrons
good and Offer for sale 200 bushels seed po
tatoes, slightly frost-bitten.''
One of 'Our young girls" at examination
in gEamm the olher day, when asked why the
noun Bachelor" was singular, blusaingty an
swered because it IS very singular they don't
get married" She went up head
young man says that there may have been
such thing as real true love in old times, but
that row the notion is entirely obsolete; and il
you ask young lady -a-day, to share your
( lot, she Immediately wants to know how large
/ that lot is.
The latest wrinkle amorg "hnaIutin' young
| ladies is the wearing Of green spectaeIes We
have not yet noticed the introduction of tie fash
ion here, but will give 'devilr' permission to
kiss the young lady who first goes wearing
| of the green III Cear6eld.
The Turkish Government has shown its good
! will toward the United States by presenting ii
with splendid carpet tor the White House. The
/ uresent ia not tu (,sn Grant but 10 the limited