Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-06-14
A Little of Everything.

Light employ oyment-building castles in the air
The Indians call a locomot tive coughing hOss"
decided improvement-our friend Joes avn
! ing
BelIefonte is being troubled with the typhoid
! fever.
PhiIipsburgers want pavement to their Gem
etery.
Summer complaints-warm weather and dull
times
Miss Nellie Grant will be "sweet sixteen"
| the Fourth of July.
Humanity should be manifested toward ami
mails this warm weather
An old steamboat boiler is used for Jail in
county town in Arkansas.
No dust affects the eyes like gold dust, and no
glasses like brandy glasses.
Three machinists, of Altoona, have started for
years trip through Europe.
The Massachusetts Legislature has voted that
cider is not intoxicating liquor
In 1916 there were but so postoffices in the Uni
ted States; now there are over 20, 900.
''Do write and fear not" as our imp said to his
gal when she left town for the summer.
Dudley. Mass, was once called, 'Chargoggag-
| Sp5u"hSHoSSeSSOS' "eh, ohco "es shoeSA'
'.Whi'ewashed'' hats cover the craniums of
fashionable gents Hands on your pocket books" p"
The HoIIidaysburg Reesst>r says Mr.. Isen-
burg, of Hunting don, has hog that catches fish
On week days you buy your music by the sheetP
on Sundays you can havo it by the choir for moth
| ing.
The odOrs arising from some of the alleys about
| town are not as fragrant as those difused from
roses.
ions for street dress-St. MIry's Gazette. Oh !
as they?
--latest Democratic departure''-,he departure
of the Clsarfeld county defeated ofhce-seeke rs
for salt River"
A conclusive argument az ainst suicide is, that
is i, tho height of impoitenes, to go anywhere
! until you sent for.
The year 1871 constitutes the IS75th of the
birth of Christ; our present era having begun
four years after his birth,
The Democracy of the First District of Ten
nessee talk of running Andrew johnson for their
| Representative in Congress.
Brookville girls get their beaux to go shopping
with them for shoes They buy No. rs and ex-
change them next day for No. rs
Men are frequently like tea-the real strength
and goodness is not drawn out of them until they
have been for a short time in hot water.
Two Atlanta young ladies in sisted upon kissing
lex President Davis at public meeting in that
city few days ago and they did it too
Mr. kernoods of Indiana, burned brush heap
! in his back yard. The day windy one and
| il Kernoodled him out of house and home.
Hon c. W scofeld and family contemplate
taking trip. during this month, over the Pacific
Railroad to California and the Pacific coast
Mid pleasures and palaces though you may
roam be they ever so gorgeous there's no place
hke-the JOURNAL office to get your printing done.
An act has passed the Legislature infcting a
heavy penalty upon all persons who may here
after be guilty of mutilating destroying hand
bills.
calls New Jersey Ga
tight little State.' Does the editor give it this
title because there is much Jersey lightning"
in it,
In Dubuque the other day a man prom, naded
Main street, from one end to the other, with two
large rattesnakes coiled about his neck arms and
| shoulders.
Pittsburg woman playfully woke her hus-
band the other morning by pouring vitriol in his
face In the prison cell she sits, while he goes
one eye on her.
A Mr.. Doyle of brooklyn, while sick, at
tended by his faithful wife. She attended him
with poker. He has passed in his checks, and
she is in Jail for murder.
young sitting by his girl, with whom he
was quarreling petulanuy remarked that she
| he S.id sh. duft duoit hat
but she would say that she was to nothing.
Meet me by moonlight alone, 3" and we will go
to the depot TO see the nine o'clock train come in
is the favorite song among young ladies' around
town. and is greatly appreciated by Ciearfed
! beaur.
Henry Shoffer. Selinsgrovs, was recently
taken quite ill from the effects of drinking
felt of cold water. People need not abandon
ter, however. and take to whiskey on account of
this item.
The Memphis Appeal thinks the South has
''fallen upon strange times when the Southern
men propose to hear Horace Greeley speak hile
demanding thar gag be placed in tho mouth of
JEFF Davis"
The editor of a religious paper, which had one
months preearious existence in Chicago, says
that it is good city for a religious paper provi-
ded satan has three pages of it and the other
page is mixed.
/ old topper. compelled by his wife to join the
| ''co!d water army promised not to touch a drop
I of ANYTHING except in case of sickness. The poor
fellow has not enjoyed day of good health since
he took the pledge.
In Indianapolis charming lady phy ysician was
called to administer to a gentleman down with
, the fever. You need good nursing" said tho
lady. Nurse me for life, replied the patient
Il viii, was the soft answer.
One of our economical bachelor friends who by
the way is quite genius, when his stockings
wear out sews Up the top straight across and puts
them on his feet the other way thus making a
good fit for square toed boots
The meanest theft on record occurred at Ply
mouth, Pa, last week The thief entered the
garden of citizen of that place and stole III ere
/ from six young grape vines. Such thief would
| steal red hot stove and then come back after
/ the smoke.
little girl in Portland Sabbath School wa.
reading the parable of the wise and foolish vir