Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-02-15
Little of Everything.

Poor luncheon for sleighers-turnover-
There are five female clerks in the Kansas leg
islature.
Georgia calls its voting negro citizens suffrage
| slingers''
| In vogue-the shovel your snow of your pave
ment business.
! Bituminous obscurity is the latest Improvement
1 on ptchy darkness.
| The Oldest volumes are volumes of water, and
| they circulate all over the world.
| Why is a wounded man like an old pair of
boots Because he wants healing
Signs of the spring-signs in the store windows
announcing "winter stock selling at COST
Had to pav-a Maine physician, sl3 600, for
| tho banglng setting of a boys broken leg.
The longest railroad in the world is the Pacific,
which is three thousand miles in length
| Defunct Egyptians are not gathered to their
fathers; they 60 to their mummies," ;" they do.
Free again-the shooting Starr. The Sheriff Of
Hollidaysburg let him GO So says the STANDARD.
There is reason to believe that some of the pre-
vailing blonde chignons made of light fan
tastic tow
doctor was asked to dance the "Lancers."
!
/ the dancers
! Only three papers in Kentucky favored the ad-
mission of negro testimony, one year ago. Now
only three oppose it.
Curly Harris is again free, having leaped
from the railway train when it was at full speed.
Courageous fellow, that.
The greatest mass of solid iron known is the
Iron Mountain of Missouri 1t is 35e feet high
and two miles in circuit.
The armies of south America made up
largely of late rebel officers, 400 of them holding
commissions in that service.
A young lady who has been practising "Let Me
Kiss Him for His Mother" says the more she
| tries it the better she likes it.
A man of Belmont, Wisconsin, killed hen the
other day and found SIS worth of gold in her
! gizzard. That's little too much.
A Chicago music publisher has issued song
entitled, Father will Settle the BiIi,' and the
young ladies practice it at the stores.
In Napoleon, Ark, = man who had been guilty
| Of not less than nine hsm mcide., recently
elected constable by overwhelming majority,
There was recently exhibition at Bihghamp-
ton, New York, turkey that turned the scales at
fifty pounds What a whopper-Of turkey, we
mean.
A Minnesota school teacher, who whipped one
of his pupils nearly death, has left th at part of
the country by rail. The rail was a three
corned one.
Hon Thos Scott is named in connection with
the Presidency of the Union Pacific Railroad. In
that position he would be the right in the
right place.
n h.; haa,, 70
hear Parton lecture, says ITO hear Parton in
duces 4 desire for Hearsn-thsre will be no
Parton there"
Any unmarried preacher" desiring an engage
ment in Leayenworth, Kansas, is requested by an
advertisement from that city to address Sister
Kate Hanson"
An Oregon paper describes fierce murder, and
adds calmly: The perpetrator of the deed is
supposed to be Jack Kanim, who is noted for little
tricks of this kind"
The HolIidayburg Standard says Clearheld sis
getting ambitious-that it talks of building
water works. Certainly, sir, and intend to
have water instead of whiske -t,aMghs, too.
John Paul, in speaking of quacks, said his
father believed in the efficacy of the laying on of
hands, and used to practice it upon him at what
the poets oall 1.-The switching hour of night"
The ntioch (Kansas) Ledger says Agnes Lewis,
a girl of sixteen summers b Z. ploughed over one
hundred acres on her fathers ranch, near Antioch,
driving six horses attached to a three gang plow
A Wisconsin paper states, that because Kenney
had the best of an argument before a debati1 s
society be was stabbed eleven times with a jack
knife" ItaPpears that kennsy got the worst of
it, too.
a kiss, says French author, gives more pleas
ure than nythng else in the world. But he ri
d.atly never experienced the childish rapture of
descending the parior stairs by sliding down the
| banisters.
| The Hollidaysburg Standard talks about tn Q
laest wilrgd cat'' having been killed in Clearfeld
county recently Any animal wearing such a
name ought to be killed. SO says the Ebensburg
AHeghanIan.
From careful experm ents made by physician
| of Lyons, it has been ascertained that the old
remedy of warm water is the best solvent of ac-
cumulated in tho ear, being superior to olive
! oil, glycerine, etc.
One of our exchanges makes ''paipable hit
at advertisers by exhibiting blank column with
the touching announcement that this pace is
for the of any business that desires it,
| The hint is well made.
The editor of the Ebensburg AHeshanian re-
joiceth ''muehy' over the receipt Of 'gold half
dollar - from a friend. He is proud of it that
he invites everybody to ''call and see it" Poor
fellow; don. take on SO bad.
| In New Orleans, recently. party of workmen
were engaged in removing large piece Of glass
from a shop window. The gias, suddenly fell to
pieces and person who was passing at the time,
had his throat cut, and died almost imme diatcly
A man stopping his paper wrote to the editor
''I think folks ottent to spend their mummy fur
payper my daddy didn't and everybody said he
| was the intelligsntest man in the country, and
had the smartest family of boz that ever duggsd
| taturs'
An Am stsrdam Journal says that New York is
SO defiant of law and full of rufians that cler =
gymen carry musksts to church, and that per-
sons who bear around tho contribution box, arm
themselves with revolvers little severe on
New Yorkers, that.
James Rutledg,, who was born in Maine and
now lives in Illinois, is l0l years and ten months
old. His father lived to .he age of ninety nine