Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-06-28
A Little of Everything.

county
St. Mary's EIk county, nduges in dog ground
hog fights.
! Ridg~ay has nineteen hundred and eleven dogs,
more less
1t is not always he who has the most nose who
knows the most
No class put more real feeling in their vocation
than pickpockets.
The Morris and Essex Canal, New Jersey, has
suddenly dried up.
Tortoi<e she'll parasols the latest piece of
| fashionable nonsense.
| Gentlemen are wearing bright colorei feather
! tip in their hat bands.
The marriage of fifteen year old widow is
! announced from Texas.
San Francisco has two-headed dog, which
/ barks and howls alternately.
Edward Nevans, the railroad ticket forger, got
FIVE years in the penitentiary.
The last thing in note paper has the country
address printed in upper corner.
young man in Girard, Pa paid $50 last week.
for the fun of shooting three quais.
Three Texan women, in male disguise were re-
Gently shot, while trying to rob a house
The fashionable time for equestrian exercise is
now between six and eight in the evening.
''Mest me at the gate,'' is pleasing pastime
these evenings. 1t only takes two to meet"
Some one says there is only one unpleasant
thing a, Saratoga Springs-the mineral water.
There were manufactured in the United States
last year over half million sewing machines
Wisconsin widower who didn't marry his
wifes sister is troubled by his wife's haunt
London They hate 'em because they can't get
/ 'em.
Auburndale, Mass. is called Saints Rest"
frcm the fact that many retired clergyinen live
| there.
colored n AN of wiIliamsport named Cole,
stabbed two other colorei men, one night last
week
After July |, the pay of private soldiers in the
United States Army is to be reduced to Sl3 rer
month.
The largest straw berry bed in the country is in
Iowa where a whole township is taken up with
the fruit.
Drinking large draughts of rain water, with
plenty of .swrggers' in it, is the latest cure for
! consumption.
Each man, woman and child in Massachusetts,
| is worth ST 500-or would be if the property was
| equally divided.
| A Vicksbsrg man set spring gun in his chick
| en-. house, which successfully brought down his
wife for the first victim.
! Boston man is anxious to learn h Ow it happens
that when people to high words they are so
| apt low language
! The snail stands chance of the tooth-sche
Somebody says he has ITO rows of teeth, Ill on
each row, or II 2lO teeth
| A Tennessee paper wants party to be formed
to fix the fair fabric of freedom on the firm
| foundation of the fathers"
New York merchant absent-mindedly copied
a love letter to his hearts idol in the letter book
of the firm before sending it.
Bloomington, (IIIinois), has induced a shoe firm
to commence the manufacture of brogans in that
city. They will work fifty hands
One dollar is charged to enter the valley in
California, where the gsysers are situated The
gazers are limited in consequence.
A club of wicked bachelors in Detroit vow they
will rot be led to the altar unless the lady can
give them $40, ,O0G aud brick house.
earnest. We saw Il canine the other day running
up street with a coffee. pot to his :ail.
A Chinese Young Mems Christian Association
has been organized in san Francisco, 1t starts
with membership of forty Celestials
An old bachelor says he likes nothing better in
summer .han moonlight, good cigar, and nice
girl to talk to, with no nonsense about her.
Ohio Democrats now call negroes TINTED cti-
zens' They not near so bla,k to the De-
moc-aey since the adoption of the new departure
young couple, neither of whom play, received
three pianos among their wedding presents
They talk of setting up conservatory of music
Hail stones recently fell out west with insect:
frozen in them, W hich showed that animal life
had been disporting some ways up in the world
Two irate cooks of New Orleans threw eggs al
a policeman until he strongly represented an
omlet and appeared disgusted in the eggs-tream
, Sunhury is already bidding for the State fail
in 1872 Hold on, down there; if our new park
!. . is dedicated in time want the State fair o.
, 1872 at Clearfeld
The Bucyrus 20 } Journal complains of the de
vastations of cholera among chicken. and turkey
in that region. Tn disease lasts from to thre'
T days and is always fatal
. few Democratic editors held a convention,
or mutual lamentation meeting in Bellefonte, las
p, week. They Matched up six-line resolution
lagered, and went home.
J citizen of Connecticut, recently introduced
TO newly married man congratulated him, anC
said "Ah, these Litchfeld county girls max
clever wives; I've had three of 'em''
A new tangled cofree-pot astonished a peace
able family in indianapolis by blowing off tn
top of the stove, and furnishing them with thei
coffee in the of shower bath
Williamsport has a Sunday school boy, who o
: being asked who made the beautiful hills aroun
= there, replied that he did not know as his pare nj
i, only moved into town the Friday before.
II Logan county, Ill.,, is overrun with locusts an
# the air is heavy with their shrill. monotonou
tones. The ground is honey y-combed for acr,
: where they have made openings in coming to tn
surface
The scribes os little faith in Utah. Recen
J. Iy Bishop Price a snake in Utah Lake ''sixt
feet long" and the doubling newspapers cali o