Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-04-05
A Little of Everything.


Etist-mail robbers in Huntih gdon county.
Infested with thieve,-In llama and Biairsvile.
North Carolina xchanges brag or new potatoes
Indigestion and industry are two things seldom
found united.
Two and half cents pound for beef is con-
sd-red exhorbitant in Texas.
When the pulpit lamp is surrounded by a
| fecting church the minister is successful
1t is good in fever, and much better in anger,
to have the tongue kept clean and smooth.
A camel was hatehed out in an Indiana fair
ground the other day. A menaseris was winter
ing there.
The New York Police are making furious raids
nron the little gamblers, and leaving the big
ones alone.
Mrs. Stackhouse died in Altoona on the 18th
of March She was born March 16, i771, and
died March Ie, 1871
Monograms on note paper are now made larger
than ever. beautifully elaborated in gold, car
mine and ultra marine.
Money makes the man" Perhaps it does; but
Punch thinks it particularly necessary that man
should make money first
A drum major who ran away at Chicauauga
| says he would rather be a coward oil his life
than corpse fifteen minutes
| What pleased tho Japanese best in financial
system was Gen. spinner's signature. They read
it at once, as classical japanese.
Mrs. Stanton, in her Philadelphia discourse, on
Monday evening week, "ranked protection
with intempGrance" What next?
man ho stoIa ,no,bar n,p,s hot evan vha,
his name was written it, let eff ON the
ground that he was collecting autographs
London diamond merchant, of great expert
ence, pronounces the South African diamonds in
ferisr to the old and famous Golconda gems,
There said to be millions of pounds of fo.-
| sill ivory in Alaska. It is of excellent quality,
and is worth dollar pound in San Francisco
An Irishman who was found guilty of stealing
a lot of coffee was asked by the magistrate what
he did with it. MADE tay wild it, was his reply.
The Terre Haute Mail says there is a lady in
| that place who can turn barrel of cider into
first rate vinegar by looking in at the bung hole
| "Grand Circular Fox Hunt" in South Maho-
ming township, Indiena county, on the Ilth day
of March resulted in the capture of fox, white
| weasel, and skunk.
| lad in Hartford whose fifth birthday occur
red last week, asked of his parents if the schools
would keep that day, adding 'they don't on
| Washington's birthday"
| Tho Chief Engineer of tho Boston Fire Depart
ment reports that thirty per cent. of the fires in
! American cities caused by the deposit of ash
/ es in " ooden boxes or barrels
| Tyrone girl wants 10 know if the woman s
rights movement includes the right to do the
courting if it does she is in for it, the men in
her vicinity are very bashful.
One operator has resumed work at his coal m ines
near Wikesbarre. His workmen concluded they
would rather run the risk of being murdered
than endure the certainty CT starvation.
Lewistown man gave sI0o bill in change
through mistake, II somebody who was disho lest
euongh to keep it. which goes tc show tn at rcsae,
not all inhabitants of the spirit land.
North Missourian recently entered the din
ing room of first class hotel in st. Joseph, and
on being presented with bill of fare, said he
would 'est his dinner before taking a read"
A Western girl got the idea into her head tn at
| the devil was in her and hung herself. If women
| 90 to angling themselves for n thing Iike
that, they are going to be mighty scarce, that's
all.
The heathen Chinee is making whisky in CAL
| ifornia by fermentIng old rice and rubber shoe,
and things, and the revenue people are after John
The whisky made this way is much sought after
by suicides.
They have strange titles in Japan. One of the
high dignitaries in Jeddo is called His Grace OF
| Sixty FIVE Umbrellas another the Lord of a Hun
dred Fant, and a third the Supreme Controller OF
the Gcldon Poodles.
In New ork il has been decided that sewing
machines not liable to seizure for debt, on the
ground that they are necessary articles of house
hold furniture, as much so as q sofa, which had
always been regarded.
The oldest daily in Louisville, Ky complains
that newspapers abbreviate its name when speak
ing of it, and Sc the Boston Pot, determined to
satisfy it, mentions it '.the Louighiviaeylle
Coeughrieyrre Joaru ghrrenaille."
5000 residents of tha. city, at the firing on Sump-
ter, lost tn cir lives in the field by sickness oil
wounds, and that fully 900 more have quilted
the State since the suppress on of the rebellion
The Washington Capital, which scarce three
weeks ago started as an independent journal ,ha
now become rabdly fres trade and ani-adminis
tration. If blood is tn he price of liberty. what II
the price of independence-as represented IN th'
Capital.
We desire to call attention to the fact that un
der the recent modification in the method asses
sing the income tax as declared in the circular o
Commissioner Pleasanton, all that is required il
a statement under oath of the gross taxable in
come, after all deductions have been mado.
Caifornians report that NanJ Of their small
birds have been shot or poisoned, and that, seem
ingly consequence, many kinds Of insects
before unknown or unobserved, have aboundeC
in the coast valleys, and have done much inJur,
in the gaTdsn,, vineyards and grain fields
Mormon physician. are forbidden, under pen
atty of one thousand dollars, and not less than
years imprisonment, to prescribe any OF the M r.
powerful agents known to the medical profession
without first explaining to the patient and hi
friends their medical properties, and pr ocurin!
the unqualified consent of all concerned.
The Belgians are highly excited in consequence
of the report that the Pope has determined Il
take up b is abode in their country. The Lloar
ais and Clericnls in Belgium are about e4uaii.