Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-02-01
Little of Everything.

hundred Of her population.
Hon. Thos. A. Scott has contributed $500 to the
relief of the sufferers at Mitfin.
Good farm hands in North Carolina receive
from eight to ten dollars per month.
Twenty of the wealthisst merchants in Paris
have been made bankrupt by the war.
One thousand five hundred and seventy -four
registered letters were stolen last year.
Pifty-nine newspapers in towns and cities
the Pacific coast have psrished during the past
year.
A lie is like nitro glycesinc, the best judges
kant tell when it is going to bust and skater con-
fushun
The wall of western poet "'Tis sweet to
court; but oh how bitter to court gal and then
not git her"
Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing
without reading it; and mako sure that it means
no more than it says
The a.t dispatches from the City of Mexico are
of the usual chsracter-reI olutions, earthquakes,
and valcanic erupuons.
The Pope. on being asked what pari of Rome
his Holiness intended keeping, replied
''vat-i can" Infallible wisdom.
different kinds of business, and then tried the
manufacture of glue That stuck.
A man and his wife under $4,000 bail in
Columbia, charged with inhumanly beating and
starving their little girl, six years old.
Go to the ant thou slugsard, - is good advice
given on excellent authority; but nowadays
most slugsards apparently prefer to visit their
uncle.
Little Sarah L Joy, reporter of the Boston
Post, has taken position a New York society
paper at 81 500 per annum. How's that for ro-
mans wages!
The microscope reveals the fact that a spsck of
potato rot the size of pin head contains two
hundred forocious little animals, biting and claw
ing each other savagely.
The New York Sun thinks there is something
in the atmosphere of Kentucky which predis-
poses men to fight Even the Shakers have had
general set to-" recently.
Tho ladies of Fayette Indiana, have organized
a club for the suppression of late staying out
among husbands A club properly managed will
no doubt have a striking effect
There are in the United States si1ty-seven
cities with a population of over 10000 inhab-
itants. The increase OF Pittsburgh in ten years
has been sixty seven per cent.
leading lecturer Classics his audience as fol-
lows: The 'still ll-attentives," the 'quick-respon-
sivss'' the shard. to-lfts' the won't applauds,"
and the ''get-up- and ge-outs."
| bill is pending in the Massachusetts, Lsgisla-
ture whereby divorced persons will be prohibited
from remarrying until three years shall have
passed after the divorce is granted.
The MONDAY prayer meetings, which have been
| a feature of New York life since September %,
1857, at 1903 Fulton street, have gone into newly
fitted up and handsome quarters at the cid leca-
| ton.
The sweetest thing in printing ofice-Writing
| receipts Tor suUssrIP r"ur' JvU WON auver-
tising. Sorry to say tn at we haven't been exten-
sivsly sweetsned in that particular direction re-
| gently,
An Eastern paper, in a fit of revolutionary en-
| thusiasm, says, "Hurrah for the girls of '76 ~
Thunder" cried New Jersey paper, That's
too darnsd old No, no, Hurrah for the girls
of I7!''
An exchange sensibIy remarks that man who
will take newspaper for length of tias and
then send it back refused and nd'unpaid for, would
swallow blind dogs dinner. and then stone the
dog for being blind.
Whom Governor Merrill, of Iowa, visited the
State Penitentiary and commenced = speech to ths
prisoners by remarking that he WAS glad to see
so many there!' there applause, and he
modified the sentiment
jefferson Davi has nothing but his salary of
S., 200 to live upon, and, his friends say, wants
nothing more in this "crisis of the republic. -
We thought the crisis, which he and his friend,
| brought on, had passed.
few nights since singular circumstance 90
| CURED in the Circuit Court at Psoria-Ill. Three
| juries were out at once, all three hung six and
| six, were up all night came ints court tho next
morning, and were discharged.
Pittsburgh policemen have arrested Joseph
Eberhardt, who, according to the affidavit of his
loving spouse, Maria, frequently plays lively
! tune tho back of her head Joseph, who is a
Prussian, says his luck is sber-hard.
lady wish es would invent .
'legometer, to attach to men. pedals, so that
wives may determine the distance Travelled by
| their husbands when they want to Just step
down to the postoffee" of evening
colored member Of the Virginia legislature
was recently called to account fer OK 1ressing
| himself ungramm atically in debate. He subse-
quently explained that if he did not express him
| self gramm atcally it was the fault of those who
| had kept him in slavery.
Philadelphia judge has picked up, some
whore. the idea that witnesses are not criminals
| He rebuked lawyer for badgering one in a late
| case, and laid down the astounding proposition
| that witness should be treated in the same man
! ner any gentleman would treat 3 visitor at is
| house.
| 1t was very hard shell Baptist, of Tennessee,
| who suggested when he heard of the reforma-
tion Of ungodIy neighbor, that no ordinary
| baptism would do for that mantle only sure
way would be to tie grindstone to his feet and
"anchor him over night in the N iddle of the
| river"
Pennsylvania is situate between 80 deg. 43 min
| and ~ deg. north latitude, and deg. II min
east, and dog 81 min. west longitude, from
| Washington. Its mean length is 2S0.S9 miles,
mean breadth l5S 05 miles; its greatest length is
| 3o2 1910 miles, and greatest breadth IFS miles
and 1872 perches.
| Now February holds its sway,
And, the weather-wise ones say,
| Tho ths days are growing longer,
| Yet the cold is getting stronger"
Swift swallows through he sky,
lad and q linz I.ifr he