Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-03-01
Little of Everything.

Hard to beat-a boiled egg.
Best music--overtures of peace.
Backg ammen-a ladies' waterfall
Pleading at the bar-beggng for a drink.
Collectei-iu Erie county, last year, s., ,2ss dog
tax
If you have good article, advertise it. If you
haven't don't
Done prOmptly-all kinds of job work, at the
JOURNAL office.
One hundred years old-Bedford county on the
10th of March.
Shakespeare defines charity; Gently to hear,
kindly to judge
How to get the exact weight of Hsh-wegh
him in his own scales
Philadelphia sustained loss of 81 oOO, 600 by
. fires during last year.
"Brick' Pomeroy will lecture in this place on
the sth of this month.
Green peas, beans, cucumbers and squashes are
now in season at ST Domingo.
Success is PomerOy's subject, on Wednesday
evening next Go and hear him
Fact-iarge type ism t necessary in advertising
Blind folks don't read pewspapers.
The rebel General Magruder died at c Gaives;sn,
Texas. on Saturday morning week
The French Relief Fund in New York has
reached the handsome sum Of 5l5,575 "A.
southern paper tells about Turkey showing
her teeth. Oh, pshaw turkeys don't have
teeth.
Richmond writer advocates charging an ad-
mission fee 10 church service, instead of selling
pews yelrly
Luzerac county is sixty miles long by forty
broad. and contains one hundred and sixty thou
sand people.
Do things which you bear with impatience you
should aeeustom yourself and by habit you will
bear them we'll.
The weather, the Indian said of the white
man, is berry uncertain " All things oy turn,
and nothing long.
Because half loaf is better than no bread, -
is no reason why young ladies should prefer half
loafer to man.
Earl de Grey, one Of the English Alabama
Claims Commissioners, is the Grand Master of
MasOns in England.
During the seige of Paris the experiment of
making bread from wheat was tried and car
ried oct with success.
Chesky-to get your job printing done in the
city and then ask your home editor to puff
you, gratis, in his paper.
It is estimated that s. 900 900 worth of ale beer
and porter is guzzed in Pittsburgh annually
Enough 10 float the Great Eastern.
are going to build-the Democracy of West
Chester, frst-class hotel, as head quarters -
They'll have the red eye" handy. then.
A lady in Lewisburg reduced the national debt
recently by putting sl2G in stove for safe keep
ing, forgetting the fact and building a fire
An editor speaking of rogue, says: 9Th e
rascal has broken every bank and Jail and Sab
bath we have had in this country for the last FIVE
years
wolf entered a Duluth church lately, and
was much affected by ;be services and an ounce
Of lead He was converted before he we Mt out
into corpse.
Judge Terry, who killed Broderick in q duel is
reported to be interested in mining Claims in
Colorado to be in straitened circumstances, and
in very delicate health.
minister once prayed ''Oh. Lord, We thank
Thee for the goodly number here tonight, and
'hat 1hou also art here, Notwithstanding the in
clemency of the weather"
-Aho'Her SoUO,uOO was voted in Congress, re-
Gently for the continuance of the work upon the
new post efiice at New York. The total cost of
the building will be about $500 ,OOO
A Western paper, which noticed the opening of
new vhiskey store, the next day apoloyizeJ for
the brevity OF its local columns, because the re-
porter was i'll" He had assisted at the opening
There are two brothers, twins living in a Mass
achusetts town, at the age of seventy eight years
who learned the house-carp enter s trade together
married sisters, and have always lived together.
~ h'eh side of the street do you live on. Mrs
Ripple" asks a coun sci, cross examining a wit.
ness. ION either side, sir. IF you 90 one way.
it's on the right side; if you go the other way,
it's the left.''
1t is said that member of Congress con.
graduated another, who had just concluded one
of his great efforts, thus: "A great speech-the
best speech ever heard delivered by a man who
knew SO little about his subject
An old man living near Cresson was yictimized
by the New YoIk sawdust mon to the tune of
about seventy-fYe dollars, recently. He paid the
price Of fifty four bushels of wheat for quarter
Of peck Of sawdust. Served him right.
Sidney Smith says, regarding the unnecessary
consumption CT foOG According 10 M own
computation Of food; I have eaten and drunk,
between my tenth and ventieth year, forty -four
"agon-loads more than was good for me-"
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, has within its
limits $40 manufactures of cigars and one snuff
mill, the latter being at Bristol. These factories
employ from thirty to ff;y hands each, and pay
a duty of siS0,O0O year to the Cover ment
That old fellow at Oshkosh, Wis, who edu-
Gated young girl to fit her 10 marry him only to
see her young lover take her froin church to nar-
ry her, is convinced that ''al is vanity and yexa-
ton of spirit" He is wealthy, but there seem.
to be lack of sense.
The latest mode in Lexington, Ky, of man
aging husband disposed to stay out late of
nights is for the wife to have "kicking byster
ics' after he does in. This species of hus-
band management proves eficaciOus that the
offence is rarely repeated.
A contemporary says that from the quantity of
marble Tdely hewn in the shape of nondescrpt t
men and things that has been collected in the
Capitol at Washington, one would be apt to sup
pose that the Government is gathering the mate
Iiais for national lime kiln.
Tho Worlds correspondent excellent
chances in San nnminrn one of VIII ich he r,fers