Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-06-07
A Little of Everything.

Take the shady side OF the street.
The next sensation-Fourth Of July.
Mutual friends-kerosene and coroners.
Croquet is nice for girls with small feet.
The camp meeting season is approaching rap
idly
''Going down'-ice cream, these warm even
ings.
Blackberrie. and raspberries will be plenty this
year.
HoIIidaysburg and Tyrone want a new r. R.
schedule
City folks With country seats are beginning to
sit in them.
Linen coats, white pants and large wash bills
the rage.
ColOred paper petticoats arc coming into fash
ion. What next?
Agreeable-spending warm evenings with the
lady who treats you cool.
Counter-irritants-peopie who examine the
whole stock and buy nothing.
Loafers hunt shady and cool hooks the
warmth of the weather increases
If you are to have your thoughts about you, let
them by all means be in your head.
A case where money actually stolen from a
dead womans eyes is before Boston court.
Some of our pious youth go to Sunday school
in tbs morning and swimming in the afternoon.
Democratic politicians are getting weakened
regarding their respective candidates for county
offices.
Who went out in the woods on Sunday last to
eat Strawberries and cheese! Bad mixture,
b'hoys.
Wanted-a shower of rain; One that under
stands its busfEers thoroughly. Apply all over
the country.
The sessions of the United States Senate for
several years after the formation of the Govern
ment were all secret
There will be annular eclipse of the sun or
Saturday, June 18th, and partial scifpse Of the
moon on the ID of July.
A Canada man threw a lot Of powder into the
stove to see if it was good for anything His wild
Ow is repairing the house.
Ten thousand dollars in premiums are to be Of
fered for specimens of cotton at the next St. Louis
Agricultural Fair, in October.
Missouri paper says it always prints mar
riages and deaths together as an intmation tn at
misfortunes never come singly.
Robert Pittus, colored, and Michael Gorman, an
Irishman, were killed by a stroke of Iigh thing in
Chester county few days ago.
Three hundred thousand dozen wooden clothes
pins have been sent from Boston to different parts
Of Europe, in the last two months
mulatto woman, named Madam Angelo, ter
minated the feat of walking 1000 miles m r,O0e-
hours, in England, a few day. since
Cad at Raj bo
Point BY the class, some time ago, has been rein
stated by order of the Secretary of War.
The meanest man in Lowell, Mass wa, given a
box of awberries the other day, and then re-
turned the box and took five cents for it.
The Columbia Base Ball Club has challenged
the Lancaster keystones to play match game
| for 500 side. A phase in base ball chal
| lenges.
The Rev. Stephen Smith coIored of Col urn bia
Pa, establish ed a home for aged and ind gent
colored persons, in Philadelphia at a cost of
s3O,oOo.
young man generally gives lock Of his hair
TO hi. sweetheart before he marries her. After
marriage, she sometimes helps herself. and don't
use scissors
It is said that if you count nine stars each night
you shake hands with thereafter will bc your fu-
ture spouse.
There is man at Parker's Landing who drinks
so ach "instant death" that the revenue officers
seriously sontsap plate putting Tevepne STAN Oh
Bic stomach.
A Cincinnati editor wishes Governor Geary to
enter into strictly private and confidential agree
ment to be the laboring man candidate for the
next Presidency.
The State ticket OF the Kentucky Democracy,
from the candidate for Governor to the nominee
Cor Register. i. composed of men who were Con-
tedcrate officers
The body servant of George Washington has
just died, in southern town. This 10 about the
five hundredth time that e. W's body ser,ant has
kicked the bucket.
Mrs. Susan d. Ahthsny IL going to the Pacific
coast in the latter part of June. And if it re-
mains pacific after that its chances Of perpetual
peace frst-rate.
Mrs. c. B. M'Knight, Of Reading. while labor
ing under fit of insanity saused by protrseted
illness, shot and killed her son, aged four years.
on Saturday week.
A dime novel could be written BY an industri-
sation held in front es the Postofice while the
mail is being changed.
man in Illinois, twenty four hours after his
wife died, snd before her funeral, played croquet
with the girls. For this the indignant neighbors
tarred and feathered him.
The heat and drouth of May, the present year,
| has been greater than any can call to rec
objection. For several years past May has been
unusually cold and unpleasant.
| AT divorce case in Memphis few days age,
| the husband was sixteen and the wife fourteen
years Of age They will begin marrying infants
in few years, before they can creep.
The gaping brigade" grows smaller by de-
| grees and beautifully less" The attendance on
Sunday evening was quite small We hope soon
to see the entire brigade mustered out
writer in the Newark Evening Cour1ey saws
that .'the vocation of dress is to hide from a man
his own shame" Probably tho gentleman goes
| to bed with all his clothes on and never takes
bath.
Pretty nearly az III. portnb property in Ilh-
| nois having been appropriated by former felons