Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-04-26
A Little of Everything.


Idleness is the grave of a living man.
Th efavorite color for parasols is buf.
He has hard work who has nothing to do.
Female street car conduc tors are talked Of.
grain of prudence is worth pound of craft.
Virtue and happines, mother and daughter.
Wise men make more opportunities than they
End.
Since 1850 Louisville has gained So 900 irhabi-
tants.
| Indiana countrymen are wearing calico panta-
| looms.
Fine gold fears not the FIRE, nor solid stone the
water.
| Song Of the billiard baIl-'.0h, Carom me
back ~ q
Meadville suggests having six hours day
schooling.
He who spends before he thrives will beg before
| he thinks.
can carry out.
'Mud-TirkIe soup was lately advertised a. q
| Hartford restaurant.
Water is six cents glass in Phoebe city, Co lc-
rado, and whisky four.
An e1 Mayor of Cleveland is confined in the
Nashville penitentisry.
The homeliest man in town can get cigar for
the asking, at Il. Ii. Shaw's
The next State Fair will be held e. Scranton,
commencing September 10th.
There is so much whisky paper aAoat in Gin
cinnati that money is tight
man who has tried it says that all the short
cuts to wealth over-crowded.
Black silk hose are said to be fashionable for
ladies. Firemen still use leather.
'Henpeck'' Is the esphonious name of Pest
Office in Alexander county, Illinois
Why are old maids the most charming of all
people? Because they are matchlsss
A vein of anthracite coal is said to have been
unearthed in Fulton county. Doubtful.
There is no of praising the present style of
ladies' dresses. for they pufred enough.
Tho young lady who is unable to support ri
ding habit should get into a walking habit
Six japanese want to go to West Point. If
they do cadet Smith would be less conspicuous.
This is a sweeping catastrophe" as the man
! said wh en- his wife knocked i'm down with the
| broom.
Eastern popers say money is n drug there. We
wouldn't mind taking few doses of that kind Of
medicine.
In the exact scienc0s-can a homely woman
with a Grecian bend ks accurately described as
An ''inclined plan2''
The determination to resist payment of the In
come tax, by legal means, is becoming very gen
eral throughout the country.
Some Cinnamon, at the Berlin diggings in Aus
tralia, have lately struck a nugget of gold weigh
! ing l7l7 ounces, and worth S34, $50.
A very small island in Ossipe River constitutes
part of four towns, three counties, and the two
States of Maine and New Hampshire.
Sorosis women declare they won't weae dresses
any longer. If they keep a while longer they
will get back to the original palm leaf
The Bostonans very anxious that all kinds
of needlework should be thoroughly taught the
girls in the public sch ools of that town.
western paper has article on 1.-The cure of
idiots" cotemporgry says tha. paper is al
ways dragging family affairs into public.
| A little Buffalo girl wants TO know If aeas are
white, because her uncle told her that MARY had
little lamb with feas white snow
Pittsburgh has four hundred and seventy I've
manufactures, which, if placed in continuous
line, would extend a distance CT ffty-fve miles.
That little iveyear old, who speaks right out
in a crowd sparkling around here every
night ought to be put to bed early in the eve
ming.
| DIR. Walkingpest is Cincinnati physician. He
might have his name changed to running sore or
falling sickness, if he considered it an improve
ment.
Cncihnatians in the theatres take off their
boots and place their stockinged feet on the top
of the seats in front of them, That is the latest
fashion.
| Five-twenties in London on the 18th sold at 90
the highest figure they have ever reached in
| the foreign markets Consols at the time
were only s3..
! Any loyal American who desires to find out
where is the sting of death, do so by taking
trip South, whcrs he will at be shot, hung or
| tortured to death.
! general expression of qualification is expires.
sed that the health of Chief Justice Chase has
| been so far restored as to enable him to resume
his seat on the bench.
"wood ibis,' a very rare bird in this country,
was recently captured at Jones' Bluff, Alabama.
/ 1t is sixty inches high and eighty five inches
| from tip to tip of the wings.
| party of New York capitalists have leased all
| the ore lands about Centrevile, Bedford county,
and bound themselves to commence the erection
| of furnace within six months.
| Philadelphia isrejocing over conscience case.
One of her citizens has sent the government three
cents, an amount illegally kept back by him
the manufacture of six cigars some time ago
'Come here, Felix you said the letter q
| glutton; how do you know it?" because he
changes fass into feasts, is invariably the first to
commence eating and is always last at the table
The French made quite an outery against the
Germans for throwing shells into Paris They
have not, however hesitated to do so themselves,
and inflict much damage the handsomest part
of the city.
Twenty years ago Leland Sanford arrived in
| California with "only one shirt to his back"
Since then by managing always to retain a stu
alton, and close attention TO business, he has man
aged to accumulate trife of 100000.
Mississippi is not pleasant place for Nor
therQ white m an or pnv Kind Of coloreu man 20