Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-01-11
A Little of Everything


A pressing business-the printers.
Fruits of the Lolidays-indigestiou.
San Francisco has a law suit conducted by
270 lawyers.
Our worthy weather prophets promise u:
seventeen SHOWS this winter
Have the courage to wear your old clorhe.
until you can pay for new ones.
Promisc1ous dancing is denounced. With
out the Miss, however, it will never be pop,
ular.
An ugly old bachelor suggests that births
should be published under the head of new
music.
A western editor reports money close, but
not close enough to be reached. 1t is just
so here.
Cincinnati criminals are so dirty that the
police are supplied with tongs to take hold
Of them.
A New York druggist drives sleigh with
four caparisoned horses and four liveried at
tendants.
Politeness is like an air cushion-there
may be nothing in it, but it eases our jolts
wonderfully.
Fifty nine newspapers in towns and cities
on the Pacific coast have perished during
the present year.
The sharp winds nowadays chap faces.
| Put little borsx in the water you wash with
and you won't chap.
A few evenings ago, thirty lectures were
in progress within thirty minutes ride of
the Boston City Hall.
The Waco, Texas, Register notes the fact
that Our parson has prudenty exchanged
his shot gun for revolver.
An Iowa farmer going to market on load
of hay, enjoyed smoke. The trace chains
aud the iron work Of the wagon were saved.
Sprinkling ashes upon the pavement5 may
rot meet with the approval OF Juveniles, but
it is very conducive 20 the safety of pedestrl
ans.
A guide to Indian music has been pub
published. Now We shall expect to see the
! Red Cloud waltzes and the Spotted Tail ger
man.
The Oneida Community of free-ioyers
| have received but one new member since 1867
and decline all further applications for mem
bership.
| A rural gentleman has discovered by e1
pertinent that it costs just Sl69 so to do up
| a letter in a newspaper and put two~cent
stamp on it.
An Ohio editor hung up his stocking on
| Christmas eve aud his wife put 4 baby in 1t ;
upon seeing it the editor said, my dear,
darn that stocking.
The Borough ordinance imposing fine OF
one dollar upon those who neglect to clean
the snow from their pavements, needs to be
enforced in a number of cases about town.
Look out for it.
The sudden cold weather has awakened
all bachclerhood TO a sense of their unfortu
nate condition. Late advices in the mar
riage departments quote matri rimony lively
with an upward tendency.
Mr.. Lorenzo Day, of Chicksaw county,
Miss, having married Miss Martha Week,
a local poet comments;
"A Day is made, Week is lost,
! But time should not complain
There II soon be little Days enough
| To make the week again.
4 Chicago man who read the Mcfarland
murder trial attentiVely, has put in plea OF
temporary insanity to the charge of stealing
three pigs He says he had an uncle that
was that way, and had to be confined in lu-
natic asylum or peuitentiary, be don re-
member which.
Snoring is said to be sheet music, and in
church, congregational singing. Wouldn
the interests of this popular art be enhanced
| by general "SnorerS Convention" Near.
! ly all the other ornamental o. branches OF
industry hold conventions; why not the
somnolent songSters?
''The fact is said an old grumpy wife,
"a man does not know how to straishten up
| things. He does not know where to com
mence. l don't wonder" she remarked in
conclusion, that when God made Adam,
He went right TO work and made & woman
to tell him what to do.
An Elmira lady gave reading at Flint,
Michigan, and VIXEN she read 'Enoch Ar
den" the Michiganders wept to such an ex-
tent that fire-engine had to called to pump
out tn. hall The lady should be stationed
in some large building to act upon the de
youring element in ca>e Of fire.
There is clergyman, and a doctor of di,
yinty at that, in Rhode Island, who has of:
fciated five times in marrioge of one man,
and all FIVE Of the women to whom the fel'
low was married are still living. When we
talk about the divorce laws of Indiana il
will be well to ask if the great west can beat
| that.
Some Welsh clergymen are holding love
feast in New York. They spell it (whar
they pronounce it gets us) Dywgydgn byrd
gwylge. Shade of Noah Webster! If that.
the way they tangle so simple word, in the
name of wonder, what sort of looking thing