The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1871-08-08


The Rev. Rowland Hill, in q con-
versaton on the powers of the letter
II, where it was contended that it was
no letter, but a simple aspiration or
breathing took the opposite side of
the question, and insisted on its being,
to all intents and purposes, a letter;
and concluded by observing that, if it
we're not, it was very serious affair
to him, as it would occasion his being
III all the days of his life.
A Pennsylvania paper tells of To-
cal preacher who received for his sala-
ry this year nothing but curry comb,
keg of varnish and two dozen clothes
pins. Whenever his children cry
with hunger he gags them with a
clothes pin, scratches their stomachs
with curry comb, and lays on a coat
of yarnish.
A letter from Berlin states that
three of the leading Freemason lodges
of Berlin have issued a manifesto to
the other lodges in Germany urging
them to break off all intercourse with
the French lodges, on the ground that
the latter have violated the tundamen-
tai principle of freemasonry, viz: nom
intervention in ecclesiastical and po'
litical affairs.
A beggar, cne day, said to the En-
peror Maximillian, we are all chill
dren of the same Father as an incite-
ment to bestow aims. The Emperor
gave him triAe. This is very lit
tie for a monarch, said the beggar.
True, replied the Emperor, but If
every one of your brothers gave you
as much you would be richer than l..
The other day Mrs, Muggins, find
ing her self unwell, sent for a doctor,
and in the presence of Muggins and
her medical man, declared her belief
that he (Muggins) had done it. II
didn't do it," shouted Muggins; Its
all Cannon, she isn't poisoned. Prove
it, doctor-open her on the spot, I'm
willing"
There rever was wit at the bar so
ready as Curran. Upon one occasion,
when he had laid down some points
which did not find favor in the eyes of
the presiding Judge, Lord Clare said:
IF that be law may as well burn my
books Better read them, my lord
replied Curran.
A severe hal.storm in Nences coun-
w, Texas, recently, stampeded drove
of cattle, which trampled upon each
other aud their herders, killing or dis
abling a considerable number of the
animals, and badly injuring the men.
The Boston Traueler has notion
that suicide, like other crimes, runs in
strata. One time it is a strata of poi-
son, again of hanging, again of drown
lug, throat-cutting or what not. Now
it has reached the coal-oil formation,
The largest organ in the world is
now building in London for the Hall Of
Arts and Sciences of South Kensing-
ton. 1t will have one hundred and
eleven sounding stops independent OF
fourteen couplers.
An Irishman recently soliloquised.
What waste O. money to be buying
mate when you know the half Of it is
bone, while you can spind it for rum
that hasn't bone in it,
The young lady who thought that
the gentleman who raised his hat most
frequently to her in the street was her
best bower, has been left with a lone
hand.
A gentleman who has lived for many
years in sight of the ocean says it is
an undeniable fact that the vicinity of
] the c always makes hilly location
chilly,
A man in a buggy, in West Virgin
ia. was chased some miles bya rattle
snake.
Baltimore has q church ~ every