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

w nom 90 you love
What said Julia? II amt agoing to
tell, but you will see marriage no
tice by and by"
at. Dodson" of Madison county
Virginia, in announcing his platform,
as a candidate for the State Senate,
says:
81 am in favor of discouraging celiba-
cy by every means in the power Legis-
lature. A heavy tax should be impos-
ed on all old bachelors, old maids and
childless married people, for the pur-
pose of raising money to support our
free schools. | would also require per
sons, who desire the luxury Of second
marriage, to pay tax of about two
hundred and fifty dollars on their
license, the money to 60 To the school
fund. AS further penalty for celiba
cy, / am in favor Of appropriating
the property Of all persons who never
marry, for the benefit of the free
school"
The singing of swans has been sup
pose1 to be fiction; but John A.
Hjaltalin, an Icelander, writes to Ma
ture that he has often heard them sing
in one of the iirths of Western Ice.
land, where hundreds of them congre-
CRATE. In the morning and evening
their singing is so loud that it can be
heard miles away, and the mountains
on both sides ring With the echo of it
for each individual seems to join in
il the chorus. The singing has not
the slightest resemblance to the cack-
ling of geese or the quacking of ducks.
1t is clear and full, and has a metallic
ring. The notion that the singing is
sweetest just before the swans death is
prevalent in Iceland. Their nests are
in small inland lakes or tarns, only
one pair nesting at single lake.
A VENERABLE THROTTLE Leb ba-
non, Tenn, Herald, says that there is
a man named William l.. Barry EN-
ployed as c0mpositor in the office of
that paper, who completed the ninety
first year Of his age on the 10th OF
March. On the day before and the
day after his birthday, the old gentle
man did full days work. He is at
his case promptly at seven o'clock, and
puts up his six thousand day without
trouble. There is no pecuniary neces
sity for his laboring at all, and he sets
type purely from love of the art which
he has followed So long. He commenc
ed to set type in 179S-seventy three
years ago-and has continued at the
business ever since. The venerable
gentleman is still hale and hearty
He is held in high esteem by the pro
prietors and attaches Of the office.
The subjoining paragraph, clipped
from an exchange, is a valuable little
volume in ITSELF
"No man is a gentleman, who, with
out provocation. would eat with in
civility the humblest of his species
1t is vulgarity for which no accom-
plshment of dress can ever atone
The man who desires to make every
one around him happy, and whose
, greatest solicitude is never to give of
/ tense to any one, is gentleman by ma
, ture and species, though he may never
, have worn suit of broadcloth, MOI
: ever heard of lexicon. There are
men in every throb Of whose hearts
there is solicitude for the welfare o
| mankind, and whose every breath il
perfumed with kindness"
: An individual is told of as doin.
business in one of our markets who i
down on customers who don't speal
. properly. whats eggs this moning
/, asked a customer. Eggs, of course,
I replied the dealer. Il mean how dc
they goF Go where?' 'Sho-p saw
l the customer, getting up his fury
t what for eggs? Money, money, sir
D or good endorsed credit, answered tn,
the dealer. Went you understand tn,
t English language, sir? says the custo
. mer, Not as you mix and mingle it,
l do not, responded the egg vender
| 'What-is-the-price-per--d dozen
( for-your-eggs% 'Ah row you talk,
: says the dealer, eighteen cents a dozel
t is the price, sir
!. 1t is seldom that statesmen have tn,
opportunity Of choosing between
good and an evil still more seldom
j. that they can boast of that unfortu
: nate situation where, like the grea
: Duke of Marlborough, they are per
mitted to choose between two thing
that are good. His grace was hesita
ting whether he should take a prescrip
! ton recommended by the Duchess
= IL will be hanged said she, "if i
does not cure you" DIR. Garth, VIII,
was present, instantly exclaimed, "Tak
= it then, your grace, by all means, it i
: sure to do good one way or the other
J. A sick man, slightly convalescent
}, recently in conversation with piOu
c friend, congratulating him upon hi
!. recovery, and asking him who his Thy
d sician was, replied; 'Dr. -- brough
S me through. NO, no. said his friend
# God brought you out of your Hines;
e not the Doctor Well, replied he
S maybe he did, but ! am certain tn
t doctor will charge me for it,