The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1871-02-07
Gossippy.

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Early in life, Peter Cooper broke
down in three different kinds Of busi-
ness, and then tried the manufacture
of glue. That stuck.
A travelling piano player undertook
to whip an Illinois editor, and when
he got through, the piano FOUNDER had
only one ear for music.
The Columbia, S. c., Union COM
plains that "a set Of beardless, half.
grown boys" have stolen the doors OF
of meeting house in that town. This
it calls "puee cussedness."
Talk about prosy editorials. The
London Times for Dec. LIST, 1870, had
for its leader an article ten columns in
length, containing over $4,000 words,
mostly about the French war.
Mrs. Alice Cooley, of Natchez, is at
work on a life-sized bust of the late
General Lee. Here's a chance for
Gov. Geary to protest against the COM
petition of Cody labor.
Mr.. Arp, of Iowa, took home can
of the non. Explosive kind the other
day. Uncorking the spout led to the
usual result. The dealer said he
wouldn't have it Arpen for dollar.
See to what woman's rights are
bringing US. A man tried to commit
suicide in Chicago because his wife
wouldn't give him twenty-five cents So
that he could play game of billiards.
Haldeman, the member from York,
has hopefully reformed since the fit OF
delerium tremens in which, last month,
he so shamefully abused his wife, a
daughter of Senator Cameron.
When Governor Merrell, of Iowa,
visited the State Peniteutiary and com.
menced a speech to the prisoners by
remarking that he "Was glud to sec
so many there I" the was no applause
and he modified the sentiment.
Putting a stick of long wood in a
short stove, then taking it out aud
placing it in wood box and piline
shavings on top of it, was the reason 8
New Albany man had to rent house
the next day.
Mr.. Colfax has been presented with
mallet made from wood cut upon the
Mount of Olives. If the waving O
that olive branch does not maintain
peace in the Senate, let him bring
down his other olive branch.
A colored pensioner of the war O
the American revolution, named Johr
Baden, died last week in Canada at the
age of 105, having been on the pen
sion list for more than eighty years
He fought on what was the "loyal'
side of the period.
Indiana "cussedness" can 60 no fur
tier. Some wretch has stolen the on
ly pair of boots owned by a Crawford
county editor, thus obnfning him t.
the house till the opening of the bare
foot season.
1t took two or three hundred mer
two days to open one of the Chicago
street car lines, after the great storm
The ice hugged the havement mos
persistently, and the ak and pick were
the only implements that could make
any impression.
That man out West who is Away:
doing surprising things, recently sent
an order to Chicago for a piano, and
soon after wrote to the dealers that he
and bis wife couldn't find the place to
wind it up, and they wanted to be told
at once how to make the thing go.
The testimony of the Salt Lake
Tribune is that liberal sentiments are
rapidly spreading in Utah. On, thing
is certain that if many silver discover.
les are made in Utah, and railroads
traverse the territory, it will no longer
be Brigham YOung's pocket bor-
ough."
A Rochester bill.poster, unable to
get his money from firm in that city,
stationed himself in front of their
store with a placard ON which was
printed, "Pay your debts" Having
thus collected a crowd (but not the
money! he was arrested, fined $40,
and told not to do so again.
The Nathan's assassin, and the Rog-
ers' murderer having been discovered
by the newspapers lit is pretty GER
tain that the inhuman wretch "who
strHck Billy Patterson" will be driven
from his long hiding place The out
rage upon BILLY" is as old as the hills,
but his friends are now more numerous
than when tho indignity was put upon
him, and "they are eager for the fry :"
What do farmers persist in making
many fences forH They little realize
the fact the fences of the United States
have cost more than the houses, cities
included more than the ships, boats
and vessels, of every description, which
sail the ocean, lakes and rivers more
than any one class of property, aside
from real estate, except, it may be, the
railroads of our country.
A hotel at Ellenyille, N. Y, has
one of its features, a 'drunk room"
When a transient customer becomes
so much intoxicated that he is unable
to take care Of himself, he is put into
this room and kept there until he is
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