The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1871-03-28

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printer who, when his fellow workman
went out, to drink beer, during tho
working hours, put in the bank the
exact amount which he would have
spent if he had gone out to drink. He
kept to this resolution for five years.
He then examined his bank account
and found that he had on deposit
s52186. In the FIVE years he had lost
day from i'll health. Three out
of FIVE of his fellow workmen had in
the meantime, become drunkards,
were worthless as workmen, and Wee
discharged. The water drinker then
bought out the printing office, went
on enlarging his business, in twenty
years from the time he began to put
by his money was worth 100000.
The story, whether new or old, teaches
lesson which ever boy and young
man should lay to heart.
A diabolical outrage was perpetrat-
ed on the convicts of the Michigan
State Prison the other day, by an. in
human warden, who introduced an or
gan-grinder within the walls, and set
him at work with his internal machine
to torture the inmates while they were
at dinner. The guests of that estab'
lisnment vow that they will not pat.
ronize it again-if they can help it
and, indeed, many were heard to say
that they would leave Immediately, did
circumstances permit.
Mr.. Snooks was asked the other
day how he could account for ma
lures forming him so ugly. Mature
was not to blame" said he. "When
| was two months old l was considered
the handsomest child in the neighber-
hood, but my nurse snapped me away
for another boy, just to please a friend
of hers, whose child was rather homely
looking"
A country editor, in New Hamp-
shire, has had presented to him, for
allowance in q lawsuit, bill which
reads: ITO doing your chores, such as
dawing water chopping wood, and
and feeding cattle the weeks you lay
drunk, s2l."
A lady teacher in one of the pub.
lie schools of town in Wisconsin has
laid aside her ferule and adopted the
method of kissing her pupils into
obedience. The larger boys, it is said.
are particularly unruly, and require
daily correction.
Great complaint comes from the West
about Anna Dickinson. One report
SAYS that she was so engrossed with
a young lawyer in Bay City, Michigan
a few nights since that next morning
she oversight herself, missed the train
and her lecture at neighboring city.
A Youngstown couple were divorc-
ed at the last term Of the MahOning
Ohio, court, after having
lived together twenty-eight years. Last
week they mutually agreed that single
life was not Every blessed" and were
accordingly remarked.
A New Hamphire man when asked
to give his consent to the marriage Of
his daughter, turned with beaming
to the applicant and
frankly: Eyes. yes; and
don't you krow some likely young
man who will take the other ?"
A dutiful son in Detroit has killed
81 of his neighbors' cats to get money
to buy his mother a set of false teeth.
He has make quiet neighborhood
where was bowling wilderness, and
the old woman can eat heartily.
A St. Louis paper published an &C
count of suicide of steamer cap
tain, including his. .last-Eords, which
the captain says are incorrect.
A roasted onion bound upon the pulse
on the wrist will stop the most
inveterate toothache in few minutes.
-Ex.
We are told there is nothing mado
in vain. But how about pretty
young girlf lent she maiden vain>