The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1871-03-07
Miscellaneous.

meal.
Beau Brummel declined to wed a
girl who consumed cabbage.
Few of the woman's rights shriekers
darn their own hosiery.
Letters from Florida speak of ripe
oranges, open windows and a temper
ature of seventy-seven degrees.
Henery King, of Lake county, o.,
owns a COW, whose milk for seven
days yielded fifteen pounds and seven
and a half ounces of butter.
In Rome there is regularly organ
lied and established Amrican club,
patronized by the nobility, and the
rendezvous of all Yankees aboard.
An act imposing not less than thirty
one years Imprisonment for injury to
graves, trees, shrubbery, etc., in cem-
eteries, has been introduced into the
State Legislature. 1t should become
a law.
Mr.. Jacobs, it is said, received, with"
in twenty-four hours after the terrible
accident on the Hudson River Rail-
road, hundreds of letters and kilograms
congratulating him on his safety. One
of these kilograms cost him four dol.
lars.
John P. Hale, our late Minister to
Spain, is in Washington. He is the
mere shadow of his former SELF and
can only walk slowly and painfully. In
spite of his illness, however, he can
hardly fail to enjoy the society of his
old political and personal friends.
The Sixth Congressional District of
Michigan embraces a territory larger
than Massachusetts, and Rhode Island
or the Duchy of Baden and the
Kingdom of fSaxony. The Fourth Con-
gressionol Distrit emberces territory
more extensive than Connecticut and
Delaware, or the Kingdom of Wurtem-
burg.
Senator Revels, at the close of his
official term, is to be lecturing agent
of the Congress Temperance Society
at the South. 1t is not every Senator
of the United States who is qualified
for so useful a vocation, though
some of them go might around with
Revels, as "awful examples" to
general satisfaction.
A Hoosier on western steamboat,
when a passenger, laid down with
his boots on. The steward seeing
this, angrily said: Sir, you have laid
down with your boots on NJ.
Hoosier calmly raised his head, and
looking down at his boots, innocently
replied, 'Oh it wont hurt them; they
are not the best pair
An irascable old gentleman was taken
with sneezing in the cars lately. After
sneezing in most spasmodic way
eight or ten times, he arrested the par
oxysm for time, ard extracting his
handkerchief he thus Indignantly adj
dressed his nasal organ: "Oh go on
-goon you'll blow your internal
brains out presently|
When Thackeray was in Boston, he
asked the proprietor of hotel on Sun
day morning where Theodore Parker
preached, and when the man of smiles
and bows said he did not know, he, ex-
claimed in his most astonished tones:
Don't know? Why, sir, we've heard
his voice away across the Atlantic. He
is the greatest preacher in America"
Corao man End Life upepiurahle if
they cannot lay wagers. IL a'iiis, -
hamton a favorite mode of winning
the drinks is for sharper to bet with
a yokel that he can stand an egg on
end fright out on the -four" and he
can't brake it with halfbushel
measure. The bet is taken the fiend in
human shape puts the egg precisely
in the corner, and ifyou wish to know
how it is yourselfyou would do we'll to
try the experiment.
A couple of weeks ago, Anna Dick
inson and Lillian S. Edgarton met
for the first time at Aun Arbor Mich,
reliable account says they rushed in-
to each others arms; "the superb
blonde, opened her arms, and the
small brunette nestled within them,
purring like little brown kitten.
Heaeeforth they would be as sisters
and the last that was seen of them was
a tableau of the brunette sitting on
the blondes knee, while both slipped
from the same tumbler a liquid which
the ingenious hotel clerk called hot
lemonade with fringe"