The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1871-11-21
The San Francisco Town crier.

There is no one thing more charac.
teristic of California than the San
Francisco Nelcs. Letter; and the chief
thing which has impaired its charac-
teristic flavor to the Neics Letter, and
given it its peculiar reputation, is the
ToCn Crier. With this preliminary,
we introduce the Town Crier as he
shows himself in the Ne,cs Letter Of
recent dates:
Chinese are receiving instructions in
Sunday Schools at Olympia.-Er. So
they are here. The instruction il Civ
en- by the white pupils just outside the
school house, and is commonly i'm.
parted with brick.
The parents of the double baby,
which recently died in Boston were in
suited by an offer of SIX thousand dol.
lars for the remains their darling. The
proposal was Indignantly rejected.
They demand ten thousand.
The Call says the world will go by
US ere long, aud our relics will not he
worth the price of fre.wood. We sup.
pose our ne.ghbor alludes to corporeal
relics: our spiritual relics will be
worth considerably more than fire
wood, because they will burn longer,
and with more intense hear.
The newest and sweetest thing in
suicide is to go out to the se2ulchre of
your boy, who was slain by a tumbling
edifice, and tipple strychnine out of a
clamshell. To Mr.. Lewis Beach the
public is indebted for this beautiful
conception, and to this beautiful con
ception the devil is indebted for nice,
fresh roast.
A gentleman in the wholesale liquor
line advertises that some persons have
been circulating the falsehood that
his whiskies contain foreign and un-
wholesome matter, and adds: "ro
those accustomed to use these whiskies
the slander needs no refutation."
True; they rest quietly in THAR peace
ful graves, and the idle tale Of the ira.
ducer impresses them not.
A correspondent says there is some.
where law which Furnishes the chill.
dren for the crimes of the father, even
unto the third and fourth generation
and he wishes to know when it was en-.
acted, and where it may be found. We
do not know; it sounds very much as
if it might have been passed by the
last California Legislature, against
the Chinese; but we don't think that
any one who voted for it can ever be
reelected.
Here is an unimportant but interest
ing part of the description of Turk
ish beauty who is sojourning IN New
York-temporarly it is to be hoped
"She has the eyes of houri, almond
shaped, deep and dreamy, and bril-
liant, white teeth that laugh as she
laughs" Sweet Venus, what nice
girl 1t would he worth Thousand
years of ones life to own her. Wha
delight to see ones own face mirroreC
in those eyes, What bliss to minister
to her wants For example, to inser
slices of bacon between those laughin.
teeth.
A convival party, sixty-fve years
bad fell off the wharf the other nigh
and sputtered Justify for succor, whicl
he finally obtained. He was pulled
out very much collapsed as to figure
and quite low m Temperature. WheI
the officers who made the rescue learn
ed his age, they put bold face upoI
the matter and claimed to have know
it all the time. They were not believed
Of course, and have been unmercifull,
guyed for soiling their clothes and wet
ting their feet to save a man who vii
probably die in less than FIVE year
) anyhow.
At the city of Horse Prairie (w,
suppose it is city, in Illinois, a child
while sleeping peaceahly with its pa
rents, was so operated upon by tn
teeth Of rats that it has died. Parent
may take hint from this how to man
age these predatory rodents. Smea
the youngest pledge of affection wit
bane, and expose it in some rat.haunt
ed cellar. In cases where traps ar
used, impaled baby might advantage
/, ously supersede toasted cheese, fo
bait. We had not thought that thes
vermin-the rat-bad such degrade
tastes.
An American officer in the servic
of the Khedive says Georgian gin
of the highes type Of beauty may b
purchased in the Egyptian market fo
two thousand dollars. If this turn
out to be true, it is probable that tn
good people of Cairo will be throw
into a fine rage by the presence of th
IO,Oa. Orier. We have long though
this girlselling business ought to b
written down, aud if some philanthrC
pist will give two thousand dollars I
the cause, we will go over and do i
We shouldn't be in Egypt twenty-fou
hours before we should ferret out tn
j. guilty parties who have girls for salt
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