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


A young lady Of Terre Haute, is
about.to write book on "What know
! about Courtship,"
In the Sandwich Islands it is death
for a mans mother-in-law TO visit him
without permission.
A Richmond woman asks for a di-
vorce, saying that she has not seen her
husband since he murdered her father.
Waste.paper dealers will be inter-
ested to know that the patent Office
Report" is going through the press at
Washington.
Father, won't you buy me fish
pole" said pious boy. "You know
the Bible says, Spare the rod and spoil
the child"
A Chicago widow gave q druggist
81 800 worth of real estate to marry
her. He took the property but refused
to wed, and she sues him for his hand
or money.
A Bostonian visiting England, a
short time ago, was inquired of in
London, "if the Indians in Boston
worshiped ut the same churches as the
white residents"
Catskill has got the LATEST man yet
discovered. He got up the other morn
ing with one ear frozen, because he was
too lazy to turn over on the pillow to
warm it.
A Boston papa the other evening
gave his daughter in marriage, and
threw in matter Of 5000, 900 in bonds
and house in New York city all of
which was good to take.
A citizen of Newburg recently died
penniless, who at one time lit his cigars
with FIVE dollar note. If the the bill
wasn't counterfeit his subsequent des-
titution was richly deserved.
A convention was held in Oregon
lately to devise means for elevating
the Indians of the Pacific coast. On
the eastern reservations whiskey is
found to be very effective.
"Why did Joseph's brethren put
him in the pitt" asked Sunday
school teacher. The reply was, "Be-
cause there was no room for HIM in the
family circle"
The approaching wedding of VIM.
Sprague Hoyt, of the firm of Sprague,
Hoyt & CO., of New York, with the
youngest daughter of Chief Justice
Chase, is announced.
Still a,other way of killing cat
has been found. One died recently in
New York from licking the face OF a
lady who had just dressed herself for
the street and had improved her COM
plexion
The st. Louis Republican is Dem
ocratic paper, and the st. Louis DEM
ocrGt is a Republican paper. 1t would
be great relief to the news editors OF
the country if they would swap names.
A certain editor wrote an editorial
under the caption, "Shelling Paris" i"
When the paper came out, and he saw
his editorial headed "Shelling Peas" !"
he was real mad.
Wendell Phillips says it is mistake
to teach the boy at school that there
are are thirty-seven States in this
Union; there are thirty-six States and
a railroad-the Camden and Amboy.
A deacon, who became rich in a
grocery, in New England city. used
to boast how much he had done for
the cause of temperance by mixing at
least u gallon of pure water with every
gallon of liquor he sold.
Logansport ladies amuse themselves
by stuffing suits of mems clothing end
placing them partly visible, under the
beds of bachelor friends, thus Great
ing a panic and well grounded i'm
preston that there are burglars about.
The double babes, born three months
since in Morrow county, Ohio, are
hereafter to be known as the "Ohio
double babes" Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Finlay, the parents of the babes, have
commenced tour of exhibition.
The Boston Advertiser says: "Last
night must have been the coldest of
the season. A thermometer was set
outside window in this office, when
the mercury instantly fell four stories,
carrying the entire thermometer with
it,"
There Is in a Western State a wo-
man so cleanly that she r1bs the dirt
off the fire. wood before she puts it in
the stove. Another woman tries to
beat this by pulling the growing beets
out every morning and washing the
dirt off them.
The indianapolis Daily Journal ac-
cuses the Legislative Speaker and Ger.
tain members of gross obscenity and
blackguardism in their official places,
and promises to prove it by verbatim
reports. The Indignant House last
week censured the equally indigant
Journal, and the end is notyet.
A few days since some boys in Chi
cago dropped an anvil weighing two
hundred pounds out of fourth story
window on the head of an African
who was passing, and he had them ar
rested. He said he WAS willing for