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


Paradoxial as it may appear, to be-
come round it is necessary to eat square
meals.
The shrirkage in the value Of Pa
cifc Railroad securities, within the |
last two weeks, is twenty-seven million
dollars.
A medical journal estimates that the
people of the United States pay $685.
100000 yearly for physicians services
and for medicines, but they spent
good deal more than that for liquors
and other things to make them sick.
For many years popular opinion has
declared that New York was the heav-
lest taxed city in the United States.
Figures, however, show that the taxes
of Boston, considering the relative
amount of population, are greater than
those of New York.
The Nation is responsible for the
statement that "a story has been long
current, and is tolerably we'll authen-
ticated, that antipathy to and distrust
of Mr.. Motley were first reused in the
Presidents breast by seeing that he
parted his hair in the middle"
DIR. M. s. Latham, of Laramie,
Wyoming, has arranged to inaugurate
sheep raising on the Laramie river, on
the Union Pacific Railroad, on o scale
that may enable the New England
men who are in the enterprise in few
years to regulate the price of the wool
market of the world.
DIR. Hammond advances the novel
idea that Spiritualism is disease, hys.
terical and cataleptic in its nature.
He processes to be able to cure the
worse case of medium by treatment
of iron and strychnine. The efficacy
of the latter if taken in sufficient
doses, may be safely warranted.
A sad instance of how much many
people suffer, who are supposed by the
world at large to be in comfortable cir
Icumstances, was seen in Jersey City ON
Sunday. A young lawyer, supposed
to be doing good business and who
had many friends, was discovered to
be insane, the cause being that for four
days he had not tasted food.
| The Leader published at Wampun,
Wis, has a subscriber who has been
promising for years to pay his subscrip-
ton in wood, and the editor, getting
tried of waiting, has investigated the
case, and found the dearest he has got
to paying is to plant an acorn. When
the tall oak grows up that editor. is
going to have all the wood he wants.
The Elmira Advertiser says: A
young couple we're married at Catta-
raugus last week. The brides shoes
hurt her feet so bad that she had to sit
down while the minister was performing
the ceremony.-She said she wouldn't
postpone the wedding, but would get
married that night if she had to go to
bed to do it.
The statement that the buffalo are de-
serting the plains is pronounced flc-
ton. They cover the plains for miles
and miles. The railroad track bothers
them They consider it snare and
will not cross it. They run along by
the side of the track for miles and when
they come 20 culvert dive under.
The census taker has brought to light
the best living specimen of man en-
tireIy without curiosity. The phenom-
enon resides in Indiana, and although
he has been married five years, he don't
know yet what his wife's name happens
to be. He has felt satisfied to call her
"Say" ever since he has known her.
Boxford, Conn, is a quaint old Pu-
ritan town-not glass of ale sold in
this place. 1t borders on eight towns,
is eleven miles long and six miles
wide, and has population of eight
hundred and fifty souls, about the
same as one hundred years ago. Appro-
priately enough, the. chief industry of
the town is the manufacture Of boxes
for shoes and matches.
There is a paper in New Orleans
that is strong on condolences, aud its
latest is this; A child was stolen recent
ly while the bells were ring for fire
in certain building. The evening
the child was found another FIRE occur
ed in the same building. An on Thurs
day moring last, when the trial of the
abductors Of the child was begun in
the criminal court, the same building
took fire third time and was burned
down.
The other evening Matte Patterson
delivered an excellent temperance lec-
ture in Poughkeepsie, before good au-
dience. The Chief of Police of the
city. in looking over some photographs
sent to him to aid in making arrests,
found the likeness of Miss Patterson
in the collection. 1t was soon ascer-
tained that she was a runaway wife,
who had taken to lecturing to pay her
hotel bills.
The third son of the Car will come
to this country next spring. He is
twenty-one years Of age, and has the
rank of captain of the fleet and aid
de.camp to the Emperor. He will be
accompanied by Admiral Poisele, who
superintends his studies. Prince Alexis
has already been on a tour through /
Europe and Asia, and will travel