The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1871-11-14
CLIPT0GRAMS.


or inquiry. Books, regarded merely
as a qualification, are worth more than
all the luxuries ON earth. A taste for
literature secures cheerful occupation
for the unemployed and languid hours
of life, and how many persons in these
hours, for want of innocent resources,
are now impelled to coarse pleasure
How many young men can be found
who, unaccustomed to find a compan-
ion in a book. and strangers to intel.
lectual activity, are almost driven, in
the long, dull evenings of winter, to
haunts of intemperance and depraving
society!
1t a poor rule that won't work
both ways. A Georgia negro thought
he would economic by sending his son
to school and then make the boy teach
him. The plan worked well until the
young teacher, following the custom of
the seminary where he was taught,
gave the old man thrashjng for spell
ing dog d.o-r-g, and then the latter be-
came disgusted and ran away.
The Rev. M6ses Clampit an eccen.
trio preacher, held forth at Santa
Clara Valley young man rose to go
out, when the preacher said: "Young
man, il you'd rather 60 to perdition
than hear me preach, you may" The
sinner stopped, and reflected a mo-
ment, and then saying, "Well, l be-
lieve l would" went off.
An Irish glazer was putting pane
of glsss into a window, when groom,
who was standing by, joking him, to
mind and put in plenty of putty. The
Irishman bore the banter for some
time, but at last silenced his tormen-
tor by, "Arah now, be off wild sc, or
else I'll put pain in yer head without
any putty"
A Connecticut democrat sent his son
to New York to complete his educa-
ton. After short time the son wrote
to his father that he was studying Hor.
ace. On learning this the paternal
parent replied, "Come, home; l don't
want Greeley to make republican of
my son."
A poetical Vermonter presents his
views of the season in this fashion
ave know that Autumn is here, from
the fact that the swallow syndicates
discuss the question when to homeward
fy, and the yellow pumpkins now dot
the rural landscape like golden nut
megs on the sands of Ophir."
When the telegraph informed us
that Maggie Mitchell had reproduced
herself" we understood it; but the an.
nouucement that Victor Hugo is pleu.
raj" is just little too much. If they
go on improving the English language
in this way we shall soon be in pretty
fix.
Happy bridegroom-"More money,
madam more money! Have you for.
gotten that my money has bought ev
cry thing you possess-the very dress
you stand in p "Fair bride-"No sir
Nor have forgotten that your money
has bought what stands in itl'
A minister made an interminable
call upon a lady of his acquaintance.
Her little daughter, who was present,
grew very weary of his conversation,
and at last whispered in an audible key,
"didn't he bring his amen with him,
mamma ?"
Like morning dream life becomes
more and more bright the longer we
live, and the reason of everything be-
comes more clear. What has puzzled
us before seems less mysterious, and
the crooked paths look straighter as
we approach the end.
An old Dutchman who was some
years ago elected a member of the leg
islature, said, in broken style; "Ven |
vent to the lechislature l fought |
fought l would find dem all Solomons
dare; but | soon found dat dare vas
some as pig fools dare as / vas.
The following certificate lately APP
peared in the morning police news of
country paper I'll certify that Geo.
Roberts is rendered quite incapable OF
following his occupation from effects
of severe blow on the nose OF seri-
Gus nature"
$50 you are going to keep a
school, " said one young lady to another
well for nv part, sooner than dc
that, | would marry widower with
nine children" 81 should prefer that
myself" was the quiet reply; "but
where is the widower"
"Mr Speaker" said member o
the Jamaica Legislature, discussing 9
bill for the regulation of the timber
trade, 81 know these merchants TO b,
the most egregious rascals-I was il
the tinlber line myself twelve years.
Mrs. Partington, in an illustration
of the proverb, "A soft answer turnetl
away wrath" says that it is better t,
speak paragorically of person than {,
be all the time finging epitaphs a
him.
A paper says, in an obituary motto
that "the deceased had been for sever
al years director of a bank notwith
standing which he died a Christian
and universally respectpd