The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1871-01-31

dress, IL Is no PROOF OF lnuellCucy, Uub
simply an indication of national senti-
ment. This satisfactorily explains what
many ignorant people have taken for
improprety. We live and learn.
A Cincinnati girl sued shoemaker be-
cause she couldn't get inside ofa pair Of
shoes he made for her. He set up a
plea that leather was scarce,and charg-
ed that she could have got them on easy
enough if she had washed her feet. We.
don't usually publish society items" in
this column, but this is subject that
will interest all classes.
philadelphia claims to have the
largest locomotive factory in the world,
employing 1 600 men, turning out one
locomotive a day valued at $4,000,
, the largest book publishing housein the
world, the largest paper hanging manu-
factory in the world, and probably the
largest iron foundry, with any number
Of amateur industries thrown in.
ii will forfeit my head if you are
not wrong, exclaimed a vehement
United States Senator to President
Lincoln in an argument. Il accept
replied the President; ANY trife among
friends has value
There is a young and handsome
woman in California who is an engi-
neer, and runs a stationary engine TO
supply the watertank oftheplace whe.e
she lives. She can bring down flying
antelope with her needle gun equally
well.
-"Uncle" said a young man, who
thought his guardian supplied him rath-
er ersparingly with pocket money, sis the
Queens head still on the sovereign
"Of course it is,you stupid fellow. Why
do you ask" Because it is so long since
| saw one.
"A watch maker has a watch to re-
pair which, according to its owners
statement frequently stops whilst it is
going, and sometimes loses an hour in
twenty minutes.
"A man who read that dry copperas
put in bed of ants would cause them
to leave, put some in has mother-in-
laws bed to see if she wouldn't go. He
said she was there at last accounts.
Anna Dickinson's wardrobe must
be getting low. A report of her last
lecture says, "she appeared before her
auditors attired in modest but rich
necklace"
Over Eve million packs of playing
cards are made in this country annually.
Massachusetts, is the principal buyer Of
highpriced cards.
-Muggins, what era in the worlds
history do you regard with the deepest
horror?" The choIera!" gasped Muggins
with spasmodic shudder
A Missouri chap borrowed five.
dollars Of his intended bride to procure
Il license for marriage, and then used
the license to marry another girl.
"A sweet gill isa sort of divinity to
whom even the scriptures DO net forbid
US to render "lip-seryice."
In Sheffield, England, it proposed
to severely punish all pawnbrokers who
take pledges from children.
"A man, boasting of his temperate
habits, said he never saw glass Divine
without his mouth watering.
The difference between baby and
a coat is this; The coat is what you
wear, and the baby is what YOU were.
An elderly Indiana pair, aged
respectively rs and 20, want a divorce
} on account Of accumulated ineompati-
buity.
The greatest friend oftruth is time;
her greatest enemy prejudice, and her
constant companion is homliity.
"A punster asks whether, ifTitian's
wife had been named Polly, that fact
would have made her politician.
Many ways ofhappiness have deem
discovered, butallagree there is noneso
pleasant as loving and being loved.
The reason there areso many NUT
ton heads existing is because such
numbero Of childrenare "perleetlambs."
, "A Chicago paper says John Boyle's
J attempt to shoot his wife, in La Sale
Ill. on Wednesday was miserable
failure.