The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1871-10-31
CLIPT0GRAMS.

the night he got up, and clad only in
his sleeping garments, went out on the
platform of the ear to look at the
moon. The door closed with spring
lock and the porter was asleep. He
says he never enjoyed fifty-mile ride
as he did that one.
One of the silly distractions of the
"health" journals, which greatly dam
ages their usefulness, is that which de-
clares that it is unhealthy for two pee
pie to sleep together. A man of nine
ty-nine died the other day from the
effects of sleeping with his wife nearly
eighty years or from some other
cause.
The inevitable counts have, at this
seemingly premature period, made
their advent at several of the fashion
able resorts. One or two, no doubt,
have pedigree and right to title, but
the majority are worthless foreign adj
venturers. The usual silly futter and
fashionable agitation has been created
by their arrival.
Says the Louisville Courier Jour
nal "Some of the Bourbon papers
charge that we have swallowed tie
amendments We have done nothing
of the sort. They were thrust down
our throats, and we simply declined
to blow ourselves up with nitro-gly-
cerine to get rid Of them.
Col. G. w. Dickey of California has
issued challenge offering to match
a green horse that has never trotted
for money, mile heats, three best in
five, to harness, over the Sacramento
Race Course, against any horse, mare, !,
or gelding in the world, for $10,0OO.
The challenge has been accepted.
Madame Regina Dal Gin, famous
feminine surgeon of Austria, perform
ed $50 successful operations in the
City Hospital at Trieste, and was re-
warded by the municipal authorities
with letter of thanks and purse of
gold.
A Norwich man sat down in tho
Thames thinking that it was his do
nestle rocking chair He was fished
out after remarking that "some fool
was always leaving pan of water in
those chairs"
Mulloney says that the only way to
succeed in the grocery business, is to
sell cheap and give light weight. The
former will bring you customers, while
the latter will enable you to skin
them.
1t is fashionable and eminently the
correct thing to do the lakes and Can
adas in connection with tour of the
fashionable summer resorts. The sail
down the st. Lawrence is very grand.
A "city" out in Nevada, called Bob
Tailed Gulcb, has seven dwelling
houses and thirty-seven saloons. There
is talk of tearing down some of the
houses to make more room.
The international Hotel, Niagra
Falls, is designated by hackmen and
others as "Bride's Retreat" from the
fact that it is a great rendezvous for
newly married persons.
The Harvard Advocate says that
this is the last thing from an impas-
stoned lover to his mistress; would
you were an exclamation point and l
a parenthesis o."
At fifteen, girls think that they are
perfect, at twenty they believe it a
fact, at thirty, they have some doubts,
and at forty they have no faith in any
thing of the sort.
81 was not aware that you knew
him." said Smith to an Irish friend
the other day. "Know him" replied
the latter, 81 knew him when his faith
was boy"
children not allowed in this room
unaccompanied by their parents" is a
sign displayed conspicuously on the
drawing room of one of the seaside
hotels.
Coughs new lecture is entitled
"Will it pay?" Considering that he IS
to receive 5000 night for it for 200
nights, it is safe to calculate that 1T
will.
A correspondent describes Winnie
Ream in her studio with her arms
bare to the shoulder and her ankles
| likewise"
Some author says that one of the
uses of adversity is to bring us out.
That's true, especially at the knees
and elbows.
There are twenty-eight gravestones
in the Laramie Cemetery, and on nine
teen of these the epitaph is simply
"Killed."
Forty-seven young women of Waese-
on, Mich, charivaried youth of Is
who had welded widow of 46 in that
| town.
A Burlington young lady says the
armless woman of Barnum's show
"writes a very good foot"
A good many tradespeOple only
give fifteen ounces to the pound. 1t is
weigh they have.
Two Indianians settled which should
have a young widow by playing cards
for her