The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1872-07-23
Rates of Advertising.


Great Britain will lose her industrial
within a decade, if the rro-
tectionists' policy of the American
government continues.
A Utica girl at the proper hour
pulls a string which reverses a picture
on the back of which appear in hurge
characters the Words "Ten o'clock is
my bedtime" and her admirers take
the gentle hint and depart.
"Boy," said teacher the other day,
"what is the meaning of all this noise
in school ?" "It's Bill Smith, sir, who
is initiating a locomotive" "Come up
here, William" said the teacher. "If
you are turned into a locomotive, it is
high time you we're switched off.
In an advertisement of railroad
company of unclaimed goods letter
dropped from the word lawful, and SO
the advertisement appropriately reads:
"People to whom these packages are
directed are notified to come forward
and pay the awful charges of the
same.
A gentleman desirous of purchasing
an estate in Switzerland, which he has
not sufficient money to buy, adver-
tises in the Swiss Times for a partner
possessing enough money to make up
the required sum. The partner is to
be lady, and one of the conditions is
that she shall marry the advertiser.
Mrs. Emily Pitt Stevens claims that
it was a doughnut, and not revolver
which she drew on Mr.. Meeker in San
Francisco. Those who have travelled
in the west say that her deadly intent
is all the more certain, since a dough-
nut is far more fatal than q pistol,
which sometimes misses fire.
Mrs. Neeley, of Coventryville, in
Schuylkill county, day or two ago,
while sweeping the house, found box
of powder and thinking it useless threw
it into the fire. 1t was blasting pow
der-and it blasted. Mr.. Neeley thinks
he will put French roof on his new
house, as Mrs. Neeley No. 2 may like
it better.
An Irishman, at Philadelphia, was
watching the conscription wheel, when
suddenly, losing all control of him
self, he burst out, 'Whirl it round
whirl it round rouse it, will YEP
What's the matter with you? said the
Provost Marshal .Qh, he iaherS! tnEn-
it round dozen times, for the man
you drawed last is my next door neigh
bor.'
A boy who had just come in posses
sion of his first shotgun, amused HIM
self by banging away at his father, who
was greasing his harness on the wood
pile. The old gentleman let him prac-
tice few minutes, and then famed
him with one of the tugs until he con-
cluded to go out of the schutzenfest
business. Some parents can never let
a boy have any fun.
Says the Richmond Dispatch: "The
first man who took the benefit of the
bankrupt law in Virginia after the
, passage of the act in 1867, went West
r shortly afterward. Recently he re-
d. turned to the city, and before night
had paid all his former creditors in
7 full for the claims which they held
l against him when he went Into bank
{ ruptcy. We suppose there are few such
cases on record, and it speaks well for
our people"
in one of the Western States there
resided family consisting of an old
man by the name of Beaver, and his
D three sons, all of whom were very
t wicked. They had often laughed to
scorn the advice and entreaties of q
o pious, though very eccentric minister
> who resided in the same town. 1t SC
I happened that one of the boys, was
bitten by rattlesnake, and was ex'
pected to die, when the minister was
J. for sent in great haste. On his arrival
IS he found the young man very penitent
and anxious to be prayed with. The
minister kneeled down and prayed il
J.. this wise: 80 Lord, we thank thee fol
q rattlesnakes we thank thee because
q rattlesnake has bitten him. w
Il pray thee send a rattlesnake to bit'
John, send one to bite Bill and, {
. Lord, send the biggest kind of rat
Is tlesnake to bite the old man, for moth
l. ing but rattlesnakes will ever brin!
Ie the Beaver family to repentance.
We learn from a Harrisburg pape
that there is a girl in that city "wh,
At always spells backward" No expla
'rr nation is given of this, and we canno
ID understand it. Backward" is not
OF hard word to spell. We should thinl
as that almost any ordinary girl WHIT
would practice upon that word assid
lg uously for few days would learn t,
B, spell it with very considerable amour
ID of facility, If this Harrisburg girl
&c therefore, spends her time always spell
ne ing backward" merely because sh
considers it an exceedingly remarka
BILE thing that any one should wrestl