The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1872-06-18


eloped from her home about two weeks
ago. Her husband discovered her
flight on returning from his work
in the evening, and at once took his
rifle, mounted his horse and started in
pursuit. He rode without food and
almost without rest for nearly two
days, when he overlook the fugitives.
The betrayer of his family fred at
him, but missed. The avenger in q
moment knocked him from his sad
die disdaining to kill the seducer, but
reserving him for more terrible pun
ishment, and seizing his wife with an.
iron grasp, despite her prayers for
mercy, gave her her false teeth which
she had left behind. His work of
vengeance done, the husband rode leis-
urely away.
1t is not safe to trihe with the affec-
tions of the factory girls of Providence.
They are expensive commodities and
if damaged have to be paid for at ru-
inous rates. An imprudent but wealthy
bachelor of SO was wont to rise at six
o'clock in the morning to walk to the
mill with Julia Vallot. Julia became
sick and he gave her a pair of stout
shoes and lent her his book of mort.
cages to read. Afterwards he took
her to ride and in an unguarded mo-
ment the ardor of the venerable swain
led him to make proposals of matri-
mony. They were accepted and when
the ancient lover in his cooler moments
desired to retreat and offered dollar
to settle with Julia, he found himself
caught in the gauzy meshes of Julia's
web, A suit for breach Of promise
followed, and $4,000 was allowed by
her intelligent jury as the value TO
Julia of her venerable bachelor
A touching incident is reported from
! Chattanooga. An utter stranger called
on a respectable farmer last week and
asked him if his house had not been
robbed during the war. The farmer
replied that it had. 81" said the
stranger, "was one Of the marauding
party that did it. / took little sill
yer locket." "That locket," said the
farmer, bursting into tears, chad been
worn by my dear, dear child" "Here
it is, replied the stranger, visibly af-
fected 81 am rich let me make resti.
tuition; here are $50 for your little
son." He gave the farmer $50 bill
and received $50 in change. He then
wrung the farmers hand warmly and
left. The farmer has since dried his
tears and loaded his shotgun. The
$50 bill was bad.
The masculine intellect is taxed to
its utmost capacity when the mysteries
Of the female gaIb become involved
with the other intricacies of jurispru-
| dence. A woman was shot lately in
California, and the Coroner attempted
to illustrate the course of the bullet
through her corsets by putting this
strange device around his waist. He
got it wrong side up, wrong side in
front, and wrong side out, and though
a married man, and assisted by the
suggestions of several jurymen, he
couldn't get it right until an expert
enced reporter stepped up and neatly
adjusted the bit of mechanism for the
waist.
A Burmese potter, it is said, became
envious of the property of washer
man, and, to Iuin him, induced the
king to order him to wash one of his
black elephants white, that he might
be "lord of the white elephant" which
in the East is a great distinction. The
washerman replied that, by the rules
of his art, he must have vessel large
enough to wash him in. The king or
dered the potter to make him such
vessel. When made it was crushed by
the first step of the elephant in it.
Many times was this repeated and
the potter was ruined by the very
scheme he had intended should crush
his enemy.
An inveterate old beggar, who fre-
quented certain entry, was tolled in
to one Of the offices by the inmates,
out of curiosity, to know what was in
his particular plea for charity on that
day, since he always had new one.
On being pressed with the question as
to what was really the matter with
hlm, he replied at last, well, gentle
men, | guess I've kinder lost my ener-
gy powers"
An ingenious schoolma am in Iowa
punished boy for kissing the big
girls, by making him show how it was
done before the whole school. 1t
didn't work well, however, for the idea
became altogether too popular at
once.
Move with the multitude in the
common walks of life, and you will be
unnoticed in the throng; but break
from them, pursue different path,
and every eye, perhaps with reproval,
will be turned towards you.
That compositor had his own way of
punctua;ing and spelling, and this is
the way he treated familiar passage
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