The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1873-03-12

matters herself, aud hearing her hus-
band coming 10 the kitchen thought
she would surprise him as soon as he
entered The door by throwing her
hands over his eyes and imprinting a
kiss on his brow as in the days of the
honeymoon. The husband returned
the salute with interest aud said, as he
disengaged her hands, MARY darling,
where is your mistress The wife dis.
charged Mary, darling, the next day,
and now adopts new plan ofsurpris.
ing her husband"
The new code of California estab.
fishes such complete equality in the
marriage state, and co does away with
the old notion that man and his wife
are one flesh, that the two can con.
tract with and sue each other the same
as,if they had never been married.
The marriage of minors changes their
status from minors to adults, and so
infants may jump at once into that
delightful state of liability to sue and
be sued which the wisdom of their low.
ing parents has prepared for them.
According to the Independent, the
Rev. Mr.. Globe, the Baptist mission.
airy who has recently translated the
Gospel into japanese, has rendered
the word "baptize" by word which,
while 1t means in one sense "immerse,"
means almost always to SOAK" John
the Baptist, therefore, appears to the
Japanese as John the Soake.', and the
last verse in Matthew reads: go ye,
therefore, and teach all nations, soak.
ing them in thy rame," &c.
A South American reporter has got
the start of us now by stating that the
Oldest man in the world has at length
been discovered. His name is Jose
MartinO Continho, resident of Cape
Frio, in the province of Rio Janeiro,
Brazil, who was born on the 20th of
May, 1894, and is Therefore nearly 1914
years old 1t is said that he has forty
tive children by six wives, and can
count 123 grandchildren, and twenty
children of the last.
An exchange, says Mr.. Jones' Of
Oshkosh, Ind, heard it intimated on
the street the other day that he was
henpecked. He went home and
thrashed his wife tore up two or three
dresses, opened all the doors and
windows in her house, and sat down
in the parlor with his feet on the cen
tire to die, among collection of choice
books, and smoked his pipe. He
thinks that the world is convinced
now that he is boss Of that rancho.
A correspondent of the Erie Ga.
zette says that Daniel Crull caught a
fine deer last week near Irvineton,
and Frank BlOdget caught one on
Saturday near Youngsville. Dogs
had driven it in," and when il came
on the ice it was too much excited to
keep from slipping down. Frank said
he tried to get hold of both his legs,
but found one was business enough"
He procured rope, and the deer now
has whole COW stable to ITSELF
"A fertile minded Bostonian pro-
poses to organize a company with a
capital of twelve millions, with the OBJ
ject Of enclosing a tract of several
square miles in an immense glass
structure, within which will be secur-
ed at trifiing cost tropical climate,
with its appropriate fruits and foliage,
good hotels, picturesque drives, art
galleries, an opera house, and in fact
every ything that consumptivss could
possibly wish for.
One day last week, near Marysville,
Cal, a thirty pound wildcat robbed
Miss Leonore Methuen Gage sixteen)
of a pet lamb, when that heroic young
lady buckled on her little pistol and
persued the cruel monster, and with
the assistance of a dog treed the ami
NAL in live oak, when she scientifi-
cally shot him through the head.
Who will say after this that California
girls cant shoot?
We are surprised to learn from the
Enquirer that "Ben Wade's handsome
daughter is bound to marry poor
carpenter" The latest returns do
not show that Mr.. Wade had a daugh-
ter, and We fear that the "poor car.
penter" will therefore make a very
Indifferent Joiner.
A New Orleans woman on the wit
ness-stand lately, in a divorce suit, re-
marked: "The estate of widowhood is
inconvenient, for one must have all
the modesty of young girl without
being able to feign her ignorance"
FIRED" said father to his son, 81
hear that you and youi wife quarrel
and wrauge every day" whoever
told you that father, is mistaken.
Me and my wife have net spoken fer
over a month"
"Murder is very serious thing,
sir" said an Arkansas judge to con