The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1873-08-06

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which he will generally reach his full
value--be 800, then he win depre-
cate $40 per anhum after that age. At
ten years he should be worth but $50,
and at twelve YEARS but S35, seeing
as at he latter age the probabilities
are that he has used seven-tenths Of
the period Of his usefulness to man.
We are speaking now Of the average
horse, and of his real value at that
age as compared with younger horses
Of the same grade. 1t is true that
horse, if comparatively sound at twelve
years of age, will generally bring in
the market price considerably IN ad.
vance Of this; but considering fifteen
years to be the average limit to useful
ness, and considering the increased
cost of keeping, as the horse gets old
er, and also the extreme liability to
die by bolts, and other diseases to
which old horses are peculiarly liable,
and the chances are greatly against
any ordinary horse at that age being
worth sum of money much in ex.
cess Of that we have named. 1t is
also true that farm or work-horse at
even fifteen years of age, if still Wig.
orous, is often worth a considerable
sum, but as q rule, with but few ex-
ceptions, sound horse five years of
age, is we'll worth 800 as is a horse
from twelve to fifteen worth $50 or
less.
A man out in Montana, short
time ago, s9uatted on another persons
land and built small frame shanty.
When requested to move he positive
ly refused to do so; so, one night, a
squad of men came around after the
squatter and his wife were asleep, and
lifeing the whole concern, shanty and
all, with deliberate care carried it to
the river and set it on small raft.
Then they pushed the raft out into
the stream and let her 20. When the
squatter got up in the morning to go
out, he was surprised to find himself
about sixty miles down stream, and
making good time in a nine-knot cur.
rent. This is all we shall say about
that man. 1t would be extremely i'm
proper to report his remarks in full in
this paper.
A Pennsylvania editor, who has
been on dead d-head excursion out on
the Plains, lost his pass and had to
walk seventy miles before he could
find a man who had sufficient conf
dence in him to len1 him money
enough to telegraph home to his wife
to sell the cook stove and remit the
proceeds to him at once.
Grace Greenwood relates MS an in.
stance of extravaganza of New Eng
land humor that when a Young far
ner's wife made her first boys pants
precisely as ample before as behind,
the father exclaimed, "Goodness he
won't know whether he's going to
school or coming home"
The 'cholera" men of the Chicago
newspapers publish cheerful bulletins
producing a most salutary effect in
the agricultural districts of Illinois.
They have already been the means of
saving thousands of water melon
PANShSS
The President of the Vicksbureh
Common Council declared q motion
carried, and four aldermen declared
TO the contrary, and such was his OBJ
stinacy that they had to throw him
out of the window.
A Boston paper asserts that an Illi-
nois windmill was lately run one hun
dred and eighty-on one days without a
stop by a Chicago editsr's breath.
What is that Boston editors idea Of
lately? |
An Iowa justice of the peace refused
to fne a man for kissing girl against
her will, because when the lass come
into court he was obliged to hold on
the arms of his chair to keep from
kissing her himself.
An Indiana editor is said to have
played few tunes upon an old banjo
under his own window, and then in
next issue of his paper thanked the
serenader for the delightful music.
There is a good deal of sound wis.
dom in the suggestion of the farmer :
If you want your boy to stay at home,
don't bear too hard ON the grindstone
when he turns the crank.
A Washington Territory man offers
TO contribute S25 toward fund to buy
off the men who have made it their
business for twelve years past to hold
all the offices. 81
A Western editor insists that he
wrote the word "trousseau" plain as a
pikestaff in connection with certain
bridal presents. The printer however
vuigarly put it "trousers."