The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1873-02-05

ably good paper, and purports to be
No. 9,812. The statue of "America,"
on the left hand side of the note is
family and badly executed, as is also
the medallion portrait in the lower
right hand corner The line engrav-
lug on the back is indistinct, and the
curved lines weak and wavering. The
second counterfeit is badly printed
on wretched paper, is numbered 81
720, and the engraving is exceedingly
coarse and scratchy.
A hop in your walk is halt, but q
dance upon nothing is a halter. One
finger by itself may be a-numb, but
ten fingers are a number. A deal Of
gold may be plumb, but a dealer in
lead is Il plumber. You may some
times put sauce into cup, but you
should always put cup into a saucer.
You're a fool if you're walker in q
pond, you're philosopher if you pom
der in your walk. A cough makes
you wheezy of the chest, but of the
chest you can easy make Golfer A
steel is what makes blade sharp, but
blade that makes a sharper is q
stealer.
Among other things that Wells &
Fargo's firm is not responsible for as
carriers is one couched in the follow
ing language in their regulations:
Not for any loss or damage by fire,
the acts Of God, Of Indians, or any
| other public enemies Of the govern
ment."
A garter was pumped up at the
Court House well at Bloomington,
ILL.,, last Saturday. Upon the supposi-
tiont hat woman had been attached to
the garter, number of gallant young
men fshed in the we'll during the
greater portion of the afternoon.
A certain little damsel having been
aggravated beyond endurance by her
brother, pumped down upon her
knees and cried 90 Lord bless my
brother Tom. He lies, he steals, he
swears; all boys do; us girls don't.
Amen"
Major Zeb Crummet in his lecture,
"New Tangled Notions" says-"It re-
quires more brains to run popular
local newspaper than is usually car
ried into the White House under the
hat of the President Of the United
States"
0, the snow, the beautiful snow
such hunky thing you know; blue
ing your nose and chilling your toes
as whirling along streets it goes. No
silly praise. not any for Joe, for that
coolest OF frauds, the beautiful snow.
Another, in the delicate, pungent
Western style: Ten million dollars
is the sum that S. N. Pike was unable
to take with him. We have not heard
whether any evidence of insanity exists
in the shape of will"
The jacksonville JounaIstates that
a blooming, blushing schoolgirl called
at that Office the other day and inquir-
ed for "papers for a week back" The
idea suggested was that she wanted
them for panier.
A ragged newsboy paid delicate.
compliment to a pretty young lady
who bought a paper of him. "Poor
little fellow" said, she, ''ain't you
very cold?" Il was, ma'ara, before
you passed"
There is only one paper in Illinois
that did not thrill the world with the
announcement that "the old year is
dead" and that one said, Tomorrow
the old year dies"
Americans read more newspapers
than any other people, but do not read
moro books. Probably because the
average newspaper is better than the
average book.
When a new town is started on the
plains, Chicago drummers camp out
and wait for the new stores to be COM
pleted, to sell the owners a bill Of
goods.
A country paper in Minnesota wants
to know who swindled the Indians
out of "such an Internal cold country
as Minnesota is, and who deluded the
white people into it,"
The silicate of soda mixed with zinc
white makes a very good paint, and
can be used for rendering fre-proof
wood, paper, linen, etc.
1t is considered cool to take mans
hat with his name written in it, sim.
ply because you want his autograph.
The Augusta Herald has for its
motto prominent line as follows;
"TTo Almighty Dollars Year"
Why do honest ducks dip their
heads under water1 To liquidate their
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