The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1873-04-09

name is known wherever humanity
breathes. 1t is spoken in every city
and is as familiar to the workers in
the mines as to his brother in the mills
and wherever language is known and
ideas expressed the name ofthis penni.
less, unknown and ancouth lad OF
thirty years ago, is uttered. 1t was
John Smith.
This is the way the Danbury Ne,cs
speeks of that everlasting old grum.
bier: "Where is that elderly scamp
who has howled for the last sixty.
three years for an old fashioned winter ?
Where is tn old reptile, that we can
get at him F? How we wauld like to run
him through planning mill, run by
ice water, and cut him open with q
snow plough, and fill him with snow.
balls, ard sew him up with an icicle,
and strap him to the north pole until
the Spring rains release him.
A very andsomely dressed young
man who was waiting at his horses
head for his girl, Sunday afternoon,
and desired SO demonstrate to the
watching neighbors how familiar he
could be with such an animal, put the
head of the noble beast in his bosom,
and just then the animal sneezed, and
we'll anybody who has seen a horse
sneeze can picture to himself the state
of that shirt bosom, and collar, and
vest, just as we'll as one Of the old
masters could do it.-Ddnbry Ne,ps.
Here is how an auctionesr's dialect
is given in "Scrope, or the Lost Ii.
brary," in Old and Nep. "Halfa.
dollar, Observation-Disclosures
lafadollathat's bid now, give more'f
we want it ! Halfa-dollar, five-eights
three-qurters-Three- quarters I'm bid
will you say dollar for this stand
ard work octarvo best edition harf
morocker extry? Three-quarters I'm
bid, three.quarters will We give any
more? Three-quarters, three. quart.
threequart three-quart.t three-quawt-
three-quawt cne dollar shall 1 have.
An English critic thinks he is iusti-
fed in saying that America is begin
ing to have characteristic literature
other own. The apostles of this very
desirable thing are, according to this
wise person, Walt Whiteman, Mark
Twain, Joaquin Miller, and Bret Har.s.
And when, he says, "ths history of
America literature Genes to be writ
ten, the name of Samuel Langhorne
Clemens will be mentioned among its
founders.
the Irish World gives list of "fa-
nous Irishmen," which contains the
following names Robert Fulton, Drs.
Kane and Hayes, Robert Bonner,
John G. Calhoun, Cyrus II. McCor-
mick, Marshal McMahon, Phil. Sheri-
dan, A. T. Stewart, Horace Greeley,
William Henry Stewart and Geo.
Washington. Of these twelve Irish.
men, nine are or were genuine Ameri-
cans, two are Scotchmen, and one is q
Frenchnan-making in all twelve.
Another man has graduated at the
Yale "School Of Journalism" He
has been rather more successful than
any Of his predecessors. When he
found that he could get no more than
eight dsllars week on any Western
journal, he went right away and got
position as q clerk in an oyster saloon,
where his weekly stipened is ten dol
lars.
A Connecticut youth, who read in
Hartford paper Of the large clerical
force employed by one of the insur-
sncs companies, called at the Office
the other day with young lady and
politely asked to have one of the cler-
gyman marry them.
The heirs of Robinson Crusoe have
begun suit to recover possession Of the
Island Of Juan Fernandez. i Elk. Oh?
this will never do a? We shall have the
defendants of Columbus laying claim
to America next, and we will be in
the hands of the "bloody furriners.
The Liberal Republicans of New
Hampshire PEELED 639 votes in the
late Senate election, in total of Co.
600. This is the party which set out
a year ago to rsyolutionizs the ceun-
try.
--Schoolmistress, to dull little boy
Johnny, I'm ashamed of you.
When was of your age, l could read
twice as we'll as you can" Johnny
"Yes'm, but you had different teach
or from what I've got.
The editor of the Moorhead Cd. c.
Star says; ave offer especial induce
mants tn oIIr suhserihera who cluh
together and send in any little mat
ter of eatables, as it we're"
A North Carolina paper has been
fooling its colored readers into reading |
'bs Presidents Message by aftixing
S;ylvanus Cobb's name, and publish |