The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1873-04-09
Wit and Wisdom.
A word spoken in season Is tho
mother of ages.-CdHUie.

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Men blush less for their crimes than
for their weakness and vanity.
Sometimes ii requires one to be gen.
erous in order to accept generosity.
To prescribe physlc for tho dead, nd
vice to the old, is the same thing
Diogenes.
"If idlencss docs not produce vice
or malevolence, it commonly produces
melancholy"
"Let the toast be, dear woman" as
the man said TO his wife, when he
wanted to eat il all himself.
Every real thought, on every real
subject, knocks the wind out of somo-
body or othcr.-HolmsS.
The door between us and heaven
cannot be opened, if that between Us
and our fellow-men is shut.
The following couplet from Popo ia
almost as true as it is sarcastic;
4" The good no doubt are Gods peculiar care,
But who but God can tell US who they aret
"a nice person makes no difficult
ties, is never misplaced, is never fool
ishly affronted, and is void of offrcta-
tions."
According TO writer in Black'vood,
every man who is not monster, math-
ematician, OF a mad philosopher, IL
the slave of some woman or other.
1 am not myself at all today" said
bore to q wit. "No matter" was
the reply; "whoeycr else you may be,
you're gamer by the change"
A gentleman in cheap restaurant
the other day was heard to give the
fearless order, " Waiter, let that cheese
move this way!"
"Driver, are you running Oh time
to-day ?" asked a passenger in an om-
nibus. "No, sir" was the keen reply,
"we are running for CASH"
"The happiest of pillows" says Per-
icles, 4" is not that which love first
presses; it is that which death has
trowned on, aud passed over"
"The verb to love-" says a wicked
French writer, "is an active verb,
which runs until it sinks exhausted
into the easy-chair Of marriage"
The man who called for tea, at an
ordinary eating house, "as strong "a
the kick of a mule" complains that he
got it "as weak as q good resolution
Base ball is of much greater antiqui-
ty than is supposed. 1t was played in
the Ark when the dove was "put out
on a fly"
. Man is never wrong while he lives
for others; the philosopher who Co.'S
templates from the rock is less noble
image than the sailor who struggles
with the storm.
A man must be bolted and screwed
to the community before he can work
well for its advancement: and then
there are no such bolts and screws as
chil,lren.-Beecher.
Soft soap, when made of pure ma.
terials, potash, and olive Oil, is val
liable for medicinal purposes some
kinds of skin disease, scab and ring
worm may be much better cured by
it than by the greasy ointments so
often used. The latter not unfre-
quently aggravate the disease by cre-
ating dirt, while soft-soap tends to
al tnlinnce SnlphYn io
mixed with it to assist its curative
effect; but this should only be done
under the advice of medical prac-
titioner.
The fashion of utilizing one part of
the human body to repair another is
extending. A young man in Waver-
ly, N. Y, had his foot mashed by
car, and q space of several inches on
the upper part sloughed of. Several
pieces of flesh were taken Off the mans
arm and planted on the wound, some
two weeks ago, and have all taken
hold" and the foot is fast recovering.
With all the characteristic energy
OF the people Of this country, it is q
remarkable and lamentable fact that
the children of those who have raised
themselves to social position and in-
fluence by their personal efforts, al-
most invariably waste what their
parents accumulated. With superior
advantages and bright prospect be.
fore them to occupy higher place
than their prudent, persevering ia
thers, they fall byvice and dissipation
into neglect and absolute nothingness.
Neglected opportunities il the sin Of
those who imagine themselves some-
thing, when, at the end of a useless
life, they discover themselves to DO
nobodies. 1t is natural for parents to
hope, pray and labor for their children,