The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1873-06-04


country in the wsrldi Because its cap.
itsl is always Dublin.
A Danbury bride received, among
her Wedding gifts. receipted bill Of
eight dollars for gate hinges, FROM her
father.
Chicksaw county, Iowa, has Just re-
ceived its first piano, and one of the
boys there denounced il as "the all
6redest fiddle you ever see."
A lady 10 Indiana thinks she has
good cause for complaint. Her hus-
band hung HIMSELF with her best table
cloth, when there was an old clothes
line in the cellar that would have done
just as well.
Bret Harte denies that be is the lazi.
est man in the world, but submits that
he dent see the use of rushing around
when 1t isn't his boarding house that is
on FIRE.
"Were you guarded in your conduct
while in New York q asked a father Of
his con, who hsd just returned from
visit 20 the city. "Yes, cir, part of
the time by two policemen"
The reason an urchin gave for being
late to school, was, that the boy in the
next house was going to have dress.
iEg down with BEDFORD, and he want.
ed to hear him howl.
Electricity is now used in Scotland
for blasting purposes, and Eve thousand
tons Of granite were recently displaced
at Kenney by one shock from bat.
terry. The explosion was tremendous,
and the ground shook like au earth.
quake.
The bard-hearted guardians of the
poorhouse at Woolwitch, England,
lately refused t. 6ll an order from
their medical officer for "another dog.
en- champagne" for one Of the pauper
inmates who was suffering from de.
iirium tremens.
A youg lady who has been travel
ing out West as drummer for a whole.
sale grocery house has been discharg.
cd by her employers because she in.
duced the retail dealers to order
more goods than they were able to
dispose Of or pay for.
Jones, who rightly adhered to the
rules Of etiquetta, went home one
night and found his wife sitting in
another mans lap. Next day he told
friend ofths circumstances. "What
did you do about it ?" said his friend
Dor" replied Mr.. Jones, What in
thunder could I do / never had had
an introduction to the man.
A most shameful trick was PLAYED
lately upon lover at Beaver Falls
by his rival. The generous wooer had
procured q package of gum drops to
present to his Angelina ever dear.
but the other man msiciously substi.
tuted therefor g paper of white beans.
IL Was not until three o'clock in the
morning that matters we're explained
and reconciliation effected.
There is hen in Utica of a modest
and lowly turn of0ind. Concious of
her inability to compete with some of
her sisters in difiereut parts of the
country that have been laying eggs
as large as those Of the ostrich, the
Utica fowl has sought celebrity 70?
delicate elegance by producing eggs of
about the size of hot.h house grapes.
Che has indeed gone little further
than this in the pursuit of nevelty.
Into the little eggs she puts no yolks,
so that her production are more curl.
Gus than valuable.
A near sighted indianapolis woman
patched her husbands pants with a
cold buckwheat cake that the children
had left in her work basket last week.
The color Of the patchwork matched
the original trowsers. and as the cake
was tough, the mistake might never
have been discovered, but the old
man got caught in shower day or
two afterwards. The patch began
TO sweel. he felt the cold patch on his
back, and thinking it was spinal
meningitis that had clutched him,
sent for doctor who soothed his fears
but he wants a divorce.
A Frenchman has discovered the
method of tanning and removing bees,
and securing honey by tapping on the
sides and top of the hives. We re.
member trying that method III youth
ful years, before we had heard Of the
Frenchman. We tapped ON a hive
belonging to an old farmer one night,
and the bees came out FIRST rate, but
we did not care to stay to remove the
honey somehow. 1t seemed to MS that
almost any place in the world would
be desirable when compared to the
vicinity of that hive. In this expert
nnent. as in the one conducted by the