The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1874-06-17

Workmen on new Virginia rail.
road, about mile from Weldon, to-
ward Garrysburg, have dug from the
rivers bank vast heap of skeletons,
packed closely together, tier on tier,
and, intermingled with the human
bones, lot of sharp stone arrows,
rude mortars, and pipe-bowls. The
skulls we're nearly an inch in thickness,
the teeth we're as large as those of
horse, land filed sharp like those of can
nibals, and the leg-bones indicated
that the stature Of those remnants of
a "lost and forgotten race" must have
been as great as eight or nine feet.
There is lady at Benton, Michigan,
who subscribed for a Detroit paper in
1885, and has been taking it regularly
ever since. The result is, she is now
seventy years old, and is in good
health. 1t is astonishing how long a
person will live who subscribes regu-
larly and pays promptly for good
newspaper. If the doctors would pre-
scribe fewer pills and more paper, the
world would be much healthier than
it is.
Mocking birds can initiate human
action as we'll as human voices, it
seems. A Macon (Ga.) paper says
that two pets of this stripe got Jealous
of each other aud undertook to fight
it out in desperate fashion. One of
them, getting enough Of it, sang ont,
"Quit, quit" and followed this up by
crying, "Police, police" And, oddly
enough, there was policeman within
hearing, who came up and stopped the
fight.
The offer Of the Methodist Church,
North, to merge with the Methodist
Church South, has been virtually re-
jected by the latter body. The rea.
sons which led to the divorce in 1874
still exist to some extent, and, although
both bodies wish to cultivate harmoni.
Gus action and fraternal feeling, the
Church South thinks it can better per.
form its mission by maintaining a sep
arate organization.
A little fellow five or six years old
who had been wearing undershirts
much to small for him, was one day,
after having been washed, put into a
garment as much too large as the 9TH
ers had been too small. Our six year
old shrugged his shoulders, shook him
self, walked around, and finally burst
out with, "Ma l do feel awful lonesome
in this shirt"
A marvellous century-a hundred
years ago there we're no railroads,
steamboats,, telegraph lines, gas.burn,
ers, sewing machines, photographs,
friction matches, revolvers, percussion
caps, india-rubber shoes, and above
all, no free schools.
"Do you call that a veal outlet,
waiter 2" said an old gentleman din
ing at restaurant. "Why it's an in
suit to every true calf in the country"
"Well sir, didn't mean to insult
you, returned the waiter.
Crematory age-"O, ma ma John.
ny's got the urn and is spilling pas
ashes over the foorr 30, what a
naughty Johnnyl Get the feather
duster, and sweep your poor father
right upw
"Digby, will you take some of this
butter" THANK you, ma'am, be.
long to the temperance society-can't
take anything strong" replied Digby.
81 say" said rough cuss to a fop
with conspicuous bow legs, 81 say,
don't you have to have your pants cut
with circular saw"
Boiled eggs" is the name adopted
by the new Danbury base ball club 20
signify how Impossible it is to beat
them.
Letting off Sleep" is a little boy's
definition of snoring.
The hymn for the CentenniaI-Old
Hundred,