The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1875-07-28

Inc train boys THINK they haven't
much Of an opportunity in this world,
aud other people think the are nui-
sance. One of them tells the New
Orleans Picayune one way in which
they impose upon their employers !:
''You see" be says, "each boy is fur
Bished with just so much fruit, so
many books and papers. and he is
obliged to show up at the end of the
route or else turn over the money for
which they must have been sold. The
only way it can be done is this; We
sell book to passenger for a dollar
and half. He reads it and then we
give him q new book worth fifty cents
for the one he has read. He is gener-
ally willing to make the exchange,
and reads the new one. This when
read, he is ready to swap for a ten
cent paper, which he leaves in the
car when he gets out. This paper we
pick up and pat back in our pile,
having all our books and papers aud
$3.50. This is about the only show
we have; without it we could not
make decent living.
Like other good things, the follow
ing good advice comes to the surface
occasionally, and will bear repeating:
eff you get moment to spare, spruce
up, put the gate on the hinges, put a
little paint on the picket fence you
built last year, trim up the door yard,
make it cosy and inviting. Do not
nj -, a.
those things. The fact is you have no
right to be slovenly, l. can do you no
good, but on the contrary, it will mar
your peace, wound your selfrespect
and impair your credit. Then, by all
means spruce up little at odd times,
and at even times, too, for that matter.
1t will make you feel vastly better,
and maybe, a triAe prouder of your
pretty homestead. Your wife and
children will be enriched, beautiful
and blessed by it, and your farm will
be worth more money in the market
and of greater value to you at home,
if you spruce up little now and
them"
A shopkeeper purchased Of an Irish
woman quantity of butter. the Jumps
of which, intended for pounds, he
weighed in the balance and found
wanting. "Shure it's your own fault
if they're light" said Biddy. in reply
to the complaints of the buyer, 'it's
your own fault, sir, for wasn't it with
pound of your own soap l bought
here myself that r weighed them
withi" The shopkeeper bad nothing
more to say on that subject.
1t was at the house of ell-known
doctor of divinity, and the little tod
ding girl, who did not like to see her
aunt trim lighted kerosine lamp,
and come honestly by somewhat
modified theory of predestination.
"Take care take carel or we'll get
blown up into the sky; and then
God'll say, Girls. what are you in
such hurry for.Y"
s. A Buffalo telegraph operator acci-
dentally got locked in his Office at din
ner time the other day, and all other
efforts to secure his noontide meal
proving unavailing, he telegraphed to
Canada, thence to Detreit, and from
3 there to another Office in Buffalo
whence a messenger was dispatched tc
liberate him, and he secured hot
dinner.
The latest anecdote brought tc
light by the Centennial celebration is
rather amusing. While the British
troops were marching through old
Cambridge, one Of them said jestingly
to farmer sowing seed: "You may
sow, but we-shall reap" "Well, per.
haps you may" was the reply, "for
am sowing hemp"
An old lady, on hearing that 9
young friend had lost his place on &C
count of misdemeanor, exclaimed
"Miss Demeanor? Lost bis place OF
account Of Miss Demeanor Well
WE'LL I'm afeared it's too often tru,
that there's allus woman at the bot
tom a mans difficulties p
Brittany raises very fine horses
They are rendered docile and tracta
BILE through kind usage. The parsnil
is the chief food of the horse there
and it is believed to contribute materi
ally to the vigor and beauty for whicl
the horses of the country are remark
able.
A Western farmer complains tha
hook and ladder company has beer
organized in his neighborhood. III
statessthat the ladder is used afte