The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-07-19

will melt and fade away, and around
whose SUBMITS will burn, immortal
and undimmed, the true glories of
American citizenship, as it sheds it's
radiance on the "evening of the
world"
A small box arrived at the railway
at Lille, in the north of France, few
days since, directed to the Museum of
Natural History, in Paris. The reve-
nue. nHcials at the station opened the
box, but could find nothing. 1t was
soon ascertained, however, that the
box had contained an extremely pois-
onous snake, which had made its es-
cape when the box was opened. Since
then they have not been able to find
the snake, and his presence in the rail-
way station has caused not little con-
sternation in Lille.
In the criminal court in Paris the
other day a German, named Aphonse
Baer, was sentenced to q months i'm
prisonment for selling a quack medi-
cine. The magical drug which was
advertised as specific in affections of
the nerves and epilepsy, under the
name of eau G,sti-neuraLgi9ue, was
found to be brandy, with an infusion
of tobacco leaves and burnt sugar.
The receipts from its sale, however
in the last year amounted to $3.50 900.
A huge kiln on a Government dock
| in London is known as "the Queens
tobacco pipe" and is used to burn
condemned imported goods. 6reat
quantities of tobacco, forfeited because
unfit for sale, are there consumed;
and various perishable things, upon
which the duties are not paid, are also
destroyed. Nine hundred spoiled
hams and sh:pload of tea we're re-
Gently burned.
As boy in Aroostook county, Me-,
was leading q heifer home the other
evening, bear made dive for her
as they were entering the yard. The
heifer ran, the boy held on to the rope,
the bear chased both, uutil the neigh
bors, hearing the believing of the
heifer and the screams of the boy,
came ana Sn0C Druln.
The trustees of a Canadian school
recently advertised for a teacher.
From the many letters they received
they selected two or three Of the best,
and sent for the photographs of the
writers. Then they picked out the
best looking photograph, and sent for
the original. He proved q frst-rate
teacher.
The Cincinnati Eeqnier calculates
that, letting 1000 represent woman's
chances of marriage in the whole
course Of her life, 1876 of those chances
are lost when she is seventeen years
old, $50 when she is twenty.seven,
992 when she is thirty-three, and tho
entire thousand when she is forty'five.
A train en- the Rensselaer, and Sar-
atoga Railroad would have run into
q burning bridge had not a woman
who lived near by given a signal of
danger, and the woman would not
have got dollar apiece for dinners
supplied to tho belated passenger If
she had not saved their lives.
A mothers love never changes.
When a young man in Europe wrote
home to his mother in ST. Louis that
he was about to go from Nancy to
Ems, she exclaimed in a transport
that the dear boy hadn't altered a
bit, but was, she now knew, as fond
Of the girls as ever.
A disconsolate girl stood up to her
neck in a pond near Sacramento for
an hour, deciding whether to drown
herself Then she concluded to live,
and waded out,
The Centennial plan for making
horse-ear conductors honest is to fire
off a small cannon after the reception
Of each fare.
A Maine COW swallowed $50, and
they gave her emetics all in vain.
The gold ore found at Saccarappa,
Me-, yields SIS ton.
The cats Of the Isle Of Man arc
without tails.