The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-08-02

friend.
"At-homep y replied the other, pat
ting his fat pocket book gloomily.
Then the friend acknowledged that
circumstances had also caused him
20 decide upon patronizing the same
resort, though he wasn't quite ready
TO confess it"
John Morrissey, the New York prize
fighter, was Governor Tilden's chief
hacker for President in tho st.
Louis Convention, and John @. Jacobs
of New York, notorious protege of
Tweed, was prompter of the temporary
Chairman in addressing the convention
and in making the rulings which
shaped its permanent organization.
The conjunction is very instructive
one.
Human nature is indeed a curious
study. A boy may sing "Hold the
Fort 80 sweetly on Sunday that the
very walls of Zion tingle with the
sacred melody, and yet you wouldn't
recognize him on week days when he
comes out from swimming and finds
out that some other boy has hopeless
ly knotted up his shirt sleeves and
trOwser legs.
A practical rural lady, attired in a
black bombazine dress and an over.
grown bonnet, gave vent to her aston.
ishment, when looking at the laces
displayed by Belgium, by exclaiming:
''Five hundred dollars for one little
Handkerchief like thatl Why, one
good blow would send it all to tats
tersP'
Gen. Sherman said, at recent ar
my reunion, that he would rather
march six times from Atlanta to the
sea than encounter once the unspeaka-
BILE horrors of campaign against the
savages on the frontier. The full force
of his remarks are now appreciated.
The use of the editorial eve" pre-
walls in the South, as will be seen by
the following remark in the Paris,
Tenn, IsteLtsgenoer eff we escape
the hog cholera this season, there will
be a large surplus of pork next win
ter"
Curran's ruling passion was his joke.
In his last illness his physician re-
marked in the morning that he SEEM
ed to cough with more difficulty; he
answered: "That is rather surprising,
as | have been practicing all night"
"DOes your sister Annie ever say
anything about me, sissy ?" asked an
anxious lover of a little girl. "Yes,"
was the reply, "she said if you had
rockers on your shoes they'd make
suoh nice cradle for my doll"
A country girl coming from morn
ing walk, was told she looked as fresh
as daisy kissed by the dew, to which
she innocently replied. "You've got
my name right-Daisy; but his isn't
Dewp
Foster, who was executed at War
renton, Mo-, the other day, said he
wasn't quite ready to die, but if it
would do anyone any good they might
go ahead and hang him. They went
ahead.
Mr. Coriiss, manufacturer and own.
er of the big engine, threatened to
take it away if the Exhibition was
opened on Sunday. And the big en-
gine works all the machinery in the
hall.
"No, sir" said weary looking man
on a street car to an individual by
his side. 81 wouldn't marry the best
woman alive. I've been dry goods
clerk too long for that"
"Mike, and is il yerself that can be
afther tellin' me how they make ice
crane 7" "In troth / can. Don't they
bake them in cowld ovens, to be
sure"
Helmbold went insane, and now
doctor Aver is a lunatic. It is too
much strain on mans nerve tissues
trying to euro everything for dol
lar.
An Irishman having been told that
the price of bread had been lowered,
exclaimed, 'that is the first time ever
rejOiced at the fall of my best friend p'
Never give beggar coin without
looking at it. You might give MIN
a three, FIVE or ten cent piece, and
then you'd never forgive yourself.
An exchange says: "Boys ought to
be abolished Perhaps. But after
all, boys are the only material known
at present to make men out Of