The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-02-13
Items of Interest.


Texas editors clamor for the re-estab-
lishment of the whipping post-for de-
linuuent subscribers.
A recent poem has the following line.
GA tear danced in her eye" That tear
must have been at the eyeball.
Strawberries fade with the gentle spring,
The ice cream season passes
But after all stern winter brings,
The buckwheat cakes and lasses. 80.
Mortgage is Latin word, and means
d" death grip" This is worth thinking
of when one wants to get hold ofsyoug
house.
Never take the bull bi the horns,
Young man, but take him bi the tale,
then you kan let go when you want to-
Josh Billings.
When man observes to his loqua-
cious wife "With all thy faults love
thee STILL" the probabilities are that
that is Just the time she won't keep still.
"Liquor started it, liquor kept it up,
and liquor ends it" said Thorp, who
was hung at Auburn, N. Y, recently.
Here's whole temperance sermon In
eleven words.
The model husband has been found IN
Albany. He don't permit his wife to
do more than half the work. She puts
up the canned fruit in summer, and he
puts it down in winter,
A little girl in Reading, Pa, who was
hit with SNOWFALL by boy, promptly
tripped the offending youth up and
rubbed his face vigorously in the snow,
and an admiring bystander, at the close,
gave her a silver half dollar
II is when a dry goods clerk of ninety
seven pounds weight attempts to help
from a wagon farmers wife of 203
pounds weight, that the reporter seats
himself contentedly ON the curbstone,
and waits for the catastrophe. .-Rome
Sentinel.
As my wife and at the window one day
Stood wa ching man with monkey.
A cart came by with " a broth OF boy,
Who was driving a stout little donley.
To my wife then l spoke, by way OF a joSe
There's relation of yours in that carriage"
To which she replied, as the donkey she spled,
"Ah, Yes, arsl4tion-by marriage"
II The production of gold in the United
States, anterior to 1858, footed up in
round numbers $3.50, 0,000,0 900, of which
period the greatest production. for one
year was $65, 900, 900, in 1853. From
1868 to 1875 the aggregate production
was 1907, 700, 900, making the total yield
by the country, including 1875, 81, 332,-
900, 900.
New York State has reduced her
debt in the past year $12, 900, 900, having
he sinking funds with which to pay off
that amount when it fell due. Her
debt has steadily fallen from $52, 900, 900
, in 1866 to $40, 900, 900 now, and will be
entirely swept off within few years.
In the same time the debt of Massa-
{ chusetts has risen from $40, 600, 600 to
$35, 500, 600. .-&Drin0tieid (Ma8s.) Re
publican.
7 VIM. Dooley, an amateur detective III
J aarch of two cattle thieves, found them
ut church at White Sulphur, KY,
t whereupon, pistol in hand, he informed
a preacher and congregation that they
were all under arrest While everybody
looked astonished, he picked out his
men, marched them out of the building
= at the muzzle of his weapon, and, turn
J. ing on the step, shouted to the minister
!, that he could go on with the benedlc-
}, tion.
n A burning chimney, when the SCOT
u has been lighted by fire III the ire
/ place, can be cxtinguished by shutting
l all the doors in the room so as to pre-
h vent any current of air up the chimney,
!, then, by throwing few handfuls OF
x common fine salt upon the fire in the
o CRATE OF on the hearth, the fire in the
e chimney will be Immediately extin
d guished. The philosophy of this is tina
N in the process of burning the salt mu
is riatic acid is evolved, which is promP
n extinguisher of fires.