The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-04-10
Items OF Interest.
lent-The umbrella.

Keeps lent-The umbrella.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a
rown.
Catch barber with a dull razor and
he is bound to hone up.
They propose to prescribe bachelors
from school boards of Iowa.
A Cleveland county IN. @. J man has
had three just and lawful wives in the
last year.
The sh oemakers don't mind dull times.
Their shoes are sold before they go into
the market.
Many tear Of wounded PRIDE
Many fault Of human blindness,
Has been soothed, or turned aside,
Bya quiet voice Of kindness.
The Cincinnati Enquirer observes that
marriage is often a mirage. And still
young people will make haze to the
wedding.
Professor Cunning makes the shiver-
ing announcement that the glaciers will
plough over New England again in about
million years.
General Mite, the dwarf, is said TO
have earned $40, 900 for his mother in.
the last two years. This is fine illus
tration of the value of the "widow's
mite"
According to recent returns France
has l, 982 important bridges, erected at
cost of nearly $50, 100000. Of this
number 861 we're in existence at the
beginning of the century.
"Can that horse run fast ?" asked
boy of a milkman the other morning.
"No, sonny" replied the purveyor OF
aqueous lacteal fluid, "he can't run
very fast, but he can stand the fastest of
any horse you ever saw"
A young man, just engaged on
rancho in Truckee, CAL, was set to driv-
ing yoke of cattle, and at noon, when
trying to unscrew their horns, in order
to get the yoke off the animals.
It is feared that the atmosphere of
London will soon damage the surface of
Cleopatra's needle. The Luxor obelisk
erected in the Place de la Concorde in
Paris in 1886, is some three thousand
four hundred years old, having stood
with another still larger one before the
great temple of Thebes. The stone is
syenite granite, of brownish red color.
Thirty-six years of exposure to the at
mosphere of Paris has affected the stone
more than the same number of centuries
exposure to the purer air of Egypt.
The trunk of a tree three hundred feet
high-or a section of it-from Missis-
sippi, is to be among the wonders of the
Paris Exhibition. Last years geologi-
cal survey in Southern Utah revealed
the fact that the areas occupied by
standing timber are much smaller than
those which are capable of supporting
such growth. The destruction by fire
greatly exceeds that of the woodman's S
axe, and it seems desirable that some
methods for preventing forest fires
should be devised, and as a measure of
public economy, adopted in Utah, and
perhaps in other Territories.
Right is right. No one seems to ques-
tion this somewhat startling argument.
Still there is little doubt that it may be
better, in some cases to submit to o
slight wrong, than battle for justice to
the bitter end. Take, for instance, that
Quebec apple case, which the two farm
ers began three years ago. There is no
disputing the fact that both farmers
cannot own the brrrel. The first cost
was only three dollars, or, to avoid ar
gument, let it be three dollars and
twenty-five cents if you wish. Now the
case has been decided by a Quebec
Judge and the total cost thus far amounts
to over 81, 700. Besides, the end is not
yet, as the defeated farmer says he will
appeal the case. 1t would have been
better if they had a-peeled the apples
together in the first place and given the
dried fruit to George Francis Train. =
Detroit Free Press.