The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-03-20
Items OF Interest.

Wisconsin has 20, 00O, 600 acres Of land
which have never been broken or felt
the plow.
The Paris exhibition will be open
evenings. and will be lighted by an cleo
trio light.
Chicago had 365 failures during 1877. =
One for every day in the year, inciUding
the Sundays.
Why is the chin the most unlucky part
of the body? Because it is constantly
getting into scrapes.
Good striving
Brings thriving.
Better dog which works
Than lion that shirks.
Professor Gorini, of the University Of
Padua, treated the body of Victor EN-
manuel with a preparation which made
it as hard as marble.
"Tell your mistress that I've torn the
curtain" said a lodger to a female
domestic. every well, sir mistress
will put it down on the bill as extra
rent"
"The bright lexicon of YOUTH" in
which "there is no such word as fail,
does not seem to be a very popular die
tionary in the mercantile community just
now.
Wonder if it would be considered a =
remarkable original observation if we
should intimate that the stufing has
been knocked ont of Turkey. .--Cincipl
matt Breakfast Table.
"You're getting great deal of silver,
aren't you ?" he said, as he paid his fif-
teen cents ct the lunch counter, and took
half the tOothpicks in the tumbler.
Eyes, but we're getting short of tim
Der, !" replied the clerk.
Mr.. Sam Clay, of Bourbon county, KY,
owns nearly enough land to enable him
to ride to Payis, KY, on his own prop
erty. The profits on his farming opera
tions enable him to buy 500 or 600 acres
of blue grass every year.
A new piece of music, composed by o
New York newspaper man, is entitled
the Editors Waltz" The title-page
should be embellished with a picture of
the editor waltzing after subscriber
who is seven years in arrears.
It is when boy finds himself, without
any solicitation on his part, assigned to
position between the ruler and his
teachers knee, that he feels the impera-
tive necessity, or at least the desirabih-
ty, of ordering the immediate mobiliza
ton of all his forces. .-Burtington
HdtOkeye.
Sixty five of the eighty-one lives lost
at the Ashtabula disaster have been paid
for by the Lake Shore and Michigan
S1uthern railroad company at rate
a averaging $1,000 apiece. The most ex-
psnsive life cost the company IS, 900,
and newly married couple were APP
praised at only So, 900.
Californian has invented an ingenious
water faucet, through which, if water is
drawn, it comes out as cold as ice-water.
Boiling water placed in any receptacle,
and allowed to run through, will be
found cool and fit to drink. The faucet
contains numerous small tubes inclosed
in larger ones, and between the outside
of one aud the inside of the other certain
chemicals are packed, which produce
the desired effect.
A cooperative society of working wo-
men in Paris, in the hope of obtaining
steady work and remunerative prices,
have opened q shop at 2 Boulevard du
Temple for the manufacture and sale OF
underclothing for both sexes, and OF flow
ers, hats and dresses for women. There
is also an association of journeymen
tailors established ON firm basis, at ~
Boulevard Sebastopol and 33 Rue Tur-
. bigo, which advertises that 1t obtained
prize at the Philadelphia exposition.
A popular Newport Or. II clergyman
was sitting in his room few evenings
ago. when a man knocked at his door,
! and said his services were required at a
J boarding house a short distance away.
The Clergyman went with the messenger,
, but the expected wedding did not come
! off. It was found that a sick man, IN an
outburst of gratitude, had informed hiS
/, female attendant that he would marry
\ her if she would send for a minister
but he had changed his mind and refused
, to keep his promise.
|, A lady contributes to the Net0 Jerus
!, aIeln Messenger, for the information q
!, the children, q little result of her Obser'
], vation in natural history. 1t is the way
n Puss has of showing when she is thirsty
b and when she has drank enough.
> she wants milk, " writes this obseryan
Q lady, "you will notice that her long tai
n stands straight out like banner. Giv'
her saucer and watch her tail as sh
4 eagerly laps the milk, the tail graduall
4 droops from its position, falling lowe
n and lower until it rests on the tiool
! Then Pussy has finished her drink, an
a wants no more. Try it.
A. The American whaling feet OF 1ST
ID was very successful. There were n
at special disasters, and no changes IN tn'
as business worthy of note, excePtns
q the continued additions to the nee1
oil Twelve vessels were built during e se
at year. The present feet consists OF o,s 10
IN vessels, against 172 on January l. 1oLs
Q /; I69 in 1875 and 1853 in 1875. The MORT
r, and South Atlantic ocean employ owe %
h. 100 vessels, while the more trnie'
It grounds ot The Pacific ocean, Japan az