The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-03-06
Items or Interest,

The first thing in boot is the last
Chicago papers say that no mans life
is safe in that city.
Stanley's African name is The Lit
tie Man with Much Face"
There are SHE newspapers in the
United States, of which 749 are daily.
The deaths from scarlet fever in New
York city during 1877 numbered 3,482.
The Japanese army department is
about to erect a large mandatory of
rifles.
Five thousand pounds of artificial
butter are manufactured daily in Pitts
burg, Pa.
A silk worm consumes, within thirty
days, 1000 times its own weight of
mulberry leaves.
What is the difference between a hill
and pill? One is hard to get up and
the other is hard to get down.
Deaths of rich men all remind us
We can make lively time,
Leaving all our heirs behind u.s.
Quarreling like hungry swine
At Tracy City, Tenn, recently, John
Mangus, baker, closed himself up in
his own oven and was baked to death
cremated to a cinder.
The Peace Dale OR. l. Manufacturing
Company is to introduce the co-opera-
tive system on the 1st of February, and
will thereafter divide the surplus profits
among its workmen.
Samuel Bowles used to say there was
a sixth sense-the " newspaper sense"
There is also a seventh sense-non-
sense. This paragraph is specimen of
NorTictOeOn Herald
Says the Cincinnati Breakfast Table.
Greek is the language for poetry,
French for love and Italian for hand
organ melody, but a man with shirt
cellar that don't fit is the same helpless
being in all.
Three hundred men witnessed fight
between ten dogs and bear in Sharps-
burg, KY. The battle lasted two hours
and half, and then was drawn, for the
bear attacked a horse, and there was a
stampede of the spectators.
1t is a curious fact, that, in the first
territorial legislature of Alabama, the
upper branch of that body, or the
Senate. was composed of one member.
James Titus sat alone in the chamber,
and decided upon the acts of the lower
house.
eli where did you get them trou-
sers % asked an Irishman of man who
happened to be passing with a pair OF re-
markably short trousers on. got
them where they grew, was the indlg,,
nant reply. "Then, be me conscience,
says Paddy, you've pulled them year
to soon !"
"And where was the man stabbed"
ASKED an excited lawyer of a physician.
"The man was stabbed about an inch
and half to the left of the medal
line, and about an inch above the UNI
bilious" was the reply. "Oh, yes,
understand now but l thought 1t was
near the town hall.
"Young men," said an old college
president to ii cOterie OF dlsslpated
students, call these excesses of your
youth are drafts upon your age, begin
ming to mature about thirty years after
date, and continuing to press and draw
heavily on your bodily resources all the
residue of your lives.
A brutal affair recently took place at
Springsboro, Ohio, during the progress
of a ball. A stalwart young farmer
named Hoover, who had previously been
the master of all his associates in trials
of strength, was made intoxicated and
attacked by the entire male portion OF
the company, who beat him so terribly
that he was not expected to recover
After performing this feat they drew
him into another room and the dance
went on, the women being required to
loop up their dresses to keep them from
from being soiled with Hoover's blood
which smeared the floor
"Old Bill" the roam battle-horse of
Major General w. b. Tibbits, of the
second New York cavalry, has just died
at Hoosick Falls. He was probably the
only horse that served through the whole
war and wound up his campaign with
visit on duty to the plains. He was a
great pet of the men of the Grlswolo
cavalry and an animal of peculiar ways
In camp or on the march he was slug
gish, would not allow pistol p be nrea
from his back, and if turned loose de-
fied the efforts of a whole company 20
catch him, but once under nre ne
obeyed the slightest touch Of the rem.
would Jump anything, paid no heed %
pistol-fring from his back, and could IA
turned loose with the certainty tha
would not stray away, In me
odd engagemen1Cl2 0ld 1911
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