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. y"
There are 8,1l9 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 large manufactory of
rifles.
Five thousand pounds of artificial
butter are manufactured daily in Pitts
burg, Pa.
A silk worm consumes, within thirty
days, 60, times its own weight of
mulberry leaves.
What is the difference between hill
and a 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 us,
Quarreling like hungry swine. s
At Tracy City, Tenn, recently, John
Mangus, baker, closed himself up in
his own oven and was baked to death
cremated to cinder.
The Peace Dale Or. l. Manufacturing
| Company is to introduce the co-opera-
| tive system ON the LIST of February, and
will thereafter divide the surplus profits
among its workmen.
Samuel Bowles used to say there was
sixth sense-the newspaper sense"
There is also a seventh sense-non-
sense. This paragraph is specimen of
il. Nor7ietOaOn 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 a bear in Sharps-
burg, KY. The battle lasted two hours
and half, and then was drawn, for the
bear attacked 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.
"Hil where did you get them trou-
sers ?" asked an Irishman of man who
happened to be passing with pair OF re-
markably short trousers on. " got
them where they grew, was the indig-
nant reply. "Then, be me conscience,
says Paddy, you've pulled them year
to soon I"
"And where was the man stabbed9"
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. ooh, yes,
understand now but thought it was
near the town hall.
"YOung men," said an old college
president to a coterie of dissipated
students, "all 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 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 10
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 HoOsiek 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 =
great pet of the men of the driswola
cavalry and an animal of peculiar ways
In camp or ON the march ne was siue
gish, would not allow pistol y De nteA
from his back, and if turned loose ee-
fed the efforts of a whole company ~
catch him. but once Under hre f
obeyed the slightest touch Of the ~
would Jump anything, paid no heed
pistol-fring from his back, and could
turned loose with the certainty
would not stray fVay. IN hlN
odd engagemept old hIN
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