The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-02-20
Items of Interest.

now made at Oakland, Cal, from sheep'y
entrails.
The United States troops were sup
piled with $177, 444 "a worth OF tobacco
last year.
Where should lady go for a hus-
band2 To a gentleman's furnishing
store, of course. -
Shavings bank would be more ap-
propriate name for some of those de-
funct institutions.
"Talking to her husband in loud
tone of voice is punished by sending
Persian wife TO Jail for thirty days.
A Chicago woman has applied to be
appointed a constable, despairing OF
ever catching a man in any other way.
According to Mr.. P. T. Barnum's own
figures he has sold since he began his
business of amusement no less than $685.
600, 900 worth of tickets.
The Paris Figaro prints a gashtter's
bill as presented in that city : Looking
for leak, two francs; finding it, three
francs. Total, five francs.
"Alcohol will clean silver. " Yes.
remarks the Cincinnati Saturday Night,
"alcohol well stuck to, will clean out
all the silver you have got.
A Lowville boy took hot brick to
bed with him to keep his feet warm.
They saved the boy and the house, but
the bed was reduced to ashes.
"The bright lexicon of youth, in
which "there is no such word as fail, +"
does not seem to be a very popular
dictionary in the mercantile community
just now.
Philosophers say that closing the eyes
makes the sense of hearing more acute.
A wag suggests that this accounts for
the many eyes that close m our churches
on Sundays.
"Truth lies at the b )ttom of a well. "
We have often verified this by looking
down into we'll and seeing Truths
honest eountenance in the smooth wa
ters. Worcester Press.
If you put two persons in the same
bedroom, one of whom has the tooth
ache, while the other is in love, you
will find that the person who has the
toothache will go to sleep first.
A single orange tree in the Azores in
one year produced twenty thousand
oranges in a fit state for expectation. The
Azores send every year to London more
than two hundred thousand boxes of
oranges.
Newton did not labor half so hard,
with hand aud brain, to discover the
principle of gravitation, as the ingeni-
ous compositor labors in over-spacing to
get fat paragraph. - Cincinnati Break
! fast Table.
A lassie wrote to young man she had
taken fancy to "Come and meet me
in the cleaning, John, and when the
time came John wasn't there. He sub
sequently explained that he couldn't
find such place.
"What is the best remeedy," aaskd
preacher of slIrewd observer, 81 for
an inatteutive audience ?" "Give them
something to attend to" was the signi-
ficient reply "hungry sheep will look
up to the rack if there is hay in it. "
That the Suez canal is proving q sue
cess is shown by the steadily increasing
business it is doing. In 1871 l, ,494 yes
sells passed through, paying $5,777, ,26O
in tolls; in 1876 the figures were l, 457
and So, 994, ,990; in 1877 1868 and $6,
$50, ,279.
Facility of communication is having
great effect on the people of British
India. Those who never went ten miles
from their native villages now go all
over the country and their minds be-
come liberalized and freed from caste
prejudice.
The country is getting SO full OF edi
tors that even luck itself can't dodge all
of them. Jim Timmons, of the PerTys-
burg (O.) Journal recently drew a
horse in rattle that has made his mile
in three minutes-in boX-car. The
most remarkable feature of the affair to
the profession is, how did Jim happen
to have a dollar to invest in the ticket.
That's where the luck comes in.-Bredk-
tast Table.
A person recently met lady who is
distinguished as having been four times
a widow, and has now again entered the
bonds of matrimony. Said the friend !:
81 think once had the pleasure of
dining with you in New York;
"When ?" asked the fair stranger. 'ln
1856" he replied. eyes" she said
rehectively, "it may have been SO, but
/ had forgotten it. You see, she added,
cit was two or three husbands ago"
A correspondent wants to know of
smarter New England woman of her
years than Miss Myra Granger, of
Greenwich, Conn, seventy-two years
old, who planted last summer, hoed,
cut up, bound aud husked two acres Of
corn, which yielded log bushels of ears;
also husked seventy~two bushels for
neighbOr, raised a good crop of potatoes,
planted and tended an acre of beans, has
sawed her wood for the winter, and be-
sides all this, has been out Washing
There is gamin in Chicago, who is
full to the brim and running over with
the spirit of this commercial age. There
was an alarming runaway one Friday
afternoon recently. The horses attached
10 an av,{ress wagon tore down Dear