The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-02-27
Items Of Interest.

speak above his breath, since his mouth
is below his nose.
Life, young man. Is only
A slippery sheet of ice
No girl there-its lonely;
One girl there-its nic".
Why is the money some people are in
the habit of giving to the poor like a
newly-born babe ? Because its precious
little
A traveller met in Japan a woman who
didn't know the use of pin. Her be-
wilderment when shown pin-cushion
was amusing.
The United States utiliZes in agricul-
ture ten per cent. of its area Great
Britain, ffty-eight per cent, and Hol-
land, seventy.
In ancient days the precept was,
Know thyself." In modern times it
has been supplanted by the far more
fashionable maxim, "Know thy neigh
Dor and everything about him. "
What the Rochester Express calls
a machine to save swearing" has been
invented by man in Lockport N. Y.
It consists of an arrangement by which
stovepipes are joined together like a
telescope.
An Indiana man has died leaving q
collection of 100, 900 beetles. Yet there
are some men right here among us who
will not leave a collection of even
dozen beetles when they die. For
shame - Worcester Press.
At bedtime little Willie was saying the
usual prayer at his mothers knee, and,
having got as far as elf should die be-
fore / wake, hesitated. "Well, what
next?" asked his mother. " Well,
s'pose the next thing would be fune-
ral."
The strength of the French army is
as follows: Active army Give classes)
1886; reserve of active army Qoul
classes), $40, 982; territorial army GIVE
classes), 594, 1856; reserve of territorial
army (six cIassesl, 639, 1872; total, 2,473,-
866--all trained men.
The total number Of Methodists i'll
the United States is over 3, ,315, GOO; in
Canada, 161, 172; in Geeat Britain and
her colonies, COZ, ,404. In all the world
they number A, 383, ,SS8. The increase in
lay members for 1877 throughout the
world is given as oil 300.
| John Holden, surveyor, of Perry
county, Miss, has dug up treasure OF
| $35, 900 in coin, to which he was guided
| by an instrument of his own invention.
The money was buried during the war
! by guerillas, who quarrelled and killed
| each other off, leaving only general in
/ structions as to the neighborhood where
| il was concealed.
! A lady resident OF Boyertown, Pa,
the other night had a desperate fight
| with a mad dog in her bedroom, aud
! finally, having hurled 1920 set OF false
teeth at him, was pleased to see him dis
appea~. She awakened to find that 1T
was all horrid nightmare, but that the
room was wrecked and her teeth Shat
tered beyond redemption.
The mesquite gum of Western Texas
is almost identical with gum arabic.
During the past year it has become an
| article of export, some $1,000 pounds
having been gathered in Bexar county,
and as much more between that and the
coast. The gum exhudes from the stem
and branches of the mesquite, m1mosa,
several species of which grow in Texas,
New Mexico and Arizona.
POOR FELLOWS DEFIANCE.
M driven 10 the wall, ana lle NOtlu 10 IA, AOof
| Whatever | do is failure most nat,
Yet my soul is my own,
And I'm not overt rown;
What signifies that? ay, what signifies that?
I've nothing day for to-morow's great needs,
! wait upon fortune that never comes pasti
But it, though I'm poor,
lean laugh and endure,
What signifies that? ay, what signifies that
Persons about to go to Hot Springs
Ark. for health, may be interested lu
the following item from local news
paper: "On Thursday James Cooper,
the merchant, mortally wounded Mead
GilIis, well-known citizen. Gillis has
defied and bulldozed the civil authorl-
ties, and threatened the life of Cooper,
who, seeing him come up the hill as
though to carry out his purpose, stepped
out and fired into Gillis' person the con-
tents of two double barreled shot guns.
Maxine du Camp, the historian OF the
Commune, has been inquiring into the
stories of the wholesale massacre OF
Communards after entrance of the Yer
sailles troops into Paris, ,andinstead OF 20,
600 TO 40, 900 corpses, including 10000
women and children" he finds that
from May 20 TO May 80, 1871, there were
8. .339 interments in the cemeteries, and
from the oath of May to the 9th Of Sep
tember there were exhumed from grave
on the highway, etc, 1913 bodies, MAX
ing total of 6,667.
The two United States Senators who
served the longest terms were bo1il
North Carolinians by birth-Bentons
of Missouri and King, OF Alabama. Inc
former served thirty, the later twenty
I nine years. 1t is related, in referencs
} 10 Mr.. Kings extreme courtesy, tha'
when he presided over the Senate ta'
D two senators from Arkansas pronounce'
! the name of their State differently
!. that he punctiliousy observed this