The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-04-24
Rates Of Advertlsli
Items OF Interest.

Good name for a od-cutter-Hugh
Hens come into the world by the
hatchway.
February, March l-Cdmden Pos
So that April May. oil city DerricN.
What is the most warlike nation?
Vaccination. Why? Because it is al.
ways in arms.
There are many men whose tongues
might govern multtudes, if they could
govern their tongues.
King Humbert owns eight hundred
horses. He seems determined to estab-
lish stable government.
Hard up as the people of most Euro
pean capitals may be at present, it's al
ways easy to find V in Vienna.
They say that hundred and fifty mil
lion kisses are bestowed upon each other
or some one else by all the inhabitants
of the world.
Artificial fish probagation has proved
success in Virginia, and large num-
bers of shad and herring are found in
streams where they were hitherto un-
known.
The officials and employees of the city
of New York number over 81, 800, and
their yearly pay is more than $l1, ,000,
600. There are fifty-two persons who
draw each 5000 or over.
Horsefesh is now becoming so COM
mon an article of food in Paris, that
1000 beasts are consumed every month.
They are not killed until they become
useless for work through age or lame%
ness. The meat is but half the price of
beef.
When Mr.. Baker took to his wife,
A buxom little dear.
He fenced her in with both arms
And whispered in ller ear,
= Now do promise thee my
Neer from thy side to go;
For like all bakers, little one,
daily need my doe"
What q beautiful example of sim
plicity in dress is shown some followers
of the fashion by that domestic animal,
the cat, which rises in the morning,
washes its face with its right hand, gives
it's tail three jerks, and is ready dressed
for the day!
A Boston paper says: GA butterfly
was caught at the South End yesterday"
1t may be safe enough to catch butter
fly at the south end, but when you go
to grab a wasp, you want to catch it at
the northeasterly end, shifting westerly
toward the head.
The strength of the French army, is
as follows: Active army (6ve classes),
719, 1866; reserve of active army -four
classes), $40, ,9S2; teri itorial army Give
classes), 594, ,736; reserve Of territorial
army (six classes), 638, 1872; total, 2,473,-
S66-all trained men.
WORK
" How speaks the present hour? act
Walk, upward glancing;
So shall thy footsteps in glory be tracked,
Slow, but advancing.
Scorn not the smallness Of daily endeavor,
Let the great meaning ennoble it ever;
Droop not oer efforts expended in vain
Work as believing that labor is gain"
A travelling tree peddler sold some ex-
traordinary kind of gooseberries to a
farmer. Next year when the peddler
came round the farmer informed him
that his gooseberry bushes bore cur
rants. "That is all right" says the
peddler, "that kind always produces
currants the first year.
Knowing now, as we do with certainty,
the extremes of form to which all matter
is liable, we may surely predict that the
future of our globe simply depends
upon the amount of heat received by its
surface. If the heat diminishes, all
earth and air will be silent stone, with
out the breath of lite upon it; if the heat
increases, the whole world will melt in
thin air. - DR.. f.. b. Foote's HeGIth
Monthly.