The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-05-15
Items Of Interest.
A boys first bet-Alphabet.

A boys first bet-Alphabet.
A Chicago man named his twins Adam
and Eve.
In what place are two heads better than
oneP In barrel.
Hartford has a Chinese base ball nine
who muchee muffee. 81
"Admittance free," as the goat said
to the circus poster.
The Shah of Persia has son-that
makes him pa-shah.
A recent philosopher has discovered
method to avoid being dunned. Never
run in debt.
Why is a scratch on the hand like the
first flight of AedglingP Because it is
only little soar.
Thirty-seven men have been hanged
in New York in four years. New York
is the Hempire State.-BOSton Post.
Lives OF great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime.
And, departing, leave behind us
Creditors to grieve and pine.
oil city Derrick
With what little friction the earth
would revolve if the suavity of q new
beau in the presence of the mother of his
adored would only become epidemic.
A West Hill boy wandered into
Jefferson street drug store yesterday and
wanted to buy ten cents worth of fly
paper "to make kites of - Burlington
HdsOkeye.
Chronic" You are looking well,
Mr.. Whit" "Well? You know that
I'm never well. Just as soon as 1 stop
being sick for day, feel worse for it
the next morning."
Somebody estimates that every man
who lives to be sixty years old has spent
seven months buttoning his shirt collar.
Thirty years more should be added for
hunting up the collar button.
A Detroit boy stood an umbrella with
q cord tied to it in O public doorway.
Eleven persons thought that the UNI
brella was theirs, and carried it with
them the length of the string. They
then dropped it, and went off without
once looking back, or stopping to pick
it up again. Free Press.
edward" said mother to her son,
a boy of eight, who was trundling hoop
in the front yard. Edward, you
mustn't go out of that gate into the
street" "No, ma, WON'T" was the
reply. A few minutes afterward his
mother saw him in the street manufac-
turing dirt pies. Didn't tell you,"
she said, angrily, not to go through the
gate2" Well, 1 didn't mother" was
the reply. "I climbed over the fence"
Little Annie, like most little folks, says
queer things. A few nights ago her mother
had prepared her for bed, and kneeling
by her mothers side she repeated the
Lords Prayer, as usual. She had no
sooner concluded it than she repeated it
again rapidly. "Annie, said her mother
"why do you say your prayers twice 2"
Then the little innocent looked up and
remarked: "Well, mamma, L feel Just
like praying tonight and tomorrow
night may not"
HER LAST LETTER.
" New York. November seventeen.
My dearest Charles, my souls delight,
l could not see you yester e'en-
You must not visit me tonight,
Darling, dare not tell you why;
But fate 80 wills it. All is DER
keep my secret with a sigh
But in this world we'll meet no more,
And yet love you just the same
But do not judge me as seem
Forgive me- Charley Do not blame,
Think Of me only as dream,
For am doomed to fate and die
Wen meet, perhaps, some happier day
Visit my tomb, but do not cry,
Adieu Your poor distracted May.
p. S.-Charles, come tomorrow, anyhowt
The doctor says it hardly shows;
I'm not ashamed to tell you now
had pimple on my nose !"