The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-11-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A silent school house makes a noisy
bar-room.
The annual tea crop of the world is
69l ,000 900 pounds.
Kind words can never dye. 1t is
different v it'll the gray-haired bachelor
of youthful tendencies.-Rocbtand
Courier
1t is fact that many fellow has
learned through experience that a
woman isnever merciful to timid man.
Waterloo Observer
The Boston Courier discovers that
when two young men meet they address
each other as old man," and that when
two old fellows meet they say my
boy
England has no merinO sheep, except
in her colonies; Russia has l2,OOO,OOO
merinos, France 5000 0O0. The merln0s
and grades in the United States exceed
25, GOO, 600.
There is an oak tree near Raleigh,
n. c., which, at the suns merld-
ian, covers with shade n space OF
nine thousand feet. 1t would afford
shelter for 4.500 men.
Farmers are just now laying in their
winters fuel and the more grown.up
UaugHJbIS, llt DlSgCl IllO "OON PAAN'
Allowance must be made for sparks
Ihiddiet0lOn Transcript.
Fast young men, like fast horses, have
records. Those of the former are kept
at the police court and some of them
can show a gait that would make Rarus
feel like q dray-horse. .-heoba6 cate
CITY.
Now fades the glimmering landscape on the
lea,
Now fades the fly, the gnat, and all the
rest;
Now walks the street, oh, painful sight to see
The man whose winter ulster shrouds mis-
summer vest.
The Japanese government has in its
service eighty Englishmen, thirty-one
Americans, thirty Frenchmen, eighteen
Germans, seven Dutchmen, four ltal-
ians, three Swiss, three Chinese, two
Austrians, two Portuguese and one Rus
sian, making lSl foreigners.
The Russian navy now consists OF
twenty-eight irOnclads, four frigates
eleven corvettes, thirteen clippers, TWEEN
ty-one steamers, twenty-five gunboats'
III torpedo boats, twcnty-seven schoon-
ers and III sailing vessels, ms arma-
ment is manned by 1871 officers and 2o'-
bSu ulClls
OF the miles of telegraphic wire in
use in the English colonies, India has
II, $40 miles; CeylOn, 1856 miles; New
South Wales, 6,O73 miles; Victoria.
1885 miles; South Australia, 4,O0l
miles; Western Australia, 1867 miles;
! Tasmania, 754 miles; New Zealand,
1907 miles: - Queensland, 5,O33 miles;
and the Cape of Good Hope, 2,45O miles.
The wasp feeds on the hollow peach
And the thistle down is blowing, blowingi
The fern Is dead, and the morning red
In the eastern cloud is glowing.
The holly-oak staff is broken in two,
And the weed-Ares are all tiaring;
| Time is shaking the sluggish sands,
! And the gear, the year Il caring
| The peculiar pebbles known in Aus
/ malia as the travelling stones have long
! been regarded as great curIositie S mi
! lar ones have Just been dis ovCred IN
| Nevada, almost round in shape, and rs
| large as walnut. The cause of Il ese
stones rolling to a common point from
! distances of three or four feet is the
! loadstone or magnetic iron ore OF which
they are composed.
An energetic girl in the southern part
of France heard that a gay youth had
been slandering her, She came up be-
hind him while he was walking with
his sweetheart and threw vitriOl into
his face, destroying his eyesight and
spelling the beauty OF his pretty com-
panion. Everybody sympathized with
her and she was acquitted, although
confessing that she had mediDated the
deed for two years.