The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-06-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Done with the pen-A dead pig.
The diamond feld-The shirt front.
How many feet are there in school
yardP
Breeches of contract-Those that
shrink.
A modiste is not modest in her
charges.
Nothing is more shocking than an
electric battery.
When a doctor iances a carbuncle,
doesn't he "cut swellP"
What's the use of going hungry in
this land of agentsP Any man can get
board.
A joke is not so durable as a church
bell. After it has been tolled few
times it is worn out.
The raindrops that fail whcA sll.l
brightness is gone are the tears of the
sky for the loss of the sun.
A Sioux county Qowa) boy goes to
school on a donkey with his dinner
basket hung on the ear of the quadruped.
There is nothing more likely to
estrange two friends than a small debt.
and U may some day be separated by
an o.
The ualimportation of oranges and
lemons in the United States is over 200,-
600, 900, amounting in value to about
100000.
The Baltimore papers report quiet
but very general revival of religion in
that city, which is largely credited to
the labors of Mr.. Moody.
Two italian journalists fought duel
with pistols, near Naples, and exchanged
twenty-eight shots at distance of fifteen
PAGES without doing any damage.
Small boy (entering shop" want
pennyworth of canary seed.n Shop
keeper (why knows the boy)-" Is it for
your motherP" Small boy (contemptu-
Ously)-"Noi it's for the bird"
In digging a cellar at st. Paul, Mimi,
the workmen unearthed a solid silver
chalice and salver of fine workmanship,
and they are thought to be part of COM
munion service taken from Father Hen
nepin in 1880.
The man who travels around under
borrowed umbrella, with Il face 4x5,
and mutters to everybody he meets,
"Well, this weather can't last always"
is greater nuisance than the man who
always wants to borrow paper.-Nee0
York Express.
Says the Iowa City Press: The culti-
vation of wolves is profitable. You
don't catch scalp-hunter killing an old
wolf He makes the acquaintance OF
that old one, finds its burrow, and in the
spring, when it has litter of twelve
whelps, kills ten of them, and saves
pair for seed.
That Turks are not altogether in
capable of good work is shown by Ahmed
Vefyk Pasha, who has in two months
drained some thousands of acres of
swamp in the beautiful plains of Broussa.
He is now employing a vast num-
ber of the unfortunate Mussulman re-
fugees in planting and sowing this land.
Pauls Morphy, the once noted chess
player, in his insanity imagines himself
great lawyer with an abundance of
clients. The great case that absorbs
nearly his whole attention is an imagin-
ary one against parties who had charge
of an estate left him by his father He
utterly repudiates chess, and denies ever
having known anything about it.
The ingenious Benjamin Franklin intro
duced bill in the Pennsylvania Legssla-
ture at Philadelphia to buy small grains
for the use of the army. The Quaker mem
bers, who were at that time majority,
would not consent to vote money for pow.
der, but Franklin deceived them by getting
money vote to buy small grains for army
use. The Quakers thought the small grains
were wheat and oats, but Franklin thought
and knew they were grains of powder.
---Ne0 York OamgiOn.