The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-08-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST,".

A strong-minded woman will alway
be speaker of the house.
Marrying q woman for her beauty is
like eating a bird fer its singing.
A man in Liverpool recently died from
the effects of a bite on the finger, inilict-
ed by drunken woman.
The Zulus cannot comprehend revoi-
vers, and never take them from the dead
bodies of their English foes.
An editor in Memphis thinks that
there is but one cure for yellow fever and
that is flight, vigorously applied.-Frce
Press.
A street sensation of st. Louis, re-
Gently, was woman III years old look
ing for her lost daughter, a giddy young
thing of seventy.
That's relation of yours, isn't it P''
said man to his wife, at the same time
pointing to q donkey. "Yes, by mar
riage," was her stinging reply,
The Detroit Free Press has discovered
that one pailful of hot water will clear
corner of loafers quicker than four po-
licemen, and at much less expense.
Never tell man who is using restor-
ative that his hair is coming out nicely;
such q compliment might seem some
what ambiguous. american Punch.
Tobacco can by grown in every one of
the States of the Union. The annual
production is now 40,000,000 pounds,
valued at $33,000,000 in its unmanufac-
tured state.
The Tribune is publishing series of
papers on "Thc A b G of Finance"
The p A G. of Finance can be con-
densed into four words, Pay AS You
G-o.-Albdny Journal.
Albert Victor and George Frederick,
sons of the Prince of Wales, were known
by the nicknames of " S. rat and Her
ring on board the training ship Brit
tania, where they recently completed the
course with high honors.
Doctor" said lady patient, Il suf-
fer great deal with my eyes" The old
gentleman adjusted his spectacles, and
with Socratic air replied, | do not
doubt it, my friend but then you ought
not to forget that you would suffer more
without them"
They were out driving. Said Theo-
dore, "What tree, Angelina, bears the
Dory, can't tell, unless it is cherry
treem Theodore looked unutterable
sweetness as he gazed into Angelinas
eyes and said, "The aXle-tree, darling"
Joaquin Miller says If you were
to take newspaper in your hand and
crumple it up and then spread it out
again, the creases in it might fairly rep
resent the streets and lanes and alleys of
LONDON, so angular, so awkward and
iI"egU'ar is this, the greatest of all cities
o. tne earth"
Two sons ofthe Siamese twins, Chang
and Eng, are now living in Sumner
county, Kansas. They recently appeared
in the United States land office, at
! Wichita, in IA contest in which one of
them was n defendant and the other was
a witness. They are spoken of us intel
ligent, wide-awake citizens, and fully
up to the spirit of the times.
A dead African eagle was lately found
mt Mama, on the southern Greek coast.
! On examining the bird an irOn-headed
arrow over a foot long was found trans
| fixed under one of the wings. Evidently
the eagle had been fired at and struck in
Africa by some native, and had borne
the arrow in its body in its long flight
| over the Mediterranean unit it fell dead
from exhaustion on touching land at
| Mama.
A ship carpenter mt Belfast, Me-. has
! concluded IN spend the rest of his life in
a chair. When wages were reduced he
declined to work any longer, and seated
himself in rocking-chair near his sit
ting-room window. There he remains
al! day long, only rising to go to his
meals or to bed. His chair rockers have
worn grooves in the floor, and on the
window-sill, where he drums idly as he
rocks to and fro, are the imprints of his
fingers. He is supposed to have some
savings on which he and his wife live,