The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-10-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

Half of Scotland is owned by seventy
persons.
The strength of woman's hair lies in
the hair pins ELRirG Advertiser.
California vintage this year is esti-
mated at from IL 900 900 to IA, 900, 600
gallons.
The gross income derived from tobacco
by the farmers of the United States is
about $22, 100000.
Six poets who have passed threescore
and ten: Longfellow, Tennyson, Hugo,
whittier, Browning and Holmes.
1t is believed that over 5000 900 a
year are expended in private horticul-
ture in Great Britain and Ireland.
Sound travels at the rate of I,I42 feet
per second in the air, 4,69O in the water,
IL 900 in cast iron, $4,000 in steel, and
ID, 600 in glass.
Although there is generally great
deal OF fun made over them. we see
nothing singular in twins. Plural, you
know.-PbilGdelphiG transcript.
The man with new tight shoes and an
ingrowing nail seems to be the one who
is always selected by fate to be COM
pelled to run for railroad train.
Every student at the Colorado Agri-
cultural college is s'required to work TWO
hours each day; the price paid per hour
is ten cents. The institution is said to
be in flourishing condition.
Did you ever stop on the dusty high.
way OF life to remember that there are
over 1000 varieties of apples in this
country, saying nothing of those found
IN the boys pockets ?-DetrOtt Free
Press.
A young wife demonstrating with her
husband on his dissipated habits, was
answered: g am like the prodigal son,
my dear; l will reform by-and-bye." I"
Il will be like him, too," she said 81
will arise and go to my father"
A reporter calls at banking house
and takes notes, and it's all right. Along
comes another fellow, takes some notes
and gets jugged for five years. This
illustrates the privileges enjoyed by the
press.
There are people who will dig for
years in order to discover the bones of a
hog that died two centuries ago, and all
the while a family with flesh on their
bones may be starving lin the next
street.
A Minnesota exchange says that
"Peter Butler, of Cannon Falls, aged
eighty years, shocked eleven acres of
grain one day last week." Some of
these cid farmers use pretty hard langu-
age, when they once get started.-Peck's s
Sun.
A head clerk in the railway mail SER
vice estimates that ne has already trav-
eled six times as far as General Grant
during the past eight years, and in all
that time and distance has seen nothing
of the world but twenty-six stations on
a Western Observation-Disclosures HaaOk-
eye.
The. 5ashful young man who asked a
lady if he could see her home," was
much surprised to hear her reply,
THAT he could go if he wanted to,
but she didn't think her father wanted
to sell, and then coolly walked off with
the man of her choice.
The ant is a many-footed insect.
They hold their property in common.
They have no holidays, no eight-hour
| system, and never strike for higher
wages. They are cheerful little toilers
There are no loafers about them, and
they get up early and go to bed late, and
work all the time and eat on the run.
You never saw two ants argue the same
| question with each other, whether man
| sprang from the monkeypr the monkey
| from the man. They are simply little
busy ants, full of faith, working hard,
living prudently, commit no sin, ard
praising God by minding their own
business.-BilIinQs.