The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are 10000 students in American
colleges.
The sultan's palace costs him about
SI4, 100000 year.
Can squeezing person in a crowd be
termed - a liberty of the pressP"
William H. Vanderbilt has given $685.
900 to the University of Virginia.
Knocking friend down is q sure
way of dropping an acquaintance.
An artists views of subject are not
always the BEST YonkerS Statesman.
A factory in New Haven, Conn.,,
made over %, 900, 600 tishhooks last year.
Senator-elect George, the Mississippi
iurist, drove an OK team in his youth.
Two sleighs have been sent from
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, to the Emperor of
Japan.
A bookkeeper, whose head is well
balanced, writes Dear sir thus:
DIR. Or. r."-NorItStouN Herald.
Near Monkstown, Texas, a deer was
found fastened by his horns in a tree
top. He was captured. of course.
Buffalo Bill in his book tells of beef
cattle so poor that he had to prop them
up to shoot them down. PicGyttf1e.
During the winter icicles the size OF
a mans body fringed the mouths of the
n ountain tunnels along the Central Pa
cific railroad, and constantly endangered
the brakemen on the freight cars.
"What does 12mo meanP" asked a
pupil of her teacher, few days since.
"l2mo; why don't you know what that
means? 1t means the same rs
d&weowly. Haven't you seen it in ad-
vertisements in a newspaper?'-Owego
Times.
Light colors are recommended for
cold weather, as they do not part with
heat easily But we notice that hand
with white kid glove on will part with
a red-hot poker about as previously as
the one enclosed in a brown mitten.-
ReOkab Gate City.
The first steamships that crossed the
Atlantic were the Sirius and Great
Western. The former sailed from Cork,
April 8, 1898. They both arrived in
New York on the 29th of the same
month, the Sirius being only twelve or
fifteen hours ahead of the Great West
ern.
The roaming correspondent of the
Burlington Uowa) HGS0keye tells a
pleasing story OF 81 self-sacrificing trav-
eler who devoted his energies to the
work of devouring everything upon n
certain railway station dinner-counter,
and having at last accomplished the
feat walked away, saying "There,
the next fellow that comes along here
will get something fesh!"
When Commodore Vanderbilt wished
TO start in the steamboat business, says
Cornelius Vanderbilt, he had but SO, 900
of the $l5, 900 necessary for q purchase,
and his wife went to corner where she
had concealed the $1,000 she had saved
without his knowledge, and brought
forth the needed funds, thus laying the
foundation of the colossal Vanderbilt
fortune.
The young ladies of Washington are
debating how they shall effectively re-
buke the ill-bred men who stare at them
in the street cars and stages. Easy
enough. Poke the point of your par
asol handle into their eyes. A man, no
matter how ill-bred he may be, loses his
appetite for staring after he has an eye
punched out three or four timss. Or
the young ladies might walk.-NOTTtS-
torn Herald.
Will l.. MARBLE, St. Louis artist, has
applied for a divorce from his wife. One
of his grievances is that she sent a
broken frying pan to an art show, where
some of his pictures were on exhibition,
with a request that the hanging com
mittee would give il position, as ian
example of the way in which the tall
ented Mr.. MARBLE provided for his fam
! ily's necessities"
The young ladies of Chattanooga
| CTenn.) organized a leap-year party,
hired hall, ordered a supper, and went
around in carriages to hunt up the
young men to compel them to come in.
| Every thing was lovely until they went
to settle the bills, when they learned
that the young men had already paid
them. The young ladies say now that
it was "real mean in the boys, and
declare that they will never give
another leap year party.