The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-09-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Sheet music-Snoring.
A generous soul is sunshine to the
mind.
More tobacco has been planted in
Pennsylvania this year than ever be-
fore.
1t is an old adage that the tongue
cannot be easily bridled. But it is
easily bit.
The colored United States Senator
Bruce, of Mississippi, has two large
plantations and personal estate Of
$780, 900.
1t is said that fully 1000 mountains
that are defined and named on the maps
can be seen from the summit of Mount
Washington.
Beans are not very largely cultivated
in Russia, owing to the irreconcilable
aversion that exists there to the Poles.-
Cincinnati Times.
The Mormons began work on their
new temple twenty years ago, have
expended S4,000,O00 on it, and it is now
one-fourth done. The material is Utah
granite, and the whole cost will be
$32, 900, 900.
There is quite trade at Morgan City,
Louisiana, in green alligator hides.
Several men are kept busy all the time
shooting alligators and skinning them.
The hides are packed in boxes and
shipped North.
A poet sends us a poem beginning,
"Gsz3 at the moon in the sky" That's
right, young man, that's where to gaze
at it. Don't try to gaze at it under the
bed or in the woodsheG. Stick to the
sky.-BOSton Post.
There are people who will dig for
years in order to discover the bones of
hog that died two centuries ago, and all
the while a family witt flesh on their
bones may be starving in the next
street.-Ncw York Herald.
A French chemist thinks he is war;
ranted in asserting that the phylloxera
can be destroyed by electricity. He
sends current by means of the Ruhm-
korff coil directly to the roots of the
vines, killing, as he says, not only the
insect, but its eggs.
Vesuvius electrically illuminated ap-
pears now nightly as the mountain OF
light" of the Eastern fable. The inde-
scribable grandeur of the spectacle
attracts to Naples thousands of tourists
from the most distant countries of Eu.
rope and America.
An eccentric Englishman lately went
iup to the top of Mount Blanc for the
purpose of building a fire where none
had ever been kindled. He succeeded
in doing so, and on going back to the
inn at the foot of the mountain re-
corded his triumph in English upon the
hotelregister.
We are now Offering premium for
word that contains the letter NOR
times than Scissors. TX, Okuk COnsti
tuition. Hand it over to add to our
possessions. "-Ne10 York NeOS. Hold
on, Lukens, we claim the prize over
your ''successlessness" in trying to ac-
quiIe those possessions - Waterloo OBJ
SerUer.
Tom Ochiltree was years ago partner
with his father in the law business at
Galveston, Texas. The old gentleman
went away for a few days. and on re-
turning found stretched across the office
an immense signboard, on which was
painted in huge letters: ct. p. Ochiltree
and Father, Counselors and Attorneys at
Law"
The new French battle flags have each
four names of battles, and although
many of the regiments have histories
of two or three hundred years, these
names are all of battles since the great
French revolution. The hal is OF red,
white and blue. A Paris letter says
this distribution of flags signifies that
France is rea iy for war again.
MarkTwain says the only introGuc-
tion to literary audience that he ever
had that seemed to him the right word
in the right place-a real ins piration
was as follows: Ladies and gentle
men, shall not waste any unnecessary
time in the introduction. don't know
anything about this man; at least only
know two things about him-one is
that he has never been in the peniten,
tiary, and the other is can't see why"