The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1885-03-25

sports, out door recreation, boating,
yachting, &c. As the gaming and
fishing season approaches this always
excellent paper becomes more and
more entertaining. No true gentle
man sportsman can or will be with
cut it who has ever bad access to its
sparkling pages. See prospectus else.
where in this issue and send for a
sample copy.
Scarcely an exchange do we pick
up now days but we find au item some
thing like the following from the Biz.
card. There is an abundance of the
s'queer" circulating in this neighbor.
hood, and il is we'll that people be
constantly on their guard for il: ut
is necessary to look carefully at your
silver dollars these timer, as a very
large number of counterfeit dollars
are in circulation in this city and in
the various towns through this section.
The coins are light, but have good
ring. An application Of the teeth to
them soon reveals their true character" "
We are indebted to the Trustees
of the State Hospital for the Insane,
Warren, Pa, for their annual report
for the year 1884. The number Of
patients admitted to this Hospital
during the year ending September 30,
1884, was 203, Of whom 115 we're
males and SS were females. The
number discharged during same year
was 149; of whom So were males and
7S were females. OF the number dis.
charged SO we're restored, % improved,
33 were stationary and 46 have died,
| 27 of whom were males and 19 were
females. Remaining in Hospital at
the end of the year 4S3, viz: 224
males and 259 females. Forest coun.
ty he's 8 inmates in the Hospital.
The Clarion .JacksOnian has the
same experience that all we'll regula.
ted newspapers are afflicted with at
all seasons Of the year. 1t says
Correspondents of this paper will
save time, stationery and postage by
emitting items Of purely personal
character. The fact thai John Peters
goes to see Betsy B>uncer three times
week, or that Sally Ann Jones nit
tened Hezekiah Smithers at the spell
ling bee. or that Jehosaphat jenkins
took Mehitable MufIett out buggy rid
ing, concerns solely Betsy, Hezekiat
g. Co., and is not considered news a
this office. True, such subjects may
ba considered legitimate gossip in the
kitchen or at the corner grocery, bu
they have no place in the columns o.
public journal, and the sooner thi
fact is understood and appreciated th'
sooner somebody will be sowing them
selves great deal of unnecessar.
trouble"
"A bill is before the Legislature o
our free and enlightened State t.
: make the season for all game, grea
and small, open on the first of Novem
ber and end on the first of January
The bare thought of such bill illus
trates in some measure the wisdom
; or ignorance, rather-of many of th
representatives on the subject of gam
: protection. Take squirrels, for in
t stance: What chance is there to &c
l. them after they have crawled lot
s their holes for the winter? They nee
J. no protection by law anyway; be
l. ing migratory animal, they are oitt
l. er too scarce TO afford amusement fC
!. the gunner or provender for the tabl
II or they are so plenty as to be a nu
g sauce to farmers. Then there is til
n woodcock, also a migratory blrt
1t which comes in early spring tim
lie breeds and is ready for the table b
,t the first of July, and sails of for tt
e sunny south about the middle of Oct
t ber, or sooner if the weather shoul
become cold; and the consequence
d We raise aud protect game for 9th,
Of sections to slaughter. Is there AT
81 wisdom, not to say justice, IN such
i. lawf Should it pass we hope the Go
Or ernor will exercise his veto. If o'
ynoaLara ,panF 4, shoYtau the Uar