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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

Most women are clothes observers.
Before marriage girl speaks to her
lover with her eyes; after marriage, with
her tongue.-Lite
The number of men who are disap-
pointed in love doesn't compare with
the number who are disappointed in
marriage Burlington Free Press
Even water will burn in hot enough fire,
And the cold often blows from the south,
And the size of the lie of the champion liar
Doesn't hinge on the size of his mouth.
---Hatchet.
A correspondent wants to know why
bal is called Chop" Watch the gen
tlemeu as they evade.. the ladies' trains
and you will tumble. burlington Bree
Press.
Women and the weather are the two
principal topics discussed by men, says a
philosopher And it may be added that
both are mighty uncertain things. -Bos-
ton Courier.
An exchange suggests that young
ladies give up the banjo and take to
flute playing. This couldn't be done.
1t is impossible to talk while playing
the flute. .-Nelo Hdoen Neaos.
A SURE SIGN.
When goats decline to eat old rubber boots,
And crop the growing grasses in the lane,
The time for trimming nobby bathing suits
Is drawing near again.
Boston Courier.
SIT is healthier to lie on the right
rather than the left side" says an astute
health journal. OF course nobody wants
to be on the cleft" side, but lawyer for
instance often finds it healthy to lie on
either side. e.-Boston Bulletin
"Isn't that an Inter state cigar you are
smokingl" he asked. "An Interstate
cigar2 What's that" queried the stranger
''Why, one that you can smoke in Maine
and make the people in Texas hold their
noses. y Washington Hdtchet.
1t seems from careful count that
there are only 100000 pianos in the
whole United States. No count has been
made of flutes, accordeons, trombones
and other instruments of torture. At
rough guess we put the number at 3, 000,-
900, 000.-PdiIadelphia Call.
When you've told your little story
And have settled to the glory
Ot eXtravaGant narration most successfully
displayed,
How you turn a bilious yellow
When you hear some other fellow
With his wretched THAT reminds men lay
you snugly in the shade
Pittsburg Chronicle.
A man in the coal region put little
dynamite in the cooking stove to remove
clinkers. 1t removed them. 1t also re-
moved three chairs, one table, one family
cat, twenty hour clock, four dol.
lars worth of dishes, and the stove. The
fact that the man was likewise removed,
in something of hurry, will be apt to
prevent his mode of removing clinkers
becoming popular. r.-Norrist0lo Herald.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30

John Ruskin confesses that he would
rather please the girls than do any other
one thing. "My primary thought" " he
avows, sis how to serve them and make
them happy; and if they could use me
for plank bridge over a stream or set
me up for post to tie a swing to, or
anything of the sort not requiring me
to talk, l should be quite happy in such
promotion" And John seems to think
he is quite too kind and condcscending
for anything. Perhaps he is, taking the
English view of the case. But over here
any man who didn't do all he could to
make the girls happy, as a matter of
course, would be speedily and descrvedly
boycotted.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30

It is said that in Scotland glens
whence many thousands of ablc-bodied
men were sent forth are now used only
for breeding grouse and game A ques-
ton of great practical importance is
whether this degradation of the soil is
wanton oppression of the poor, or whether
it is necessitated by soil sterility. Prop
erly managed naturally good soils may
be kept always fertile, as England, Hol-
land and other densely populated coun-
tries have shown. But where land has
become too sterile to pay for cultivation,
letting it lie idle may be the only means
of reclaiming it. Natures processes arc
slow, but she charges nothing except
time, and this with valueless land is not
worth reckoning. While lying idle its
occupancy by game can scarcely be re
garded as a desecration.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30
WHAT TO BELIEVE.

He has no joy who has no trust
The greatest faith brings greatest pleasure
And believe because 1 must
And would believe in perfect measure.
Therefore l send
To you, my friend,
This key 70 open mines of treasure:
Whatever else your hands restrain,
Let faith te free and trust remain.
Believe in summers sun and shade,
Although to-day the snow be falling;
Expect glad voices in the glade,
Though now the winds alone are calling.
Have eyes to see
How fair things be-
Let Hope, not Fear, prove most enthrall
ing;
And skies that shine win oftenest bo
Stretched lovingly DER thine and thee.
Have loyal faith in all thy kin,
Believe the best Of one another;
One Fathers heart takes all men in,
Be not suspicious of thy brother.
If one deceive
Why disbelieve
The rest, and so all kindness smotherl
Who the most looks for love will find
Most certainly that hearts are kind.
Regard the age with hopeful thought,
Not it, but thou thyself are debtor;
Behold what wonders have been wrought;
Believe the world is getting better.
Oh, be thou brave
To help, and save,
And free mems hands from every fetter,
Yet know that cheery hopefulness
Is the great factor in success.
Above all things, in God believe,
And in His love that lasts forever;
No changeful friend thy heart to grieve
Is He who will forsake thee never
In shine OF shower
His blessings dover
The souls that trust with strong endeavor
Believe, believe, for faith is best
Believe, and find unbroken rest
-MdridnRe Fdrninghdm.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30
Jefferson Davis in Irons.

An eyewitness, engaged in 1885 at
Fortress Monroe in the ordnance depart
ment, now a resident and attached to
the police department of Baltimore, says
that when Mr.. Davis landed from the
gun-boat on the Government wharf, the
guard that received him kept back the
lockers on to considerable distance
while they conducted the prisoner to the
interior of the fortiicaton and to the
casemate assigned for his incarceration.
Soon after he was lodged there the officer
of the day called and advised him that
orders had been received from Washing
ton to place him in irons, and asked him
to submit by lying PROSTATE on the cot
then within the easement. Mr.. Davis,
with some vehemence, objected, and
asked that the order should be read TO
him This was done, and he still re-
fused, and declared that the manacles
should only be placed on him by force.
The blacksmith was then present with
the g-irons, and a soldier, being so or
dered, placed his musket across the
breast of the prisoner, pressed him to and
then down on the cot While held in
that position the smith riyeted the irons
on the ankles, and the prisoner, thus Sc
cured, was locked in the easement. A
day or so following, orders came from
Washington to remove the manacles, and
soon aftorward to open the door, and
finally TO allow Mr.. Davis to exercise him.
self by limited walks within the grounds.
The order to iron was issued, it is said,
by Secretary Stanton, and the prepara-
tions to do so were all made prior to the
arrival of the gun-boat. President John,
son issued the ameliorating orders that
followed
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30
Novel Way to Kill Crows.

In conversation with a prominent
planter of the Fourth District, we learn
of a new and novel way to kill crows.
The gentleman's plan is to catch one of
the birds, tie it to your body and walk
through the field with your gun cooked
and finger on the trigger The cries
of the bird will cause others of its tribe
TO flock around you, and they can then
be easily shot. This method of extor-
minating these pests is not patented. and
those who are so disposed are at liberty
to try it.-Daaos0n (Ga.) Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30
THE THRUSH.

The thrush sings high on the topmost bough
Low, louder, low again; and now
He has changed his tree, you know not kow,
For you saw no fitting wing
All the notes of the forest-throng.
Flute, reed and string, are in his song,
Never a fear knows he, nor wrong,
Nor doubt Of anything.
Small room for care in that soft breast;
All weather that comes is to him the best,
While he sees his mate close on her nest,
And the woods are full of Spring.
He las lost his last years love- know
He, too-but it's little he keeps of woe;
For bird forgets in a year, and so
No wonder the thrush can sing.
Atlantic Monthly
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30

81 hear the carriage coming up the
avenue, Florence, " said Sue, in, low
voice, as she tapped at the door at seven
o'clock. "Why, Florence, you are per-
fectly lovely, all in white like bride,
and with your diamonds on. What a
lovely color in your cheeks, too! Oh
dear. what made him do itl"
"What made her do it2" said Miss
Maxwell, with set lips. "Wait one min
ute. Does my train set in the back2
She will be dirty and dusty, the lit
tie"
"Never mind; we will go down to
meet them"
Sue trembled, and Bertie's fifteen year
old eyes were red with crying; but they
descended together. 'Your train rus
ties Just as Lady Macbeth's does in the
sleep walking scene" whispered the
youngest girl, and Florence took a mo-
mentary comfort in this momentous re-
semblance.
The doctor and his wife were in the
hall; the carriage stopped; the door
flew open.
"Well, nanny, here she is, cried
Jack-a big, good-natured college boy
with an honest pair of ugly gray eyes-and
out stepped wizened little old lady
with jolly kind face, for all the world
the prophecy of Sues at sixty-fve.
"Why, it's Emily it's Aunt Emmie |!
When did you Gomez Where did you
come from? How are you here2"
''From England, on the Scythia," !"
cried Jack, answering everybody at
once. II told Sneed to wire you, but 1
daresay he forgot Aunt Emmies name,
Lhad only time to shout out to him L
wanted the carriage at the station. Why2
what are you all so dazed and solemn about. &.
Anything wrong2 And you, Florence
What, my darling, crying-when I've
brought you a beautiful diamond ring,
with 'Fidelis mortem' as big as life in
side"-Isa G. Cabel In, Hdrper's Bazar.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30

A matter which is attracting much at,
tention in England is the rapid dim
mutton of the number of brewers. Six,
teen years ago the brewers of the United
Kingdom numbered 80, 600. Between
1870 and 1880 they grew fewer at the
rate of thousand year, and at the
last-mentioned date only mustered some
20, 600. In 1881 they had become re,
duced to 10, 600. Since then the decline
has been less rapid, but still they are
yearly losing ground to a surprising ex,
tent. They number at the present time
only 18, 900, OF 49,, 900 less than sixteen
years ago. Were there corresponding
decrease in the consumption of beer it
would be cause of great rejoicing to
temperance advocates; but such is not
the case, though the temperance move
ment has had a perceptible effect upon
the business, and 1t is expected to still
further curtail it, The great cause is the
eyying of duty upon beer instead of
apon malt, which has had the effect Of
concentrating the business in fewer
hands.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30

Jack rabbits are said to be swarming
through Nevada, Utah and Idaho, and
doing much damage to crops. The cpl
demic is due, according to the popular
opinion, to the efforts made by the au-
thori1ies to extcrmnate the coyotes.
There is now bounty fixed by law for
their scalps in Nevada, but the legisll-
ture will be asked to repeal the act.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30


The subject of cremation has been re
Gently discussed in the French Chamber
Of Deputies, and it has been decided
that the mode of disposing of the dead
will be left optional to the friends of the
departed unless special arrangements
have been made during the lifetime of
:he latter. In response to Bishop Frep-
pei as to the immunity that criminals
would enjoy if the bodies were sub
iected to incineration, NJ. Blatin, Deputy,
remarked that the examinations in case
Of suspected poisoning could be more
nsefully carried out before incineration.
Even after incineration there are poisons
which could be found in the ashes.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30
A Home IdyI.

He was kneeling Oh the floor,
Where he ne'er had Enelt before,
While he uttered Bible words in some con,
fusion.
He seemed TO feel quite badly,
For he spoke quite low and sadly
AS to a sultry cline he made allusion.
H.
No, alas he was not praying
For whatever he was saying
He said, in truth without mature reflection:
Yes, perhaps he was to blame,
But you'd have done the same,
If a hammer and your thumb had made con
nectiOn.
-NeU HaoeR Nei0S.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30

he, Mrs. Lane; know, these college
bellies. She is twenty years older ifsshe
is day, and"
'Read the telegram yourself, Florence" "
said Sue, through her tears
The heroine stepped to the window
and stood in the recess for9fve minutes,
her back TO the other three ''Well2" she
said, presently.
"Well2" re-echoed the trio, hanging
on her words.
''He has been entrapped," said Flor
ence, looking tall and stern 'T blame
her entirely. She made him do it. I
always said she was the most vancouver
ing, deceitful- Oh, my poor Jack l''
cried the heroine, in a burst of bitter
weeping.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30

A Florida house is shipping 2, 500 bird
skins month to Newark, New Jersey,
to be used in hat decorations. The birds
killed for the purpose are the jay, lark
snipe, crane, hawk and black and other
species. 1t is claimed that these birds
are destructive to crops, and that they
''won't be missed"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30
Jack and Jim.

They grew in beauty side by side,
They filed one home with glee;
Jack was base ball pitcher; Jim
A cricketer was he
An perfect stood these noble youths
In beautiful Aprile,
Their pie-crust mouths were ever wreathed
With one seraphic smile,
But ere the summer time had waned,
And oVercoats had come,
Jacks nose had lost its only bridge,
Jim's ear It's only drum.
--NS'0 York Journal
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30

An English statistical writer says that
while population in Europe and the
United States has risen thirty-fou per
cent since 1850, working power has in
creased 1O5 per cent, and as a conse
quence of this, five men can now accom-
plish as much as six in 1870, or eight in
1850. The worlds steam power is now
1--WE and half times what it was in 1850.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30

The Commissioner of Agriculture at
Washington, upon the question of ami
mails in the United States affected with
pleuro pneumonia, says the number of
cattle inspected during the last year en-
braced over 6, 600 herds. In only 445 of
these herds were infected animals found,
and the number Of diseased, but not the
exposed, in these were 1,7O0 animals.
This statement was made in reply to a
contemporary which made the infected
number go, 900 herds examined, healthy
and otherwise. The disease seems vir-
tually extirpated west of the Alleghe
nies
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28

Only three hands were held up One incom-
prehensible man abstained from expressing
his sentiments even by a sign. Is it neces-
Sary to say who that man was? A mysteri-
Gus change had now presented itself in his
appearance, which made him an object of
greater interest than ever. His inexplicable
smile had vanished. He sat immovable. with
closed eyes. Was he meditating profoundly.
or was he only asleep? The quick-witted
foreman had long since suspected him OF be-
ing simply the stupidest person present
with just cunning enough to conceal his own
dizziness by holding his tongue. The jury
arrived at no such sensible conclusion. I'M
pressed by the intense solemnity of his coun-
tenance, they believed him to be absorbed in
reflections Of the utmost Importance to the
verdict. After heated conference among
themselves, they decided on securing una
nimity Of opinion by submitting to the arbi-
tratiOn of the one independent member pres
ent-the member who had taken no part in
their proceedings. (Which way does your
view of the verdict incline, sir? Guilty or
not guilty?'
The eyes Of the silent juryman opened
with the slow and solemn diIation of the ewes
OF an OWL Placed between the alternatives
OF declaring himself in one word or two, his
taciturn wisdom chose the shortest form of
speech. Guilty" he answered-and shut
his eyes again, as if he had had enough Of it
already.
An unutterable sense of relief pervaded the
meeting. Enmities were forgotten, and
friendly looks were exchanged. With one
accord the jury rose to return to court. The
prisoners fate was sealed. The verdict was
guilty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28
(TO BE CONTINUED

A school of whales was in sight off
the Long Island coast at East Hamp-
ton during the latter part of last week
and one which will yield its captors
81, 900 was captured.
In leveling a hill In East Los An
geles, Cal, lately for the residence of
Baron Roquiat, the workmen uncov-
cred a two-feet edge of gold bearing
quartz, assaying s. at the surface.
King Albert, of Saxony, has pre-
sented the library at Gels, containing
10000 volumes, which ne inherited
from the Duke of Brunswick, 10 the
Royal Public Library at Dresd IA.
About four-6fths of the Gels Library
consist of very rare works not here
tofore represented in the Dresden Lii
brary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28
SHORT STOPS.

Guards are to be kept at Garfield's
tomb until June 1.
In Baltimore the price of gas is
down from $1.10 to $1.00 per 1000
feet.
The coal fields of the Powder Riv-
er country have been burning since
1870.
There are one hundred and twenty
American students at the University
of Berlin.
Asparagus in glass Jars is a new
imported substitute for the fresh vege-
table.
There are three times as many tele-
phones la the United States as in all
Europe.
The pedestal for the Bartholdi statue
will be ready for the goddess about
April 1.
At the beginning of the present
century it was considered "fast" by
respectable Londoners to have sofas
in the parlor.
One recent snowstorm accounts for
a decrease of 5000 tons in east bound
shipments from Chicago over one of
the trunk lines.
OF the members Of the new British
parliament lao are Oxford men, and
20 graduated from Oxfora's rival on
the banks of the Cam.
A cruiser that is to steam among
the waves of the sea at the amazing
speed of % knots an hour is beng
built on the Clyde for the Spanish
government.
SIT is noteworthy" says the Paris
News, ''that IN his Gottingen DAYS
Bismarck wagered twenty-five bottles
of champagne with an American that
Germany would be united in twenty
years.
At Hamm, in Westphalia, former
railroad ticket -puncher killed his
wife and five children By cutting their
threats. Financial distress and con-
sequent despair were the motives for
the terrible act.
In England and Wales, as one may
learn from the Financial Reform
Almanac British for 1886, ITO per
sons own one-fourth of the entire
country; in Scotland, IL persons own
one-fourth, and in Ireland IA per
sons own one-haIf.
The government arsenal at Osaka,
Japan. is now turning out steel rails
as good as the imported; and it is said
that before long full railway eqaip-
ments will be made at home for their
rapidly extending lines.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28
4-T1P G1TrPt.

One year exactly after the fatal day of the
trial Mrs. Westerfeld, secluded in the sanct-
uary of her bedroom, celebrated her release
from the obligation of wearing widows
weeds.
The conventional gradations in the out
ward expression of grief which lead from
black clothing to gray formed no part of this
afflicted lady's system of mourning. She
laid her best blue walking dress, and hernew
bonnet to match, on the bed and admired
them to her hearts content. Her discarded
garments were left on the floor. THANK
heaven, I've done with youP' she said, and
kicked her rusty mourning out of the way as
she advanced TO the fireplace to ring the bell.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28

trre. She drew out folded sheet of paper.
1t proved to be a letter in her husbands
handwriting. An inclosure dropped to the
floor when she opened it. in the shape of a
paper. She picked it up. The morseI of
paper presented letters, figures. and crosses
arranged in lines, and mingled together in
what looked like hopeless confusion.