The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-20
HERElAND THERE.

prohibitory mood appears to have
seized our State Legislature. Tuesday the
Senate passed bill prohibiting the sale of
tobacco to boys under l6 years of age.
The kids must depend on their future
supply on the elusive and uncertain snipe.
Next in order will be bill prohibiting
the sale of spring chickens over 16 years
of age.-F'rdnkLin Ne,os.
An invention that is being used for send
ing coin through the mails consists of
piece of pasteboard about the size of an
envelope. In it are holes the size of a
silver quarter, half dollar, and dollar,
with red paper seals ready to paste across
each slot. A coin can he put in and seal
ed, enclosed in an envelope, and sent
through the mails in safety.
1t is said that a sure and very simple
cure for insomnia is eating, before retiring,
couple of crackers sandwiched with
honey. A cracker spread with honey is
not hard to take under any circumstances.
AS wooer of sleep to those who are
strangers to rest, it must be even more
palatable. The remedy is such an inno-
cent one that it must commend itself to
all those who are suffering from that
dreadful disease, insomnia. -Erchange.
A physician, in writing about drinking
water, says: "If in any house there should
occur a single case of typhoid fever or
diphtheris, test the drinking water, or
have it done, at once. A few cents will
buy an ounce of saturated solution of
permanganate of potash at a chemists.
If, when drop of the solution is added to
tumbler of water, its color changes to
brown, it is unfit TO drink; if it remains
clear or slightly rose colored after an hour,
1t is. broadly speaking, safe"
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not be surpassed by any of the months
magazines. No family ought to be with
out this admirable magazine, which stead
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ersons Magazine, Philadelphia, Pa.
Miss Lilly NJ. Black teacher OF Shriver
School, makes the following report for
month ending March IL, 1889: No. enroll
cd, males II, females l2. Average attend
ance, males IL, females 10. Per cent. of
attendance, males 95, females s5. Average
attendance of term of four months, males
IL, females 10. Per cent, males 05, fe-
males 80. Names of pupils who have not
missed day during the month, j. Il.
Sdtzinger, 1. T. Stitzinger, Reed Hepler,
II. A. Stitzinger, Clyde, Alice and Sadie
Sttzinger. Those missing but one day,
Charlie Wolf, Curtis Mealy and Sol. Mea-
ly. Those who did not miss day during
the term were, j. L. Sttzinger, lice and
Sadie Stitzinger. Those receiving the
highest mark in spelling, Is class, G. NJ.
Joslin, G class, Charlie Wolf, ID class,
Alethia Wallace. Andrew Hepler aud
Alethia Wallace were each out OF school
two months on account of sickness. Wis
itors present during the month, Miss Jen-
ME Wolf Mrs. J. Stitzinger, Mr.. f. I2.
Sttzinger, Misses Alice Richenbrode and
Lena Sandrock, not including the twenty
seven present on the last day.