The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-01-28
NEWSY NOTES..
SHORTY.

Away down South, a Georgia editor
breaches a whole editorial sermon when
he states in a homely but forcible lam
guage 1.-THE longer we run a newspaper
and write about people and events the
more we realize how impossible 1t is to
scratch every man on the spot where it
itches the most"
The lease by which the New York Cen
trial Railroad gained control of the Beech
Creek road was recorded at Bellefonte last
week and is the largest legal instrument
ever entered of record in that place. 1t is
for 900 years, and a consideration slipu-
lated of s., 900, 900. The auditing depart
ment of the Beech Creek road has been
transferred from Jersey Shore to New
York.
Many years practice have given c. A.
Snow & Co., Solicitors of Patents at Wash
ington, d. c., unsurpassed success in OBJ
tanning patents for all classes of invention.
They make a speciality of rejected cases,
and have secured allowance of many pat
ents thai had been previously rejected.
Their advertisement in another column,
will be of interest to inventors, patentees,
manufacturers and all who rave to do
with patents.
An exchange quotes q minister as saying
that no newspaper which took truth for a
standard would make a p%ecuniary sue
cess. The press might return the com
pliment by remarking that no minister
who told the truth about his congregation,
alive or dead. would occupy the pulpit
more than one Sunday afterward. Thu
press and clergy go hand in hand, each
with whitewash brush in hand covering
over the dark spots, and looking through
rosy spectacles magnifying little virtues
are partners in saint making.
1t is curious how few people know the
order of succession to the Presidency.
Surprising that both President and Vice
President should die, the Secretary "f
State would be seated in the Executive
Chair. In the event of his demise he
would be succeeded by the Secretary of
the TT easury, and so on, IN order, by the
Secretary of War, the Attorney General,
the Postmaster-General the Secretary OF
the Navy and the Secretary of the Interior.
Rather a funny arrangement, is it not?
But il is true that all these gentlemen are
possible Presidents. and it is within the
conceivable possibilities that they all
might successfully administer the Gov
eminent during the same foar-years'
term. Should they all die there is no
present provision by law for filling Mr..
Harrison's place. This is enough to make
n anxious.
The Meadville Gazette, in noting the
birth of a new contemporary in that city,
SAYS: at starts out with a confession OF
weakness in saying that it has no friends
to reward, no enemies to punish \
newspaper can never make a go OF 1t in
this way. A newspaper may manage &c
skin along without friends, but how on
earth it can get along without enemies is
what puzzles us. The friend of u news
paper is similar To the friend in need
who is described as the fellow who wants
to borrow $40. The friend of a new spa
per is the man with a very dull x L
grind. The recollection of our boyhoo'
DAYS, when we did the circular work for
wood chopping, does not leave us witllou
practical experience in he propulsion O
the grindstone. We hope that a little ex
perience in the newspaper business MAJ
give the Std enough healthy enemies t
insure its success"