The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-07-24

each in the penitentiary. There is now
a suspicion that Anton Straub, of Will
Transport, the crazy counterfeiter, has
been shaming. He has been sent 10 the
Allegheny county Jail on probation.
The up-te-date women of the Trinity
Protestant Episcopal Church, in Towson,
Md, are raising money with which to
buy bicycle for the rector of the church,
which he is to use in making pastoral
visits and in attending TO other duties.
An exchange remrrks that railroad
men are not so 'easy" as they used to be.
A young man who thought he was "next
to the throne" with the local agent of the
road, wrote to that agent and asked him
for pass to the Adirondacks and return.
About two days later he received a neat
little package in which was a pair of
heavy-soled shoes.
Judge Wilson, of Cincinnati, said the
other day, in deciding case; "Any man
who gives his salary TO his wife is fool"
The judge was right. If he cannot take
care of his money he is a fool, and being
fool, he ought to give it to his wife. He
10 " hOpA ohh hhOno lbs II hb uluu y give
his money to his wife he would be
greater fool.-Meadville Tribune.
Major John writes in the United Ser
vice Magazine that while he was en-
ployed between Port Said and Kantara
he saw the waters of the Lake Menzaleh
"driven beyond the horizon" by a vio-
lent wind, 50 that the natives walked
about where the day before they were
fishing. This convinced him that he
had seen exactly what happened when
the Israelites passed dryshod through the
Red Sea.
Rattlesnakes have become so plentiful
at Pithole and vicinity lately that they
amount to almost plague. The drillers,
tool dressers and farmers are killing large
numbers daily but they seem to be stead
lily increasing in numbers. Snake
sharps and students of the snakes habits
say that they were driven from their old
haunts by the extensive forest fires in the
early spring and sought refuge in the
neighborhood of Pithole, which was not
visited by the fires.-Derrick.
Human beings are not the only crea-
lures which pine and die for want of COM
panionship. About ten days ago all the
members of Market street family, save
the head of the house, left the city for
their summer outing. They left behind
them a canary bird. The feathered song
ster was tenderly cared for, but became
disconsolate by reason of the absence of
little girl of the family, to whom the
bird was devotedly attached. The cana
ry became so melancholy that it refused
food, and Sunday morning dropped off
the perch, dead, to all appearance the
victim Of a broken heart.-Meadv vile
Gazette.
The immense demand for bicycles has
kept the factories overrun with orders.
and prevented fall in the price, but it
is only matter of a short time when the
wheel must come down. A person who
decides to buy one hundred dollar ma
chine now can save $50 by waiting year,
and probably in less time. 1t is reported
that syndicate has been formed to man
ufacture bicycles, and will during the
fall and winter, make 400, 900 at a cost not
to exceed $l8 each, and will sell them so
as to retail at $50 dollars each. They will
be practically as good as the article now
sold for $l00- -Meadville Tribune.
A party of newspaper men and ladies
have arranged house-boat party to leave
New York city on the first of September,
for the Gotten States and international
exposition. The route which they take
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water travel through the Union. The
boats dimentions are 80 by II feet, and
the greater part of the distance will be
polled. The route, as outlined, will ira
verse the Hudson river, from New York
to Albany; thence by the Erie canal to
Buffalo; thence to Cleveland, along the
shore of Lake Erie; thence TO Ports
mouth, Ohio, by the Ohio canal, where
the Ohio river will be taken to the Mis-
sissippi, and the later down to some con-
venient point, probably Memphis. From
there the railroad will be taken to At
lanta, where the party will arrive on the
18th of September, the opening day.
The party proposes to have a great deal
of pleasure along the route, but the ex-
position will be the objective point.
EVERY TOWN HAS
| A liar.
A sponger.
A balky team.
A smart Alex.
Its richest man.
A dog ordinance.
A croquet ground.
Some pretty girls.
A girl that giggles.
A woman that tattles.
Half a dozen lunatics.
| A neighborhoOd feud.
A justice of the peace.
A man who knows it all.
More loafers than 1t needs.
Men who see every dog fight.
A boy that cuts up in church.
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