The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1901-07-31
Wee Willie, with a noddle full
OF enterprises keen,
lnvadeth now the orchard, full
ofapples, mostly green,
And later hath a stomach full

And later hath a stomach full
or TROUBLES omphacine.
--Ex.
Rev. Buzza and family had quite
srare and narrow escape from injury a
their home in jamestown one day las
week. In the electrical storm bolt o
tightening struck the corner of the parlo
where the family were sitting and rur
along under the floor ofthe pstlor.
also burned out their phone. No grea
damage was done.-Mercer Dispatch.
When it's hot at home, it's hot anC
gummy other places. In conditions nee
essary to comfort in boiling weather
home has several unpurchased advan.
tages. It's the only place where you can
be absolutely negligee. Hence, the clti.
zen who takes his vacation later in the
season has saving share of wisdom
philosophically remarks the Franklin
Spectator.
Free Methodist camp meeting be-
gins this evening in pleasant grove NJ
near the reservoir. The grounds have
been put in fine condition, being lit uI
with natural gas and supplied with pure
water from good mountain springs. The
circle Of tents is quite large, containing
upward OF so, and the attendance prom
ises to be larger than at any other sim
liar meeting ever held in this vicinity.
TO read PERSONS character from his
face is an accomplishment which few pos
sess, hut which many would like TO have.
The study is an absorbingly interesting
one. aud has not only an entertaining,
but practical side as we'll An article
on the subject will shortly be pub
lished in Tho Ladies Home Journal,
giving careful details regarding the traits
OF character indicated by the different
features of the face.
George O. Cornelius has been APP
pointed TO the office of United States
Consul at st. Johns, Newfoundland, at a
salary Of $1,000 per year. He is provided
with secretery and an official residence
nelius has been instructed to huld him
self in readiness to leave for his new
post.-Warren Mirror. The gentleman
has number of acquaintences in this
section who will learn of his appointment
with pleasure.
The parties who drilled the last well
on the Hopkins farm, east side of the
Allegheny river, three miles above this
place, we're over from Pleasantville yes
terday, and thought they would bail out
what oil had accumulated, when 10 their
surprise and delight they found the hole
had filled to within few feet of the top
with oil. No water was found in the well
and the owners are sufficiently excited
about it TO talk of Immediately starting
the drill again.
The pest Of flying gray bugs which
has made itself felt in other sections has
appeared in Crawford county, and ac-
cording to farmers is working serious
damage TO the potatoes and other of the
unharyested crops. The bugs, of which
considerable has been said in news
papers, are about the size of crickets
They are said to be fully as destructive as
the potato bug and harder to manage be-
cause of their alertness on the wing
Meadville Tribune.
Commissioners Clerk Sam T Carson,
who occupies the G. s. Hunter home
stead, ON the west side, killed a large
rattlesnake, sporting eight rattles, on his
door step last Saturday afternoon. 1t
was doubles one from the old Zip"
Guiton den on the hill back of the depot,
that had escaped from John Bush who
captured a number there alive in the
spring. The snake had crawled up be-
tween two of Mr.. Carson's children and
was taking things easy.
John Johnson, for the past ten or
twelve years a resident OF East Hickory
died at his home in that place on Sunday
last, after an Illness lasting only a few
days, he having, however, not been in
SOoh Souit LlohAho loob hhcN1h
able to go about and attend to his busl-
ness affairs. The deceased was aged
about So years, and leaves a wife but nc
children. The funeral took place yester-
day, the interment being in the cemetery
Tylersburg, his former home.
The virtues of that d-fashioned and
easily procured drink, butter-milk. have
not been bali sung. Physicians say that
its Tactic acid is even more healthful than
the citric acid Of oranges and lemons. It
is credited, too, by those who should
know, as being ofvalue to a rheumatic
patient 1t has been found to be both
nourishing and fattening as well as re-
markably easy Of assimilation. lfliked
at all, 1t is undoubtedly better drink in
summer than many Of the carbonated,
artificially favored drinks that are con-
sumed in almost unlimited quantities.
] Try butttrmilk.