Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-11-03
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Ohio proposes sending y youth o
l16 summers TO tho Centennial.

tcnSoI pcucncs hnu CANS u, ss,7 wv" tnIcs
pound cans.
Aaron Snyder, justice Of tn,
peace of Berks county has table
which he claims IL 200 years old
-Duringthc last five months, knowd
as "dog days the poundmastcr OF
Washington city captured and killed
1929 dogs,
The skeleton of mastodon has
Just been unearthed in Broome county
n. Y, the tusks of which are ten feet
in length. tt
Miss Catharinc King, Of York
who is eigbty-eight, has never been in
railroad car nor twenty miles distant
from home.
Two girls arrested for street beg
ging at Reading proved TO be the
daughters of u man who owns two
houses in that city.
The English refners are growing
nervous about the large quantity OF
American sugar that finds its way into
their home market.
When she will, she will, yon may
depend ont" The women have raised
all the money necessary for their Cen
tennial exhibition building, s2s,OOO.
When saloon keepers allow people
to play for money in their saloons, they
are practically keeping gambling
house. The New York Supreme Court
says 80.
The total receipts of the Post.
Office Department for the year ending
June 80 were s2S, ,56l ,502, and its total
expenditures s33,6l1, 300, leaving n
deficiency OF sG,O49,s0
AN agent of the Russian Govern
ment is travelling in the South to make
a study of cotton culture, which there
is some idea of attempting to introduce
into Turkestan.
--Catbarinc Katherman, of Union
county, has had seventeen children, all
Of whom are married and have chill
dren There has been but one death
in the iamily-that of the father two
years ago.
"A number OF farmers in the South
crn section of New Jersey have recent
ly been badly swindlcd in the purchase
Of adulterated guano. The larger part
of it proved to be coarse sand and
gravel
Down in Arkansas they recently
killed rattlcsnake twenty feet long,
twenty-iour inches around the girth,
three or four inches between the eyes,
and which made track of eight and
threc.fourth inches.
James Losh, of Bern township,
Berks county attempted TO steal ride
on coal train of the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad recently. He fell of,
had his right leg broken and two of
his toes amputatod
From the following directions on
an envelope il will be observed that
the Office of internal affairs is not con
fined TO temporal matters 80 the
Secretary ofthe Eternal Affairs at Har.
risburg, Pa
Colonel Fred. Grant was called
upon at Des Moincs for speech and
he said, II am sorry not to be able to
make you speech, but as father has
made II speech tonight. have hopes
OF doing so some time
"A Professor of Cornell University
has made application for the body Of
the noted trotter, the American Girl,
in order that the skeleton may be
placed in the museum Of that institu-
ton, and preserved as specimen of
the bony structure of typical Ameri-
can trotting horse.
The Oxford University press has
Just published the smallest Bible in the
world. 1t measures ilx2ixl inches,
and weighs, when bound in limp moroc-
co, less than three and onc-half Ounces.
The type of this dainty little volume,
though necessarily very minute, is clear
and legible.
The cranberry crop this year is
estimated at 100000 bushels, against
an average of about 275,000. Cape
Cod and New England produce 75, 900
bushels, New Jersey 10000, New York
5000, and the Northwestern States
10000. The fruit is said to be OF nice
quality.
The only cotton press in Pennsyl-
vania has just been erected in Phila.
delpbia. II weighs about $50 tons and
is simple in construction. Bales Of
cotton measuring sixty cubic feet were
pressed into twenty cubic feet. The
capacity of the machine is estimated
at one bale per minute.
"A candidate for n vacant vIcaragc
in England announces an invention of
his own which may prove to I've useful.
1t is peculiar arrangement of the
pulpit, with clock to give warning.
When at the end of the half hour the
clock sounds an alarm, il the preacher
does not conclude within three minutes,
down comes tho pulpit, with the parson
and the rest of the appondages.
"A proposition is pending in the
Texas Constitutional Convention for
bidding judges, prosecuting attorneys
and jurors, when under the influence
of intoxicating liquor, from exercising
their duties. IL seems somewhat sin
gular that an evil of this kind should
have become so serious as to require q
Constitutional restriction.
1t is not generally known that the
Treasury Department employs two
learned and skilfhl chemists, one Of
whom is constantly engaged in fabri-
eating indeliblc inks, while the other
dcvotes his talents to washing out the
inks, and, thus far, chemistry has de-
vised no ink which chemistry cannot
effacc.
The Lucy furnace, Allegheny coun-
ty, produced last week 762 l9I-226S
gross tons OF 2,26s pounds each. This
Is some forty y.cight tons beyond any
product yet reached in this country,
and il is believed to be the greatest
amount Of pig iron ever made, in the
same length of time, by one furnace in
the world.
The express car attached TO the
Pacific Express over the Pennsylvania
Railroad, met with an accident, Mon
day, before reaching Altoona, by which
IL was nearly burned up. The cindcrs
from the engine accumulated on the
forward platform Of the car, and before
Il was discovered nearly oil the wood
work of the forward end was consumed.