Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-02-07

-Poor boxes are placed in the var
ious hotels and saloons OF Wilkesbarrc,
Pa, and last week s57.iI were contri-
butcd through their source.
Tho Iowa Supreme Court decides
that woman IN that State may hold
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member oi The Legislature.
II. X. Beechcr. OF Elmira, refused
pass from the President of Rail.
road recently because the President
was not sole owner Of the road.
Tho PhGnxville Iron Company
has received the contract for building
a large bridge in Canada. The work
will run until the middle Of August.
The prisoners In the Bradford
county jailbave requested the Towanda
preachers to take each bis turn in
preaching them Sunday sermon.
"A company is being formed at San
Diego, Cal, 10 build railroad 10
Yuma. on the direct line Of the Texas
Pacific. Government aid will be asked.
An eminent statician estimates
that there are 100000 yards OF rag
carpet in Vermont, and that every
third family has u quilung.irame to
lend.
The leaves Of coffee are now used
to make a beverage not much different
from tea. The new drink finds favor
in London, and has been introduced in
Boston.
"A Wisconsin man has eleven
children, five of whom have been per-
fectly bald ever since their birth. 1t
is not stated how they dress, but they
ought to wear mohair.
-Twenty-fve hundred men are
kept out OF employment at the ship
yard in Chester, Pa owing TO the iu-
clement weather. There are nine new
steamships under contract.
Among the attractions at church
fair in Baltimore is walk under the
sea, guided by girl who personates a
mermaid as closely az nature and de-
corum will permit. Price, ten cents.
AT Scottdale and vicinity, West.
moreland county, the coal miners aud
coke drawers have gone on strike
for five cents additional on each wagon.
Heretofore they have been getting
twenty cents
Twenty cases OF geological and
botanical specimens, which have been
forwarded from Japan to Princeton,
will be placed in the college museum.
They are presents from Hikorchi 0rita,
u Japanese student who graduated at
Princeton last year.
"A Clarion county man, the other
day, shot at rabbit in brush pile
and hit a can of glycerinc concealed
there. The explosion knocked the
man down and made small earth.
quake in the ncighborhood.
--Apropos of the Moody and Sankey
meetings in that city, the Boston Post
concludes that, the depression of bus.
ness and enterprise being favorable to
reflection, the revival movement comes
at time ripe for important results.
The report of the United States
Commissioner OF Education shows in
the States and Territories the animal
income OF the Public Schools is sSs..
6fS,950, and the estimated value of
the sites, buildings and other school
property, sl73,s33,5i5.
The postal officials believe that the
Government is swindled in the az.
gregate to large amount by the wash
ing and second use OF stamps. To
check tho practice new three cent
stamp, so made as TO show any attempt
to cflacc the canceling mark, is soon TO
be issued
"A hog was dressed last month in
Newton, Mass, =" "Chester White"
raised by 4. J. Morris. 1t was twenty
months old and weighed l,00i pounds.
When dressed the weight was eight
hundred and twenty. seven, length six
feet nine inches and distance about the
girth six feet and sovon inches.
The Fort Worth (Texasl Standard
says the slaughter Of butlaloes is i'm.
mense. On an average one thousand
will approximate closely to the mum.
ber killed each day during the pleas
ant days of the hunting season, fifteen
hundred men being on the range en-.
gagged in killing and preserving the
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