The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-11-07
Items OF Interest.

Spring openings-rat traps Fau
openings-chestnut burrs.
Some sixty Indians are still prisoners
in the old fort at st. Augustine, Fla.
A Chinese baby was refused as a COM
petitor in a San Francisco baby show.
"I say, boy, is that the fire ?'' asked
a gentleman of a ragged urchin, and
pointing to dense volume OF smoke
that was issuing from the windows of
warehouse. "No, sir, that is only the
smoke, replied the boy.
Prof. ]. E. Todd has critically exam
ined the "petrifed man with a stump
of tail, that is said to have been found
in Colorado. He says that it is clumsy,
hewn out of stone, and that it is prob
ably not more than few years old.
A collegian interested in the subject of
civil service reform suggests that all the
clerks in the department of the interior
are under Schurz, and that they ought
to be changed at least once in four years,
in the interest of purity i'll the service.
According to the New York Republic,
the hard times have given rise to at
least score of restaurants in that city
in which the needy classes can obtain,
fo1 the small sum of five cents, meal,
consisting of bread and coffee or tea, or
bread aud soup, or beef stew, etc.
The wife of All Fat was the belle of
Chinatown in Carson, Nevada. Quong
Hing coveted her, and to get her he
hired five Cinnamon to make pretense
of fighting in the street when All Fat
was close by, and to kill him in way
that would seem merely accidental. The
plan was successful, and the husband
was fatally wounded by what seemed
stray bullet.
Little anecdote Of Papa Wrangel, the
Oldest soldier in Europe: When in 1913
he had to put down the insurgents of
Berlin, they sent him WORT that at his
first shot they would hang his wife.
For an answer, he opened fire. When
he had got the upper hand of the rebels,
he remarked to his aid: "My wife. Do
you know ! am curious to see if they did
hang her ?"
A woodpecker bored hole in the
spire of church in Jackson, Mississippi,
last spring, and made his nest within it.
In the summer, however, a swarm OF
bees flew to the spire, drove out the
woodpecker, and have since filed the
interior wi h honey. And now man,
the sovereign despoiler, has discovered
the hoard, and resolved to exhibit the
spire, with its novel contents, at the
State fair.
A singular rumor has gained currency
in Limerick, Ireland, to the effect that
the late Viscout Fitzgibbon, a gallant
cavalry officer who was supposed to have
fallen in the celebrated charge of the
six hundred, Mt Balaklava, did not meet
that fate, but is Mt this moment on his
way home to claim his estates. 1t is
stated that when last seen he was lean
ing, apparently wounded, on his horse;
that he was taken prisoner by the Rus
slams, and shortly after, for some insult
alleged to have been given to Russian
officer, was transported to Siberia,
! when, his term of exile having expired
he is returning to Ireland. A statue OF
/, him adorns the Wellesley bridge.
From a book recently published in
Berlin it appears that not longer ago
than the middle of the last century no
German could leave his country without
permit. Ii he did his property was
confscated. A little boy, ten years old,
being accused, and perhaps justly con-
victed, of stealing a lantern used for
lighting the streets was hanged. If a
person displeased the king the king
forthwith might imprison him. If a
man drove a horse too fast his sovereign
beat him With stick of white thorn.
Princes and princesses were no excep-
ton to such treatment. The civil ser
vice was conducted by officers who had
purchased their appointments. Lieu
tenants thrashed sergeants, sergeants
thrashed privates, masters thrashed ser
wants. A deserter from the army had
his nose and ears sliced off.