The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-04
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Signor Oozzi of Verona claims to have
discovered a powder removing all ex-
ploSivo power from petroleum.
The demand for postal cards since
they were first introduced in 1879 has
increased thirty per cent. annually.
Juan Gonsalez has been executed at
Valparaiso for killing Bhopkeeper in
his shop in broad daylight. Though
only twenty-three he had been twenty
times arrested for murder, robbery and
other grave crimes.
Thus far there have been nearly ten
thousand mines recorded in the Black
Hills, and they are still being discovered
at the rate of about one hundred week.
For the year ending May Is, 1873, it
was estimated that S4, 900, 900 had been
produced by the gulch and quartz mines.
Mr.. Tucker, of Fond du Lac, Wis,
broke his arm, and the doctors had to
cut out four inches of th bone, including
the elbow joint, though they left the
muscles and ligaments uninjured. A
clever surgeon has just fitted him with
an artificial elbow joint that works like
a charm.
In the valley near Bantas, CAL, q field
of ripe wheat containing one thousand
acres was recently destroyed by fire.
Three hundred farmers fought the flames
desperately with wet sacks, but nothing
seemed to have any effect until the fire
reached a belt of green wheat, there it
stopped.
The marble quarries of Carrara, Italy,
have been worked since the reign of
Augustus. They embrace an entire
mountain range. 10000 tons of marble
were sent to this country from these
quarries year before last. The entire
working populace in Oarrara finds en-
ployment in them.
David Freshwater, of Carthage, Mo-,
had fine farm, but the crops promised
to be poor, and the other day one of
his hogs died. His cup was full and,
selzing hatchet, he cut several fright
ful gashes on his head, then jumped
into a lake tool shallow to drown him,
and finally, climbing tree, jumped to
the ground to dash his brains out, but
caught in the limbs and was taken home
to recover.
Once in while man is found who
distrusts saving banks and safe derosit
companies, and institutions that take
money on investment; who thfusts his
savings into old stockings or trunks,
gets it out and counts it before he goes
to bed, worries about it by day and
dreams about it by night. Such a man
Mr.. King of Vesey street, New York,
seems to be. He had thirty thousand
dellars in an old satchel which he locked
IN small room In the top of his house.
The money was fingered over daily to
see whether it was all there. When it
came time to go through with that OPP
Grafton on recent Saturday night the
satchel was missing. Thieves had
crawled through the skylight and had
made off with the cash that was to make
Mr.. King happy in his old age.
An exhibition of the written addresses
presented to the German Emperor after
the recent attempts on his life has been
OPOhOu Nv Uuo Olu GaldCe AT Berlin.
Besides thousands of kilograms, there
are more than two hundred addresses,
the number of signatures to each ad-
dress varying between ten and ten thou
sand. Many of the addresses are perfect
works of art, calligraphically executed
and adorned with pen and ink drawings,
watercolor paintings and photographs.
Most of the bindings are in blue velvet,
the favorite color of the emperor, with
gold or silver clasps, and alto-relievos in
the same metals. OF all the principal,
political, municipal and learned corpora
tions in Germany are added those from
the German residents in Vienna, Pesth.
Dublin, Brussels, Antwerp, Revel, Mos
COW, st. Petersburg, Switzerland, etc.
Nearly all the addresses are in German,
but there are several in Latin, italian,
Hebrew and other languages. The get
ting up has probably never been sur
passed for taste, costliness and art.
Fashion Notes.
The desire for shaggy goods still con-