The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-06-26
TIMELY TOPICS.

TIMELY TOPICS.
There are over 1900 persons arrested
in New York each week on criminal
charges.
Over a million acres of land in India
are devoted to the growth of the poppy.
The demand for opium is increasing al
over the world.
The late Prof Henry, of the Smithso-
nian Institute, was in early life watch
maker, and ever afterwRrd he was able
to make the most delicate instruments
with which to experiment. This was an
advantage to him, for he was not COM
PEELED to rely upon others for his ma
chimes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tyler separated in
Hope, Mich, agreeing chat each should
be entirely free from interference by the
other Mrs. Tyler became house.
keeper for a bachelor, and Tyler, in
stead of sticking to the compact, went
to her new home with party of friends
and tarred and feathered her. A few
days later Tyler was killed.
From the returns of the British Board
of Trade for the first quarter of 1878 it
appears that the exports of breadstuffs
from this country TO Great Britain were
$17, 900, 900 in excess of the amount in
the corresponding period of last year,
while our exports of cotton decreased
81, 500, 600 in the same time. The in
crease in wheat was $40, 600, 900; flour,
$3, ,000, 900; and corn, 4,000,00
The annual crop of cat stories has
been enlarged by the following full
cat observed that two of her kittens
were invariably saved and the rest
of the litter thrown into the Mississippi.
Again becoming happy mother, she
hid two of her babies in an outhouse
and carried the rest in different dlrec-
ton. Investigation showed that she de-
hberately took them to the river and
threw them in, evidently preferring to
select herself the two kittens she wished
to rear.
The raising, culture, spinning and
weaving of silk and its preparation and
introduction into market as q source of
profit to the colored people of the South
are among the ambitious objects for
which Lowery's Industrial Academy in
Huntsville, Ala, has been founded.
Twenty-Five acres of land, with build
ings costing originally over 800. 600,
have been leased, and the owner, ex.
Governor Reuben Chapman, has offered
to give the entire property to the foun-
ders if they will secure an endowment
fund by which the academy can be firm
ly and permanently established.
The difference OF longitude between
London, Constantinople and ST. Peters
burg gives rise in these days of telegraphs
to singular embarrassments. There
are three hours of time between the first
and second and third capitals. The lat
ter can send kilograms until late in their
day and must sit up late at night to re-
ceive those sent in the afternoon from
London. Were San Francisco the seat
of negotiations the diplomatists would
be obliged to say, for instance, on Tues
day: I'VE have received your Wednes-
day kilograms" or "We have received
to-day your kilograms dated tomorrow.
John Votrin was a brakeman on the
Iron Mountain Railroad, and lost his
left arm at the shoulder by being run
over at q switch near Ohouteau avenue,
st. Louis. After opening the switch for
the train to pass, he started TO run across
the track, but his foot was caught in a
frog or under the switch-rod, and he fell
and narrowly escaped with his life. He
sued the company for $40, 900 damages,
holding that they were responsible for
the accident. The case was hot one,
lasting two days. The jury were out
but few minutes, and returned a ver-
dict for the plaintiff for $40, 900 DANA
ges. A day or two previous, in case
where a man had lost both an arm and a
leg from similar accident, the jury
failed to agree.
The terrible sufferings of a Tenth
Cavalry company on the Staked Plain of
Texas, through thirst, are described by
Surgeon King. They were four days
without water, and the weather was in
tensely hot. Their predicament was
caused by the death of their guide, leav-
ing them to wander by themselves until
spring was finally found. Their
mouths became so dry that brown sugar
would not melt in them. Their voices
| grew weak and strange. and their sight