The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-07-17

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ses in three years.
According to the Pekin (Ohina) GGz-
ette, the telephone was invented by /
Kung Fo Whing, who hourished in the
tenth century.
General Pleasanton has not given up |
his blue glass theory, but lectured !
recently on the subject at the Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia.
There is terrible famine in the south
ern part of Morocco, caused by drought.
| The inhabitants are said to be 30 re-
duced that they resemble living skele-
! tons.
The heat in the lower levels of the
| Nevada silver mines is intense. At a
depth Of 1900 feet, where the tempera-
ture was 1856 degrees, three men died
recently from exhaustion.
In the obituary columns of a single
Philadelphia paper appeared in one week
recently the names of sixteen persons
who had lived to or beyond the advanced
age of eighty years, among them being
Madame Heloise Ferti, one hundred
years; Lydia Sanders, ninety-seven, and
Hester Colhesh, ninety-three, the aver
age of the sixteen being eighty-nine
wears aud nine months.
A young girl in Cleveland, O., went
to bed recently with strong eyes and in
excellent health During the night she
felt "a sort of pricking' for a second or
two about her eyes, and then snap, as
if something had broken. These SEN
sations were accompanied by no pain,
and after they had passed away there
was no uncomfortable feeling about the
eyes. In the morning she was stone
blind.
A moderate amount of fat is generally
considered evidence of good health.
About one-twentieth part of the weight
of O man and the sixteenth of woman
is considered the normal proportion. Its
Office, aside from its value in giving
symmetry to the figure, is to prevent
the rapid escape of animal heat, and
also to supply the waste of tissue from
sickness, unusual exertion and tempora-
ry deprivation of food.
Mrs. Nancy Z. Glenn, notorious
through murder trial and sacquittal in
Indianapolis, is again under arrest.
After her escape from the gallows she
turned her attention very successfully
to swindling. Her mode was to make
rich people believe that che was en-
gagged in some secret but exceedingly
profitable business, and offer, purely as
a favor, to invest some of their money
in the mythical enterprise. She thus
obtained from six dupes an aggregate OF
about $4,000
Two men the other day drove up to
the door of Henry Hanschell, mer-
chant in Edwardsville, ILL.,, and request
ed the privilege of depositing box they
had with them in the house for the
night, which was refused, but they were
allowed to place it in the store. The
next morning the men called for the
box, but the storekeeper had missed
piece of cloth from his counter, and on
further examination he found that he
had been robbed of $500. and conse-
, quently refused to let them have the
box. The storekeeper obtained assis-
tance, secured the tw1 men and opened
the box, when 10 out jumped man,
and in the box were found the money,
J goods, ETC., which had been stolen.
. The territory of Karategin, which be-
lonRed formerly to Kokhand, has been
ceded by Russia to Bokhara. Karate
gin, with the smaller territories of Dor.
wa, Waehia, and Shugnau, as we'll as the
| greater part of Kogistar, adioin immedi'
|, | ately the plateau of Pamir, the highest
: in the world. Karategin, which is com
a pletely isolated in winter, and has IN
\ tercourse only during summer with the
= neighboring territories, has never yet
!. been approached by European. The
q habits and customs of the inhabitants
!, are described as those of a completely
i primitive state. They have no concep'
4 ton of measure or weight-no fairs
booths, caravanserais, or any institution
= of public life. Theft is unknown among
y them. They carry on the breeding o
! cattle, have little agriculture, and all is
a so to speak, common property. /
provisions are wanting in one family
their neighbors help them.
e A man was sentenced to State Prison
a for life at GAINESVILLE, o., last week for I
" murder which was proved against hin
e in peculiar circumstances. In jun
u 1876 farmer named Brock was fount
)t living dead with a shotgun wound il
rs one eye and a gun lying by him.
st verdict of suicide was rendered, and tn
T. body was buried. Suspicious wer
s however aroused against his farm hand
le named Moorehead, of whom he had bee
Jealous, and last February the body wa
taken up and it was found that ther
had been two wounds in the head; on
L. made by bullet from a rifle enterin
2. from behind, and the other made by
Of shotgun discharged into the left eye
I'd A fattened bullet and several shot weV