The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-07-24

A late invention combines an ironing.
table, step-ladder and chair.
The exact cost of the construction ol
the Paris Exposition buildings and
grounds is now estimated ut 45, 300, ,00C
francs, or $1,000, ,000
Liebig's experiment of curing intem'
perance by strictly farinacecus diet,
has been tested in twgnty-seven cases in
this country with very good effect.
Professor Riley, the government ento-
mologist, estimates that the annual loss
to agriculture in the United States from
destructive insects is not less than $3.50,
600, 200.
The great middle State streams, like
the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio, are
being stocked by Professor Baird's fish
hptching establishment with millions of
shad eggs and California salmon.
Frederick Hasse graduated at the head
of his class in q German university, in
1870 He was heir to $50, 900, and his
prospect of a successful career could
hardly have been brighter. A few days
ago he died in st. Louis, where he had
for year been a porter in medical
college. An appetite for opium killed
him.
In some parts of China crickets are
regularly trained for combat, by being
kept in small, earthenware pots, with a
little mould and a tiny cup of water,
and fed on fish, insects, boiled chestnuts
and boiled rice. If they catch cold their
health is restored by rations of mosqui-
toes. At the cricket pit they are match
ed according to size, weight and color,
and a cricket that wins many victories
is highly honored, and buried in small
silver coffin when it dies.
The Smithsonian Institution, which
has been engaged for more than q quar-
ter of century in researches into the
antiquities of America, and has during
that time published many important
memoirs on the subject, is about to
issue an exhaustive work on American
archaeology with numerous illustrations
and maps. The institution, therefore,
is anxious to collect from every available
source whatever is known or can be
ascertained by special investigation, of
the antiquities of North America, and it
invites the cooperation of all interested
in the work.
Upon the appearance OF rolling chairs
at the Paris Exposition nobody could be
induced to ride in them. At last an old
gentleman, being much entreated and
being promised that the trip should cost
him nothing, took his seat and was
wheeled about. Everybody he met
smiled, then laughed, then laughed
louder, and presently he had a large
surrounding. In disgust he left the
chair, and then found that placard
upon it said that il was especially use
full for elderly and weak persons, par
ticulally for men suffering from the re-
suits of overdrinking.
The question whether postal oficlG ls
have a right, under any circumstances,
except by due process of law, to open
letters or sealed packages in the mails,
has again been answered in the negative
by the Supreme Court of the United
States. "Sealed mailed matter, +"
says the decision, " is as fully guarded
from examination and inspection, except
as to their outward form and weight,
as if they we're retained by the parties
forwarding them in their own domiciles.
The Constitutional guarantee of the
right of the people to be secure against
unreasonable searches and seizures ex-
tends to their papers, thus closed against
inspection, wherever they may be. No
law of Congress can place in the hands
of officials connected with the postal
service any authority to invade the Sc
crecy of the sealed packages in the
mail. "
France reckons two braves more. A
/ fireman at Tarbes rushed among the
burning ruins of a house TO save his
captain and clergyman, who were
buried beneath the floor in endeavoring
to rescue the inmates. The fireman re-
mained trying to extricate the captain,
but without avail, till the flesh peeled
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