The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06


State in 1876, Kansas this year jumps
70 the first place. Her crop of wheat
will be over $4,000, 900 bushels, and of
corn 100, 600, 900 bushels.
Two men go to farmhouses in Illinois,
pretend to be gatherers of statistics for
the agricultural department, stay all
night, insist on paying for their enter
tainment, and depart with good change
for bad twenty-dollar bill.
A cunning Californian tore his cloth
ing, rolled himself in the dust and tied
himself to tree by the wayside. hop.
ing to excite the pity of the passengers
OF the stage-coach when it came along
by relating how he had been robbed by
highwaymen. The stage that day took
short cut by q new road, and when the
cunning Californian was about to unite
himself grizzly bear came along and
ate part of his leg.
Twenty-eight dishonest tradesmen re-
Gently came before the Paris tribunal
Of correctional police. A coal merchant
for cheating in weight was fined $40 and
imprisonment for week grocer was
fined $40 for selling goods of poor ouali-
ty ; fifteen tavern keepers were fined 80
and imprisoned for adulterating their
liquors nine milk dealers suffered
like punishment for watering their milk,
and two bakers were fined SO for using
light weights.
In the Alps recently Mr.. and Mrs.
Wainwright and Christian Grass. their
RnInn n
Grass, the other guide, was a man of
strength, and the rope by which the
four were corded together was stout.
and throwing himself backward bv sheer
force of muscle he held them suspended
and cried to his brother to cut steps in
the ice and mount, and be quick about
it for he could not sustain them for more
than half an hour. Mr.. Wainwright
had not dropped his hatchet. which he
handed to the guide, who soon reached
the edge of the crevasse his brother
stll sustaining the Wainwrights, gave
him hand and drew him up, then they
hauled up their tourists, and all returned
little the worse for their frightfal adven-
ture.
A correspondent of New York paper
who processes to have been cured of the
opium habit at the New York State ine-
briate asylum, says that no drug can
take the place of opium, and that those
persons who profess to cure the opium
habit by giving a substitute are mostly
charlatans. He was not entirely de-
pr1ved of the accustomed stimulant at
once, but was allowed small portion
for two weeks in daily decreasing doses.
After the opium had been abandoned he
was given belladonna by day and hydrate
OF chloral at night. The chloral was to
induce sleep; this was reduced from
what would be equivalent to about
thirty grains of the salt until at the end
o. month it was nothing at all. BY
thus time he could sleep without it. He
was cured in month, and in the two
months that he remained there after
ward gained in weight twenty pounds.
Concerning the use Of tobacco the
Brltish Medical journal says What
elinical evidence is there of the good or
bad effects of tobacco smoking? There
IS a general opinion that smoking is
harmful for adolescents; less harmful--or,
ne some think, useful as well as agree.
Rble-to adults. Is anything positive
III known on the subject apart from mere
loose guessing ? Considering the mass
q loose assertion and vague specula-
non which has been floating about SO
long, we are singularly devoid of crisp,
4notable evidence on the subject. Can
any OF the nine thousand medical prac.
Fstloners who weekly read these columns,
produce from their reading or their ex-
perience well-defned evidence of any
sort as to the effects of tobacco smoking
en- average healthy individuals at dif. |
Iefent periods of development? We
naye heard of the smokers tongue, of
oDacco amaurosis, and of the smokers
dyspepsia. How far is smoking source
q evil, and to whom The question is.
appears, entering into the phase of |
|ee;slation In Germany. What are the
|ects?