The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Over 1000 cheese factories are operated
in New York State.
The Boston Post considers a judges
position trying one.
Arizona contains $4,000, 900 acres of
land, 5,OO0,0OO of which are surveyed,
The people of Germany smoke IS ,OOO,-
600 pounds of tobacco in their pipes
every year.
A California paper says that it is now
considered a well-settled point that the
production of raisins in that State will
be made profitable.
English authorities state that, out OF
every five loaves of bread eaten in Eng
land in 1860, three must come from the
United States and Russia.
A new steam hammer in the establish
ment of Messrs. Park Bros. & Co., Pitts
burg, weighing fifteen tons, and costing
$50, 600, will, it is said, be the largest in
the country.
Over 100000 was expended in
New York city last year in the erection
ofnew buildings, which is in excess of
the amount expended for new buildings
any year since 1871,
The Smithsonian institute has sent a
commission to the Pacific coast TO make
Il complete collection OF all the fish found
in the sea, lakes and rivers of California
and the neighboring States and Terri
tories.
1t is said that there is one COW for
every four persons in this country, and
if the wells and springs were to fail
some of us would be put on short allow
ance of milk and cream. -NorriSto,On
Herald
The Suez canal receipts arc reported
to have decreased in 1878 1929, 200 from
those of 1877, and 1879 showed still
greater falling off. About thTee-quarters
# the vessels passing through are
British.
Professor: Can you multiply con.
crete numbers togetherP". The class all
the product OF five apples multiplied by
six pote..oesP" Pr-l'l (triumphantly):
Hash"
mind words can never die" How
bitterly does man realize that terrible
truth when he sees all the kindest words
he ever saw in his life glaring at him
from his published letters in breach
of promise suit.-HGwkeVe.
According to the developments of a
lawsuit in Buffalo, the business of manu-
featuring glucose is very profitable
one. 1t is alleged that the shares of
the Buffalo grape sugar company, the
original value CT which was 800 EACH
are now worth $4,000 each, and it is
said the concern makes from $4,000 TO
$4,000 per week.
Although to-day there are as many
boards in the House of Commons as in
any assembly in the world, twenty-five
years ago there was but one. 1t be-
longed to Mr.. AIuntz, member from
Birmingham, who did the public SER
vice by persuading the government to
adopt the periorating machine in the
manufacture of postage stamps. Mr..
Muntz shaved until he was forty, when
his brother returned from Germany
with fine beard, which the M. p. de
ter mined to emulate. "H. b." the
famous caricaturist, was soon ut 1.-THE
man with the beard" as every one called
Muntz, and represented him in a cartoon
as "a Brummagen M. p" In this pOr-
trait he carries a stout stick, which has
special prominence, the reason being
that an irrepressible practical joker, the
Marquis of Waterford, was supposed to
have laid wager that he would shave
Muntz; hence the cudgel to defend him
self from disbarbament. Mr.. MuntH
died, very wealthy, in 1857.