The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-03-09
TIMELY TOPICS.


The inquiries of Professor Cohn, OF
breslau, indicate that short-sightedness
is rarely or never born with those sub.
ject 10 it, and that it is almost always
the result OF strains sustained By he
eye during study in early youth.
Ten pounds OF tobacco out OF every
eleven that is used in this country is
grown here. We grow about 391 GOO, 900
pounds, import about 100000, export
about 32l, 100000, leaving n, 600, 600 for
consumption It is estimated that there
are about 100000 smokers in the
United States; thus the yearly average
per smoker is eleven pounds.
A number of English coal mines are
being worked under the ocean. In
Northumberland the net available guam
tity of coal under the sea is estimated
at 4O3, 100000 tons, and on the Durham
coast under the sea, including breadth
of three and half miles, with an area
otseventy-one square miles, 734 SOC, 600
tons. The latter mine is in vein of an
aggree ate thickness of thirty feet, dis.
tributed in six seams. Engineers are
considering how it can be worked sue
cessfully in the future.
It is some consolation to know that
the prophets of disaster to our steady
going old planet do not agree among
themselves. Two of them have de-
duced from the Bible the conclusion
that things will go on as they are til
1887. Then people must look out for
tremendous catsclysm; the Star of
Betnlenem will reappear, and moral,
physical and mundance convulsions will
follow. Others, however, equally en-
titled to credence also, have set the date
OF the event as November 10, 1881.
1t gives one vivid idea of the meal
culable loss to the country in material
wealth from the wanton or accidental
destruction Of our forests that the dam
age from forest fires in but three States,
New York, Michigan and Wisconsin,
and IN but single year, 1871, is estima-
ted at the enormous sum of 1915, 600, 900. |
AS consequence Of similar destruction
settlers in Minnesota have been COM |
PEELED this winter to burn their furni> |
ture, farm implements, outhouses and |
even the doors OF their DWELLINGS to
keep from freezing. Others have paid |
from $l7 to $50 cord for firewood. No |
wonder the Minnesota Foresters' asso- |
citation IS pressing so energetically the |
need of renewing their woodlands.
Murder according to the San Ber-
nardino Tunes, still stalks rcd-handed
through the Pacific coast" The record
Of violent deaths for single week is
given as a sample: At Cncamonga " a
man undertook to shoot another; his
hand was struck up, the pistol dis
and young man entirely in
locent OF the row now lies st the point
If death; at Ell Monte, Hunt, who is
Known to have murdered one or more
men in Utah and others in Arizona, and
was allowed to elude the law, butchered
one of the best citizens of Los Angeles,
md came within q hairs breadth
If killing a citizen of the Monte
It the same time; in Reno, on
he seventeenth, man shot another
'ver a game of cards; at Bodie the
,eople arose in their Indignation and
ynched a murderer who had been ar
'ested and allowed to escape; at San
Diego, q day or two since, q saloon
Keeper shot two men in self-defense.
md they are now in dying condition. :"
The Tunes says this record is repeated
week after week, and thinks it about
lme that jurors should begin to convict
nurderers, and that a severe penalty
mould be imposed upon carrying a
leadly weapon OF any kind.