The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-02-09

Preparations for the coming census OF
1851 in London are being actively push
ed. It is anticipst that the returns
will reveal a striking increase in the me-
tropois, which cannot now be far short
OF 10000 The census will be taken
simultaneously in every district of the
United Kingdom on the same day.
The Rev. Marcus Ormond, of Rush
vile, Ind, recovered from brain fever
with his memory entirely gone. he re-
collects nothing that he knew before his
illness, but learns readily, and seems to
possess his other mental faculties unims
paired. His wife is teaching him to
speak and read. treating him as a child.
He learns very fast, however, and hopes
in few years to know about as much
as ever.
A remarkable case of piracy, if that
is the name of it, was reported last SUM-
mer from the Massachusetts fishing
coast, when two Swedes, left alone on
board OF the Wellfeet fishing schooner,
Ida r Freeman, captured the vessel
and sailed away with her. Nothing
has been reported of them since then,
until now it is learned that they sold
the schooner at Bergen, Norway, for
50, 220, getting extra pay for their SER
vices, ETC., on board. The purchasers
were Danes, who are going to use the
craft for fishing among the Hebrides.
According to q New York paper,
blankets, rifles, and even whisky lose
their interest for the red man who has
seen Washington woman with her
best hair on. 1t is said that several
important Indian treaties have been ne
gotiated solely through the astuteness
OF an Indian agent, who bribed obstinate
chiefs with artificial female scalps made
to order by Washington hair dealer,
and represented to be the scalps oi
queens whom the great father at Wash
ington had defeated in BATTLE"
The settlement of Lower Oregon is
going on at an unprecedented rate. A
German couple has recently arrived
with fourteen children, the mother being
about twenty-five years of age. They
were married in the fall of 1870 and the
following summer their married life
was blessed with twins, both girls. Less
than two years later the woman, whs
was then eighteen years old gave birtI
to four children, three girls and q boy
the latter living only few days. In tn,
, summer OF IA three more girls regis
tered at the humble hearth and in 1877
a boy arrived solitary and alone. Sever
years after marriage the arrival of an
other cluster of four, this time two boy
and two girls, was I'm event that create
Z some CONSERVATION, and two years ag,
5 two more little flaxen. haired girls cam
to the fortunate couple.
! The State com missioner of agricul
: ture OF Kansas reports that over 25, 90
acres OF Egg tian or rice corn wa
, harvested in that State this year. Thi
I is very remarkable cereal, which pre-
o misses to be of the greatest value TO th
people of the inland portions of tn
/, Vest, as it requires little or no moistur
in its growth. The average yield of tn
grain was twenty-five bushels to tn
Z acre. 1t is said to surpass the bes
Indian corn, which it closely resemble.
q as food for both man and beast. Th
IS seed was brought to this country by th
d Egyptian exhibitors at the centennia
Being product o; the gre,J A frica
II desert, Dhoura, as it is called in th
e Nile country, thrives in the dryest so
e and under the most intense heat. WheI
v the buffalo grass of the American plain
withers beneath the sun the rice cor
70 flourishes. Cattle and fowls prefer it t
! Indian corn, and some authorities prt
- dict that the time is near at hand whe
- it will be the fourth or fifth crop in in