The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-10-05
FACTS AND COMMENTS.

The White House cellar has been
converted into curiosity shop, with
miscellaneous collection of traps sent
on from all parts Of the country for the
benefit Of President Garfield. There
are at least twenty-five beds, including
one which is five and ne-half feet long,
and was sent all the way from Mime
sofa for the accommodation of man
over six feet high. A Michigan man
sent a cage with two white mice to
amuse the Presidents children, and
lady in the remote west contributed q
stuffed humming bird "to relieve the
monotony Of the sick room"
The Chinese government, for some
reason not stated, recently issued de.
cree commanding it's subjects to abstain
from shaving the head for period of
100 days. Detected in the act of dis
obeying this arbitrary regulation, be-
tween fifty and sixty persons in the
city of Foochow alone were on the
eleventh of June sentenced to receive
castigation with bamboo rods and to pay
each a fine of 5000 cash 1867. It is
stated by the local journals that before
liberation the heads of the offenders
we're, as a wholesome warning to others,
carefully painted and vanished.
The flow of Italian emigration to this
country is comparatively small, and one
reason is that South America has proved
more attractive region for them. The
Argentine republic already contains
10000 Italians, and they constitute
more than one-haf of the population of
Buenos Ayres. They lately opened and
carried on successfully an industrial ex-
hibition, in which the raw and manu-
factured products of the country and
the machinery and mechanical inven-
tions chiefly used by the Italian resi-
dents were brought together The re-
suits were astonishing to the native
Spaniards. The Italians seem likely at
no distant day to become the dominant
people of the South American republic
as the English-speaking races are of the
United States.
Some people have such odd ideas of
q iokei A man on board an Australian
steamer Just leaving Plymouth Harbor
! shouted "M8n overboardW The life
boat was lowered, but became entangled,
and two men were drowned. As nobody,
except the two, were missing, 1t was be-
lieved that somebody shouted man
| overheard for T" the fun of it." Again,
a peaceable man was walking the streets
of New York, when he heard man say
to another in an excited manner "Let
me go; I'll have his hearts blood"
Breaking away from his companion, he
approached the peaceable citizen, raised
his clenched fist, and then whipped out
! his knife. The citizen cut his hand in
struggling with the rufiian, but finally
| knocked him down. Upon being taken
before magistrate, the rowdy explained
that he was "only fooling little"
The American express company has
| introduced into New York the system
of Harvesting three horses abreast, after
the fashion of the London omnibuses.
The change has been made on two of
the wagons for an experiment, with very
satisfactory results. The wagons are
supplied with two poles instead of one,
and each of the three horses is attached
to separate whiffletree. This is found
to be decided improvement over the
system sometimes used of putting one
horse in shafts and another at each side.
The harnessing is practically the same
as with two horses, with two poles in
stead of one. The experiment is tried
upon the wagons that deliver goods in
the upper part of the city, not only be-
cause the loads are frequently too heavy
for two horses, but to enable the driv-
ers to make up for lost time with an in
creased rate of speed, when from any
cause they are delayed from the start.
Garheld's wonderful power of endur-
ance under the operations performed
upon him recalls other instances of the
kind even more marvellous, as having oc-
Cured in days when surgery was far
less skillful and humane than now.
Lord Peterborough, the conqueror of
Spain under Queen Anne, underwent
the most frightful operation known to
science when past sixty, and a week
later started on q journey across Europe
with post-horses, feeling no i'll effects
whatever. Nelson, naturally sickly,
and having already lost an eye and
arm, was struck at the battle of the
Nile by an iron splinter, which literally
ripped from the bone the entire flesh
of his upper face, leaving it hanging like
a veil over his eyes and mouth, yet he
not only preserved his consciousness
during the dressing of this horrible
wound, but actually continued to direct
the course of the battle. Luigi Oornaro,
the famous Venetian senator, nephew
OF the celebrated Doge of that name,
having broken the bone of his thigh at
eighty-three, bore the setting of it
without hinching, and subsequently re-
covered the full use of the limb. Equally
resolute, though less fortunate, was
Duke Albrecht, of Austria, who, when
the court surgeon shrank from operating
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