The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-01-09
SELECT sIFTINGs.

Damascus has been a city for 1896
years.
Patents granted for title of nobility
were first made in 1874, by Edward Ill.
Within eleven days after dog gained +
access to Kansas corral of 1,5OO sheep,
over 300 died of hydrophobia.
A deer was killed in Twigg county,
Ga, by railroad hand, who hit it with
shovel as it was running by him.
The ebony tree grows to be fifteen feet
in circumference. The outer wood is
pure white, the heart only being perfectly
black.
The Confederate rose is singular
flower grown by Joseph G. Bailey, OF New
, Orleans 1t is white in the morning, but,
red at night. 1t grows in large punches
Eighty thousand children in the North
of Enrland form the ''Dickey Bird socle-
ty." They are pledged to protect birds,
never to destroy nest, and to teea Diros
in winter.
Among the missiles shot from cannon
in early times were bolts, which were
mentioned as early as 1413. In l4le
Henry v. ordered his clerk Of the ord
nance to get 1900 shot made at the Maid
stone quarries
English judges were formerly accus-
toned to rebuke any gentleman OF inc
bar, who casually said William the Con
Queror, instead of William L., on the
ground that William succeeded to the
throne 10y compact
Delos Hotchkiss; Of Marion, Conn,
I.oH ca n
ably the most remarkable apple tree IN
the world. In the first place, 1T Is nearly
900 years old; it is sixty feet high; the
diameter IF the tree top is 1O4 feet, ana
the circumference of the trunk, three
feet from the ground, is fifteen snd one
, half feet. One of the pecullarities o.
,, this venerable tree is that it is ian alter
: nate bearer'-five limbs bearing fruit one
Z wear. and four the next; but, strange tt
; say. 1t showed its patriotism on the Cen
tehnial year by bearing fruit on all 1t
9 branches, the first time it ever did SO.
4 The Prussian fashion Of bestowint
Is honorary colonelcies began through tn
Is tailor of Frederick the Great, who, tind
is ing that his royal master owed hlm NOR
n than he was likely to pay, obtained a
e audience Of the king, and called his al
If tention to the numbers of foreign potter
IT tates who visited his court. These pc
ID sonages. he represented, would doubtlei
~ be mitch grati6ed if Frederick wOql
ct create them generals and eolonels IN b
le redoubtable army; a uniform would
of necessary, and if the king would let hi
ID have the order he would at once cane
k. the bill. Frederick consented, an
an hence, after some years, King Alphons
IT. Uhlan colonel, is hooted in Paris.
nd The PARTICLES; 80" and .ap," a
ad abbreviations of Latin propositions mea
fe. ING "of - and "&" or from" Ge
g erally. when connected with names, tn
ed refer to the town or place where one W
le- born, or the family estate. In the cas-
lso for example, of Thomas a Kempis, auth
on of that famous work entitled Initiate
lin of Christ" which has been translat
of into more languages than any other boo
vel save the Bible, the :" denotes from
lie. His family name was Thomas Hammerke
of He was born in 1879 or 1880, in the tor
es, of Kempen, near Cologne. He was eG
i've Gated first at Daventer, then at Lwol
to and in the convent of st. Agnes. Al
il the custom of the times at these schoo
he was known as "Thomas from Ken
en-. f" and finally, as happened in ma
ce. other such cases, the school push
ted aside the family name.