The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-07-23
SELECT sIFTINGs.

OF birds the greenfnch is the earliest
riser as it pipes as early as half-pas one
in the morning. About half past two the
blackcap begins, and the quail wakes up
half an hour later. The sparrow occu-
pies nearly the last place on the list. The
reputation of the lark for early rising is
entirely false one. That celebrated
bird is a sluggard, and does not rise un-
til number of other birds have been up
and about for some time.
London Truth finds the following in
the Scots Magazine of March, 1875:
"There was lately presented to the en-
press of Russia laboriug man who has
had two wives, the first of whom brought
him four times four children at birth,
seven times three, and ten times two.
The second wife once brought forth
three children aud the other six times
two. The whole number of children by
the two wives amounted to seventy
two"
In letter to the British Medical Jour
nal, DR.. Armitage refers to the occupa-
tions of blind persons as being, in many
cases, of an extraordinary character.
Among these specified are six painters
(artists), two dentists one photographer,
twenty-nine coachmen, one hostler, one
fisherman, one sculptor and two leaders
of wagons He knows a blind man who
buys poultry on commission, and knew
one, now dead, who was dealer in
horses on a large scale.
Indians eat the horns of the deer when
in the velvet. One day on the Sioux
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near the camp and brought in entire. At
sight of 1t, Pahlani-ote, a Minnecouiou
of some fifty years, dropped his usual
statuesque attitude, knocked off the
horns, and seating himself by the fire,
began at the points to eat them, velvet
and all, without cooking, as if they were
most delicious morsels. The others of
the party looked on as if they envied
him. They said they always ate them so.
Captain John Aaron, of Barren Island,
Maryland, has, among other trees in his
orchard, one which INDUCES in the pecu
liar and rather unfortunate freak of
blooming only when some member of the
captains family is about to die. AL
though it is now quite old, ithas bloomed
but three times. The first time it bloomed
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years afterward it bloomed again, and an
other son died. Last year it bloomed a
third time, and a daughter died. 1t
stands near a graveyard, and notwith-
standing appeals from different members
of the family to have it cut down, Mr..
Aaron stubbornly refuses to have it mo-
Tested.
AS an anniversary of the deaths of emf
inentpersons, few days in the year can bear
comparison with April 21. On April 21
died Alexander the Great, Diogenes, An
selm archbishop of Canterbury, Abelard
and Racine. Among other notable deaths
that have taken place in April are those
of Pope Constantine, Pope Benedict III.
and Pope Nicholas ~; King Louis H.,
John "the Good" and Charles VIII, of
France; Petrarch's Laura" Lorenzo de
Medicis "the Magnificent, Rafaelle, AL
bert Durer, Tasso, Nine. de Maintenon,
Nine. de Pompadour, Metastasion, Mira
beau and Niebuhr. The April deaths in
England include those of Richard Ceur
de Lion, Edward w., Henry Will, Stow,
the historian; Shakespeare, Lord Chan
cellor Jeffreys, Daniel Defoe, Handel,
Oliver Goldsmith, Cowper, the poet,
Bishop Heber, Wordsworth, Byron and
| Lord Beaconsfield.