The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-08-15
SELECT SIFTINGS.
A league is three miles.

The Astors own 5000 luildings in New
York city.
A days journey is thirty-three and
one-eighth miles.
A baby has been born in Chicago
weighing just one pound avoirdupois.
A pound Of pennies is worth $142. A
pound of five cent pieces is worth
$455. 80.
A New York coroner recently narrow
ly escaped death from shifting at bottle
from which a suicide had taken prussic
acid.
Snow is initiated for theatrical pur-
! poses by spreading out white cotton,
ever which pulveTized mica has been
strewn.
Baltimore is growing over her three
carrier pigeons, which flew 300 miles in
a little over six hours, and so broke the
record for that distance.
A monster frog swallowed a chicken
at Oconee, Ga, the other day, and
seemed to be relishing the bite immense
| ly when the owner killed him.
Mr.. Dye, of Jessup, Ca. has a COW
that is perfectly hairless throughout
Spring and Summer, and only puts on her
coat at the beginning of the Fall.
Among the descendants of Thomas
Plantagenet. Duke of Gloucester, fifth
son Of Edward ILL.,, was Stephen j..
Penny, who was not many years ago
sexton at st. George, Hanover Sluare,
! London.
During the drill of sailors aboard the
steamer Forest City at Boston recently,
they ran from point between decks,
unfastened the lifeboats and lowered
them into the water in the remarkably
quick time of one minute and fourteen
seconds.
| A novel letter was received by guest
at a Cleveland hotel the other day from
New York. 1t was written on a gentle
mans linen cuff, with the address on
the reverse side. A 1-cent stamp was
attached, and it arrived at its destina-
tion the same as an ordinary postal card.
"The name "Jo-Jo," at present
degraded to the use of the dog faced boy
Of the dime museums, was originally
coined by the popular Swedish poet,
Johann JOHN 1SlS-64, and used by
him as a pseudonym, under which he
composed dramas and COMEDIES for the
New Theatre of Stockholm.
Charley Lee, better known as "Whist.
ling Charley" who died in Cincinnati
the other day, was one of the odd char
acters of that city. Although eighty-siS
yelrs old, he pushed his handcart around
almost to the day of his death, and his
shrill whistle could be heard for block.
He had mania for rings and his fingers
were covered with them.
The pretty daughter Of Columbus,
Ohio, preacher is in a bad fix. She las
eaten pickles until she has dwindlcd
from two hundred to sixty pounds. She
can no longer eat Her tongIc is a.
dry and hard as piece Of leather, and
her physic ans say that the interior oi
her stomach is as hard and smooth as
the surface of polished glass. The young
lady is only sixteen years old.
A lover of the 'curious in numbers
has arrived at some interesting facts
about Berlin. The city las 2l0 mile
of streets, so that person might walk
ten days in the capital without retrac
ing his steps. If the / 400, 600 inhabit
ants should march in double file they
would form line nearly $50 miles il
length. If the citizens should determine
to start upon journey at the same time
all the cars of Germany would accommo
date but two thirds of the number.
A resident of Corey, Ohio, owns {
rare curiosity. 1t is a 81 bill, cont
mental currency. On it is what il
known as the wild hog scala crude
cut of wild hog; while to its left i!
the following: This bill entities the
bearer to receive four Spanish -milleC
dollars, or the value thereof in gold o.
silver, according to resolution Of Con.
gress passed at Philadelphia, February
Il, 177G. Signed, John Howard. }
Another signature appears, but it is toe
much defaced TO be made out.