The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-08-29
SELECT SIFTINGS.
A palm is three inches.

A span is ten and seven.eights inches.
David Ober, of White Oak, Penn. has
had lead pencil forty years.
The crown and regalia of England were
pledged TO the city of London by Rich
ard II. for 5000
The German and French governments
in the war of 1871 held to their agree
ment to employ no privateers.
A vegetarian hotel is an innovation in
rLondon There are already thirty vege-
tartan restaurants in that city.
The custom of going bare headed one
day inkthc week ION the Sabbath, or
Saturday is observed by the Mingrelians.
Recently disgusted Oshkosh, Wis,
juryman offered to pay the sum in dis
pute if the claimant would dismiss the
case.
Even SO celebrated a general and old a
soldier as the Duke of Wellington felt
it necessary to fight duel as late as
1929.
Paradise, by Tintoretto, is the largest
painting in the world 1t is 81 feet wide,
33t feet high, and is now in the Doge's
Palace, Venice.
l1OOululn COultS lIOlll JllC OGluldu
huddler, meaning a loaler, or idler; so
"bummer" from the German bummler,
q word of similar import.
Within a twelvemonth four persons
have been killed outright and a fifth
badly crippled at very near the same
spot in the freight yard at Americas,
Georgia.
Cooks of old were considered a sacred
race; even their fingers were consecrated
to the deities. The thumb was devoted
to Venus, the index finger to Mars, the
middle finger to Saturn, the next to the
sun and the little one to Mercury.
Henry Cary, of Key West, Fla, has
novel shaped potato. Standing at a dis
tance of six or seven feet one could not
tell it from n wild duck which had been
deprived of its body feathers, and to
make the delusion more perfect he had
inserted few tail feathers.
A traveller at st. Clairsville, Ca, out
of curiosity visited the court house, and
was almost Mortified to find his only sis
ter the defendant in a murder trial going
( on at the time. She had mysteriously
disappeared from home years before and
| her whereabouts were unknown to her
people.
Jacob Hibshman, an unmarried man,
aged forty five years, residing near Ian
caster, Penn. died of blood poisoning
the other afternoon. Four weeks be-
fore, while cutting feed for his stock, his
right hand was pierced by sharp frag-
ment of hay, and that scratch caused his
death.
An immense pipe of baked clay, that
probably belonged to some distinguished
mound builders of prehistoric days, was
recently dug up near Purdy, Tenn. 1t
weighs four and one-half pounds, and is
in the shape of an eagle, the bowl rest
ing on the eagles back, and measures
nine inches in length.
Jim Blevins, living near White Rock,
Texas, killed very large chicken snake
few days ago, and noticing the snakes
body was unusually large and ill-shaped,
made an incision and found it to contain
q large COW horn and in the horn a
prairie rat. It is supposed that the snake
chased the rat into the horn, and to Sc
cure the rat swallowed the horn.
In the National Library at Paris there
is a Spanish globe $50 years old, on
| WMcn tne congo lolloWs IN n remarKa-
BILE manner the course now given to that
river on the maps. All the best maps in
the sixteenth century showed the Congo
as rising in q lake far inland, while in
this century we first tried to identify
the Congo with the Niger, and then for
many years made it flow north.
Poison for some animals is food for
| Others. Hogs can eat henbane or
hyocyamus, which is fatal to dogs and
most other animals. Dogs and horses
are not easily poisoned with arsenic.
Goats eat water hemlock with impunity
pheasants, stramonium; rabbits, bella.
donna; and morphia is said to be innocu,
Gus to pigeons. There is some truth in
the old saying that "What is one mans
meat is another mans poison" This is
due to habits and idiosyncracies.
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