The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-04
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| The walls OF Jerusalem were Dullt 44o
B. C.
Savannah, Ca, has flock of red
headed geese.
Near Hogan, Montana, is large de-
posit of petriied clans.
A Kansas editor says $4,000 cars will
be required to haul the wheat crop of
his state.
The elephant is being killed off so
fast that twelve more years will see the
last one wiped out.
A well in the South from which strong
breeze rushed for years has suddenly
taken to spouting water
Gibraltar was taken by the English
July "a, 1904, and ceded to England by
treaty of Utrecht April IL, 171S.
A Mussulman woman in India died re-
Gently at the age of $50 years. She was
blind, deaf dumb and almost inanimate.
A Philadelphia wholesale druggist
pays 50 a gallon for dandelion wine,
which is made from the plant growing
wild on so many farms.
A large and mysterious fssure in the
earth in Princess George County, Va, is
exciting alarm. People are unable to ac-
count for the phenomenon.
1t is curious fact that no complete
edition of Shakespeare's works has ever
been printed and published in any of the
many dialects of Hindoostan.
In the course of seventy-fve years, from
1888 to 1857, the kingdom of Naples
lost at least Ill, 900 by the effects of
earthquakes or more than 1900 per year.
William the Conqueror was wounded
in battle by his son Robert, who had
Joined the French King Philip l., 1913.
The scene of the battle was Gerberoi,
Normandy.
In a St. Louis hospital a man had a
dream which covered 10, 900 miles of
travel and six months time, yet he was
only minute and a half covering the
whole business.
A Hindoo has reduced laziness to fine
art He says: ''It is better to walk than
to run, better to stand than to walk,
better to sit than to stand, and better to
lie down than to sit"
A prize offered to stenographers for
the largest number of words written on a
postal card has been won by Sylvanus
Jones, of Richmond, Va, who wrote
upon card 36, 764 words.
Mrs. Phillips, of West Fallowfcld,
Penn, has found remedy for gapes in
chickens. She Sits the windpipe length
wise with scissors, and with horse hair
lifts the worm that causes the ailment.
Queen Victoria is said to own the
costliest china in the world. The china
in the windsor and Buckingham palaces
is worth more than million of dollars.
The Sevres dessert set is valued at $500,
900.
Fresh roses are sent to five of the Lon
don hospitals every morning by society
of little girls, not one of whom is more
than twelve years old. The funds to
procure the flowers are realized by work
of self-sacrifice.
A citizen of North East, Penn, made
actual measurement and found that his
corn grew between four or five inches in
twenty-four hours. He drove stakes in
the ground, stretched up the longest leaf,
and marked the stake. The next morn
ing showed the growth stated.
The huge organ for the town hall,
Sydney, New South Wales, has been
completed in London. Its most remark
able feature is sixty-four foot stop.
The lowest note of the stop, expressed in
organ builders language as "CCCCC, is
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pianoforte, and, as it gives only eight
vibrations in second, it cannot be per
ceived as a note at all. Its effect lies
wholly in the extraordinary richness and
power of its upper harmonies, by which
it re-enforces notes given by the higher
pipes.