The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-04-17
SELECT sIFTINGs.

The tarpon is the king of game fish.
The first incineration has just occurred
in Paris.
Wedding rings were used by the
ancients.
An official of Tombstone, Arizona, is
Sheriff Slaughter.
Six different patents were secured on
chewing gum last year.
The bullet for the English magazine
rife is to he nickel plated.
The leader of a nation is an ''ethna-
| gogue." Gladstone says so, and he
ought to know.
The Key West fisherman rubs his body
with kerosene oil and swims among the
sharks in safety.
At Springfield, Mass, there is Turk
ish praying rug on exhibition said to be
1000 years old and valued at $250O
A Frenchman is anxious to arrange for
a fight between a devil-fish and q shark
in a tank where 10000 people can see
the combat.
Porous glass for window psnes has
been produced in Paris. The pores are
too fine to admit draft, but they assist
in ventilation
"ohe Man," the Chinese dwarf, the
smallest liliputian on earth, aged fifty
years, is so small that you can cover him
with an ordinary plug hat.
Gnostics was the name applied to a
sect who soon after the preaching of
Christianity endcavored to combine its
principles with Greek philosophy.
The first pair of India-rubber shoes
brought into the United States from
South America in 1890, were gilded aud
resembled in shape the pointed slippers
of Chinese mandarian.
A st. Louis taxidermist who recently
preserved large bald eagle, says the
muscles of the breast were of great size
and formed nearly one-fourth of the
weight of the entire bird
Almost anything is insanity, saws a
New York doctor. If you laugh heartily
get mad-forget auything-drop a
letter into the postoffice without a
stamp, you can be called insane.
An international exhibition of postage
stamps is to be opened at Amsterdam,
To give additional interest to the show
there will be sketches of the various
costumes worn by postmen in different
countries.
Jersey City, N. j., has abolished its
newsboys' home. 1t was found that the
boys used it for loating place, and that
four-ffths of its dodgers were boys who
ran away from home and had no real
need for its conveniences.
Scent pencils. composed OF soliied
perfume are a novelty. They are fitted
in silver holders, have a tiny ring at
.tached to them for fastening to the watch
chain or chatelain, and when rubbed on
the hands or any part of the dress emit
delicate odor.
Insurance companies want to know all
about it, you know. Because John
'Obert was blown up by 200 pounds of
nitro -glycerine in Pennsylvania, and be-
cause only a piece of one of his toes
could be found, the insurance folks says
that he might have run away to trick
them.
A perfumer says that there is more
downright fraud perpetrated in the
manufacture of altar of roses than in the
making of any other perfume. Connect
,icut is prominent place of the pro-
iduction of altar of roses. Heliotrope,
'one. of the most popular of perfumes, is
made by combining violet and vanilla
in certain proportions.
A youth who went into Buffalo, On.
" store and asked for socks, not know
ing the proper size, was told to hold
out his hand. The customer held out
his hand and doubled up his fist as di-
rected. The clerk took sock from the
box, wrapped the foot around the fist
and guaranteed perfect tt. 81 am
Just as sure it will fit you as though /
had measured your foot" said he, ''as
the distance around the fist is always the
length of the foot"