The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-20
SELECT sIFTINGs.
Man is ninety per cent. water.

The waltz has entered upon its 102d
season.
A spring of natural cologne has
broken forth in Algiers.
A meteoric stone which lately fell in
Russia contained several diamonds.
The first settlement of the English in
Bengal and British India was at Calcutta
in 1852,
Mrs. Sarah Barnett, of Lafayette, Va,
took to her bed forty years ago and has
not left it since.
An artesian well at Tripoli, Iowa,
spouts water twelve feet above the sur
face OF the ground.
In the year 1869 persons who feasted
or were idle on Christmas Day in Massa-
chusetts were fined five shillings.
Some of the handsomest shops in Paris
are now devoted to the sale of Japanese
wares, and are wholly conducted by
Japs.
There is not a blonde clerk in Jay
Gould's employ, and it is said that he
dislikes to do business with men with
fair hair.
A porker in Otoe County, Neb.,
emerged from an attack of cholera with
its bristles, formerly black, a very pro
nounced gray.
The mummihed remains of Santa
Tonga, or Big Heart" one of the old
chiefs of the Utes, are in cave near old
Fort Casper, in Wyoming.
A Hindoo god, over thousand years
old, largely composed of gold and
precious stones, was sold at auction the
other day in London, for $12, $50.
Steel pens were not so called from the
material used in manufacture, but from
the name of the first manufacturer, Mr..
Steele, who began business in England
in 1903.
A law in Prussia provides that any per-
son carrying a stick or an umbrella in
such a way as to be dangerous to other
travellers may be punished by fine or i'm
prisonment.
Word comes from Wheeling, w. Var
that live bat has been found there i'm
bedded in solid rock in a crevice Just
big enough to contain it and utterly
shut away from the outside world.
Only four gowns of American silk
have ever been made. OF these Mrs.
[ Garfield was given one, Mrs. Tom Thumb
bought another, and Mrs. J. T. Higgins,
of Middleboro, Mass, is now having one
made from material furnished by silk
worms of her own raising.
Red pepper is obtained from a sort of
capsicum, and sometimes called chilles,
the seed of which is the most pungent,
and is ground up fine with the skins. 1t
comes from Cayenne, Lanzibar and other
parts of Afri a. The plant can be
grown about the same as our peppers,
and is sometimes grown with them.
A newsect has been formed at Monaco,
France, called the brotherhood of the
Sons of God" 1t resembles in some
features the Essenes, its members alb
staining from tobacco, flesh, intoxicants,
and favoring an ascetic life. Its sym
boil is 1888; its badge god, green and
purple ribbon; its missionary language
Nolapuk.
"Zep, the hermit fisherman" who
lived Lonely life near Stonington,
Conn, has amassed fortune of $50, coo
from an annual income of from $500 Ia
$500, which he has made from his fish
ing boat during the past forty years.
He started with a capital of $50, which
he invested in dory, and his annual
expenses, food and all, have rarely been
more than $25.
A black loon was shot in Washoe
Lake, Cal, recently. Such a bird had
never been seen there before, and it is
supposed to have been driven out of it'
course by a storm while migrating south
from the Arctic regions. The bird
measured eight feet six inches from tiI
to tip of its expanded wings, and siN
feet ard three inches from the point o.
its bill to the end of its tail. The bill
was nearly foot in length.
The tallest building used tor dwelling
purposes in New York city, is the onC
known as the Osborne Flats, at Fifty
seventh street and Broadway, which il
III feet in height; the Dakota Flats
Eighth avenue and Seventy seconC
street, l55 feet; Munro Flats, Fifty
ninth street, 120 feet east of Sixth ave
nue., 155 feet; Navarro Flats, Seventh
avenue and Fifty-ninth street, 1l2
feet The measurement is from tn
curb level to roof.