The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-07-31
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The god Of sleep is Somnus.
Pie parties are a fad out West.
Adrian w., Pope in 1854, was an En-
glishman by birth.
Nearly all the Presidents Of the United
States were country boys.
4 Philadelphia man offers to be killed
by the electrical method for $4,000.
The bite Of the Georgia rattlesnake on
hot day kills in twenty 20 thirty min
utcs.
Bocrs were Hollanders who settled in
South Africa before the conquest by En-
gland
Under the laws Of China the adult who
loses his temper in a discussion Is sent 60
jail for five days TO cool of.
Camcls are to be employed on a line Of
coaches in New South Wales, the sultry
climate being very severe on horses.
An Indian in the Everglades, Fla, il
is said. is still holding in slavery colorcd
men that were his when the war broke
out.
The longest American railroad tunnel
is the Hoosac tunnel on the Fitchburg
Railway. IL is four and three -fourths
miles long.
The banana skins thrown avuy 70 this
country would be worth S2,0O0, 600 a
year If some genius could convert them
into taffy for children.
Sam Stewart, colorcd, Of Crawford
Vile, Ga, drives his COW 70 wagon
when she goes dry and gives no milk.
She makes better time than an OK.
Turks and Arabs and dancing bears
have becomes so numerous in the South
that the cities and towns are passing
special ordinances to deal with them.
At floral fete at Covent Garden, Lon
don, the overpowering perfume exhaled
by the lilies, the mignonette and other
strongly scented flowers seriously marred
the enjoyment Of the occasion.
President Harrison received letter a
few days ago in which he was urged to
learn to play lawn tennis. The writer
said that the exercise derived would fully
atone for the dignity sacrificed.
John Mayo, of Georgia, is lame and
cannot walk, but he can sits in his door
with rife and shoot the heads off flying
crows at such distances as would make
Bogardus and Carver give up in dispair.
A carriagemal<er of Armstrong Coun-
ty, Penn, has just shipped to Persia a
carriage packed in boxes, to facilitate
transportation across the desert on cam
els backs. The total freight bill was
about 800.
A whale was driven ashore on the
coast of Labrador recently which had a
dozen wraps of chain around his body
and big anchor to tote around with
him. He had become poor, tired and
discouraged.
A boss carpenter in Boston won't keep
a man in his employ who does not otwhistl'
and he won't keep one who does no
, whistle lively airs. He says that mel
work according to the measure of wha
they whistle, and he is right about it.
The Maharajah of Baroda, India, own
S the most expensive carpet in the world
e 1t is made entirely of strings of pure col
2 ored pearls, with the center and corner
= of diamonds. Its cost is 5000, 900, an,
: three years were consumed in its manu-
S facture.
t The Adelaide (Victoria) Municip,
S Council has passed a bylaw requirin
c cyclists wher riding to keep bell cor
+ tinuously ringing so that it can pc hear
:. at a distance Of 198 yards, 20 show a re
headlight at night, and prohibiting ms
S chimes being left in the streets for mol
S than half an hour. The cyclists prote!
}. that the law is impracticable.