The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-05-28
NEWSY NOTES.
APACHE.

An effeminate looking man dressed in
woman's clothing Is going about selling
corsets and fitting them on the buyers.
He will get into a hornets nest one of
these days.
Bull trout are so troublesome in Asotin,
Wash, that the residents living along the
creek have called "public meeting to
devise means for protection. Recently
one was killed which weighed IL pounds,
which on being opened, was found TO con-
tain the neck of chicken" Notwith-
standing the fact that the season has just
opened, the crop of fish liars in the West
is remarkably plentiful this spring.
George Francis Train reached Tacoma
on Saturday evening, having circled the
globe in 81 days, 13 hours and 3 minutes.
His actual time was SO hours better, he
having stopped that length of time in New
York to rest. If he had been provided
with special train across the continent,
as was the case with Nellie BLY,, he would
have cut the time down below CO days.
AS it was, however, he beat Nellie out of
sight.
Any one interested in the sick benefit,
funeral-aid, and death beneficiary asso-
Citations of the United States can help make
the statistics of their organizations for the
forthcoming census more complete and
disseminate the knowledge of the good
work they are doing by sending the names
of such societies as they may know of,
and the addresses Of their principal off,
GERS, to Mr.. Charles A. Jenney, Special
Agent of the Eleventh Census, So William
street, New York City.
Judge Wilson, of Clarion county, de-
cided lately that Constables elected in that
county in February last hold for three
yesrs-in other words, that those elected
in 1889 were elected for but one year.
Judge Henderson, of Crawford county,
decides that Constables elected in 1889 were
chosen for three years-just the opposite
of Judge Wilson. The probability is that
the matter will be carried to the Supreme
Court of the State, as the Common Pleas
judges have disagreed Warren Mail.
1t cost the cigarette men $5OO,OOO last
year to supply the packages with pictures,
and all have now combined to do away
with them. This is a combination to be
commended. A more reprehensible
method for increasing sales was never re-
sorted to than that of placing fancy pic
lures of high kicking girls in cigarette
packages. Thousands of boys, of just the
right age to be susceptible to such in
fiuences, were purchasers for the sake OF
the pictures alone. The injuries to the
:o1.
the cigarettes exercising an injurious in
fluence.-Blizzdrd.
A Bradford special TO the Blizzard,
under date OF oath inst, says: Three boys,
aged fourteen, thirteen and twelve, were
playing about heap of rubbish near the
road between this city aud Kendall, when
a torpedo squib, which with criminal care
lessness had been cast into the rubbish,
exploded, terribly mangling all three of
the boys. A teamster, attracted by their
groans, found them in an hour after the
accident. The boys are Joseph Trantor,
aged fourteen, William Trantor, aged
twelve, and Anster Peterson, aged thirteen.
William Trantor is so badly injured he
will die. lie was unconscious when found.
The other two boys are terribly injured,
but will survive. Each loses one eye and
will be otherwise disigured for life.
Pennsylvania means "Penn's Woods"
and William Penn himself tells how it
came to be so named in letter dated Jan
uary 5, 1851: "rhis day, after many wait
ings, watching, solcitings and disputes in
council, my country was confirmed to me
under the great seal of England, with
large powers anil privileges, by the name
of Pennsylvania, n name the King would
give it in favor of my father. chose New
Wales, being hilly country, and when
the Secretary, a Welshman, refused to call
it New Wales, proposed Sylvania, and
they added Penn to it, though was much
opposed to it and went to the King TO have
1t stricken out. He said it was passed,
and he would take it upon him nor could
twenty guineas move the under Secretary
to move the name, for feared it might be
looked on as vanity in me, and not as n
respect in the King to my father. as it
really was.'