The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-07-30
SELECT SIFTINGs.

Cincinnati. Ohio, consumes 5000 frogs
daily.
Movable types were made in the tenth
century.
The Prince of Wales often dozes on
horseback.
Block printing was invented by the
Chinese about 593.
A New York dentist recently pulled
eight Of his own teeth.
The Atlantic cable authorities count
word exceeding ten letters as two words.
Scarlet fever has been spread through
a library book, used by hospital nurse.
A London photographer has paid Ex-
plorer Stanley $4,000 to sit for his photo
graph.
In India, road-dust and linseed oil arc
used to paint woodwork exposed to the
weather.
1t has been proved by algebra that two
and two make five, but it is a mathemat
ical fallacy.
An aged lady died suddenly in a hotel
in Alabama, and in her hustle S2010 was
found concealed.
Philip Hensen, of Mississippi, is six
feet six inches high, but his beard
reaches to the ground.
A New York hotel clerk AYERS that for
nearly thirty years every third summer
has been intensely hot.
The manufacture of soap is iaid to have
begun in London in 1924. It was made
in Bristol before that time.
The Theatre of BAcchus, at Athens,
Greece. built by Philos in 400 j. c.. is
said 10 have been the first erected.
The Korean alphabet is phonetic, and
so simple that any one can learn to read
in a day. Nearly all the women of Korea
can read
The Khedivo of Egypt has but one
wife, while Ismail, his father, has as
many as three hundred at time in his
different palaces.
The petroleum industry of western
Galacia, Austria, is older by ten years
than in Pennsylvania and the oil-produc-
ing region of far greater extent.
The word "Thane" was a Saxon title
of nobility, which was abolished in Eng
land at the time of the conquest upon
the introduction of the feudal system.
A bundle of spider webs, not larger
than buc&shot, and weighing less than
dram, would, if Strengthened out and
untangled, reach distance of $50 miles.
A wealthy Scotchman, Alexander Nc
Bean, has purchased tract of $4,000
acres of land in Wyoming, on which he
proposes to establish a city named after
himself.
A monster crab was landed il net
at San Diego, CAL, the other day that
measured sixteen inches across the body,
while the spread of the nippers was thir-
ty-six inches
A FrencAman Who received the basti-
nado in Japan and the kous in Russia
says it is about an even thing which
hurts the most, but in both cases he was
laid up two months.
The historian tablet which the Chinese
Government has taken measures TO pre-
serve has been known for more than 250
years, and according to its own inscrip-
ti"n was erected 1000 years ago.
Queen Victoria's favorite cook is a
Mussu(n1an rejoicing in the style and
title of Sheik Abdulla Mustapha. He re-
Gently went TO India for his health, and
the Queen was delighted at his return.
Chamois in the Swiss Alps need pro-
lection from indiscriminate sportsmen
lest their race should disappear. The
Federal Council has been petitioned to
restrict chamois hunting, especially be-
tween the Jungfrau and the Wildhorn.
In Russia, when coffins are covered
with cloth, the color of the covering is,
to certain extent, distinctive, pink be-
ing used when the deceased is a child or
a young person, crimson for women, and
brown for widows; but black is in no
case employed.