The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-09-17
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A Bowery museum sdvertises thC
"biggest dwarf" in the world.
To salute with the left hand is a deadly
insult to Mohammedans in the East.
Until 1776 cotton spinning was per.
formed by the hand spinning-wheel.
Germany manufactures over $40, ,000,.
600 worth of children's toys every year.
Lewis Ledger, of New York city, on
a wager recently ate thirty hard boiled
eggs in fifteen minutes.
The proportion of married couples who
live to celebate their golden wedding is
under one in thousand.
The old Craddock fort on Ship street,
East Medford, Mass, is the oldest house
in America. 1t was begun in 1884.
A New York broker has just paid SIS
600 for a half interest in a salmon stream
that flows into the Restigouche, in Canada.
The presence of a well developed
apple growing on the grapevine at Ports
mouth, Ohio, is ascribed to skillful graft
ing.
A sparrow at Colestown, Penn. built
a nest in the running gear of a farmers
wagon, and makes trip to market every
week.
In the nav of a COW killed near
Darien, Ga, few days ago, was found
a pound Of six penny nails and five
cent piece.
With the present rate of increase as a
basis, it is estimated that century hence
this country will have a population of
9C4, ,921, ,6S6.
Napoleon III. got his title, the third,
for the second never reigned, by COM
positor mistaking the exclamation
points-''l ! !" for the Roman numerals
III.
A marine on duty at the Brooklyn
On. " navy yard, is unable to speak
above whisper, in consequence of hav-
ing habitually eaten gunpowder for
years.
The reason why fire crackers are al
ways covered with red paper is that red
is the festive color in China, and that
irecrackers are used chiefly on festive
occasions.
The oldest man in Great Britain is
Hugh Macleod, Scotch crofter, who
was born on the oath of November,
1888. He lives in County Ross, aud is
still healthy and vigorous.
The boundary line between the
United States and Canada is distinctly
marked from Lake Michigan to the Paci-
tic by cairns, pillars of iron, earth
mounds and timber clearings.
Prince Herbert Bismarck cherishes
carefully the wreck of watch which he
carried during the Franco Prussian war
and which stopped bullet that other
wise might have ended his life,
The great exhibition held in London,
England, in 1851, was attended by
6,039, 1875 persons and left a profit of
81, 066, 525. 1t remained open from the
1st of May to the 18th of October.
The Pacific coast has not complete
monopoly of big trees. There is cypress
tree at Enterprise, Fla, that is over ten
feet in diameter and has a trunk reach
ing up forty feet to the first branch.
Few people know of the origin of the
name Bismarck. The castle of the
Chancellors ancestors received its name
from the 'tmarca," or boundary line,
formed by the River Biese, Biese-Marca
became Bismarck.
A queer white and red robin aston
ishes the fishermen at Quonochoutaug,
r. !. 1t has built its nest in shaggy
reach of pasture near the laundering
ocean breakwater. The birds body is
of snowy white, even to the tip of its
tail, except its breast, which is of rosy
red.
The food of "Zoo" hippopotamus is
estimated to be about two hundred
pounds a day IN weight, and consists
chiefly of hay, grass and roots. The
daily provender of giraffe weighs about
fifty pounds. The lions and tigers OBJ
tain about eight or nine pounds of meat
a day.
For fifteen years a Portland CMe.)
business man has received from the
florists every other morning a fresh
bunch of flowers roses, heliotrope,
forget me-nots and the like, and placed
it directly IN front of him upon his desk.
BY thus looking upon the bright side of
life he has undoubtedly added to his
happiness.