The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-08
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Mexican railroads have mahogany ties
and station, Of fine marble.
A Maine man has invented a machine
that makes mustard plasters.
Banana trees flourish and their fruit
ripens in the open air of Jacksonville,
Fla.
The inventor of the stylographic pen
is reputed to have made 81 900, 900 out
of it.
The smell of finely scraped horseradish
is said to be an etfectual cure for head
ache.
In Madagascar you can keep house,
live well and have three servants for
about seventy CENTS per week.
Professor Frank Stouch has taught
90, 6S5 persons at Reading, Penn, how
to dance. 1t took fifty-three years to do
it,
1t was on Waiting Island, in the Ba-
hamas, that Columbus first set his foot,
after weary weeks of almost hopeless
cropping across the Atlantic.
An Allentown PENN tailor has in
vented a shoulder protector" to pre-
vent the powder on the girls faces from
soiling the young mems coats.
"Cocoanut Day" is celebrated in most
parts of India during the full moon in
August. On that day numbers of nuts
are thrown into the sea as an offering to
the Hindoo gods.
Next to England, little Holland is the
greatest colonial power in the world.
The Dutch colonies have an area of nearly
so, 900 square miles, which includes some
of the finest colonial possessions in the
world
The Lewiston J0ujWal says it would
seem as if nobody need go with an empty
stomach in Maine when un-dried apples
are selling for four cents a pound in the
country stores and there's a mineral
spring on every hillside.
A Buffalo IN. " paper says Niagara
River, below the falls, is unusually low,
and, what is more singular the waters
have been gradually falling for the past
three or four years. 1t is still from $50
to 200 feet deep, and is not likely to dry
up yet awhile.
The first lighthouse on this continent
of which there is any record was built at
the entrance of Boston Harbor in 1715,
at the expense of the Colony of Massa-
chusetts Bay. 1t was supported by n
lighthouse due of one pence per ton on
all vessels passing.
Two maudlin miners lying on the road
side at Easton, Penn, were mistaken for
a bear by passerby, and the alarms was
spread through the country. The dogs
of a hunting party got on the scent of a
skunk and ran it out, and the hunters
were very mai when they found there
was no bear.
1t is now French law that every child
born in France of foreign father like
wise born in France is French citizen !;
while the child born in France of for
eigner, no matter where born, is n French
citizen if domiciled there at the time of
his majority, unless he formally decline
to be so regarded.
The London road car-drivers have a
grievance which approaches the ludi.
crous. If they do not wear high hats
they are suspended for week. Re
Gently a drivers hat was blown off and a
cart went over it, so that he was obliged
to resort to "A low felt hat for the re-
mainder of the day. For this heinous
crime he was stopped and suspended for
one week.
On British railways it is unusual for a
freight train to exceed fifty tons, and a
mineral-train seldom comes up to 200
tons. In the United States, on the con-
trary, trains of nearly 1000 tons are run
regularly, the wagons employed being
capable of carrying from twenty to
twenty-five tons each, or about three
times the quantity usually carried by En-.
glish trucks.