The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-11-12
SELECT SIFTINGS.

The first steel pen was made in 1880.
Boston is two hundred and sixty years
old.
The first game of cricket was played in
London, England, In 1774.
New Haven, Conn, is called the City
of Elms; Nashville, Tenn, the City of
Rocks.
At Eureka, Call, one of the miners has
pet sheep that follows him all through
the mine.
1t is said that some of the trees at the
base Of Mount Tacoma, in Washington,
are $50 feet tall
The heart of man guillotined in
France recently continued to beat six
minutes after the head was severed.
A woman at Hagerstown, Nd, has
goose which came into her possession
when she was married, twenty-one years
ago.
Mrs. Sarah Flower Adams, the author
ess Of "Kearer My God to Thee, was an
Englishwoman. She lived in Cambridge,
England, and died in 1S49.
As early as 1853 Bristol and Exeter
broad-gsuge locomotive, carrying light
load and turning on falling grade, de-
veloped a speed of eighty miles an hour.
Gloves with webs between the fingers
are new invention intended to aid
swimmers in getting better purchase on
the water than is given by the bare hand.
A Pennsylvania horse thief, recently
captured, had a memorandum of many
owners of valuable horses, and maps
showing every road in the eastern part Of
the State.
The Yellow Stone National Park ex-
tends sixty-fve miles north and south
and fifty mihes east and west, contains
1915 square miles, and Is upward of
6000 feet above the sea level.
Frederick Babuce, of Reading, Penn.
suddenly experienced a loss of weight
from 156 to eighty-six ponds, and soon
afterward found the cause of it to be
five lizards that had been living in his
stomach.
1t is estimated that if the tobacco used
in France during a single year were
twisted into cord two inches in thick
ness, it would be long enough to encircle
the earth thirty times, following the line
of the equator.
Paris, KY, claims to be the largest
/ live turkey market in the world, and
that fact is attractively set forth in an
advertisement Of the advantages accruing
to the fortunate persons who are wise
enough not to live anywhere else.
A man owned fve.foot strip OF land
in New York city aud quarreled with the
owner of the adjoining property over the
price OF it. He then built two houses on
the strip, which was block long. The
houses are four stories high and but three
feet wide inside, but have deep bow win.
dows which are utilized for rooms.
Here is tho "man of fgures' at his
weary work again: There are over 300,.
900 people who walk about the streets ot
London daily, and in SO doing they veal
away ton of leather particles from theiI
boots and shoes. This would In yea
form leather belt six inches wide anC
one-fourth of an inch thick long enough
to reach from London 10 New York.
The origin of the expression "Hob
sons choice" is given thus; Tobias Hob
son was the first man in England to hirt
out hackney horses. When @ custome
came for horse he was led into the stabl,
where there was a great choice, but Hob
son Obliged him to take the horse neares
the door; so that everybody was alik
well served, according to his chance
from whence it became a proverb, whel
what ought to be your selection was forcet
upon you to say, "Hobson's choice"