The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-12-02
NEWSY NOTES.
CITIZEN.

A new Masonic Hall at Titusvllc, has
been completed and will be dedicated st.
Johns Day, Dec. Y.
Each day grows three minutes shorter
till December 81 when turn is made and
the days grow longer till the 2lst of June.
The Brookville Democrat figures out
that j. j. Blackiord, linewalker on the
pipeline between Byromtown and Crown,
Clarion county. walks over nine thousand
miles year in the discharge of his daily
duty. The first year he worked tor the
company he walked 9,s05 miles.
Try the following for your broken china:
Take very thick solution of gum arabic,
and stir into it plaster oftParis til. it be-
comes viscuous paste. Apply this with
brush to cracked edges and then fit them
together. In three days the article can
not be broken in the same place.
The following popcorn story is taken
from one of our exchanges: farmer
raised one thousand bushels of popcorn
and stored it III his barn. The barn caught
on fire. The corn began to pop and filled
ten acre field. An old mare in a neigh
boring pasture who had defective eye-sight
saw the corn and thought it was snow and
laid down and froze to death.
The number of locomotives in the United
States is about 30,000-one to every five
miles of railroad, and of cars of all kinds
! 100000, of which 27 900 are passenger
coaches. The locomotives cost $3.50, 900, 900,
the cars $500, 900, 600, making the approXi-
mate cost of the rolling stock 81 SOC, 900, 900.
Each year a freight engine hauls $4,000
tons, and passenger engine pulls 10000
passengers. These railways employ 7l5,-
600 persons, nearly all men, who provide
living for nearly 100000 people, or
about one-twentieth of the whole popula.
tion.
The jury in the case of George Robin
son, indicted for arson, brought in ver-
dict Saturday night of guilty as indicted.
The details in this case have heretofore
been given. About l o'clock, on the
morning of October 22d last, Henry ii.
Winans and family, of Cherrytree town
ship, were awakened by noise and found
their house and barn on fire. The flames
were extinguished at the house, but the
barn was destroyed. Tracks were follow
ed to the house of VIM. Tarr, where Rob
inson boarded, and these tracks Winans
swore were identical with Robinson's-
that he was able to identify them from a
hole about the size of a fifty-cent piece in
the sole of one of the shoes.-Blizzdrd.
An exchange truly says that printing,
either for glory or gratitude, may be a
time-honored custom, but it is done in
direct opposition to the financial element
of the business. Not excepting the ply
sician or druggist, there is no line of trade
in which so much is asked and nothing
but thanks is paid in return. The average
citizen acts as if a newspaper and print
ing Office cost but little money, and that
running expenses are insignificant; that
proprietors should be willing to do free
printing from their most expensive ma
terial and stock for the glory of having
their imprint attached to the work. AS a
rule, the publisher and printer is the first
man in the community selected to furnish
without pay, the necessary advertising
matter for every conceivable charity or
enterprise, and if he hints at getting hall
price for the work he is considered very
mean citizen. Such cases are of daily oc-
currence. There seems to be no limit ia
the number of people who ask for favors
they would not grant if cases were re-
versed. The wealthiest ask more than the
humblest citizen. While printers are
generally charitable and enterprising, YET
the custom of taxing their business tC
swell contributions which the individual
, should give is radically wrong.