The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-07-01
NEWSY NOTES.


If tombstones were reliable the devil
would soon be willing to put out his fires
and quit.
The wheat lice are said to be creating
havoc among the wheat fields of Berks,
Montgomery and Chester counties, while
the potato bugs are also said to he quite
plenty.
A. S. Browo, at one time Street Com
missioner Of Oil City, was instantly kill
ed at Horse Crock, Monday, while taking
out stene for paving purposes. He was
aged 45 years, and leaves wife and one
son.
A new train on the Pennsylvania road
from New York to Chicago will be known
as the "Illindopany Special" The word
is an ingenious abbreyiation of the names
of the States through which the train runs
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania
and New York.
A well known physician has a good
word to say for the much condemned
practice of lacing. He thinks that tight
lacing is really public benefit, because it
kills off the foolish girls and leaves tho
sensible ones to grow up into women of
use and service in the world.
The recent sale of the G. W. Delamater
team attracted to the market grounds a
large attendance. The choice of the team
was purchased by Jas. Keirnan of this
city for $303. He chose the mare and the
horse brought 1925, the purchaser being
S. L. Trace.-MeadViue Tribune.
Ao1
that is claimed to have large circulation
is described as follows: 1t is of the date of
1887 and has an excellent ring. The coin
is little thicker than the genuine, and to
keen eye both the Goddess of Liberty and
the eagle are little uneasy. The engrsv-
ing is good and it requires an expert to
detect the bad money.
Elk Democrat: The monument erected
TO the memory of the late Hon. John G.
Hall is certainly very fine one and an
ornament to our cemetery. Modest in
design and massive in proportions, it is
one of the largest in Western Pennsylva-
mia. 1t is constructed of Barre, Vermont,
granite, standing 36 feet high and weighing
over 3S tons.
Venango county Republicans have NOM
mated the following ticket: Delegates to
!, State Convention, w. II. Longwell, Oil
, City, and ]. NJ. Dickey, Franklin; Dele
6 gate to Constitutional Convention, Geo. S.
Crlswell, Franklin; District Attorney,
Peter Speer, Oil City; Jury Commissioner,
John Mason. Jackson; Coroner, j. NJ.
, Snowden, Oil City.
= The Erie Annual Conference meets at
3 Meadville on Sept. 9th. This is the year
for the lay electoral conference to meet in
connection with the conference for the
purpose of electing lay delegates to the
general conference which meets in Omaha
, Neb., May, 1892. Each charge is expected
to send one delegate. Each Conference is
entitled to send one ministerial delegate
to General Conference for every forty. five
members and one lay delegate goes to
each two ministerial delegates.
r A lazy editor walls forth the following
2 "The lark came up to inset the sun and
, carol forth his lay; the farmers son took
down his gun and at him blazed away,
' The busy bee rose up at five and hummed
J, the meadows DER; the farmers wife went
to his hive and robbed him OF his store
/
begin the greedy sparrow that way flew
= and took his antship in. o, birds and
p ants and bees be wise; in proverbs take
no stock like me refuse from bed to rise
till half past eight o'clock"
The Eleventh Annual Reunion Of the
Graduates of the different Soldiers Or
phans' Schools will take place at Reading
J Pa, August IS, 10, 20, 1891. These rsun-
D ions are very enjoyable affairs, and ere
looked forward to with delight by Sixteen
ers, both male and female, all over the
: State. The different committees are hard
D at work and have mapped out very en-
I joyable programme, having enlisted the
services of the G. A. r. Posts, the Veteran
Legion, Sons OF Veterans Camps, and
D some of the prominent citizens of the
!. city of Reading. They expect to make
, this reunion the grandest of them all
Full information can be had of Jacob A
; Gramnl, Box 547, Harrisburg, Pa, or o.
Q the local committee, Isaac w. Hull, chair
e man, 2l7 Obey Street, Reading, Pa.
r An International Medical Congress il
called to meet in the great auditorium
building of the National Prohibition Park
Staten Island, July Is and l6. Represen'
tative medical men from all localities in
the United States and Canada have beer
invited, and all views will be given i'm
!, partial hearing. The general topic is "ThC
o Relationship Of Physiology to Alcohol;' :
among the divisions of this topic to bC
discussed are; "What are the Hereditary
Effects of Drunkenness ?" "Are there any
}, Hereditary Effects that Follow Moderate
!. Drinking2" "To What Diseases are Inc
4 briates More Especially Exposed7" 81:
Alcohol a Poison2" ''Is Alcohol in any
u Sense Food ?" "What are the Proper uses
j. of Alcohol as a Medicine ?" "Is there
/. Danger of Producing the Drink Hahi
70 from the Prescribing of Alcoholic Medi
3 cines2" "How Large a Percentage o
u Deaths May be Attributed, Directly o.
10 Indirectly, to the Use of Strong Drink p
"Should Alcoholic Liquors Ever be UseC
% Except under the Direction of Medica
Adviser?" Particulars can be obtained
10 by addressing the secretary, II. S. Cheves
'e West New Brighton, New York.
10 The new lien law recently signed b,
ls Governor Pattison provides as follows