The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24
NEWSY NOTES.
WILL WALKS

The NcpS says the school board of En- .
lenton have adopted the free textbook
system.
Allen Milton Browning, OF Huntington,
w. Va, is 60 years old, has been married
six times and has 81 children.
According to census bulletin Just is
sued there are only 97 900 female persons
to every 100000 males in the United States.
OF the 32S,0OO divorces granted in the
United States during the last tw enty years,
$4,000 were granted on the petition of the
wife.
Prohibition candidate for congress in
Illinois is named Sunday, and the news
paper wags are saying he is in favor of
closing the saloons on himself
The Pennsylvania supreme court in an
opinion delivered by Justice IIeydrick, has
decided that a debtor Is entitled to the $500
exemption upon each execution, even
though issued second time upon the
same judgment.
An old restaurant bill printed in Rich
mond in January, 1864, gives the follow
ing war time prices in Confederate money
Soup, $l.50 chicken, So. roast beef. 50 !;
raw oysters, 81; coffee, 81; bread and
butter, Sl.50; bottlJ of champagne, $50 ;
drink of rye whisky, 81; bottle of ale
$l2, and u cigar, 81.
lady in San Francisco has patented an
apparatus to prevent dead fowl from fly
ing-a clamp to keep the bird from flying
into your neighbor's lap while you are
carving it, An Improvement is certainly
needed on the old system of holding the
bird in the dish by resting the knee or foot
upon it.-Franktin News.
A Rochester man has work ed out a
scheme for utilizing the waste force of Nj
agara Falls, ard proposes to build there a
power house 1000 feet high, with the ne
cessary equipment, and at a cost of $3.50, =
100000. He intends to begin work in No
vember, whom some other great schemes
are to culminate and-collapse.
Thcre is more prosperity to the square
acre in the United States than in any sec
ton of the civilized globe. But no amount
of legislation or prosperity will bring
wealth to the profligate, the fools who
seek to grow rich without labor, the feeble
minded or the vicious. Whatever of dis
content there is in this country emanates
from the classes named.-New York Ad-
vertiser.
England has had 81 Primo Ministers
under the rule of the house of Hanover,
10 of whom have held the office twice, and
two-Earl Derby and Mr.. Gladstone
three times. Gladstone is now entering
upon his fouI tn term, thus breaking the
record. At the same time he breaks an
other record by taking the office when
nearly SO years old, no other Premier ever
having been appointed at such an advan-
ced age.
The credit of breaking the worlds trot-
ting record now belongs to Nancy Hanks,
who made the mile on the Chicago track
Wednesday of last week in 2:O7t, one full
SECOND less than Sunol's fastest time. 1t
is claimed by horsemen, however, that the
new style Ofsulky with ball bearings and
pneumatic tires, running as lightly as a
bicycle cuts a full second or more from a
mile performance. Budd Doble was her
driver. Twelve thousand people saw the
sport.
1t was during one of the Legislative
sessions, along towards the close, when
even tho most sedate old Senator relaxed
his dignity trifie and unbent sufficiently
10 take drink with tho "boys" A party
of choice spirits had been alternating
between the reading room and the bar ofa
prominent hotal, and one OF them, a SEN
ator who could tell a funny story and was
congenial when he had encompassed his
share Of the bottle, was feeling a little bit
wobbly in the legs. In fact as his legs got
tangled his speech grew very thick and
his tongue was evidently clad in fur ul-
ster. That was his condition as the party
ranged up 10 the bar for parting drink.
As the boozy Senator looked toward the
barkeeper he saw card hanging on the
mirror which read: "No liquor sold to
minors or intoxicated persons" Gazing
at 1t for fully a minute that is, it was a
full minute for him-he pointed TO the
card with his long forefnger, and address,