The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-27
NEWSY NOTES.

AS substitute for the present compost
ton of cigarettes what's the matter with
rubber wrappers and asafetida filings p
Blizzard.
According to the first official report of
Hoskins & McClintock, assignees of the
Messrs. Delamater, made last Monday at !
Meadville, the general creditors of the in |
solvent bankers will not receive more |
than eight or ten cents on the dollar.
In the case of Breene & Fair, VS.. The |
Torpedo Co., tried at Warren last week,
the jury on Saturday brought in verdict
of 81 400 for plaintiffs. They had sued for
$1,000. The action was for damages for the
destruction of ice houses and buildings
near Oil City, caused By the explosion ofa
boat load of nitro -glycerine, Nov. 30, 1889.
When Jay Gould was a struggling
young surveyor, with hardly one cent to
rub against another, he stamped his ini-
tials and date on a copper cent and put it
in circulation. Recently Mr.. Gould re-
ceived some pennies in change at the
Twenty third Street Ferry, and on looking
over them he found the coin he had
stamped was among them.
Among the ancient Germans was ia
vorite drink called "metheglin." 1t was
made of mead and honey, This honeyed
drink was used especially at marriage
festivals, which were kept up among the
nobility for a month, the festive board
being we'll supplied with metheglin.
"Honah-moon" signified the moon or
month of the marriage festival. Hence
the modern honeymoon.-Er.
Our sportsmen rejoice over the fact that
the ladies have discovered an unobjection-
able name for the skunk, says an exchange.
The correct thing nowadays is to call these
oderiferous pests "Russian Sables." I'm
der this name their furs, which are really
very fine. are much sought after, single
skins easily bringing Sl.25 and likely to
go higher. These highly perfumed night
prowlers are sometimes called pole cats,
because, as Josh Billings says, long pole
is the best thing to kill them with.
1t is probable that the production of the
old Matthews well No. l, of Jennings,
Guffey & Co., in the Mcdonald field, will
never be equalled. 1t is the most remark
able well ever drilled in the history of the
oil country, as since its opening in July it
has produced altogether within few
thousand of 600, 900 bbs. of oil, and may
vet put out many thousand barrels before
it finally expires. 1t was a fortune in
itself, as the value of the oil it has pro-
duced is not less than 100000, while the
actual investment in the well was proba-
bly, not over 81 coo. On Thursday, for the
first time in its history, the production fell
below 20 bbs. au Franklin NepS.
An election of the officers of the w. n.
Y. & P. railroad was held in Philadelphia,
Jan. 18th, which reaulted in a victory for
the Philadelphia stock holders, and will
probably give the control of the road to
the Pennsylvania railroad. The new board
comprises Samuel q. Decoursey, Nicholas
Thouron, George i. Bartol, Charles NJ
Lee, William C. Bullet, J. Rundel Smith,
William T. Tiers, E. w. Clark, Jr., John
X. Barclay, all of Philadelphia Gustav
E. Kissell, John B. Probst, William Nor
tons and Edward L. Owen. The old mem.
bers who were defeated for reelection
were President Calvin II. Allen, Adolph
Elder, p. P. Pratt and Isaac n. Seligman
n6 el6CllOu Nut an
heavy vote, 175,OOO shares being repre-
sented out of total of a possible 1877. The
result insures the election 10 the presiden'
cy of Samuel G. Decoursey.
The town of Caribou, Maine, the native
home of our esteemed townsman, j. II
Hardison, has citizen, says the Repu6h
can, who claims to have discovered al
electrical power in the.earth, by means o
which he is able, with the use Of electrical
instruments invented by himself, t
transmit sounds any distance, simply by
connecting wires with the earth at differ
ent points, and making use of the positive
and negative electrical current forces il
the earth. This system promises to dt
away with, and make unnecessary, the us
of all batteries which are now used TO
I transmission of sounds by the telephOn,
and telegraph, and to use tho natura
! forces of the earth;instead. The invento
has line about one mile long in success
full operation, and all those who have ex
: amined it say it is something wonderful
T, If this discovery proves to be all that j
$ claimed for it it will work revolution il
the electrical science, and powers whicl
}. have heretofore been useless, because un
r known, will be developed and do tn
work which is now done by expensive
! machinery.