The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-08
NEWSY NOTES.

Inc grape crop OF NOrJn EaSJ SOlu III
round numbers this season for $40, 900. o.
Gov. Pattison has set December 10, as
the date of the execution of Ralph Cross
myer, the Mexican county murderer.
AL. Carey, of Cory, is now in Jail on
the charge of being one of the men who
tortured the old couple at Columbus, Pa.
He squealed on another man, but the tes
timony acquitted the tramp and held
Carey.-Warren Ledger.
Attorney General Hensel has given an
opinion to the Superintendent of Public
Instruction that he is not required to
grant permanent certificates without ex-
animation to graduates of any college
other than those empowered by the Leg
islature to confer degrees.
Dash Kingston, wife and two children,
left Pittsburg, Thursday, in two open
boats for the Isthmus of Panama, a jour
ney of 1000 miles or more. One boat is
rs feet in length and S-foot beam, and the
other is % feet long with 7-foot beam.
They expect to be a year making the
journey.
Farmer Cushman, of Chenango county,
New York, thinks we are going to have
very severe winter, for the following
reasons: Corn husks are very thick /;
hogs melt runs jagged; the breastbone
of May goose shows spots resembling
the canals of Mars the ducks are flying
| in U-shaped instead of V-shaped flocks,
and green frogs are changing their skins
and seeking springs for winter quarters.
An average waltz takes dancer over
about three quarters of mile, a square
dance makes him cover half a mile. A
girl with a well-filled program travels
thus in one evening: Twelve waltzes,
nine miles four other dances at half a
mile apiece, which is hardly fairly big
estimate, two miles more; the intermiss-
ion stroll and the trips to the dressing
room to renovate her gown and complex
ion, half a mile more; grand total eleven
and one-half miles.
The official figures of paid admissions
to the Worlds Fair up to Monday are
q, ,469, ,46l. Adding the number of free
admissions, the total is 27,53s,O41. This
is Exposition. The total receipts of the
latter We're $s,3OO,OOO. The Columbian
receipts will far exceed this, and will not
fall short of Sl4,OOO,OOO All obligations
have been met, and there is cash bal
ance on hand of S2,5OO,OOO. The gate re
ceipts from now on, it is figured, will
pay the current expenses until the end
nn hnl xyh haua hold
ings representing $5,00O,000 upon which
they scarcely expected to realize any
thing, will be paid so cents on the dollar
Emma Crecraft and Marvin Newton
, whose trial at Meadville recently on thu
| charge OF numbering John Crecraft
} created considerable interest are again t
be brought before the courts. A warran
Q was sworn out for their arrest by Mrs
a Sophrona Parker at Meadville, on Thurs
f day, on a charge of having committed
e. perjury at the murder trial at Meadvill
% in September. Constable Ellis went t
t | Titusville to arrest and take them t.
S Meadville, but after he had served tn
= warrant the accused parties demande,
= that he take them before a Titusville Jus
a tice, as they desired to give bail for thei
# appearance at court He took them be
p. fore Justice Strouse, where they furnish
/. ed bail in the sum of 5000 each. Rich
0 ard Robinson was their bondsman.
= The children's game of slapping hand
If to the rymes Of "Bean porrige hot, bea
e porridge cold" as now adopted to the us
d of adults has fun in it in large, soil
chunks 1t may be played by roomfu
e of people who are divided into fours. 1
y each group the couples are so seated tina
IS the hands of the second couple NEE
2 across the hands of tho first couple, a
: everybody knows, the first motion is
Q slap the hands palm downward upon th
i knees the second is to slap the palms {
% the upraised hands together, and so OF
= In the revised and enlarged form of tn
game the second couple makes its fir
motion when the first couple makes il
J. second motion, and the second coup
1t continues thus, always one motion b,
r. hind the first 10 avoid collision. Whe
all the players are ready let somebody S
down at the piano and begin "The Hig
4. School Cadets March," or "Push Del