The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-05-31
NEWSY NOTES.


He was 5 feet inches high, and weighed
about 175 pounds. His identity has not
| yet been discovered.
The United Presbyterian General AS
sembly, now in session at Monmouth,
| ILL.,, Rev. DR.. James Bruce, moderator,
represents a total of 90 presbyteries
with 800 ministers, 93j congregations,
11l,119 communicates. The contribu-
tions for all purposes the past year
amounted to s1,4OO,O9O, an average of
Sl4.07 per member.
All the tanneries in the State of Penn
sylvania have been purchased by three
corporations known as Elk Tanning
Company, Penn Tanning Company and
Union Tanning Company, and the head
offices of all these great companies, re-
presenting forty millions of capital, are
even now established right here in Ridg-
way. This is as good for the town as a
new factory, for they will employ Office
help of from fifteen to twenty persons.
Verify, Ridgway is right "in it."--Advo-
cate.
There is rough land on almost all our
farms, says an exchange, where it would
pay better to plant nuts, both for timber
and for the nuts to market than anything
else. A large farm with these trees set
on the roadside, perhaps thirty feet from
the center of the road and twenty-five
feet apart, would sell enough nuts every
year to pay the taxes and leave a surplus
| for each nick or cvfficiant to rov- for tba
picking. Just why farmers should neg
lect to properly care for such trees and
suffer loss thereby is strange.
The Clarion Republican of last week
mentions the following as among
the losers by the late flood
in Pittsburg. Neely Bros, of
Turkey Run, who lost two boats, Col
Slower, Turnip Hole, 2 boats, Heeter
Bros, Callensburg, 2 boats, Eichner &
Whitehill, Piney, boats, Shields &
Elder, Clarington, l boat, John Shoup,
Milestone, boats, Maple Creek Lumber
Co., Maple Creek, boats, Marvin, Rul-
olson 81 Co. Millcreek, 8 board RATS,
and Shields q Slagle, Winecoop Run, Z
RATS.
The people out at Salina who gave
about thirty pictures to a stranger sew
eral weeks ago to be enlarged, and paid
80 cts. each on the same, are still waiting
for the pictures. They would be well
satisfied now to receive back the original
pictures and call the thing square. The
nearest they have come to getting any
thing OH their investment was when they
recently received an offer by mail of
nice picture frames for s. each. 1t is not
recorded that they crowded the mail with
orders for frames in responce to this of
fer.-Blizzard.
A Symposium of Western Authors is
the name for the June New Peterson.
Many of the best-known writer's from
Chicago to the Pacific Coast are represen-
ted, together with the most promising
new poets, romaneers, and essayists.
Joseph Kirkland, joaquin Miller, Ger
trude Atherton, Mary Abbott, Opie Read
Stanley Waterloo, Ernest McGafiey, L.
Roy Armstrong, Harriet Monroe, Carrie
B. Morgan, Patience Stapleton, and other
popular authors have place. We heart.
|
prising periodical, which has so quickly
established its claim to take front rank
among American magazines.
j. f. Carroll, of Punxsutawney, has
invented machine that will run till il
wears ont. The principal used is that o.
natural air currents, as through smoke
stack or chimney. The draft always
present in a smoke stack, when an open.
ing is made at the lower end, is suffi
: ciently strong to run a properly construc
ted wheel. He has made such a wheel
and it runs with considerable force. This
This is Mr.. Carrol's perpetual motion
: and he has secured a patent. Mr.. Car
rolls invention is interesting but as per-
petual motion it isn't worth shucks. A
wheel driven by current of air is nc
more perpetual motion than a wheel
turned by current of water.-Franklin
News.
. An idea has gained currency during
the past few years that the tomato as an
article of diet is liable to produce or en-
courage the terrible disease of cancer
and not long ago it was also stated that
the use of this vegetable had been
forbidden at the cancer hospital. Sc
widely spread has this notion become
that DR.. Marsden, chairman of the medi'
cal committee of the Cancer hospital
London, has thought it advisable to give
it official contradiction. He says that his
committee has been inundated with let
/, ters on this subject, and he begs publica
ton for the following statement, which
, we we hope will settle the matter at once
for all. 1t is the opinion of the commit
tee THAT tomatoes neither predispose tc
nor excite cancer formation, and thai
they are not injurious to those suffering
from this disease, but, on the contrary
are very wholesome article of diet, par
ticularly so if cooked. ."-Chambers
Journal,
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