The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-27
NEWSY NOTES.

"Have you ever seen times like these?"
said one Democrat to another. Eyes, in
'57 when we were in BEFORE" was the re-
ply.-Wichita Eagle.
James Anderson, of Scrubgrass,
writes to the Emlenton News that he
threshed 4OOH bushel of oats this season
from o acres, an average of 444 bushels
per acre.
The Edinboro Normal school teud has
assumed such serious proportions that
the matter of removing the school to
some other place is being agitated. Erie
wants to have il taken there.
The Mexican county courts will have
another murder trial to dispose of at the
next session. George Snyder in a jeal-
Gus frenzy kicked his wife to death on
the 14th inst, in the woods near Mt.
Jewett.
There is alarm in jamestown n. Y,
over the spread of diphtheria in that city.
About 100 deaths from the desease have
occurred since spring. jamestown has
foolish" system.
The Bucktail reunion will be held at
Williamsport, October II. Comrades
can attend the Mexican county Associa-
ton reunion at Kane on the 1lth and go
TO Williamsport that night, reaching
there little after ~ O'clock.
Articles of food that are damp or juicy
should never be left in paper. Paper is
merely compound of rags, glue, lime
and similar substances, with acids and
chemicals intermiXed, and when damp
is unfit to touch things that are to be eat
en-.
The Harmony Society is advertising
5000 acres of its Economy lands for sale.
There are 200 acres laid out in town lots
and the plan will contain handsome
streets and boulevards. The plateau on
which the plan is located, is so feet above
the river and is a delightful place.
The State Industrial School will be To-
Gated at Scotland, Franklin county, a few
miles from Cbambersburg. The Sol
diers' Orphans Schools Commission de-
cided this matter after long session on
Thursday last. Boiling Springs, Cum
berland county, was close second, the
vote being to 5.
People who have been kissing the
Blarney stone in the Irish village at the
Worlds Fair, at 10 cts, kiss have been
smacking just sn ordinary stone. The
fact has been conclusively proven that
no part of the stone has been taken from
its original place in the old castle build
ing in ireland.
Several Meadville merchants have been
approached on the old check dodge, says
the Gazette. A stranger appears and in
spects goods, bargains for something,
will haye it called for in a day or two,
meantime thinks he might as well pay
for it now if the merchant can change a
check for amount larger than purchase,
We have not learned that any one was
caught.
Some parties are travelling over the
country with sample of seed wheat,
which they show and claim will yield 90
bushels to the acre. They propose that
they will furnish the seed and 100 pounds
of phosphate per acre, and ask in return
! Onb-ndli oi tut tIops ihlo - Noi fanny q
good bargain for the seed, but it is still
f better when the signed paper turns out
to be note for two or three hundred
dollars,-Ex,
About 25 years ago DR.. X. b. Brown o
Troy, Jefferson county, began to treat q
patient, Mrs. Abram Shafier of neal
J Ring gold, who was afflicted with
, dropsy. Then as now, well-developed
cases made il necessary to resort to tho
method known as tapping. Year afteI
! year DR.. Brown would relieve the patien
4 by drawing from her as much as severa
/ gallons Of water at a time, after whicl
Mrs. Shafier would be lighter afoot anC
feel better. Time went on and DIR
, Brown crossed over the Great Divide
. but the dropsical patient kept her usua
health, and the young Doctor Brown fol
!, loves the treatment used by his iathe
and at regular times drains away IN
I water, until, it is said by reliable inform