The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-03-29
NENSY NOTES.

In Jefferson county four Republicans
are announced for P~rothonotary, five for
Sheriff, six for Treasurer, six for Com
missioner and three for Auditor.
A Susquehanna exchange says a lum-
Der dealer who does business less than
100 miles from hat place shipped a bill
of lumber to Forest CITY and received
the following unique and significant tel
egram: "Knot holes received. Please
send knots"
An exchange says that tons upon
tons of dead crows lie under the trees on
a mountain near Reading, Pa, killed by
the cold weather. The cold weather
blinds them, and they cannnt find food.
and die. The place has been a roost for
crows for many years.
The people of Kilbuck, near Salaman-
ca. are excited over a mysterious suicide.
TN Saturday afternoon a barn belonging
to H. A. Ostrander, was opened for the
first time in several months, and inside
was discovered the body of a man sus-
pended by a rope from a beam. The
body was that of a young man, probably
% years of age M well dressed.
The electric road from Cambridge to
Edinboro is developing into quite an af-
fair. The power house will be located at
Cambridge. a passenger train will be
run every hour, and a freight train,
drawn by an electric locomotive twice a
day. 1t is in contem~ plation to extend
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At the same time the Erie papers are
calling for the construction of an electric
road from that to Edinboro, connecting
there with the Cambridge road.
Auditor j. @. A. Fox, of Northampton
county, has in his possession the Eastern
market prices of August 81, lS43, as pub
lished in a newspaper of that date. Eggs
sold at s cents a dozen; whisky, 25 cents
a gallon; butter, 10 cents a pound /;
wheat flour, S4.62 a barrel potatoes 20
cents a bushel, and dressed beef, 4 cents
a pound. When and where these prices
prevailed wages were low accordingly,
and long hours constituted a days labor
so that those were not the"best times af-
ter all in which to live.
A statistician finds thai the most ''un-
lucky day of the week." so far as acct
dents to human beings is concerned, is
not Friday, but Monday; 1874 per cent.
of all accidents occur on Mondays, 1851
per cent. on Tuesdays. 1851 per cent. on
Wednesdays, l5.47 per cent on Thurs
days, 1888 per cent. ON Fridays, the
same percent on Saturdays, and 2.69 per
cent, on Sundays. From these figures
it appears that Friday is not the un-
luckiest day in this regard, but that one
day is pretty much as another. The
'lucky" character of Sunday is explain
ed by the fact of little or no work being
done that day.
A young man in Ciayville went overto
Indiana county to court a girl ana ''was
so much in love- that he fe | asleep.
with his arm about the girl. She tired of
sitting by the sleepy lout, and stealing
from his side rolled a churn 10 where she
had been sitting, placed her sleeping
lovers arm around il and went to bed.
AT 4 o'clock mex morning. when the
girls father got up to start the fire and
stir up the pigs, so that they might have
an appetite for their breakfast, great was
his surprise to see his daughters young
man snoring loudly and with his arms
clasped lovingly about the family churn.
PUNK. News,
II may not he generally known that the
immense vertical wheel, or "Hurdy-
Gurdy'' being erected for the amusement
OF visitors at the Worlds Fair is a direct
evolution of am idea suggested by a
Meadville man described in these col
umns nearly two years ago. Such how
ever. is the fact. The original idea was
for a giant swing. This was changed to
the form Of a great wheel, having swing
ing rooms or cages suspended in its rim,
so that a person instead of swinging back
and forth goes clear over. The Mead
willie man hasn't even received a pass en-
titling him to a ride on the thing. The
Chicago folks will get the honor aud our
friend will stay at home and carve out
some other idt a.-Tribune Republican,