The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15
NEWSY NOTES.

The annual taxes of the world aggre-
gate the enormous sum of 435O,OO 900.
The time of holding the Bucktail re-
union at Kane has been changed from
August 23d and 24th to August goth and
Both.
Lancaster has three sisters whose COM
bined ages amount to 283 years, They
are living at the Fulton House and are
Mrs. Margaret Ewing, aged 90; Mrs.
Elizabeth zell, aged 94; and Mrs. Mar
tina Morrison, aged 81.
Meadville has an architect, contractor
and builder who never attended school
day in his life, and can neither read or
write. And yet he can figure out the
amount of material needed in a building
and seldom misses his calculations.
Cambridgeboro, Pa, has practical il
lustration of the eternal fitness of things.
A prominent butcher of that place re-
ioices in the name of Bullock, the lead
ing undertaken is named Coffin, while
one of the milk venders is called Waters.
A young man of Sherman lately adver-
tised for a wife and his sister answered
the advertisement, and the young man
thinks there is no balm in advertise
ments; and the old people think it is
pretty hard to have two fools in one
family.
The Commissioners of Clarion county
have let the contraft for the erection of
a new bridge across the Clarion river at
the mouth of Tobey creek, to take the
place of the old covered bridge blown
down last spring year ago, The new
bridge will cost $4,000.
The Armstrong county gas field is now
said to be the greatest discovered. 1t is
more productive, proportionately, than
the famous Murraysville field. The
Philadelphia company has over thirty
thousand acres leased in this county. Al
present this company has seventeen
wells in course of drilling.-Kittanni
Sentinel.
Col. F, w. Bowen, of the Oil City Biz
gard, has charge of the arrangements foi
this part of the country for an excursion
to the Holy Lands which will start in
February next and will be of about two
months duration. AS the Colonel him
self will accompany the party, the ques
ton as to whether there really is any fisl
to be caught in the Dead Sea is at las
booked for a searching and abiding set
tlement -Titusville World.
Elem Schrecongost was shot by VIM
Blanchard who lives in the hollow bach
of the station last Friday night. Schrec
ongost and a crowd of companions hat
gathered about BlanchaId's residence ant
were annoying him in various ways
Blanchard warned them to leave repeat
} edly, and at last when Schrecongos
, caught cat and was making night hid
eous by tormenting it, Blanchard coult
: stand the racket no longer, and fired a
Schrecongost, killing the cat and wound
ing Schrecongost severely Kittannini
FIee Press.
The statement made by Gen. Ro,
Stone of the Agricultural Department
before the National Good Roads Confer
ence at AsburY Park, that the farmers o
this country lose between $500, 900, 900 ant
500, 600, 900 yearly from being compelle
; to haul their produce over poor roads
, show the practical importance of tn
good roads movement. Good road
, mean not only speedier means of com
munication, but longer service from
horses and vehicles. They are anothe
way of making the labor and capital c
farmers more efficient.
Professor Richard Garner who went I
the Gorilla country in Africa to try an
garner a few words of monkey talk,
reported as saying: "If was only sur
of learning three words year, l woul
, forsake friends and family, go to Afric
and devote the rest of my life TO a stud
that yielded such rich results in tn
present and promised such immense pos
sibilities for the future" The monke
- who has no more brains than to talk {
forsaking his family for such small bus
q ness should be able to talk the languag
readily without going TO Africa.
y The most dangerous counterfeit of I'm
ted States money discovered for years
T. announced from the treasury departmer
It to-day. Because il is so difficult of d,
lection from the genuine note the cour
y terfeit is described in minute detail b
d the secret service in order to put the pul
/ lie upon its guard. The counterfeit is
It the $40 legal tender note, series of lSS
|. check letter b, face plate number 225
@ back plate number 2292, signed by w. 5
70 Rosecrans, register; James W. Hyatt
treasurer, and bearing portrait of Wei
r, ster and large and round red seal.
There arrived at the Clarion House on
is night last week a bicycle rider who's
y achievement on the wheel surpasses an
rs thing previously accomplished in Il
way of cross country riding. Mr.. Joh
N Dorm, whose home is in Springfield
le Mass, and who is young man of abol
at q or % years, started from Cheyenn
Wyoming, on the Sth day of July al
reached Ridgway in just p days. I'll
distance made in that time is 1880 mile
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