The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-12-19
NEMSY NOTES.

burned on Sunday night last.
There is every probability that the
Warren axe and tool companys works,
which were recently burned, will be re-
built in a short time.
John MaGuire, supervisor of the Buff
falo end of the w. n. Y. & p. road, was
killed by being thrown under train
near Lakewood, N. Y, on Monday. He
had been an employe of the road for
nearly 30 years, and was formerly res
ident of Tidioute, Pa.
Sixty tons of fresh fish were brought
into Erie by fishing smacks daily last
week, mostly blue pike. These fish are
sold AT about cents pound. The 10 or
IL cents they fetch in the inland markets
shows the rake-off which the middle
men realize.-Franklin News.
One of the most remarkable cases of
extraordinary musical talent in a child
is that of Carrie Marie Edwards, the ba-
by pianist, now in Chicago. Carrie is
not yet years old and executes on the
tricate of musical compositions. When
but years old she played Mendelssohns S
wedding march at a concert.
George Wallace Delamater formerly
of Meadville, and late candidate for Gov
ernor, who went to Seattle to begin life
again, is making great effort now to
get one-fifth of an estate worth 81 900, 900,
tells the Scranton Times. This will be
his fee as an attorney. The estate in
volved is that of Benjamin Kenton, at
one time partner of Adam Forepaugh.
Joseph Addison, the great English
author, more than two hundred years
ago penned the following: 81 never
knew an early rising, hard working,
prudent mah, careful of his earnings,
and strictly honest, who complained of
bad luck. good character, good habits
and iron industry are impregnable to. all
the assaults of all the i'll luck that fools
never dreamed off,
To talk through a human body, or a
row of human bodies, for the matter OF
that, is one of the weirdest of the electri-
clans feats says Electricity. If a tele-
phone wire be severed and the two ends
f be held by person one in each hand not
far apart, it is possible for two individ-
the body of the medium as read
lily and distinctly as though the line had
been properly connected.
A man steals horse, sells it to an in
nocent party, who buys it in good faith.
The owner comes, takes away the horse,
and the man who has bought it is a loser
to the extent of the purchase price. A
knave procures farmers signiture to a
paper puporting to be an agency contract
for the sale of some machine. By tearing
off a part of it, the remainder with the
signiture becomes a promissory note.
Rascal No. l sells it to Rascal No. 2 and
the latter sues to recover. The courts de-
eide that the farmer must pay the sin
nocent' holder of the fraud-tainted pa
per. Is there anything out of joint in
these cases?
Here are some measures worth franz
ing to hang in your kitchen: Four tea
spoonfuls of liquid equal one tablespoon
full. One pint of liquid equals one
pound. Two gills of liquid equal one
cup or one half pint. Two round tea
spoonfuls of flour equal one ounce.
Four cups of bread flour equal one
quart, or one pound. One cup of
butter equals one-half pound. One pint
of butter equals one pound. One table
spoonful of butter equals one ounce
Butter size of an egg equals two ounces.
Ten eggs equal one pound. Two cups of
granulated sugar equal one pound. Two
and half cups of powdered sugar equal
one pound.-EX.
Major j. @. Beale of Leechburg, Arm
strong county, caused the arrest of James
Stitt, Frank Neill and Thomas Ollinger,
young men of Manor and Kittanning
townships in the same county, on a
charge of arson, one of the number,
Frank Neill, having cofesseed that he
and his associates had set fire to the barn
of Bowser Bros. on the night before
Christmas last year, that resesulted in
the cremation of twenty-three valuble
horses belonging to the Browser Bro
theirs, Major Beale and others, two at
tendents barely escaping with their lives.
Stitt and Ollinger were held in 81, 600 bail
each to answer the charge at the ensuing
term of the Armstrong county court, and
Neill was committed to Jail in default of
bail. Republican.
According to Sec. 433, Postal Law Reg
ulations, loungers or disorderly persons
are not permitted in post-ofice. A
postmaster must not allow his post-of-
fee 10 become the resort for loungers or
disorderly persons, or the scene of dis
putes or controversy and when ever ne
cessary he should invoke the aid Of civil
authorities TO expel violators of this rule.
He is also required TO keep his postoflice
at all times in such clean and orderly
condition that it may be visited by We
men and children and others without inn
propriety or embarrassment He is not
authorized to exclude the public from
the lobby of his Office during the distri-
button of the mail but may enforce the
observance of good order and may pro-
hibit smoking there. When the local
authorities refuse TO preserve order in a
post-otlice at the request Of the post mas
ter he should close the Office.