The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-29
NEWSY NOTES.

has she been run over by the railroad?"
indianapolis Journal.
In the free -for-all trot at Terre Haute,
Ind, Friday, Alix went the third and
last heat in 2:O5l, equalling the race rec
ord made by Directum. The time for |
the first two heats was, 2:O6 2:O61S, maxi |
ing an average Of 2:O5 5-16, this being the |
fastest ever trotted.
There are several applicants in this
part of the State for Bank Examiner Of
Western Pennsylvania, the position made
vacant by the suicide of William Miller,
of Mercer. Applicants in Erie, Crawford
and Warren are already hustling. The
place is worth about $4,000 year, but is
no sinecure. We believe Forest county
has no candidate for the vacancy.
The grape growers in the grape belt of
Lake Erie find that the crop is going to
be good one after all, but find them
selves cofronted with new trouble-the
scarcity of baskets. The basket manu-
facturers have been waiting for orders,
and consequently there is shortage of
baskets. The grape belt uses about l2,-
OOOyOUO DdShGJS ANNUALLY. IubIb lS buJ
little profit in their manufacture.
When man is through with his days
work and sitting down resting in his
home, he cannot read the advertisements
on the fences, and the hand bills and cir
culars that were left on his doorstep dur
ing the day have been blown away or de-
stroyed. He calls for the paper and there
he finds the merchants announcement,
and with nothing to bother him he reads
it carefully, and then calls his wifes at,
tention to it,
| Bradford is to have crematory. The
work has been begun, and the Era says a
| furnace will be constructed on the most
improved plan for reducing human bo-
dies to ashes by the intense heat of natur-
al gas. The building will be connected
with Lanes morgue, and in that apart
ment funeral ceremonies may be held.
When these are finished the body may be
placed in the retort and burned to ashes
There will be a high chimney of brick,
and the furnace will consist of tirebrick
and stone.
The fruit growers have cried "wolf" so
often when there is no serious injury to
their crops that they will find few to be-
lieve that their interests have suffered
much by untimely frosts or other adj
verse conditions when there is really
cause to complain. Last spring it was
said that the eaaly warm weather, follow
ed by hard cold snap, had killed the
grapes and peaches. Now there is anx-
iety among the growers of those fruits
because they do not see how they car
dispose of the immense crops which theil
orchards and vineyards ale ripening. L
is the old, old story, and it will be heart
: in the future as it has been in the past
Blizzard.
: The jamestown, n. Y, Evening Jour
nal says: "a few nights since, it is said
e farmer near Findley's Lake lost filteer
fowls from his hennery, but in the morn
= ing he found pocketbook which haC
been dropped that contained thirty dol
3 lars, so he felt well paid for the stolel
poultry. A day or two after a butche
came along and inquired if the farme
: had any chickens to sell, and was told no
= as he had just sold fifteen at two dollar
apiece. "Then you found my pocket
! book said the butcher. "Give it to me
t won't your" The farmer extracted tn
a money and handed over the empty purse
o remarking that that settled the bill TO
the chickens.
" About year ago thirteen young men
boys we may say of the public school
of Knoxdale, perfected a secret society a
: that place, naming it "The Independen
u Order of Good Fellows" Some men G
the village and vicinity were intereste,
. n it, lodge was formed, and the organ
. ization is prospering finely, numberin
at the present time between so and 8
members. The underlying principles {
the order are friendship and patriotism
Il From what we have learned of the ol
ganization we believe it to be an exec
y lent thing, especially helpful to youn
= men. A grand lodge will be formed yer
b soon, and the order will be extended |
other localities. s.-Brookville Democrat.
v A Youngstown (O.) paper says; Rev
- John Peate, ID. d., of Greenville, Pa
a has made promise to make and Civ
>, TO the Washington University at the nj
"a tional capital the largest telescope lens
p the world, provided he is supplied wit
\ the rough glass and the material wit
a which TO do the grinding. A conceptio
n of the magnitude of this promise may
a. had when it is remembered that such
# glass would surpass in power the YerkC
"a telescope, which was on exhibition at IL
N Worlds Fair and said TO cost 500, 90
at DR.. Peate has already produced some
" the most perfect lenses ever made, an
is although he is now "A years old, with Il
W multiplied and important duties of q
ye active ministry resting upon him, he
of able TO accomplish the difficult task in
"a piled in his promise.
a. The provisional committee appoint'
es 10 devise ways and means for the CO.
IT; struction of the Lake Erie ship canal b
he tween the Ohio river and the lakes m
up in Pittsburg Tuesday of last week. CO
Onel Il, =. Roberts, engineer of the Mo
an ongahela River Navigation company a
is serted that the water supply tributary
ry the canal is four times greater than nee
lst ed, and can be reached at a cost of $500
ce 600. The cost of the canal would not G
he ceed SIS, 200, 600. 1t would have a capal
~ of "a 600 OOO tons NOR apuuun dpuI