The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-17
NEMSY NOTES.


William Reinsley has at Clarksvillo,
Mercer county a remarkable freak of ma
ture i'm the shape Of a chicken with two
heads that only differ in the fact that one
is bright yellow and the other white.
Tho chicken can eat with either beak. IL
is apparently healthy.
For the first time in the history of
Richmond, Ind, a colored man served
on jury in the county in which Frod
Douglas was mobbed several years ago
for trying TO make speech. Joe Wat
kins, one of the best known colored men
in the country, was thus honored and
placed on the jury. After the mobbing
of Douglas at Pendleton he lay for
month at the homo Of Neal Hardy before
he was able to get up,
President Cleveland and the members
of his cabinet and the Governors of all
the states and their staffs have been in
vited to be present at the big drill in May
at Memphis, Tenn. Miss Helen Gould
will be invited to act as sponsor" for the
Confederate veterans of that city.
The latest engineering and ship canal
idea is to dispense with the "a locks in
the Welland Canal leading from Lake
Erie to Lake Ontario, and to make the
whole drop of 236 feet between these two
lakes in two pneumatic balance locks,
built of steel, operated by compressed
air, ana large enough TO admit vessels of
ocean draught.
The revenue from the Blair county
liquor licenses amount to S2S,550.
Five prisoners escaped from the county
Jail at Smethport, Mexican county, at
about o'clock, Saturday evening. The
! prisoners, two of whom were colored,
had made file from an old knife and
with the rudely fashioned tool had filed
the lock from the door of a vacant cell,
and with the same knife blade they sue
ceeded in loosening stone in the wall
Saturday evening. Just before the turn
key entered the corridor they removed
the stone and escaped without being OBJ
served by the turnkey or any of the
sheritf's family. They were seen rum
ming down King street by a party of
Swedes who did not think it necessary to
| give an alarm.
Mr.. Samuel Barnhart of tho Neck, be-
low Williamsport while ploughing few
days ago, unearthed the barrels of two
old muskets. The muskets are thought
to have been lett there by soldiers on
their retreat from Gettysburg and were
found to he loaded.
There are over 200 secret societies in
the United States and the total member
ship is over 100000 The largest is the
Masonic, with 1900; the Odd Fellows
come next with $4,000.
Says an old Pennsylvania farmer: 81
always know when there is to be wind
storm by watching the turkeys and
chickens go TO roost each night In
calm weather the fowls always roost on
their poles with their heads alternating
each way; that is, one faces cast, the
next west, and so on. But when there is
going to be high wind they always
roost toward the direction from which il
is coming. There are reasons for these
different ways of roosting, take it,
When there is no wind to guard against
they can see danger more readily if they
are headed in both directions, but when
wind is TO arise they face it because they
can hold their position much better
But the part 1 can't understand" he con.
cluded, sis how the critters know that
the wind is going to rise when we NOR.
tails lack all intimation of it,"