The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-03-27
NENSY NOTES.


ciety of the Methodist Episcopal church
has issued over 5000, 900 pages of mis-
sionary literature during the past year.
Il has 6l2S organizations with 1853, ,503
members.
Newspapers everywhere are comment
ing on the bill before the New York leg
islature establishing a whipping post for
the punishment of wifs-beaters, and the
sentiment appears to be about unani-
nous in favor of the bill.
1t appears that not one American mer-
chant vessel passed through the Suez Ca
nal during the year 1894, according to
Consul General Penfield's report to the
State Department. There were Ameri-
can cargoes enough, but they went in
British ships.
In the death from pneumonia of
Charles Z. Mentram, at Pine Bush, n.
Y, last Friday, passed away the smallest
man in Orange county. Although in his
22nd year, he was a baby i'm structure,
being but "a inches high. He was born
in Wortendyke, Bergen county, n. j.,
in August, 1873. From his birth he was
deficient, both mentally and physically.
Although apparently healthy, he could
never either walk or talk. He had the
head OF man but the body of a child.
Ills legs never grew after his first year.
A sample of the illuminating gas dis
covered in New York, which can be de-
livered to consumers in cans, has been
received and partly tested at the Office of
the Cleveland Gas Light Company, Of
Cleveland, .. Secretary Beardsley, of
the company says that the gas burns
steadily and gives an excellent light.
The material from which it is made is
lime and coal dust, welded by electricity
into a sort of dark brownish, porous sub
stance. The gas is generated by placing
this substance in water.
The man who is President when the
son of Colonel Fred Grant becomes of
an age sufficient for admission to West
Point will receive letter from an ex-
President, written long before his death,
asking that his grandson be appointed
cadet in the institution.
The big natural gas well struck on the
Zebulon Hess farm, Washington county,
early Wednesday morning, opens an en-
tirely new field and is estimated TO be the
strongest natural gas well ever struck in
this part of the country. An effort will
be made to case it and close it in to stop
further waste, and to measure the pres
fEFH
passes the famous Zweigler well, in the
Mcdonald field, which had pressure of
over 900 pounds a minute. 1t is esti-
mated that the pressure at this new well
has never been below 600 pounds a
minute, and it has increased since the
strike was made.
Gen. James A. Beaver is putting up
tin plate machinery in his nail mills at
BellefUnte. He said this evening that it
was am experiment with a new process,
and that if it was successful it would
revolutionize the manufacture of tin
plare.
A new beneficiary order is TO be estab-
lished in Olean, to be known as the Or
der of the Tribe of Ben Hur, its ritual
being based upon Gen. Wallace's story
of that utle.-Erd.
Richard Vaux, the noted politician,
lawyer and penologist, died at his home
in Philadelphia, Friday, of the grip. He
is claimed to be the only American who
ever danced with the queen of Great
Britain.
stephen A. Douglas had magnificent
bass voice that would have made his for
tune on the opera stage. The manner in
which he beloved forth. "Fellow-citi-
zens' at the beginning OF speech was
never equaled by any public speaker.
The tearing down of the old Blaine
house in Washington has caused a de-
mand from all parts of the country for
relics of the great secretary. Many peo-
pie ask for bricks for souvenirs. 1t is
proposed to reproduce in the theater that
is TO be erected on the site the room i'm
which Blaine died, and to make it mu-
scum of Blaine relies.
Jesse i. Benn, agen. for the Rochester
nurseries, and who has been canvassing
IN Crawford and Nenango counties for
some time, was found in a deserted house
west of Francotown, badly frozen, last
Thursday. It seems that Mr.. Benn had
been taken sick on the previous alter
noon and sought refuge in the house, feel
ing unable TO get farther, where sleep
and exhaustion overcame him. When
he awoke near morning he found himself
powerless. Both feet are frozen above
the ankles and it is feared an amputauon
may be necessary. Mr.. Benn is an old
soldier and well known throughout
Northwestern Pennsylvania. being for
many years an instructor in the Soldiers
Orphan School at Mercer, and later in
the furniture trade al Linesvilo.