The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-16
NEWSY NOTES.

IL is now claimed that electricity beats
anti-toxine in the treatment of diph-
iberia. That is, Dr. J. w. wass, Of West
Pullman, H., makes that claim. He APP
plies electricity to the throat, and al
leges that the treatment has been success
full in a large number of virulent cases.
Railway, N. j., has musical bicycle
whch when ridden plays the most popu.
lar airs. The music box is operated by
steel fan, similar to a windmill, which is
placed in the center of the handle bar in
front of the lider and works Just as a
pinwheel does when carried by run
ming boy.
Pleasure owes its greatest zest to an
ticipation. The promise of dollar fid-
die will keep a schoolboy in happiness
for year. The fun connected with its
possession will expire in an hour. Now
what is true of schoolboys is equally true
with men. All they differ in is the price
of their fiddles.
Information comes from Busti, New
York, that Emmett Bittles, who was
convicted in Erie and sentenced TO l3
years i'm the Western penitentiary for
robbery of old Mrs. Houlihan, of Union
| City, is the same person who committed
the terrible Sherman double murder at
Busti last December.
| Charles J. Bangart, editor of the Falls
Creek Herald, Jefferson county, became
the father of three bouncing boy babies
| AfA,,la,r - lap fp Nfg I.aA
for country editor, and his brethen OF
the craft will wish him acorrespondingly
rapid increase in subscriptions as con-
sequence of the free advertising which
he will get.
Messrs. Truman, Henderson and Gray
have let contracts for the taking out and
placing in market of half a million feet
of square timber, all first-class pine.
This large undertaking, and the COM
pany being wide-awake business men, II
is au evidence of their confidence in the
lumber traffic of the future.-Brookvil
Republican.
Some one has found out how far a far.
mer has to walk to put in and attend
40 acres of corn. To plow the ground
with a sixteen Inch plow he walks 35C
miles, TO harrow it thoroughly before
planting he walks so miles, and TO Guilt
vate it afterward he will have to travel
$50 miles, making grand total Of 75(
miles, besides gathering.
An exchange says just as a man wa
writing his name on the register of 1
hotel a huge bed bug appeared on th'
page. The man paused aud remarked
? IT have been bled by Pawpaw fleas anC
bitten by Mendoza Graybacks, but II
be cursed if was ever in a place befor
where the bed bugs looked over the reg
lister to find where your room was"
Joseph Loll, one of the best know
residents of Clarion county, was serious
ly injured neal Fryburg. Mr.. Lol
weighs about 800 pounds and started 70
a drive near his home i'm Fryburg. Hi
, horse was frightened by a steam threshe
and ran away and Mr. Loll was throw
out His leg was broken near the thigh
and owing to his great weight, it is feare
that he has suffered even more seriou
injuries.
, "Billy" Criswell, of Butler township
tried an experiment the other day tina
worked successfully, and if adopted b
farmers would be found 10 be great Ia
bor-saver. Instead of cutting his cor
, by the old method, he hitched his tean
to the reaper and cut ten acres of cor
; with about as much ease as he could Gu
field Of wheat. The reaper dropped OF
} the bundles of corn as evenly as
, would grain, and the work was accom-
plished with one-fourth the labor as b
the old method.-Butler Eagle.