The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-29
NEWSY NOTES.

The Cochranton Times likens the wild
cater for oil to the fellow who is drawing
to 4-Aush--you always expect to get it
the next time.
A warning to the rope jumpers is found
in the sad case of Gertie Crowley, of
Clarendon, who lies in a critical condi-
ton, her brain having been affected by
excessive jumping.
Judge Beaver, of the Superior Court,
handed down AN opinion on Tuesday, de-
Gliding the width of a road should be
fixed by the Quarter Sessions Court, and
not by the viewers.
The Raftsman's Journal says: "a
Clearfield girl wrote and sent the usual
quarter to find out how TO whiten her
hands, and the answer came back: Soak
them in dish water. 1t tickled her
mother more than if she had gotten a
new bicycle"
All the peach-growing States report a
favorable outlook for the crop, the trees
coming ont of the winter in good condi-
ton and loaded with buds. Delaware
expects the largest peach harvest since
1875, and Georgia is confident that it will
have an immense crop to market
Twenty farmers took the tails of 9,I7l
ground squirrels to the commissioners Of
Spokane county, Wash, one day recen-
tlV TO collect the bounty of one cent per
tail. Ope man had 1884 squirrel tails,
and another l,056. All the squirrels were
killed in one district, where they are so
thick as to almost make the farmers de-
spair of making any profit by their crops.
Western papers have recently been
publishing astonishing accounts of a
mineral spring discovered in Colorado.
Every woman who drinks of the PINK
water, that flows from the spring, is said
| to become dumb for period of time eX-
| tending from three to six months.
| Wives who may he importuned by their
/ husbands to take q trip to Colorado
should make a note of this, and act ac-
ordingly.-Blizzard.
A BOOK TO BUY.-WEBsTER's INTER-
! NATIONAL DICTIONARY. This new book
is the authentic, copyrighted "Unabridg-
| ed" thoroughly revised and enlarged un-
der the supervision of Noah Porter, ID.
| b., LII. D., of Yale University. Editor
| ial work on the revision has been in ac-
| tive progress for over ten years, and
more than a hundred paid literary work
ers have been engaged upon IL. The sum
expended in its preparation before the
| first copy was printed exceeded S5OO, ,OOO'
This work, well used in family,
will be of more value to the members
thereof than many times its cost laid up
in money.
IL was shown in our dispatches yester-
day, that, after all, the proposition TO ad-
NIT women as delegates TO the General
| Conference of the NJ. Il. church has been
defeated by very narrow margin III
received 7,5l5 votes TO 2,529 against IL,
thus failing Of the requisite three-fourths
vote by the narrow margin of Is. Ihe
| vote shows am immense majority IN laNoI
| of the change. Four women have been
elected delegates to the General Confer
| ence, which meets in Cleveland within a
! few DAYS The sensible and graceful
thing i'm that body would be TO recognize
the general sentiment and no longer eN'
cude from their counsels class o
members who make up much more thar
half the membership, and who also d'
moro than half of the working and pray
ing.-Franklin News.
Fred Raub, the German youth who at
tempted to murder and rob Mrs. Pierce
am Indian woman living at VOL Run, on
the river division of the W. y. Y. ~ T.
railway, ON Friday night is still at large
Raub, who is about 10 years old, broke
into the house; Mrs. Pierce was IN neu
and was awakened by the tniet's en-,
trance. She screamed and tauh grabbed
her tongue, trying apparently To tear il
from the roots. He then checked hel
into iusensibility, and while she was in
this condition he stuffed her mouth iul
of rags. He then pounded her about the
head with his fists. Her assailant wa
frightened away by neighbors, who found
her almost dead from her cruel treat
ment. She positively identified ltaub as
her assailant yesterday, and gave the
further information that he ran away be-
fore he was able 10 secure any money
Her beating was 10 induce her TO revea
the hiding place of money she was sup
J n..al M LaNn I'm nm. Lnm..-- IarrIuk.