The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-22
NEWSY NOTES.

vestigated in Chester.
Clarion county Grand Jury has recon-
mended the erection of a soldiers mon
ument.
After an idleness of six years the Belle
font nail works are to resume operations
on May lst.
J. G. Kissinger, a successful farmer
and banker of Butler county, Pa, is the
father of thhty-fve children-nineteen
by his first wife and fifteen by his second.
Citizens of Spartansburg have raised
$500 cash. which, with two acres Of land,
they expect to give toward the erection
of $4,000 wooden mill.
Business boom is looked for at Grove
City. The mines are all starting up, and
! there is every prospect of continued
work during the summer.
Greenville is TO have couple of daily
papers to enliven the town. The Ad-
vance Argus starts a daily on Monday,
and Meadville parties will shortly after
wards start another paper.
About thirty girls employed in the
| Columbia garment factory at Cory, have
struck They could make but S2 per
/ week at most, many making only few
cents. The place is veritable sweat
| shop.
] III Il lRnb ONtl q Edilb VI NdAhN ~
! Fayette City, an unknown man picked
up a pick and drove it through Joe
! Musloseky's heart. Then, drawing a
| knife, he slashed the dying man aero IS
| the throat and fled.
OF the 300 young ladies attending Will
son college, Chambersburg, Pa, about
| 100 are from Western Pennsylvania
Recently the alumnae all over the coun-
try have started out to raise 100000 as
! an endowment fund.
At last man has been found who is
| willing to accept the Democratic Presi-
dental nomination. He is ex-Gov.
Roswell p. Flower, and he says SO him
self. Who put Flower up to kill the
| Cleveland third term boom in that way?
Butler county is showing up alongside
the leading counties in the western end
of the State The valuation of the coun-
ty for tax purposes is Sl4, ,033,00O. Money
at interest to the amount of S3,5l6,0O0 is
returned. The county has IL ,5l4 horses
| and 5,O0l dogs.
1t is not generally known that when a
person falls into the water common felt
hat may be made use of as life perser-
yer, and by placing the hat upon the
water, rim down, with the arm around
it, pressing it slightly to the breast, it
will bear a man up for h ours.
Another New York saloon-keeper has
died of heart failure brought on by
keeps on, the fellows who want to an
swer the temperance lecturers will be
able to collect some quite heavy statistics
of the fatalities of temperance.
The jamestown News says there is a
rumor in the air, which if verified, will
add much to the pleasure of the visitors
| who flock to Chautauqua Lake during
the summer. 1t seems likely that open
cars, of the incest make, will be run dur
ing the season between jamestown ano
Mayvile.
Some Chicago Scientists" have discov-
cred that the Y ray will eXterminate all
disease germs and make epidemics i'm
possible. So much is being claimed fol
the latest discovery that the public will
presently begin to believe that it is an
other case of blue glass, of anti-toXine
of serum.
Five thousand families in Erie ate cold
/ food on Tuesday in consequence of the
success of John Michael Mccormick il
finding a natural-gaS leak with candle
, As for John Michael, once a worth,
watchman in the employ of the fuel-ga
company, he is beyond the necessity o
caring whether his meals are hot or cold
Pennsylvania will have eight delegates
at-large in the National Convention thi
year-more than any other State. Penn
sylvania is short on Congress districts
two members of Congress being elected
by the State at large. Two delegates fol
each member and Senator in Congress
l requires the election of four delegates 70
| Pennsylvania's -at-larg
and four for its two Senators.
Girls of marriageble age do not lill
:. to tell how old they are, but you can tin'
out by the following the subjoined in
structiOns, the young lady doing the fig
uring Tell her to put down the numbe
] of the month in which she was born
{ then TO multiply it by 4 then to add
then TO multiply it by 80, then TO add he
age, then to sustract 365, then to add liz
3 tell her to tell you the amount she ma
q left. The two figures to the right vii
, denote her age and the remainder tn
month of her birth. For example, th
D amount is S22, she is % years old, an,
was born in the eighth month, August
Try it,
There have lately been placed upon tn
market several cheap reprints of an alb
7 solete edition of "Webster's Dictionary.
These books are given various names
"Websters Unabridged" 1.-The Grea
Webster's Dictionary" "Webster's B
D Dictionary" ''Websters Encyclopedi
Dictionary" etc., etc. Many announce
ments concerning them are misleading
The Webster reprint portion of then
from A to n is the same, forty year
, behind the times, and printed iron
J.. | plates made by phOtographing the oil
=. pages. The old book mas been padde
out by various additions culled from
various sources, but the body is the sam
1 that was published when Polk was pres
. ident and duly buried at the incoming q
Lincoln. The Webster, current fron
Lincoln TO Harrison, is the popular copy
? righted Unabridged" which has re
Gently been superseded by Webster's In
ternational Dictionary.-See advertise
. mcnt in another column.
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