The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-08-24
NEWSY NOTES.

-Thirty-oue million dollars have been |
paid out by the state of Pennsylvania for |
the support of charitable and penal insti- |
tutions i'm 81 years. OF this sum the War
rem insane asylum has received 81, ,062, 900. |
If on a clear evening, the reader will |
cast his eve on the western horizon. he |
will notice bright star before most 9TH
ers are visible. The star is the planet
Jupiter, which astronomers describe as
$4,000 miles in diameter, equal in bulk to
thirteen hundred times the size of the
earth.
Why pay 5000 to $500 for suits when
$4.0O buys an all-wool one at Miles C
Armstrong;. 1t
The largest flag in the world will be
flung to the breeze, suspended on wire
cable stretched from the summit of two
mountains, at the eastern side of Tyrone,
on Saturday of this week, August 20.
The flag will be 6OxlOO feet, and contains
1000 square yards of bunting. The wire
cable will be 5000 feet long.
Hopkins bas few of those half price
shoes left. Every pair will be sold at
half price. 1t
An exchange says that when the news
of the destruction of Cervera's fleet
reached camp, one of the purses COM
menced to read it aloud in the hospital.
he had got as far as the statement that
the Brooklyn had been hit forty-five
times when a fever patient, little out OF
his head, shouted: "Good Lord! Who
pitched for Brooklyn?"
Bring your neck, we will do the rest.
Latest style collars at Miles & Arm
strongs. 1t
A new use has been found for the sun
flower. The sticky substance which ex-
udes from it has been made into a sub
stance for covering bicycle tires. The
homely sun flower is rapidly coming to
the front as useful article. It's seeds
make excellent food for cattle, its oil is
equal to the best linseed oil, and its stalks
are, pound for pound, better heat pro-
ducing product than coal.
Hopkins sells the clothing and shoes.
The manner in which the shirt-wa
preserves its rounded front expansion on
so many slim figures has been a puzzle
to masculine eyes of an investigating
turn. Some of the retailers in the cities,
however, are displaying in their windows
device that accounts for the pouter pig
con effect. II is "the shirt-wast extend
er," device of cotton netting and whale
bone, which keeps the flmsy material of
the waist well extended to the front.
You can get it at Hopkins store. If.
Printing Office language is very pecu-
liar and some of our exchanges print the
following; "Billy, put George WASH
ington an the galley and finish the muir
der you commenced yesterday. Set up
the ruins of Hercules and distribute
small pox. Lock up jeff Davis; slide
Ben Butler into the hell box and leave
the ''pi' until after dinner. Put the la
dies form to press and tell the devil to
work on Deacon Fogg's article on eternal
| punishment.
Hopkins sells the clothing and shoes.
The Shoe and Leather Gazette says:
ut takes as much courage and. convic-
ton sometimes to stick to your adver-
tising through the dull season as it
would take to face en- army. But it is
the man with the courage to stick to his
task who wins out in the end. Ceaseless
pounding is what counts. Advertising
to-day, Tomorrow and the day after is
what brings trade. 1t is money thrown
away to advertise day, week or two
weeks, unless it is followed up"
A cloudburst Friday morning at the
headwaters of Saw Mill run near Pitts
burg caused that stream to flood its
banks, and as result six persons we're
drowned and the heroic acts of the crew
of the dredgeboat Pittsburg saved the
death roll from being augmented. FIVE
of the dead are children of the residents
of tenement known as Friends Row, on
New ST., at the mouth of Saw Mill run in
the West End, Pittsburg. The other was
a daughter of Henry Allsupple, of Elliott
borough,
"The war news from Santiago has con-
tanned many references oflate to a Round
Robin" says Charles p. Byron in the
Bradford Era. "And | venture to say
that not one landsman in ten thousand
knows what round robin is. The round
robin is a protest citing some grievance
suffered by the crew Of vessel to the
captain. A piece ofpaper is secured and
cut perfectly round. a statement of the
trouble is written in circular lines upor
the paper. The signitures of the peti
TONERS are also written around the robin
following the circular form, and when i
is finished no mans name is found to bC
the first one. While it presents the SEN
timents of all the signers the ring lead
er's name can not be found because o
the shape of the document. The tern
originated in that way and has become
useful in the army and navy as we'll a,
i on ordinary ships OF passage. Robin was
the mans name who first thought of tn,
' Device"