The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-11-22

geological survey, the total output of
crude petroleum in the United States in
1904 was 117063, ,42l barrels. The total
value of all the petroleum marketed in
the United States in 1904 was $l0l, l70, 1885,
The gain over the production of 1908 was
l6,6O2,OS4 barrels in quantity and S6,476,-
4l6 in value. For the first time the quan-
tity of oil produced west of the Missis-
sippi river was greater than that pro-
duced east of that river. The increased
demand for petroleum in this country is
attributed to the use of that article in au-
tomobiles.
If there is rural phone in a COM
munity and Smith calls Jones, they can
hear at least dozen telephones go down
on the line. Patrons on the same line
want to hear what Smith has to say to
Jones. This was the custom in the
country near Findlay, o., and two men
who wanted to break a woman named
Mrs. Martin Jacqua of the habit remark
ed when they were sure she had taken
down her phoue, that il was too bad about
Mrs. Jacqua's sister dying so suddenly.
Mrs. Jacqua heard it and dropped dead
herself. = Exchange. The moral is too
plain to need eucidation.
About $500, ,OOC divided up among the
people of North East, that is what the
grape industry did for us this season.
Add to this about $50 900 for other small
fruits earlier in the season, and then add
to this the large sum gathered in by truck
farmers, and the amount of money paid
out to farmers for other products by the
canning factories and all other branches
of industry here at home have helped to
swell bank accounts and placed our peo
pie in shape to pull through the coming
winter and be thankful for on Thank s.
giving day, even if turkeys roost high
and come high in price.-Breeze.
The poles have all been set and the
wires strung for the new telephone line
in the borough, and as soon as the switch
board and other office paraphernalia ar
rives the line will be ready to do busi-
ness. The central Office will be located
in rooms over Walters IL Co.'s millinery
store. There are upward of 80 subscrib-
ers in the borough and very many of the
farmers between here aud Leeper are al
ready connected up and talking. The
line extends in the direction of and takes
in Johnlowen, Newmansville, Licking
vile, Tylersburg, etc, besides large
portion of the territory in Clarion aud
jefferson counties is covered, the official
name being the Redbank Telephone COM
pany.
The Muzette correspondent of the
Msrienville Express says: "Mr. John
Shall, working at New Bowmanville, met
with an accident which, it is said, will
cost him his life. While cutting logs
near the mill limb from a dead maple
tree fell and struck him, partly crushing
his shoulder and iniuring his spine. A
slight cut was found on his head but that
was thought to have been done by the
saw which he had in hand at the time of
the accident. DR.. Yingling was sum-
moned and pronounced the injury fatal
and advised that his friends be informed
of his condition at once. His wife and
two children were sent for. Mrs. Shall is
with him now and his children are ex-
pected soon."
Commenting upon the Governors
call for an extra session of the legislature
the Blizzard says: "The reform legisla-
ton asked for now was needed just as
badly when the Legislature was last in
session. Had our honorable but at all
times eccentric Governor devoted little
more attention to the matters enumerated
in his call, and little less to venting his
spleen against the newspapers, something
might have been accomplished. The
gang he has called together is the same
one that so persistently disregarded the
peoples interests at the last session.
They are the same chaps who ever stood
ready to serve the bosses. To expect
very much from them is hardly war
ranted. Should they enact any whole
some laws it would only be done to save
their own scalps."
Those who come after us will have
opportunities for hearing many strange
things through the instrumentality of
monographs, says the Blizzard. Collec-
tions of voices are being made for var
ious purposes. The phonograms of The
British museum are designed.to preserve
for future generations the voices of IA
nous people of our time; but the Vienna
Academy of Sciences is going further,
and seeks phonograms of languages. AL
ready its collections includes popular
songs of gypsies and Arabians, favorite
airs of Indian tribes, the idioms of Ne
groes and Malays, and so on. II is send
ing out special voice e-hunting expeditions
every year, and its agents are now scour-
ing Australasia, Roumania, Istria. and
other localities. Its latest plan is to
phonograph the voices OF animals for
scientific study.
There was woe and wailing in town
yesterday morning when the denizens
awoke to find the gas had gone, or nearly
so, with the thermometer registering
only few degrees above the zero mark.
Sounds of crashing boxes and splinter
ing wood were heard on all sides and in
all directions, and no doubt other sounds
blue and sulphuric-could have been
heard had one been minded to listen for
them between chattering teeth and shak-
ing bones. And all because the frost had
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