The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-06-21

texture, somewhat resembling Cndlks
II is found in Spain and in the several
countries at the head of the Mediter.
ranean. The town Of Konieh, in Asia
Minor, furnishes the principal sup
plies for the manufacture of pipes and |
cigar-tubes. 1t is roughly shaped into
blocks for expectation, and freed as
far as practicable from the associated
minerals which impair its quality by |
interfering with the carving of its
surface. 1t is made into pipes in va
rieus cities Of Europe, Pesth and vi
emma being especially noted for the
manufacture. To produce the yellow
and brown colors, which are brought
out only after long smoking, the
blocks are kept for some time in a
mixture of wax and fatty matters. A
portion of these is absorbed, and be-
ing subsequently, acted on by the heat
and tobacco fumes, assumes various
shades of col6s. Artificial meer-
schaums, called massa- bowls are made
from the parings of the genuine mate
rial, which, being reduced to fine
powder, are boiled in water and moul-
ded into blocks, sometimes with the
addition Of olay They cannot easily
they are generally heavier and freer
from blemishes.-Appleton's american
Cyclopedia.
The London Times has the follow
ing: Our kinsfolk have a right TO
magnify and hold in undying memory
the achievements of that manly con-
fict (the War of Independence, and
we have long forgotten the passing
bitterness of defeat in the proud
thought that only Englishmen could
have baffied England, even in her
perverse mood of unreasoning tyranny.
The centenary celebration of Ameri-
can independence is an occasion which
arouses no unfriendly remembrances
among us. 1t is emphatically an &C.
casion on which Americans may be
forgiven a swelling sense of pride, and
on which foreigners must be compelled
to feel admiration. The Exhibition
at Philadelphia would, therefore, be
an interesting historical event, even
though it fell very far short of the
-magnifcence in display, the fertility
of invention, the inginuety of contri.
vance, at which the world has marvel
ed, over again, in London, Paris and
Vienna.
The man-eating tiger, says Land
and Hater, rarely touches any other
animal when he has once tasted human
blood. He turks in the ne:ghborhood
of villages, and carries off laborers re-
turning from work, or women going
for water. She crawls to the edge of
the thicket and looks around. 1t is on.
ly an unarmed traveller. The hungry
devil knows we'll that he is an easy
prey; che creeps toward her uncon-
scious victim with the soft and noise
less tread of cat her long tail
switches from side to side, her sharp
claws dart from their velvet sheaths,
the devil is reused within her, and
glares in her flaming eyeballs; she
throws herself forward with a cat-like
bound, and the stricken wretch is
writhing in her fatal grasp, while with
closed eyes and low growl expressive
of savage delight, she sucks the warm
blood from his mangled throat.
An old bachelor in Maine has been
deferred from committing matrimony
in novel way. Thinking over the
subject seriously and particularly the
expense of maintaining a family, be
set the table in his lonely abode with
plates for himself and an imaginary
wife and five children. He then sal
down to dine, and as often as he
helped himself to food he put the same
quantity on each of the other plates
and surveyed the prospect at the time
computing the cost. The result Of
his examination was so discouraging
that he resolved not to marry. Law.
endar suggests that he ought not to
have been so lavish with his children.
The Danbury Ne,Os says: There i.
one thing on which a husband and
wife never have and never can agree.
and that is on what constitutes we'll
beaten carpet. When the article is
clean, it's a mans impression that il
should be removed and he be allowed
to wash up and quietly retire. But a
woman's appetite for carpet-beating is
never appeased while a man has a
whole muscle in his body. And if he
waited until she voluntarily gave the
signal to to stop, he might beat away
until he dropped down dead. It is
directly owing to his superior strength
OF mind that the civilized world is
not widow this day.
A well-meaning horse created a
great panic in church at Hyinnis,
Mass, on Sunday, and broke Up the
service by running against the side of