The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-08-07

There are $1,000 exhibitors at the
Paris Exposition.
The following poem appeared in our
columns some months ago and has been
delivered by the author at Steinway
Hall and elsewhere. 1t is now repro
duced by special request.
According to official statistics, forty
seven person died in England and
Wales of hydrophobia in 1875, and fifty
three in 1876. The total in the eleven
years, l866-76, was 387.
Washington Territory is represented
by her newspapers as anxious to become
State, but her population still falls
short of 124, 900, the number on which
representation in Congress is based.
There were in this country, in 1877,
166, 600 liquor dealers licensed by the
United States government. The amount
of money annually expended for liquor
in the United States by consumers is
5000, 600, 900.
In Warsaw, Russia, certain ladies of
high rank have organized an Economi-
cal Dress Club. Among other rules
adopted is one discounIenancing the
constant changes recommended by dress
makers, and modistes, when these lack
artistic value.
Mr.. Bryant was probably the wealth.
lest poet this country has produced, and,
perhaps, with the exceptions of Samuel
Rogers and Lord Byron, the wealthiest,
or among the wealthiest, of the Old
World. His estate is said to be worth
five hundred thousand dollars.
Smallpox and diphtheria have been
very prevalent and fatal lately in London.
Since New Years there have 1,134 fatal
cases of smallpox within fifteen miles
of Charing Gross, while there were but
eight deaths of that disease in the same
period in nineteen provincial towns of
Englang having an aggregate popula-
ton about equal to the metropolis.
A laborer named Mistlebrook, a mem
Der of the sect called Peculier People,
who do not believe in medicines, was
tried in London for killing his infant
son, who died from whooping cough.
The prisoner had neglected to call in
medical aid, and had he done so the
child's life might have been saved.
The evidence was not sufficient to sus-
tain the charge.
DIR. D'Unger, the Minneapolis ply
sician whose cinchona recipe for the
cure OF drunkards recently attracted at
tention, is out with this one for con-
sumption: One-half pound finely cut
up beefsteak (fresh); one dranchm pul.
verized charcoal, four ounces pulverized
sugar; four ounces rye whiskey; one
pint boiling water. Mix all together
let it stand in cool place over night
and give from one to two teaspoonfull
liquid and meat-before each meal.
AS an instance of the great ingenuity
of ants, and the enormous amount O
work they can accomplish, may be men
toned an incident that recently occurred
near Paris, KY, in a rural cemetery
where some ants, by diligently working
for several weeks, undermined a coffil
in vault, dug tunnel, and carried tn
skeleton which the coffin containe,
through the tunnel to place seventeel
} feet away from where it was originally
1t ig probable that the ants were assiste,
} by the looseness of the earth and tn
catacombs made by feld-mice and moles
Mr.. Johannes Eckart, of Munich, an
noUnces that he has discovered metho
of keeping fish perfectly fresh for man
days after capture, his plan of proceed
ure consisting in impregnating them b
means of hydraulic pressure with a wea
solution of salicylic acid, packing theI
in casks or cases, and pouring gelatin
over them. The latter serves to preven
their becoming stiff and dry. Prepare
and packed in the above manner, the
may, it is said, remain ten or fftee
days, and even longer, during transpol
g without detriment to their flavor of az
g pearance.
t A wonderful circumstance occurred
e Watsonville, CAL, lately, according
t a local paper, which says: To begi
with, gentleman well known in tn
{ section owns a lot of hens. One
r them few days ago commenced layiI
t in wood-pile, her nest being situate
r between two sticks of wood, far enoue
n apart so that as fast as the eggs we
|, laid they would drop upon the groun
g Mt least two feet below. After layil
twelve or fifteen eggs, the hen COZ
menced setting on the hole betwe,
f those sticks of wood, the eggs being
!, the ground below, two feet distar
. Three weeks passed by and eleven
h those eggs hatched successfully. w
!. some scientist explain the phenomenon