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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06
Wonderful AntOmatOns.

Many OF our readers, says New York
paper, have seen curious specimens of
ingenious mechanism, intended to imi-
tate in various ways the capacity of our
bodies aided by the brain. Dolls that
open and shut their eyes, move their
jaws and lips, and even articulate GER
tain words, are modern inventions to be
found in nearly every large toy store
in the city. Figures that, being wound
mp, will dance hornpipe, have ceased
to be novelty. Automatic railroad
trains for children, worked by springs,
upon the principle of watch's move
ments, have long been the delight of
Young America, and have traversed half
the drawing-rooms in the corntry, often
to the amusement of "children of a
larger growth" The public have been
also familiar with automatic chess-play-
ers and musical band performers. All
of which are modern inventions.
But there are wonderful stories told
OF the ancients in this line, surprising
our automatons altogether and espe.
cially is this the case Rs to mechanism
so constructed as to resemble the figure
and initiate the actions of man. Thus,
we are told by the pages Of history that
Archytas, OF Tarentum, about four hun
dred years B. c., was in the habit of
making wooden pigeons that could fly.
Albertus Magnus constructed an auto
maton to open his door when visitors
knocked at if. The case of the famous
Regiomatanus also occurs to us in this
connection, who made wooden eagle
that few forth from the city, saluted the
emperor, and returned again from
whence it had been dispatched. The
same ingenious inventor constructed a
metallic fly which few out of his hand
and returned to it after flying about the
room. These instances only serve to
show the ingenuity exercised in this
special line long before the period of
the Christian era.
About hundred years ago, nm auto
maton fute-player was exhibited in
Paris, that played on the flute in the
same manner as a living performer.
Some ten years later, Vancausen, him
self musician, produced a hageolet-
player, which performed on the fiageolet
with the left hand and beat tamborine
with the right. This same Vancausen
also made wooden duck which dabbled
in the water, swan, drank and quacked
like real duck, 1t is not many years
since Frenchman exhibited, in several
of our cities, duck of similar mechani-
cal powers, and which was an object OF
great curiosity. Automatons have been
constructed within the last half century
which wrote and played upon the piano
and organ.
A Swiss, whose name was Mailardis,
constructed, within the memory of some
of our readers, female figure which
performed eighteen tunes upon the
piano forte, and which continued in mo-
tion for a whole hour. without readjust.
ing. The same inventor constructed q
boy that would write and draw. Mael-
eel, who exhibited the famous chess
player, did not depend upon machinery.
1t was finally discovered that he had q
diminutive human being concealed in
side of his pretended automaton.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06
He Had His Suspicious.

An elderly man wearing blue jeans,
spectacles and puzzled expression,
stood on the corner of Fourth and Olive
Tuesday afternoon for nearly an hour,
gazing around abstractedly. Finally he
stopped gentleman who was passing
and inquired:
So" Stranger, who am 1; or, rather,
where am I?"
you are on Fourth street."
"I had my suspicious. This isn't the
right place. You see, I'm stranger
in the city-never was in st. Louis be-
FORE"
And he started of, saying he had
promised to meet a man on Fourteenth
and Olive-"a a splendid chap"
"LoOk here" said the gentleman,
"do you know the man well ?"
just met him this morning-not in
timately acquainted, you see; but he's
one OF the incest fellows ever saw. I"
And he trudged away.
About six o'clock in the evening the
gentleman happened TO run across his
specialized friend again and inquiyed
whether or not he had found his new
acquaintance, whereupon the old fellow
raised his glasses slowly and remarked;
Stranger, have my suspicious. i
lent this man twenty-five dollars this
morning, and he promised to meet me
on Fourteenth and Olive at five o'clock
this afternoon and return the money,
but he wasn't there, and the worst of il
is, he is a minister of the gospel, at least
he told me so, and he had a Bible.
Good evidence, hey ?"
"Well, my friend, you'll never get
your money, You've been swindled by
a sharper.
"Think sol I've had my suspicious.
Fact is, however, don't care so much
about losing the money as meeting the
old woman-she's up there in board
ing-hOuse," pointing over his shoulder
with his thumb. "I tell you, she's a
mOuser and will find il out Then
won't there be a muss, though? have
my suspicious. ."-St Louis Republican
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06
Items Of Interest.

High-toned people-Tenor singers.
Items of interest-The entries in ones
bank book.
Going the rounds of the press--The
girl who waltzes.
All men are not homeless, but some
are home less than others.
A st. Louis paper calls the Indians
the gentlemen without hats"
The flrst literai magazine in America
was published by Franklin. in 1741.
The inner ear should never be clean
ed, says an authority on the subject.
The white OF eggs and the milk of the
COW are almost identical in composition.
"Don't worry about my going away.
my darling. Absence, you know, makes
the heart grow fonder." "Of somebody
else," added the darling.
Cannon were first used as early as
1888. Stone balls were the proiectiles
at that time, and we're in use among
eastern nations up to 1906.
Official report shows that all the coin
produced from the mints of the United
States since 1888 amounts, in round
numbers, to 81, ,29O, 900, 900.
The first agricultural school was
founded by Fellenberg, in Switzerland.
in 1906. Ireland alone has now over
two hundred agricultural schools.
Male gossip: HE is liberal to
fault" said Smith, speaking of we'll
known citizen OF Virginia City. It is
the only thing to which he is liberal Z
said Brown. "And then the fault must
be his own" remarked Jones.
The Romans, before the time Of the
younger Pliny, not only used glass i'm
stead OF gold and silver, for drinking
vessels, but they knew how to glaze
their windows with it, and they Fixed It
in the walls of their rooms, to render
their apartments more pleasant.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06
Ages Of Animals.

A bear rarely exceeds twenty years
q dog lives twenty years, wolf twenty,
q fox fourteen or sixteen lions are
long-lived-one, named Pompey, lived
to the age of seventy. The average Of
cats is fourteen years, squirrel and
hare seven or eight years, rabbits seven.
Elephants have been known to. live vi
the great age of four hundred years
When Alexander the Great had con
quered one Porus, king of India, he
took great elephant which had tougnt
very valiantly for the king, named him
Ajax, and dedicated him to the sun, aI14
let him go with this inscription : AZ
exander, the con of Jupiter, had dedi,
Gated Ajax TO the SUM-" This elephant
was found three hundred and fifty -tou4
years after. Pigs have been known 70.
live to the age of thirty years. the rhi
noceros TO twenty. A horse has beer
known to live to the age of sixty-twe
but averages twenty to twenty-nve.
Camels sometime live to the age OF ont
hundred. Stays are long-lived; sheep
seldom exceed the age of ten COWS live
about fifteen years. Cuvier consides4
it probable that whales sometimes live
to the age of one thousand. The col,
phin and porpoise attain the age
thirty. An eagle died at Vienna at TIE
age of one hundred and four yea
Ravens have frequently reached the -
of one hundred. Swans have bees
known to live three hundred years. '
Mallerton has the skeleton of a swan
that attained the age of two hundren
and ninety years. Pelicans are loHF
lived. A tortoise has been known
live to the age of one hundred
seven.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06
Bow BELLS.

For some time past this famous peal
of bells, one of the finest, if not the hn-
est, in the city of London, has been un-
dergoing examination in the public in
terest, and before long the familiar chimes
which captivated or consoled Whiting
ton, and having since charmed many
more from time immemorial, will ring
out as before. The church of st. Mary
le-Bow, which, If not originally Roman
temple, as generally believed, was one
of the earliest churches built by the
Norman conquerors, has been destroyed
was at one time garrisoned and besieged,
and was afterward the scene of an as
sassination. 1t was first mentioned as
Christian church in the reign of Will
liam the Conqueror. Stowe says it was
the first in the city built ON arches of
stone, and that it was. therefore, called
st. Mary de Arcubus, or the Bow, al
though he elsewhere says, but with less
apparent probability, that it took its
name from certain stone arches support
ing lantern on the top OF the tower.
By the way, the court of arches was
formerly held in this church, and de-
rived its name from that circumstance.
During the reign OF William Rufus,
the roof Of the church was blown off by
the wind, and four of the rafters were
driven into the ground with such vio-
lence that, although they were each
twenty-six feet long, little more than
four feet of length was visible, the
ground in the neighborhood being then
mere fen. About 100 years after this
event a tumult of serious nature 90
CURED in the city, which led to the as
sault upon the church before alluded to.
The ringleader was William Fitz Osbert,
surnamed Longbeard, who was almost
worshiped by the lower orders on 40
count of his exertions as a professed ad-
vocate of the poor against the oppres-
sions of the rich. An attempt 'being
made to seize him, he took refuge in
Bow steeple, together with varieus fol-
lowers, and being well provided with
ammunition and provisions, was able for
a long time to defy the authorities. In
order to drive him out the steeple was
fred. This had the desired effect the
rioters were made prisoners, and, after
hasty trial, were hanged at the Elms
in Smithheld, at that time the usual
place of execution. 1t appeared that
Fitz Osbert did not lose his reputation
among the people with his life, for it is
said that after his death vast numbers
of persons resorted to Smithheld, ex-
pecting that miracles would be perform
ed, and that they carried away as holy
relics pieces OF the earth on which his
blood had fallen.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06

Below the bar lodged Poker Dick and tried TO
look ez he
Was huntin' up authorities thet no one else
could see
And Brown got down behind the stove allowin
he " was cold,"
Till it upset snd down his legs the cinders
freely rolled,
And several gents called " Order - till in his
simple way
Poor Smith began with 90" "R"-"or" -
and he was dragged away.
Oh, little kids, my pretty kids, down on your
knees and pray
You've got your eddication in a peaceful sort
of way;
And bear in mind thar may be sharps ez sings
their spellin' square,
But likewise sings their bowie-knives without
thought or care
You wants to know the rest, my dears? That's
all In me you see
The only gent that lived to tell about thet
Spellin' Beel
He ceased and passed, that truthful man the
children went their way
With downcast heads and downcast hearts -
but not to sport or play
For when at eve the lamps were Lit, and sup
PEERLESS to bed
Each child was sent, with tasks undone and
lessons all unsaid,
No man might know the awful woe that
thrilled their youthful frames,
AS they dreamed of Angels Spelling Bee and
thought of Truthful James.
Bret Hd1te in November Sc1'tbaer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06

"Will you stay here a minute, Mon
seigneur. will be back presently"
In few minutes Antoine returned
with the blushing Sephronia.
Marry MS Monseigneur Let that
be my reward"
And they were married in front of all
those dreadful corpsesi
The corpses were finally pushed into
the sea by the galley slaves that had
been liberated for that purpose.
Such an appalling calamity never be-.
fell a civilized city in modern times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06
Edison al Home.

The following description of Ediso1
the great inventor, is from an article 81
Scrtbner's "Of the number OF pe
sons in the laboratory, remark pFinel'
pally the one you may have least thoueh
of selecting, from the informally Of ~.
appearance. The rest are but sklllfH
assistants, TO- whom he is able to con
NIT some experiments In their second
stages. 1t is a figure of perhaps z
feet nine in height, bending intend
above some detail of work. There Is
general appearance of youth about i.
but the face, knit into anxious wrinkleq.
seems old. The dark hair, beginning q
be touched with gray. falls over tn
forehead in q mop. The hands afs
stained with acid. and the clothing Is q
an ordinary, ready-made" order. Ii
Edison. He has the air Of a mechan
or more definitely, with his Peou'
pallor, of a night printer. His tealukf
are large; the brow we'll shaped, WIZ
out unusual Developments the oya
light gray I; the nose irregular, and fhf
mouth displaying teeth which are, also
not altogether regular. When he loo
mp his attention comes back slowly
If il had been a long way on. bqt
comes back fully and cordially, snd tA1
expression OF the face, now that u
be seen, is frank and prepossesain8.
cheerful smile chases away the gre
and somewhat weary look that bel
10 IL in It's moments OF rest. He se
no longer old. He has almost the A.
q big, careless schoOl-boy releese4
his tasks.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06

BY EUGENE FIELD.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06

The frequent mysterious burning OF
haystioks and faEmars' building has led
10 the discovery that they are set on
FIRE by wasps' nests, and that the nests
are ignited by spontaneous combustion.
This is produced by the chemical action
Of the wax in contact with the paper
like substance of which the nest is COM
posed, a comparatively small access Of
oxygen being sufficient to make it burst
forth. in blaze.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06
Tears.

Is it raining, little flower ?
Be glad Of RAIN
Too much rain would wither thee
Twill shine again.
The clouds are very black, tis true,
But Just behind them shines the blue
Art thou weary, tender heart
Be glad Of pain
In sorrow sweetest things will grow,
As flowers in rain.
God watches, and thou wilt have sun
When clouds their perfect work have done
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06

:, Oh, save me, Toni Maria cried
"l'll save myself p" the wretch replied;
And with stified, hasty moan,
BE hurried of for parts unknown.
The savage dog became more calm
He growled, but did the maid no harm.
And now, though Toms poor heart is sore,
Maria smiles on him no more.
st, Louis Journal
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06

One calm, delightful autumn night,
While tiny stars were twinkling bright,
With CHEEKY laugh and pleasant talk
Tom and AIariR took . walk,
But 10 Is down rural glade
q. With lingering steps. the couple strayed,
A monstrous dog, with shaggy hair.
Rushed out upon the loving pair
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06
REAL ROMANCE.

Which Tells n Tale or what Happened
UndeF the Summer
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, 1878-03-23

A little boy was convicted of
murder by his playfellows in a
mock trial in Madison, Ind, and
sentenced to be hanged. They
put moose around his neck.
threw the rope over a door, and
holsted him up. He was fast
choking toldeath when a woman
stopped the foolery; but he was
SO badly injured that he soon
died.
, 1878-03-23

After a lapse of seventy years
the herrings have returned en-
masse to the shores of Sweden,
and the fisheries are now in their
glory again, to the great relief
of the country. The last disap-
pearance was in 1903, and ac-
cording to tradition they should
be plentiful for sixty or eighty
years to come.
, 1878-03-23

A sympathetic but inquisitive
young man, who was visiting a
county prison, gently asked a
girl prisoner the cause of her
being in such a place. "Oh,"
said she, with contemptuous
toss OF her head, ~ stole a
watermill, end got off safe, but,
like q fool, | went back after the
stream that turned 1t, and was
arrested" The young man left.
, 1878-03-23
Prospectus o: The Ninth Volume, 1879
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, 1878-03-23
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, 1878-03-23

The man that dies and returns
to life again is a hoax. Once
dead stay dead: Mr.. Chandler
should brood over this.
, 1878-03-23

| 18th ultimo. Caldwell, armed with
two six shooters and o knife, this
morning went to Flick's house,
knocked at the door and was politely
invited inside by the doctor. He
entered and before he could make a
movement, Flick had revolver at
his head and ordered him to throw
up his hands. Flick disarmed him
and sent him bac. to Hayward.
OMAHA, March GOWN. Greene,
bound for the west, was robbed at
Iowa City on the Chicago and Rock
Island train last night of IS, $50 by
two men, one of whom picked his
pocket while lie was asleep in the
car. The act was witnessed by O
lady passenger. who awaked Greene
but they had escaped.
WASHINGTON. March 2O.---The
house committee ON coinage, weights
and measures, agreed to report
Marsh's bill Furnishing defacers oi
gold and silver coin.
Nolan, agent of the interior de
partmeni in Montana, writes Secre
tary Schurz that despite the reports
which have gone out in the interest
of the timber depredators, ,cord-wood
is now sold lower than ever before
in the territory. None but the rich
sawmill men have suffered by the
efforts of the government to stop the
depredators. Since the stoppage OF
these depredators by the dollar tax,
small dealers have kept up supplies
of wood from dry and fallen timber
which has heretofore rotted.
CHICAGO, March 20.--The Times
London special says the situation is
unchanged. There is still a dead
lock between Russia and England
on the basis OF congressional discus
sian. The impression is gaining
ground that the difference is insup-
erable, and many confidently COM
prehend war as the only outcome.
Public feeling at st. Petersburg is
represented as all one way, in favor
of hostilities against England. A
telegram from there says the gov
ernment seems to be yielding to the
popular clamor and that there is
reason to fear the worst. The Brit
ish government evidently fears that
the result of the present dead lock
may be armed collision. The feet
has been reinforced, and everything
is being prepared for action in case
of necessity. -
SAN Francisco, March 20. The
steamer Saint Paul arrived to-day
from Honolulu, bringing as passen-
gers John o. Hominis, governor of
Oahu; Princess Lililiaokolani, heir
apparent to the Hawaiian throne,
and VIM. F. Allen, collector gener
al of customs of Honolulu.
The chamber of commerce held a
meeting this meeting this afternoon
to consider the question of trade
dollar coinage. A resolution was
adopted that the chamber consider
ed it unwise and inexpedient to
cease the coinage of the trade dollar,
and directing the president of the
chamber to communicate the resolu-
ton to the California delegation in
congress and urge that they use
their influence to defeat the measure.
Attention was called to provision
in the new silver bill which makes
all silver certificates issued redeema-
BILE in New York except those issued
in San Francisco. A resolution was
adopted promising that this dis
elimination will work great injury
to the interests OF this coast by con-
fining our certificates to local circu-
lation, and asking the congressional
delegation to secure q modification
of that clause of the bill.
, 1878-03-23

The drunkest young man picked
up in Washington for a year had
letters from Twelve senators recon-
mending him as a sober and indus
trious youth.