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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-29
ALMOST AN IMpossuILITY

in England. The present trouble has renewed
the discussion OF the laws OF prmogeniture
and entail, and 1t is not unlikely that before
long another attempt may be made In Parlia-
ment to upset the statutes upon the subject,
and substitute others which will be the
means of dividing up this little island, now
owned, one might say, by a very small fedora
ton of landlords.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-29

Music boxes for Christmas presents a,
Grunewald Hall.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-29

Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic never fails in collie.
dysentery and all disorders Of like nature.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-29

Shadfnes. you must understand, sir
Are sold by all but the one-horse grocer. I
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-29

Steinway and Knabe pianos at Grunevald
Hall.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06
Rates of Advertising.

Legal notices at established rates.
Marriage and death notices, gratis.
All bills for yearly advertisements co
lected quarterly. Temporary advertise
ments must be paid for in advance.
jon work, Cash ON Delivery.
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 lot the fin.
est, in the city of London, has been I'M
dergoing examination in the public in
terest, aud 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
more than once by storm and fire. 1t
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 we'll provided with
ammunition and provisions, was able for
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 Smithfeld, 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
Items OF Interest.

High 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 first literary 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 projectiles
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, 900, 600, 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 a
fault" said Smith, speaking of we'll
known citizen OF Virginia City. :" 1t is
the only thing to which he is hberal,"
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 in
stead of gold and silver, for drinking
vessels, but they knew how to glaze
their windows with it, and they fixed 1t
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 /;
a dog lives twenty years, wolf twenty,
a 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.s
Elephants have been known to live to.
the great age of four hundred years.
When Alexander the Great had con
quered one Porus, king of India, be
took great elephant which had fought
very valiantly for the king, named him
Ajax, and dedicated him to the sun, and'
let him go with this inscription " Al
exander, the con of Jupiter, had dedi-
Gated Ajax to the sum-" This elephant
was found three hundred and fifty -four
years after. Pigs have been known TO.
live to the age of thirty years. the rhi-
noceros TO twenty. A horse has been
known to live to the age of sixty-twQs
but averages twenty to twenty-five.
Camels sometime live to the age OF one
hundred. Stays are long-lived; sheep
seldom exceed the age of ten COWS live
about fifteen years. Cuvier considers
ii probable that whales sometimes live
to the age of one thousand. The dol
phin and porpoise attain the age q
thirty. An eagle died at Vienna at tAa
age of one hundred and four yeese
Ravens have frequently reached the Sc
of one hundred. Swans have been
known to live three hundred years. mr..
Mallerton has the skeleton OF a swan
that attained the age of two hundred
and ninety years. Pelicans are long
lived. A tortoise has been known -
live to the age of one hundred ana
seven.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06
He Had His Suspicious.

An elderly man wearing blue Jeans,
spectacles and q puzzled expression.
stood on the corner of Fourth and Olive
Tuesday afternoon for nearly an hour,
gazing around abstractedly. Finally he
stopped a gentleman who was passing
and inquired:
--; Stranger, who am L or, rather,
whore am ?"
You are on Fourth street."
81 had my suspicious. This isn't the
right place. You see, I'm a stranger
in the city-nsver was in st. Louis be-
fore."
And he started of, saying he had
promised to meet a man on Fourteenth
and Olive-"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. "
And he trudged away.
About six O'Clock in the evening the
gentleman happened to run across his
specialized FRIEND again and inquired
whether or not he had found his new
acquaintance, whereupon the old fellow
raised his glasses slowly and remarked:
Stranger, have my suspicious. 1
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 it
is, he is a minister Of the gospel, at least
he told me 50, and he had Bible.
Good evidence, hey ?"
"Well, my friend, you'll never get
your money, You've been swindled by
a sharper.
"Think SOP 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 it out. Then
won't there be a muss, though? 1 have
my suspicious. ST. Louis Republican.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06
Wonderful AutOmatOns,

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
up, will dance hornpipe, have ceased
to be novelty. Automatic railroad
trains for children, worked by springs.
upon the principle of a watch's move
ments, have long been the delight of
Young America, and have traversed half
the drawingrooms in the country, often
to the amusement OF "children of q
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 as to mechanism
50 constructed as to resemble the figure
and initiate the actions of man. Thus,
we ara 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 it. The case of the famous
Regiomatanus also occurs to us in this
connection, who made q 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 q
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 a hundred years ago, an auto
maton fute-player was exhibited in
Paris, that played on the flute in the
same manner as q living performer.
Some ten years later, Vancausen, HIM
self musician, produced a fageolet-
player, which performed on the flageolet
with the left hand and beat a tamborine
with the right. This same Vancausen
also made wooden duck which dabbled
il 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 whole hour. without readiust-
ing. The same inventor constructed a
boy that would write and draw. Mael.
zel, who exhibited the famous chess
player, did not depend upon machinery.
1t was finally discovered that he had a
diminutive human being concealed in
side of his pretended automaton.
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 y till in his
simple way
Poor Smith began with go" "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;
Aud 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 HdIte in Nouenlber Scrtbncr.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06

"Will you stay here a minute, Mon
seigneur. l will be back presently"
In few minutes Antoine returned
with the blushing Sephronia.
" Marry us Monseigneur Let that
be my reward"
And they were married in front of all
those dreadful corpses9
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 at Home.

The following description of Edisop
the great inventor, is from an article ID
Scribner's "Of the number of per
sons in the laboratory, remark prinei-
pally the one you may have least thought
of selecting, from the informality of "a
appearance. The rest are but skillfnf
assistants, to. whom he is able to CON
NIT some experiments in their secondar
stages. It is a figure of perhaps hE7
feet nine in height, bending intently
above some detail of work. There is q
general appearance of youth about is
but the face, knit into anxious wrinkles,
seems old. The dark hair, beginning 20
be touched with gray. falls over the
forehead in a mop. The hands are
stained with acid. and the clothing Is Of
an ordinary, ready-made" order t ia
Edison. He has the air of a mechanic
or more definitely, with his pecull
pallor, OF night printer. His featufe
are large; the brow well. shaped, with
out unusual developmentsi the eyes
light gray ; the nose irregular, and the
mouth displaying teeth which are, also
not altogether regular. When he looks
up his attention comes back slowly a.
if il had been a long way of. But 4
comes back fully and cordially, end the
expression of the face, now that il car
be seen, is frank and prepossessing.
cheerful smile chases away the graVe
and somewhat weary look that bel3p
TO il in its moments of rest. He see
no longer old. He has almost the air
a big, careless schoOl.bOy released
his teskR
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-11-06

6 Oh, save me, Tom" Maria cried
"pll save myself the wretch replied;
And with stifed, hasty moan,
He 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

The frequent mysterious burning Of
haysticks and farmers building has led
to 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 ?
Pa Glad NJ rain

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 2
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

One calm, delightful autumn night,
While tiny stars were twinkling bright,
With CHEEKY laugh and pleasant talk
Tom and Maria took walk,
But 10 as down q 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
Under the Summer
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-10-24

The trial is fairly over with Mendes &
Schmidt's brewery /; everything is working
splendidly. Mr.. Halse, who put up the
same boiler in place for Casper Schmidt
over at Hamilton four years ago. set it for
operation here and, for a boiler Of 700
gallons capacity, it could not be better
placed. Its arrangement for utilizing
every iota Of heat can not be better ex-
planned than by saying that in three-quart-
ers Of an hour from the starting Of the fire
the contents Of the cauldron were bubbling
and boiling furiously, to the establishment
Of the witnesses. There is a cooler Of vast
dimensions in the southwest corner of the
brewery, tubs and watts in convenient ar
ray pipes to conduct the liquids bither
and thithcr, as the requirements need, and
with everything new it looks very inviting
to our beer drinkers.
Pure spring water is used, and now that
they are fairly started, it won't be long be-
fore his beer will come before our people for
inspection. Joe has not built that cool,
roomy chamber in the side of the noun
tain for nothing; the beer has to lie there
for a season that it may come forth fit. to
drink-that it may acquire that age which
all beer should have.
Although there are many improvements
yet to be made about this brewery, they
will be made rapidly. The grounds about
are being leveled down to a nice grade
from the street back; the old buildings.
that formerly numbered the ground, are
making quite q collection Of respectable
house on the hillside owned by Joe
Mendes,
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-10-24
Typo Correspondence.

lfBO, OcloDef ~, 1878.
EDITOR SENTINEL: Sir-Understanding
that Mr.. Deal will not visit this place,
send you the following extract, rerbatina,
from Mr.. Daggett's speech made to the
voters Of this town on the 18th instant.
You can use it or not. as You think proper.
put taking into consideration the fact that
Mr.. Deal challenged Mr.. Daggttt to can
vass the State with him, which challenge
Mr.. Daggett declined, the Democrats here
think the following language, used by Mr..
Daggett behind Mr.. Deals back, is out
rageous.
Mr.. Daggett, in speaking of the extracts
from the Enterprise of 1869, used by Mr..
Deal in some of his speeches, said "Mr.
Deal knew / did not write them he lied
when he attributed them to me he lies
every time he reads them upon the stump.
and | am prepared here, to his face. and
everywhere and anywhere to hurl the lie in
his throat !; yea, to cram it to the bottom of
his jaundiced and seditious liver, and
there let it foster and gangrene until the
sinking odor that exudes from his foul
lips will sicken every man within half a
mile Of him." / hardly think Mr.. Daggett
would have used this language had Mr..
Deal been with him. Respectfully,
TYBo DEMOCRAT.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-10-24

Mr.. crittenden Thornton returned from
San Francisco last evening.
Mr.. w. Woodbury., one Of Wards sub
stantial citizens, was in town yesterday.
Billy Wilson, Of the Willows Station, on
the Austin stage road, was in town yester-
day.
Mr.. Z. p. Richardson, a solid Roberts
| Creek ranger, with his wife, have been
visiting in town for q day or two.
Messrs. Kinkead and Hammond, Re-
publican stumpers, were at Robinson,
White Pine county, yesterday.
Col. A. G. Ellis, of Carson, arrived here
last evening, and will address our citizens
on Friday night at the Opera House.
Mr.. M. d. Foley, who has been %sojourn-
ing in San Francisco for several weeks, re-
turned home last evening.
Among the familiar faces that we saw on
our streets yesterday, was Norm. Wines,
from Ruby Valley.
Hon. Harry r.. Mighels, who addressed
q Republican meeting at the Opera House
last evening, left for Austin Immediately
thereafter.
G.. Collier Robbins and Judge Thomp-
son came up from Tenn Pahute yesterday
morning. They report business in a flour
ishing condition down in that locality.
Mr.. Sam Davis. who has occupied the
position of ~'local" on the Virginia Chroni-
Gle for a long time, dropped into our sane
tum last evening. He will remain with
us for O day or two.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-10-24

Old Prospect still carries a trace Of
0
Travel over the Eureka and Palisade
railroad is on the increase.
You don't hear much but ''politics"
talked oil the streets of Eureka, Of late.
The Sierra Nevada is a high-toned stock
nowadays. She levics a So assessment.
The new shaft of the Yellow Jacket is
down 1862 feet.
They are rapidly rebuilding the Lady
Bryan hosting works.
The artesian well at the Rescue mine is
being bored at q rapid rate.
The Hoosac hosting works are doing
good work in raising ore.
Candidates for Office were as thick as
flies in August, on Ruby Hill, yesterday.
We see by our exchanges that Johnny
Dormer. chief of the Esmeralda Herald,
has been quite sick.
A Mr.. Sullivan has agreed to run 200
feet in the Eureka tunnel for $685. per
foot.
Great fun yesterday afternoon on Main
street "a kettled dog rushing down the
street. and five hundred men on the side
walk and in the middle Of the street look
ing at him.
We stated, the other day, that there were
nine registered h had not complied with
the law. In that assertion we were mis-
taken. 1t was q mistake OF nine in the
numbering.
A candidate. who must have thought he
was talking to a Comstock crowd, pulled
out a ''half," and handing it to one of a
half dozen about him, said: Take this
and buy cigars for the crowd"
There was q man sitting for an hour in
Justice Cromer's Office, yesterday. trying
to think under which one of his aliases he
registered, while on d "bit Of a Spree"
last week.
Mr.. Henry Mau yesterday put a ''head"
on the fellow h has for several days been
palming of bogus specimens on the I'M
suspecting. The fellow lit out at the
earliest moment after getting away from
Henry.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-10-24
The Recent Shooting Anair at Dead.
wood.

The Deadwood Pioneer Of the 18th has
an account Of the tragedy recently enacted
there, of the shooting of Mr.. John Rogers
by the notorious Mrs. Elizabeth Lowell,
and who in return was killed by Rogers.
In commenting ON the sad affair, the
Pioneer says:
Sad as was the serious shooting on Sun
day, 1t is not without its lesson. 1t
teaches us the potent fact that people who
make threats should be regarded as
dangerous characters and put under
due restraint. The termagant who long
has been a terror is dead None
mourn her loss She died through her
own folly. She courted death, and the
avenging hand OF justice struck her down
while her own vile hands were reeking red
with blood-the blood Of an innocent,
peaceab'e citizens!
1t was on the sacred Sabbath when one
OF our most estimable citizens was at home
with his family. He was reposing peace
ably in his nicely nestled cottage on a mar
row knoll when he was brutally shot by a
bold, bad woman. She is dead and she
deserved the death which so speedily over
took her. As the poor victim lay upon his
couch writhing in .agonizing pain. with his
devoted wife bending over him and the
great stream OF tears coursing down her
cheeks, the hearts Of all present were moved
to sincere sorrow. The sentiment and the
sympathy of the community is with the
man who was so cruelty and unjustly
wounded.