The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-12-24


foundations of house at Windsor which
must have been placed there prior to
the year 1896.
The Washington Post is of the opinion
that " the report of the operations of the
lite-saving service deserves more atten-
tion and more emphatic commendation
than it has yet received. 1t was only
after long importantly and numberless
appeals from humanitarians that the
government was induced to adopt sys-
ten of saving life and property along
our perilous coast. The service has
fully justified all that was ever claimed
in its behalf, and is richly deserving of
most hearty and liberal support. There
is no duty requiring a rarer combina-
tion oil skill and courage than that of
the heroic men who occupy the life
saving stations. AS the telegraphic re-
ports of the oft-recurring marine dis
asters have appeared in the newspapers,.
they have told how these men have
gone to the rescue of sinking ships and
stranded crews; have told the story in
plain and business-like terms, and few
have thought of the courage manifested
or the vast good accomplished. Yet
there were 2,O49 lives and 81, ,445, ,O86
worth of property saved by this institu-
ton during the last fiscal year."
The reward offered by the American
humane association for cattle car that
will enable railway companies to trans
port stock without cruelty, should
stimulate inventors. The reward for an
invention that will meet all the require
ments is $4,000. AS cattle are now
transported, one great cause of com
plaint is lack of water. Under existing
arrangements the animals suffer, and to
a degree that sometimes lessons their
value. The huddling of numbers to-
gether is an evil, rs in addition to the
cramped quarters, which do rot permit
fee movement, unruly or vicious ami
mails sometimes wound and even kill
| others. The .jolting of the cars also
causes sores, which impair the value of
the cattle. 1t is not likely that the re-
ward offered will accomplish what the
keenest- witted railway men and stock
importers have failed to discover, but it
may possibly be the means of suggesting
methods that will at least mitigate the
evils complained of. The man who can
| devise means by which cattle can be
transported great distances without
suffering as they do now, or without the
loss now experienced, can make hand
some fortune. But to do that he must
not require much more room than is
occupied by cattle car, nor must he in
crease the weight very much.
The protection of ships bottoms from
corrosion has proved a difficult prob
! lem to owners; but the lortuitOus dis
covery that the juice of plants of the
order e7tphOrbtGceOg, common and luXuri-
,Enas
| from TNst, is likely to be usefully aU-
piled to the preservation of those por-
| tions of ships below the water line, not
only from corrOsion but from fouling.
1t seems that during the survey of Natal.
some two or three years ago, one of the
officers found that when certain plants
| of the order named were cut during the
clearing, the knives were firmly coated
with the abundant gum which exuded
| from them, and that the knives thus
coated did not rust. In consequence,
experiments with the gum in question
were afterwards made by Sir Andrew
| Clarke, who some two years ago had a
sheet of iron coated with it immersed
in the waters of the Chatham dockyard,
where everything becomes rapidly foul.
| On being taken out it was found to be
quite clean. The gum is intensely bitter
and poisonous, which prevents the ad-
hesion of marine animals to any sub
stance with which it may be covered,
and as the plants supplying it are found
in abundance on the sea side in low
ATTITUDES, even if this agent should prove
only moderately efficacious it may prove
of great service to the shipping interest.
Some one has figured up that when a
man saws his wife is worth her weight