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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22
John Chinaman in a Railroad Car.

The following laughable incident is
told by well-known government Of
fee who has numerous tales to
tell of his observations and experience.
"There were two seats in the car
turned so as to face each other. One
was occupied by lady and the other
by a Chinaman. Evidently the lady
did not wish the presence of
the Chinaman. She explained to him
that she wanted to take the cushions
and their frames and place them length
wise across from seat to seat. John
said all lighte, and got out in the
aisle while she proceeded to lie down
on the bed thus improvised, with her
head resting on her valise. She sup
posed that the Chinaman would take the
hint that the lady wanted to rest in the
space usually occupied by four persons.
But John proceeded at once to crawl
in, and stretched himself by her side,
with his head on little bundle of his
own. These Chinese are an imita-
tive race, and like to do as others do,
you know. The lady, as soon as she
discovered that she had bedfellow,
got up little wildly and started for
the next car, to the infinite amusement
of the passengers, who had been watch
ing the little scene with some interest.
John took no notice of the fun he had
created, but went to sleep with the
whole bed to himself. - Nec York
Gr0Dhic
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22

PROMPT PAYMENT.-A Birmingham
farmer while ordering coffin for his
wife, agreed to give the undertaken a
half bushel of walnnts inp part payment.
On the day of the funeral, when the
rooms were filed with friends who had
come to sympathize, and when every
thing was hushed and still, the farmer
went up stairs to fulfill his promise,
and just as he was about to descend the
stairs the bottom OF the measure fell
out, and with terrible rafting noise
the walnuts rolled down the uncarpeted
stairs, alarming the people below.
They rushed out to see the cause of the
disturbance. The poor farmer stood
holding the bottomless measure, not
knowing which way to turn. The
friends assisted in gathering up the
walnuts with as good grace as they
could master, more than ever con-
WINGED, no doubt, that there is time
for everything.-Hary (Ct.) Comanh
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22
Instinct in Birds,

No subject connected with the his.
tory of birds furnishes more interesting
material for study than that of instinct.
Young birds of different species show
that they have very different degrees
of instructive knowledge. Some are
able to take the entire care
Of themselves, and do not need q
mother to watch over them others, on
the contrary, are perfectly helpless,
and need teaching before they can do
anything for themselves, except breathe,
and swallow what is put into their
mouths. The young chicken, short
time after it leaves the egg, knows how
to take care of itself nearly as well as
does the year-old bird. It can run
after its mother, use its eyes, pick up
food, and answer the call of tho old hen
and it does all this without instruction.
How different it is in all these respects
from the young barn-swallow This
is blind, and unable to run, or even to
stand, knowing only enough to open its
mouth when it hears the old bird return
to the nest, and to swallow the food
placed in its open bill. Far from
knowing by instinct how to use its
wings, as the young chick does to use
its legs, it does not learn this until il
is well grown, and has had several les
sons in flying; and even then it flies
badly, and improves only after long
practice. After it has learned to fly, il
is still very helpless and baby.l like, and
very different from the active, bright
eyed, independent little chick of the
barn-yard-and, indeed, the young Of
all the Rasores, or scratching birds,
such as the hen, the quail, the par.
fridge, the pheasant and the turkey.
The scratching birds are not the only
ones that can take care of themselves
at ali early age. This is true of the run.
ming birds, such as the ostrich and
the same is the case with many of the
wading birds, such as the woodcock
and among the swimming birds, there
are several kinds that take full care OF
themselves soon after leaving the shell.
Far from standing in any need of in
struction, young ducks take to the
water by instinct, even when they have
been brought up by hen and they
know that they are perfectly safe upon
it, although the anxious hen tries in
every way to restrain them and call
them baek.
There are many ways in which some
of young birds show their really Won
derful instincts, but there is nothing
more curious in this respect than the
habits of the little chickens, which
most of us have opportunities of motto.
ing, if we choose to take the trouble.
These little creatures, almost as soon as
they are born, understand what their
mother clucks to them; they know
that they must hide when a hawk is
about; they often scratch the ground
for food before they see their mother
or any other chicken do SO they are
careful not to catch bees instead OF
flies and they show their early smart.
ness in many ways which are well
worth watching.
But, sometimes, brood of these
youngsters find something that puzzles
them, as when they meet with hard
shelled beetle, who looks to big too eat
and yet too small for playmate.
81. Nicholas.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22
The Wife That Victoria Does Not
Recognize.

You will be surprised to hear that
the marriage to take place between the
ex.King of Hanover aud the Princess
Thyra of Denmark could not be SOL
emnized without the consent Of Queen
Victoria, and that such consent has
lately been declared under the Great
Seal of Great Britain. The ex.King,
or more correctly he would have been
King of Hanover if Hanover had not
been wiped off the European slate by
Germany, is O member of the royal
family of Great Britain, and is Duke OF
Cumberland in the British peerage. To
the marriage of the humblest member
of the royal family the consent OF the
reigning monarch must be obtained, or
else such marriage is not legal, and the
issue of it illegitimate. Hence the
children of the present Duke of Cam
bridge, though their mother is as good
q woman as ever lived, are simply bas-
tards. The cruelty of this arrangement
has been brought before the public
mind lately by the announcement that
"Capt. Fitzgeorge, son of the Duke Of
Cambridge" had been appointed AS
sistant Private Secretary to the Secre-
tarv for War. The existence of such q
parsonage was unknown to the majority
of the present generation. He is fine
fellow, beloved by his father and
mother, who were married years ago
according is the rites of the Church,
but which marriage the Queen refused
to recognize, because her cousin
Georges wife, the woman beloved we'll
enough to select above all royal Prin-
cesses at his disposal, was an actress.
And so the Capt. Fitzgeorge of to day,
the idol of society, and deemed worthy
of occupying so important post in
the Government of the country, al
though the Church says he is the hon
est SON of an honest marriage, is, &C.
cording to law, only bastard. -Chi-
caqo Journal.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22
How Our Authors Die.

It has been said that Taylor's disease
was hardly understood by the physi-
clan, and it is not even now clear
whether it was dropsy or disease of the
kidneys. This leads to brief refer
ence to authors and diseases, and by
looking at the history of the former we
shall find that they generally enjoy
good health and live to the average Of
human life. Shakespeare died of q
fever, and his life terminated on his
sd birthday. Tradition says that the
disease was brought on by drinking
bout on the occasion of visit from
Ben Jonson. "They had q merrie
meeting and drank too hard, for
Shakespeare died of feavour there
contracted" Such at least is the rec
ord. Pope died of o general decline,
being then Sc. 1t is surprising how SO
weak frame endured even to this age,
for he speaks of life "as long dis
ease" Goldsmith died of fever, ag
gravated by q severe local ailment.
Johnson was old, and was sufferer
from dropsy. Addison was Incorporate
in his latter days, and this brought on
o dropsy. Milton, though not an old
muu, ulctt iihC oilO WIN oup WIN thO
trials and tolls of life. He is the first
author who is mentioned as smoking q
pipe, which he found solace during
the weary hours of blindness and old
age.
Gibbons disease was hernia of long
standing and aggravated character.
terminating in dropsy. Byron died of
fever. Shelley and Falconer were lost
at sea. Southey died of paralysis of
mind ana body, and so did Scott.
Wordsworth lived to see four score and
died on the Odd of April, the day and
month which marked both the birth and
death of Shakespeare. Irving died of
disease of the heart, having for the last
year of his life been great sufferer.
Keats, Kirk White and Pollock died of
consumption, and each early in life.
Coleridge had very strong constitu-
ton, which enabled him to enjoy the
effects of opium, and he lived to the APP
proach of old age. Tom Moore died
like Scott, in q state of mental and
bodily prostration. Chatterton and
Hugh Miller committed suicide. Ed
ward Everett died OF severe cold.
Bryant was Frustrated after making o
speech, and never recovered. Our
poets have generally attained long life,
as is illustrated by the instances of
Bryant, Charles Sprague and Halleck,
to whom will yet be added Longfellcw
and Whittier.-1roy Times.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22

BLANC MANGE.-Take one handful of
iceland moss wash it in warm water,
put it in new tin or porcelain dish,
with milk and very little water, suffi-
cient to cover the moss set it on the
back part of the stove, where it will
heat gradually, and stir often. until it
thickens, and then add enough milk to
make one quart. Let it heat and thick
en- again, stirring often when Of the
consistency of thick starch. strain
through wire sieve flavor with rose
extract, and pour in q mould. When
cold, eat with cream and sugar. Fla
vor the cream with rose, also.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22

PoMApE.-Pomade which will pre-
vent the hair from falling out, promote
its growth and make it soft and glossy !:
Two ounces of white wax, one half
ounce of palm oil, flask of the best
olive oil; dissolve thoroughly over q
slow fire then stir it until nearly cold
and add one ounce of castor oil and q
small quantity of perfume. 1t can be
colored red with solution Of alkanet,
or yellow by using curcuma.
CENTENNIAL MEAD.-Mix one quart
of boiling water, two and-a-quarter
pounds brown sugar, two ounces OF
tartaric acid, and one half pint OF mo-
lasses. When cool add one half ounce
of any favoring extract. Two fingers
of this syrup in glass OF ice water
makes q refreshing summer drink.
Serve each glass with one quarter tea
spoonful of bicarbonate OF soda.
BUTTER PoT PH.-Pour q quart OF
water into the kettle put in half q
pound of butter, little salt and pep
per make crust Of buttermilk, a lit
tie sour cream and saleratus enough to
sweeten it; roll out and cut into bis
emit; drop one by one into the boiling
gravy, cover and boil gently for half an
hour without removing the cover, when
it will be done.
WHITE CAKE.-Beat one cup OF butter
to cream then add three cups OF tine
white sugar (beaten with the hand il
best), one cup buttermilk, four cups
-four mix by degrees, lemon to taste,
three teaspoonfuls Of baking powder,
whites of ten eggs beaten to stiff froth
by another while You are mixing the
rest stir in last.
A Coon VINEGAR PE.--Take the
yolks of two eggs, half teacup sugar,
three tablespoons -four, three table.
spoons vinegar, stir all together, and
add enough boiling water 70 NIL one
pie tin. When baked, beat the whites
Of two eggs and two tablespoons OF
sugar together, and spread over this
Brown slightly.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22

Mr.. Gladstone has daughter who is
familiar with the place of every work
in his library, and the run OF its con-
tents. When he desires a reference
she fesches the boob; needed and points
to the passage required.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22

For TAKING Our ScoRcH.-n shirt
bosom, or any other article, has been
scorched in ironing, lay it where bright
sun will fall directly on it. 1t will take
it entirely out.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22

:My DEAR" said Mrs. Snodgrass,
shuddering, how do these awful men
succeed in entering dead peoples
vaults 2" With skeleton keys. l pre-
sumo" unfeelingly replied Mr.. S.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22

In 1912 Myles Carey, Hickey, and
others, murdered in Tipperary man
named Hanley, and were Indicted.
Hickey was hanged, but Carey escaped
to this country, where he remained till
January last, when he returned and
was arrested at Cahir. He is soon to
be brought to trial.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22

Human natur is cheerful study.
Dig out spring bi the roadside, fix it
MP with nice half Darrell to hold the
water, place a nu tin dipper bi the side
ov it, and then see how long it will be
before the weary traveller, after slake-
ing hiz thirst, will steal the dipper.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22

A railroad of three-feet- and -four-inch
gauge is to be built from Hermes to
Beaumont. This will be the first mar
row gauge line in France.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22

The Yicksburg (Miss.) Herald men
tons the arrival of ex-President Jetfer-
son Davis. We thought Q. S. Grant
waslthe only living ex.President.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22
Woman.

A woman, Notwithstanding she is the
best of listeners, knows her business,
and it is o woman's business to please.
1 don't say that it is not her business to
vote, but do say that the woman who
does not please is false note in the
harmonies of nature. She may not
have youth or beauty, or even manner,
but she must have something in her
voice or expression. or both, which it
makes you feel better disposed towards
your race to look at or listen to. She
knows that as well as we do; and her
first question after you have been talk
ing your soul into her consciousness is,
did I please? A woman never forgets
her sex. She would rather talk with o
man than an angel any day. Woman
ly women are very kindly critics, ex-
cept to themselves and now and then to
their own sex. The less there is of sex
about a woman, the more she is to be
dreaded. But take q real woman at her
best moment-well dressed enough to
be pleased with herself, not SO re-
splendent as to be show and sensa-
ton, with the varied outside influences
that set vibrating the harmonic notes
of her nature stirring in the air about
her--and what has social life to com
pare with one of those vital inter
changes Of thought and feeling with her
that makes an hour memorable? What
can equal her tact, her delicacy, her
subtlety of apprehension, her quick
ness to feel the changes of temperature,
as the warm and cool currents of
thought blow by turns? At one mo-
ment she is microscopically intellectu-
al, critical. scrupulous in judgment as
an analysts balance, and the next as
sympathetic as the open rose that sweet
ems the wind from whatever quarter it
finds its way to her bosom. 1t is in the
hospitable soul of o woman that man
forgets he is stranger, and so becomes
natural and truthful, at the same time
he is mesmerized by all those divine
differences that make her a mystery
and Observation-Disclosures Monthly.
FISHES OF ODD APPETITE Fisher
men have queer experiences, and odd
things are often found in the stomachs
of Goldfish. A person employed to col
lect information respecting the habits
of fish for Mr.. Buckiand, the English
naturalist, tells of cod sold to fish
wife which was found to have twenty
yards of herring netting in its stomach,
put there by some fisherman who liked
to see cod look plump and nice. One
of these fish was found with quart
glass bottle inside of him; another with
part of little baby; another with o
whole baby; while marbles, ladies'
thimbles, bits of glass, pieces of money
are common. The trawl nets take in
some strange things. One man caught
the body of his own brother in such a
net; another found mans head, which
when opened contained crab. " We
ketches," said an old fisherman, all
kinds of foreign mammals bones in the
trawl nets, and very big 'uns too
sometimes, and they tears the nets be-
fore we can get 'em up. They tell me
that these here big mammals was all
drowned in the time OF Old Noah and the
Flood. IN. Y. Tribune.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22

A WoMAN's DEvoTIoN.-We learn
that poor fellow named Moreau,
whose jaw, nose and two eyes were car
ried away by the splinter of shell at
the battle of Bapaume in January, 1871,
has just been able to leave the Val de
Grace and to return home to his native
village, not cured, but wonderfully
patched up. He has metallic mask,
provided with eyes, false nose and a
dental arrangement which allows him
to masticate. 1t appears that this I'M
fortunate gunner before joining the
army of the North was engaged to be
married. He naturally expected that
after what happened he would be re-
jected, but this was not the case, and
Moreau has returned home to his wife.
Pail Mall Gazette.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22

ICE CREAM CAKE.-The whites OF
three eggs, two cups Of sugar, one of
sweet milk, half cup butter, three cups
flour, two teaspoonfuls cream tartar,
one of soda. This makes two loaves.
Bake in four layers, use two for each
cake season to taste. Icing--The
whites of two eggs, twenty-four tea
spoonfuls sugar, one.fourth teaspoonful
cream tartar frost both layers. This
is cheap cake and very nice, good
enough to take to socials or eat at
home.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22

The Extrablatt, of Berlin, has this
talk about Beaconsfield: "When orders
were sent to procure rooms for him at
the Kaiserhoff Hotel, it was specially
directed that his sleeping chamber
should have two beds. This caused
much surprise, as it was known he was
a widower, and there had never been
an imputation on his private character.
The general impression was, that, be-
ing in delicate health, he might have
desired his faithful secretary, Mohtagu
CORY, to sleep in his room.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22


"Supper is now ready in the smok-
ing car" shouted the brakeman, and
q young man from Hartford who was
on his way to San Francisco, got up
and went forward to see what the
brakeman meant. He went into the
smoking car and found party of Ba-
varian emigrants cooking two kinds of
cheese and three denominations of sau-
sages on the stove. He came out very
pale and gave the brakeman half dol
lar to stand on the platform and burn
matches under mis- nose. "Was livery
bad?" an old gentleman asked him,
when he returned to the coach. SSH"
said the young man of Hartford, "youll
never smell anything like it until you
have been dead about six months"
A colored citizen was immured in the
elegant Jail at Columbus, Indiana, on
the first of last May. He was set at
liberty on the 23d OF November. He
went straight to the nearest fruit stand,
produced quarter and demanded the
biggest watermelon the shop could af-
ford. When he was told that all the
money in the United States couldn't
buy him watermelon, when he was
informed that the season had come and
gone, and the last watermelon of 1875
had doubled up its last man, the freed
man realized that so long as he lived,
he would have to look back upon this
terrible void in his life, this awful
emptiness of 1878, this year without O
watermelon, and he sat down and wept
and vainly endeavored to assuage his
grief on the bitter mockery of hard
backed squash.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-01-08
DObbins' Electric Soap.

Having obtained the agency Of this
celebrated soap for Tionessa and vi
cinity we append the opinion Of some
of our best people as to its merits:
II have tried Dobbins' Electric Soap,
made by I. L. Cragin Il Co., Phil'a,
Pa, and find that it is all the manu-
facturers claim it to be. 1t is the wo-
mems friend, because it saves one-half
the labor. Mrs. j. L. CRAIG"
"Dobbins' Electric Soap is the best
l have ever used. / can heartily rec
ommend it. 1t is charm in the wash
tub. Mrs. ID. S. KNOX"
81 take pleasure in recommending
Dobbins' Electric Soap. It is supe-
rior article, in fact the King of Soaps.
Mrs. w. r. RECK."
We desire all our friends and Gus
toners to give this soap one trial, SC
they may know just how good the best
soap in the U. S. is.
22-12 ROBINSON 81 BONNER,
Tionesta Pa. Sole Agents.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-01-08
NesO Advertisements.
sHERIFF's SALE.


pY VIRTUE of sundry writs of Vendi.
ID Elk. issued ont Of the Court of Conn
mon Pleas of Forest county and to me di-
rected, thCre viii be exposed to sale by
public vondue or Outcry, at the Court
House, in the borough of Iionesta, on
MONDAY, JANUARY 20, A. d. 1879,
at o'clock, p. M, the following describ-
ed real estate, tO-wit:
S. II. Evans, President in trust for the
Peoples Swings Bank VS.. r.. G. Scott,
No. l and Feb. Term, l679.--Allen ~
Thompson.-All that lot or parcel Of land
being part of the Seer farm, so called,
situated in Harmony township, Forest
county, Pennsylvania, bounded and de-
scrihed as follows, to-wit: On the north
by the @. q. Fa0undus farm, so called, on
the east by the Hiram Scott farm, so call
ed, ON the south by lands of MeCalmont,
and on the west by lands of j. d. Fagun-
dus and Perce and Guild. Containing
ninety 1907 acres of lard more or less and
being erected thereon two oil rigs COM
plete, two engines, one boiler, two oil
wells pumping oil, two oil tanks and 9TH
er rigs, wells. oil fixtures, &c.
Taken i'll IeeutiOn and to be sold as the
property OF II. G. Scott, at the suit of S.
III. Evans, President i'm Trust for the Peo-
pies Savings Bank.
Terms cash.
JUSTIS SHAWKEY, Sheriff.
Sherif's Office, Tionesta, Pa, Dec. 30, 1878.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-01-08
Newtown JOttings.

NEwTowN Nuts, Jan. 8, 1879.
Ed. REPUBLICAN = so
We are havinga good run of sleigh
ing, and the people are improving it.
Our worthy townsman. Mr.. w. A.
Dusenbury, and his estimable lady,
are absent spending the holidays in
York State, and it leaves our little
town quite lonely. We are anxious
ly looking their return.
Mr.. Matt. Elliott was favored dur
ing the week with a visit from his
Stewards Run friends, Mr.. John Nc
Intyre and wife, and Jas. Elliott.
Our school is in a fourishing con-
dition under The charge of Miss Villa
Painter.
Rev. Stone breaches once in two
weeks, so you see our spiritual wants
are supplied.
"Coony" Paul is lameuting the
financial crash that befell him few
years ago, but is looking hopefully
forward for better days, and Mr.. A.
Elliott is anticipating large sale Of
his renowned Remington Sewing Ma.
chiness -
We all like the manly and straight
forward course Of the REPUBLICAN
through the last campaign, and pre-
dict for it hearty support by all oul
citizens. Respectfully, II. G.