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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07
TIMELY TOPICS.

1t may be Interesting for some people
to know thfst it oUsiS twenty-five dollars
TO take n dog across the Atlantic, and
that the animal is taken at the owners
risk, unless special contract to the con-
trary is made with the steamship COM
pany. One company will not take them
on any terms, neither will it take corpses.
Goldie, the naturalist, has found in New
Guinea q tribe who suggested to him the
origin of the rumOrs always current of a
race of tailed men in some corner of the
globe. These natives wear artificial tails.
They are entirely nude, except for the
caudal ornament, which is a plat of
grass fastened around their bodies by a
fine string, and depending behind to
about half way down their legs.
New Orleans is deterermined that its
filth shall not invite yellow fever to its
midst this summer A sanitary associa-
ton of citizens is backing up the board
Of health, and by their Joint efforts the
canals and cutters are being flushed,
garbage removed, and the cemeteries,
into which the city poor have been
crowded until the neighbors could hardly
endure the stencil, covered two feet deep
under river sand. Quarantine regula-
tiOns will also be more strictly enforced
than ever before.
A correspondent at Harrodsburg, the
Oldest town in Kentucky-the first cabin
was built there in 1774, by Capt. James
Harrod, after whom it was named-has
been inquiring into the murderous record
of the immediate vicinity during the last
seventeen years, and has found that
forty-tlree homicides have been COM
mitted there. and only two persons sent
to prison for their crimes. Some of the
tragedies have been barbarous in the ex-
treme. Mrs. Tilford, widow with
seven children, having inherited her hus-
bands estate, married again, one Scott, a
younger person than herself He deliber-
ately provided himself with q small
arsenal, and set about exterminating his
wife's offspring. He killed three out
right, and wounded others. The motive
was plainly to enjoy the property alone
with his wife; but the jury found him
insane. 1t was held that an act so dia-
bolical could not be done by man in
sound mind. Scott afterward went to
Texas and married again. One Daven-
port, a deputy sheriff, had writ for the
arrest of Isaiah Gabbard, who armed
himself, and with friend sailed out in
quest of the sheriff, and shot him and
his brother dead. The murderers were
acquitted. Later, certain Henry Noel,
having heard that Gabbard had threat
ened his life, hunted him down, and find
ing him unarmed, put two bullets through
his heart. Noel was not even tried
Timoleon Bosley was shot dead while
coming out of church, by James Lawson,
who had an old grudge against him. No
punishment followed any of these muir
ders. In several instances, where men
Of no social position exercised the privi-
lege of the commonwealth by shooting
somebody, the shooters were hanged by
mObs.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07
The First Piano.

The name first given the new instru-
ment was the hammer-harpsichord !;
next, its power of giving both loud and
a soft note procured it the name of forte
piano.. e., loud-soft; this next changed
to piano-forte. In 1862 Mozart PLAYED
upon the piano, at the age of six; and
his letters in l777 record his great delight
in the pianos of Stein, a maker of that
day. In 1867 the piano seems to have
been introduced to the public in England,
for a play-bill of "The Beggars' Opera -
at the Covent Garden Theatre, May l6,
announced that "at the end of Act /.
Miss Brickler will sing a favorite song
from Judith" accompanied by Mr..
Dibdin on a new instrument called the
piano-fOrte." "The use of this kind of
instrument,n said Thalberg. "led TO its
peculiar capabilities being thoroughly
studied and appreciated, and the com
poser repaid their obligation to the in
strument by writing for it many of the
finest productions of music, and by prac-
ticing the execution of these productions
to such an extent as to be able to bring
them before the public with the greatest
possible ectdt." Mozart, liuydn, Handel
and Beethoven wrote especially for il
and yet, although the note of the virginia..
net-harpsichOrd was called bv DR.
Bmney " a scratch with sound at tn,
end of it, the early piano was not much
better. The one on which Gluck com.
posed his ATmida," which was prob.
ably as good as any of the great com.
pOsers of the last century ever saw, was
made in l772. 1t was exhibited as q
suggestive curiosity in the London Ex.
position of 1862, and was thus described
1t was four feet and half in lengtl
and two feet in width, with n small
square sounding-board at the end; Tia,
wires were little more than threads, anC
the hammers consistedaf a few piles o
leather over the head oYa horizontal iacl
working on a bridge"
In his early life an important part o
John Jacob AstOr's business was the i'm
| pOrtation of London pianos To New
! York. In 1900, %Thomas Jefferson, II
writing to his daughter Martha, men
toned that Philadelphian had invente,
" one of the prettiest improvements il
the forte-pianos have ever seen - an,
he bought one for his Monticello house
1t was an upright, and Mr.. Jefferson
said that "he contrives to give hi
strings the same length as i'm the gran,
| forte-piano, and fixes his three unison
of the same screw, which screw is in tn
direction of the strings, and therefor
never yields; it scarcely get out of tun
at all, and then for the most part In
three unisOns are tuned at once. "-Jttliu
Yftc01, IN HdTper'S Magazine.
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The "Tlm FInneganv Mines.

4 r-West study in nomenclature is
given by the SdH Lake Tribune. A
stranger asks n miner why series of
nineteen claims have the name of Tim
Finnegan." The reply, in the vernacu-
lar, explains the phenomenon: "Well.
stranger, it was at Prescott, an me an
Tuscan Jake was playing a game of cur
sock, jes' for the drinks, you know, when
in comes one of them crazy, bloodthirsty
bloodhounds that turns loose in mining
camps sometimes, ripped out his six
shooter and shot the barkeeper dead ;
then, turning on me an Tuscan Jake,
said: Now, either of you move an inch
an I'll blow the top of your heads off =
We knowd he'd do it. There was the
barkeeper dead, an thar was the pistol
pointed right at us. 1t was fearful; we
darsn't take a full breath. Jake's feel
in's worked on him so powerfully that
he couldn't keep still; he hitched round
little. Quick as lightning a bullet
laid him at my feet. The sweat stood
on my face like cobblestones. l even
wished he would shoot me an have it
over with. Jes' then a pistol aashed
behind the wild beast, an he fell dead
in his boots. Tim Finnegan had got too
much whisky early in the evenin', an
stretched out on some barrels in the
corner an went to sleep. The shots that
killed the barkeeper an Jake walked
him; an bein' sobered by his nap, he.
unbekmownst TO me an the murderer
easily an gradually drew his pistol an
sent the bloodhound to kingdom come.
/ Rugged an kissed Tim, an I've named
the claims after him; an if die before
my Victims bachelor-I want her
to be named Mrs. Tim Finnegan."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07
Words Of Wisdom.

Surely half the world must be blind
they can see nothing unless it glitters.
He who gives up the smallest part of
a secret has the rest no longer in his
power.
1t is not what you have in your chest,
but what you have in your heart, that
makes you rich,
The word knowledge, strictly en-
ployed, implies three things, viz, truth,
proof and conviction.
There is nothing lower than hypocrisy.
To profess friendship and act enmity is
a sure proof of total depTavity.
The best kind of revenge is that which
is taken by him who is so generous that
he refuses to take any revenge at all.
1t may serve as a comfort TO us in all
our calamities and Affections that he
that loses anything and gets wisdom by
il is a gamer by the loss,
1t is when our budding hopes are
nipped beyond recovery by some rough
wind that we are the most disposed To
picture TO ourselves what flowers they
might have borne If they had hourished.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07
The Old, Old story.
The pastors little daughter

The pastors ittle daughter
Sits smiling in the sun,
Beside her on the old stone bench
The story-book just done,
And lurking in her wine-brown eyes
A story just begun,
For yonder, pruning the apple trees,
Behold the farmers son.
Slowly adown the pathway
The pastor comes and goes,
And settles with his long, lean hand
The glasses on his nose.
Bore ever dry, brown branch before
50 beautiful rosef
Al, he thinks his blossom only bud,
Though he watches it as it blows.
1s Il the story of Moses
In his rush-wnpped cradle found,
Or Joseph and his brethren :
He thinks rs he glances round.
You have finished your volume, Amy,
Is Il something scriptural and sound p
And his little daughter bushes and starts
And her book falls to the ground.
Go on with your walk, good pastor,
You do not yourself deceive;
Il has been a scriptural story
Since Adam first kissed Eve.
And never blush, little lassie,
The tale was written above,
No other so speaks Of Heaven
AS the old, old story OF love.
London Reader.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t is easy enough to make shol OK
There are more short young men than
tall ones.
To make your collar last-Make your
shirts first.
The fuschia is sometimes called the
lady's eardrop.
A rod, line, and poor worm at each
end, typify patience.
Wood is often found at depth of forty
feet at Oscaloosa, Ind.
1t is said about 1000 settlers per day
boom into Nebraska"
The army Bill-William Tecumseh
Sherman.-BttfdIo Express.
Eight hundred thousand base balls are
made in this country each year.
Two chunks of lead, weighing half a
ton, have been mined at Washington.
Mo.
Henry Clay's voice was called band
OF music; Websters n trumpet; Chan
ning's harp.
New Haven turns out 1900, 900 corsets
annually, half of the country's supply
coming from there.
According to the French newspapers
there is general distress in the provincial
manufacturing districts.
What is the difference between an old
dame at the spinning wheel and young
urchin chewing tobaccop One sits and
spins and the other spits and sins.
The lockwood forests Of the Caucasus,
Armenia, and the shores of the Caspian
Sea are rapidly disappearing under the
constantly increasing demand for this
valuable wood.
The construction of underground tele-
graph wires is going on in Germany, and
that country will soon be intersected
with a complete network of this invisi-
BILE and inaccessible means of commune
cation, which no thunder storm can de-
stroy and no rowing enemy can readily
cut.
FOR WRITER'S TO THE PRESS.
Write upon pages OF single size,
Cross all your ts and neatly dot your is.
On one side only Let your lines be seem
Both sides filed up announce verdant green.
Correct-yes, correct all that you write,
And let your ink be black, your paper white;
For spongy ioolscap of II muddy blue
Betrays a mind of the same dismal hue.
Punctuate carefully; for on this score
Nothing proclaims the pacticed writer more.
The gallant who, when a young lady
stepped on his foot while dancing and
asked pardon, said, Don't mention it;
a dainty little foot like that wouldn't
hurt a daisy" not only told the truth,
but doubtless felt more comfortable than
the boor who, when his foot was stepped
on, roared out, "That's right; climb all
over ME with your great, clumsy hoofs."
Boston Transcript
The cattle plague is becoming more
and more formidable in Bohemia. Sew
eral hundred places have been attacked
by the disease. They are surrounded by
a military Gordon, and as far as possible
prevented from carrying on intercourse
beyond its boundaries. The lost to the
inhabitants of the district is very con-
siderable, and is not totally represented
by that of the cattle slaughtered. Agi-
culture is in many places at standstill,
the cattle which serve as beasts Of burden
being locked up wherever the disease ap-
pears.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07

me-" On the back of the quaint old
locket were the initials, "V. ID. W and
below them, I'M. E." There had been
picture in it once, but there was left
only the marks of the knife with which
it had been pried out. 1t was growing
late, and calling a hack, Frank jumped
in and told the driver to take him to the
new courthouse. Arrived there, he told
the man to wait, passed through the
building and out the other door, walked
briskly to Simpsons, hesitated moment,
bolted in the door, and in a moment
stood in box at the counter, where q
poor woman was pawning some clothing
for food. Frank shuddered, drew out the
locket and laid il down.
A dark man took it up, looked at it,
turned it over, scrutinized the initials,
tested the gold on corner, and said,
laconically:
"How muchP"
"Ten dollars"
The man turned away, made out the
ticket, handed Frank the money and his
duplicate ticket, and turned TO the next
conner.
With a sigh Mt the atmosphere of
misery hanging around the place, from
the dark corners of which the hollow
faces of the specters of want and starva-
ton seemed leering at him, Frank passed
quickly out the door, regained his cab,
said to the driver, "Brunswick-quickr r
and rolled away.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07

man, whom he had never seen before in
his life, blonde, matronly little woman
=" that's Marie" he thought-and a
charming girl, in white, with great black
eyes, and mass Of soft, black hair rolled
upon the small, clean-cut head.
For moment the situation was em-
barrassing. Then Mr.. Frnncklyn step
ped forward, and Frank said;
"There seems TO be some mistake; /
must have anamesal1e somewhere
"Oh, no; we are cousins TO your late
Aunt Miranda, who has just made you
her legatee, and as you have come home
at last we mean, now that you are here, to
make you accept n cousins place in our
house and our friendship" said Mr.
Frsncklyn.
1t is enough to say that the dinner was
perfect, the hostess charming, the host
ajolly good fellow and Bessie so betwitch-
ing that Frank was in love head and
ears before the dinner was finished.
The letter from "my lawyers was at
the hotel when Frank returned, covered
with the postmarks of half the "New
Brunswicks in the country, among
which it had travelled while he was
waiting for it at the Hotel Brunswick.
The last murmur that he made as he
dropped off to sleep was, Found an
uncle two cousins and-and-" and he
was dreaming of a black-eyed girl in
white in another minute.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07

Prof. Benjamin Pierce, of Harvard Col
lege, says the whole number of comets
which are capable of being seen from the
Iarth, and which are contained in our
nn's sphere, may be fairly estimated at
eyer 5000, 100000. Considering the hard
ess OF the times we should say that the
BINS sphere was pretty well fixed, as re-
ards comets.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07

When Neptune is in an affectionate
ood he throws an arm Of the sea around
waist of water and hugs the shore
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III

Mr.. Van Cleef,n said the man-ser-
want, opening the door of the drawing
room Of No. % West 44th street, and
Frank was ushered into the cool rooms
and the presence Of a tall, hne-looking
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-07
Rates of Advertising.

Legal notices at established rates.
Marriage and death notices, gratis.
All bills for yearly advertisements col.
lected quarterly. Temporary advertise
ments must be paid for in advance.
Job work, Cash on Delivery.
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TERMS, s1.m A YEAR.

No Subscriptions received for a shorter
Period than three months.
correspondence solicited from all parts
81 the country. No notice will be taken Of
anonymous communications.
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Mamma" cried Bessie the next day
when, her confession made, she had re-
deemed her precious locket and was ex-
amining it, "Mamma, this is not my
locket. This is the other one. This is
poor grandma's love token to her faith
less lover come back to her grandchild;
see, see," she ratified on in wild excite
ment. Mrs. Prayne looked sharply, saw
the reversed initials, and was as excited
in a moment as Bessie, Cousin Tom was
dispatched to the pawnbroker's for in
rmation. He learned but little more
than Frank, and so the Rystery was
talked of and speculated upon for the
next week. Grandma's love story was
told over and over. Briefly it was this /.
Mary Emerson and Van Dyke Vedder
We're lovers years before. They exchanged
lockets made for them. Vedder went
sailing away out into the west and mar
ried, leaving grandma, then young and
pretty, to soon console herself with am
other lover and husband. She ALWAYS
kept the locket1and warm spot in her
heart, as every woman does for the man
whom she once loved. But she never
saw or heard of him again in life. Bessie
received her blessing, her little fortune
and the precious locket from grandma on
| her death-bed. And now, after fifty
years and without a clew, the lOckets
were changed by some mysterious agency.
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was dreaming of black-eyed girl in
white in another minute.
w.
The phlegmatic clerk at the pawn
brokers' turned over two lockets appar-
emily just alike and examined them
curiously, then put them back in their
wrappers and was about to put them
away when O fellow-clerk approached
and also looked at them. They changed
them about little and then placed them
in the wrappers and in the safe. The
next day both lockets were redeemed.
They thought it curious at the moment,
but odd things are of daily occurrence in
the Office of a pawnbroker, the theater of
the daily tragedy of woe and want, pow
eerty, hunger and dirt /.
Frank looked at the locket when he
reached his hotel; it was the same.
There was the little bright spot where
the paWnbroker's acid had touched the
corner of the case, but the rest was the
same exactly. No-he rubbed his eyes
whereas when he took the locket to
the pawnbroker the initials on the case
had read:
V.D.V.
M. f. 49,
OF this he was perfectly sure; yet, here
now. they were plainly reversed, and
read:
Me.
V. DIV.
He puzzled over it for some time.
Then lie went down in cab and de-
mapded of the pawnbroker an explana-
ton The young man told him of the
two lockets, exactly alike, left within an
hour of each other on the preceding day,
each pledged for $40, each redeemed in
the morning, and explanations how they
must have been changed. The young
man hoped that there was no harm done
remembered that the other locket was
left by "young woman;" really didn't
remember what she looked like, and then
went back to his work Frank returned
home puzzled. 1t really didn't matter;
it was only a chance purchase of unique
trife in jewelry; he hadn't the remotest
idea whose the initials We're, but he was
superstitious about it, and it troubled
him. That the locket had a double in
New York there could be no doubt, and
so Frank resolved not to tell the story,
but to wear the locket on his watch
chain, in the hope that it would some
time attract the attention of some one
who could solve the mystery.
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Two months later Bessie and Frank
met again at the Franklyns' pretty house
at Newport. They had both forgotten
the lockets, and soon forgot the world in
each other.
One summer evening Bessie promised
to be his wife, and as two little white
arms went up around his neck, Frank
was guilty of most unconventional pro-
oeeding. He actually was surprised out
of taking immediate advantage of his
newly-acquired privileges. Among the
lace about Bessie's neck rested the other
locket. The love tokens were love
tokens still.
Bessie told her grandmother's little
romance, and the initials were explained
to Frank, who exclaimed, almost with
awe: Ivan Dyke Vedder, the faithless
lover of your grandmother, Mary Emer-
son. was my grandfather"
In a handsome house in Fifth avenue
there hangs upon the parlor wall velvet
case. In it are two lOckets, each as like
the other as can well be imagined-a
cameo surrounded by an enameled snake
with ruby eyes. Over them hang tire,
golden balls.-Nst0 York Star.
New-York tribune., 1879-09-15

For Young Ladies-Countrv.
DRIAN INSTITUTE. lselin, y. a.. SEMI
~ nm. for vnuuc lariss fceen- -cgfcuDcr 10 r4. ~oll
for circulars l. II. MATTHEWS ana NJ y. hA'hLhh lIiL
Threw Ladies' Seminary, Carmel. \. l.-for
~ oilculaIs an IecLeAeeA send Ia "eo l. S--'A - ~
New-York tribune., 1879-09-15
Jnstructlon.
For Both Sexes-Country.

MApPdAhMEEo pa Eo{} GLEMENIs Il 4 T. SCHOOL HOO L0rx
A dGH f0yfES bAPPsEs PsaS AE9 s
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MAPLEWOOD INSTITUTE. Concordvile.
WI Penn 81 miles Philadelphia IL the best
rrsnsed school buaIng the Baltimore Central r. only
Meore. creek and Latin arc Taught with thOrOushOoss
The Mathematics the direction Of professor for
French and Spanish ar taught bya thorough lin
Il and the Esss @ are taught by
Tie Professor 81 ennsnshp had much experience
Drawing aud raug are taught by -kufi artist OF e.
The Music under the direction Of one Of the
p-hed instructors o. hi, pi0iossin
Little boys admitted vel cared io anc made to feel
The Institution chartered y Legislature Pennsyiva
We love onf p,oieson. mean business and iniuse
the comforts hone bcauifai and health, oca
ton should make yi-it to tno institution.
J. sHoRrLIDGE. A. NJ. Principal
NEW-PALTZ Academy will reopen Sept. 8,
educatio9 terms moderate FOR circulars apply Dr. II. 81
BAUscH ERrNeN.P PatE, y i.
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home comforts and molera'e CHARGES
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CRWARD INSTITUTE.-A Female Seminary
y uigh school Two Boarding schools under cns
management; $500 music aud modern languages et
AddIvs- Rev. Henry a. HARLOW, A. ~, Principal
Florida, Orlngr County, =. J.
COUIH JERSEY INSTITUTE, Bridgcton,
> for both College prer1atori Iusttute c' IS
aud scientific bultII Hfic@ mNdolu inpOyn
ments climate mild very heaty nsyucii9n hotoug be-
sept. send for catalogue. u. Il ttA- =, rfln
GWARTHMORE COLLEGE, near Philadel-
- piia- Under ~ Friends Bot admit ~, aui
receive the same degrees College C0dr-es class cal
schools. For particulars address tDMA. II. aAulLiA
President seartninore. Delaware TO. foni-
UTICA, y. Y.-Mrs. Piatfs School.-The
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WORCESTER ACADEMY,
w Warcester. Mass.
of Stuiy; Classical. se~ntic. Aca lernH Music
six regular t.achersi eNn'n,es nojera -
advantages Grstclass lear begins september r cata
logGes address y. EAvsNWORIIl, n ST. Principal
Miscellaneous
4 PPARATUS and FURNITURE Of oil kinds
~ schools academies colleges and halls send for caia
Ogue. B.KEit PRATT q Co, - and - Gtsndst y Y.
CLASS for HARVARD, COLUMBIA, &c
~ gentleman ~ large and successful eNperence desires
from who join such class nov forninR
600 admission without condition promised U All
willing 10 do rLcst wo others not be retained In ths
class Address RUGAE. TriOune OGice.
New-York tribune., 1879-09-15
o5ralee ano 1enoers.
foei ano 3onno.

\ OST Bank Book No. 1,767, issued by tho
Alderman savings Bank IA the City " NewNork 10 JOHN
SCuEUFNMANS, is missing the dnaor or holder of tle
book h requested 10 deliver u q the BsAk. II not restored
he tt DAY ~ Ocipnor lole appActI0u VI" DO Aao
~ lAu nAuk fOt new OOOk.