The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-02-04
TIMELY TOPICS.

III longevity, as a national character
istic, be fair test of the healthiness of
country or the tough vitality of its
people, then Greece may claim to beat
the. civilized world on the score of its
sanitary perfection. OF all countries in
Europe it seems to possess the greatest
number of what may be called very old
people-that is to say, of people from
| ninety years OF age and upward; out
of population of LAB, ,S94, it has of
these veterans no fewer than 1893.
Emigration at the port of New York
for 1879 was larger than for any pre-
viOus year since 1872. Returns of the
commissioners of emigration show that
for the year ending December 81, 1879.
there were landed, at Castle Garden. a
total of 1859 emigrants, of whom
l35,O70 were aliens. In 1878 the total
arrivals were 12I, ,369, of whom 75.347
were aliens. The principal nationali-
ties of the emigrants who arrived last
year were: Germany, 33, ,564; Ireland,
%, ,624; England, 2l,555; Sweden, 10
S94; Italy, 1920; Scotland, 6,O87; Nor
way. 4,993; Switzerland, 1858; Russia,
3,l03; France, 1881.
A sportsman explains why he re-
ceives the many sea-serpent stories with
a grain of allowance. He was hunting
on the shores of lake in the wilds' Of
Michigan, when he saw what he be-
lieved to be a monster snake, fifty or
sixty feet in length, and ten or twelve
inches in diameter, with humps on its
back two feet in length. At first its course
was almost directly toward his place of
concealment. When he was about to
run for his life, the sc SERPENT" then a
few rods away, changed its course, and
resolved itself at once into colony of
otter swimming in single file. His in
ference is that sea animals may some
times travel in the same manner. and
give sailors the opportunity of drawing
the long bow.
The suit of Budd Doble US. the South
ern Ohio Fair association, of Dayton,
Ohio, has just been tried before the
United States district court for that dis
trlct. The suit was brought to recover
50, $50 from the association on a con-
tract, in compliance with which that
amount was to have been paid for an
exhibition of speed by Goldsmith Maid
on the track of the association, Sep
tember 80, 1875. The association
claimed that it was not an exhibition
Of speed, the time being 1924, 2:24,
2 :4U9. The plaintiff made a plea for
Judgment for gstGRtatnl 1leTuiS. that is,
for so large proportion of the con-
tract price as the performance was
worth, if not the whole amount. The
judge decided, as point of law, that no
such partition could be made in a specia,
contract, and that the claim must stand
or fall in its entirety. A great deal of
expert testimony was taken as to the
merit OF the performance, but the Jury
failed to agree.
The annual reports of the English and
Scotch cooperative stores ar now being
published. The profits divided among
the members of the societies range from
one shilling three pence to two shillings
eight pence on the pound sterling of pur-
chases made during the year, and seem
to average about two shillings, or ten
per cent. Stating the amount in dol.
lars, member of one of these co. opera
tive stores, about which Mr.. Holyoake
gave so much interesting information
! during his late visit to this country, re-
ceives at the end of the year 81 in the
way of profit for every $40 worth of
goods he las bought. This is clear gain
to him. for he gets his goods at the reg
ular market prices, and is besides as
sured that what he buys is of good
quality and free from adulteration. The
Manchester Cooperative Wholesale So
ciety, from which the cooperative
stores buy their goods, is federative
institution composed OF 584 societies
comprising 305, l6l members. 1t has a
capital of $7O5, 900 on which it pays five
per cent. interest, and its profits are di-
vided among the branch societies in pro-
portion to their purchases. just as the
societies divide their profits among the