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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-28


there has been and is much suffering. In Upper
Silesa-the southeastern corner Of the king OF
Prussia's domains-the crops were poor the
mining business dull throughout the summer and,
since the people there are very improvident,
thousands would be now starving but for outside
aid. In many parts Of Germany the poor can
afford only fuel enough for cooking not enough
for warmth, and in Berlin, as am told, great
number of the families OF laborers subsst entirely
on potatoes, and American corn meal and lard
The German people are quick sympathizers, and
are both willing and able to supply the most
pressing necessities of their neighbors and kins-
folk; but in Italy the people generally poor
and thrftless and the provision against unusually
severe weather Is so slight that suffering from
cold is remediless, and comparatively few are
able to give much even to the hungry No part
OF Europe is paradise for the laborer His daily
wages in this city Of thirty thousand people are
at this season forty to fifty cents, in summer
sixty to seventy-fve cents. From this sum he
must support himself and family. Most articles
OF food are as expensive here MS in America and
meat is much dearer. Rents are higher but
clothing is cheaper. While the laborer has little
opportunity and slight encouragement to improve
his condition, he has even less foresight The
rule is to be merry to-day tomorrow let come
what will
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-10-20
The Dog Mania.

The mania for dogs broke out in the
United States only after the fashion had
been set abroad, and, though it is a re-
cent one, it has ragged more violently
and affected a greater number of people
than is the case in Europe. There the
fashion was confined to childless dow
ayers, whose time hung heavily upon
their hands and whose disinclination to
take trouble and care upon their shoul-
ders led them to adopt dogs instead OF
babies. No other class abroad h9 taken
up the fashion any more than they have
the false curls and wrinkles of the rich
DANES, and the women of younger years
and matronly duties thought no more of
possessing themselves of a pug or q
Skye terrier than of disowning their
babies. But, says the Brooklyn Eagle,
when the foshion r. lched New York, it
was not considered special one, aud all
the weak-headed women who could pay
$50 tor canine pet did so, and those
who could give more were CORES oond-
ingly happy. Women with children, as
well as those without, secured dogs and
gave them their time and companion
ship. 1t is no6 unusual for the dogs 10
be taken cut D drive when the babes
are lett at home, and the justification
which women find in this proceeding is
that dogs are no trouble; children are.
Dogs are congenia., asking no questions
hard to answer, aud having no intuitions
impossible to blind. Therefore do wo-
men, it is to b. presumed, find compan-
ionship in dogs, and spend money on
them. Dog doctors are doing thriv-
ing business in New York and other
places, and not a few grown-up men and
women are earning good pay and living
IN comfort, their only occupation being
the care of dogs. Some of the ultra
fashionable dress their dogs in the livery
worn by their servants, and the care of
the mantles and the costly collars is not
less than the wardrobes of the children.
Women support a dog at an expense
that would educate n child, and feel
happy in being so stylish. They do not
necessarily love the animals, but are
ready to be martyrs to the demands of
fashion. Weak-minded and silly, they
think it an evidence OF refinement to
keep pet dog, and, further, the more
attention they eau bestow on it the more
they are remarked and envied. The
happiest woman in Philadelphia's chief
seaside resort this season has for her
small dog a colored valet, whose duties
were by no means light. His business
was to take Master Sniff into the water
to give it baths of just the prescribed
duration, to rub itand roll it in blankets,
teed it with specially prepared food, and
then amuse it. Can anybody imagine
any contract more gigantic than amvs-
inga toy dogp
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-10-20
HerOism of Lighthouse Keepers.

1t was a grand and heroic conception
70 build lighthouse on the Eddystone,
but what shall be said OF the men who
first of all tried the experiment of
dwelling in the horrible isolation of that
storm beaten edifice, cut off from the
rest of the world, uncertain whether the
building would stand the test Of the
storm, deafened by the roar of the
waters which someti nes would shoot
right over the lantern, or dash headlong
against the lighthouse with fearful vio-
lence, causing every part to vibrate as
though the whole fabric were inst0u-
taneously going to pieces? 1t is re-
corded that only two men attended the
lighthouse built by Rndyard, and that
one Of tkem was seized with sudden ill
ness and died. 1t was in the toughest
time OF year, and although the survivor
hoisted a signal of distress, no boat
could reach the rock. What to do with
first he thought he would throw it into
the sea, but he was hindered by the fear
lest the friends of the deceased might
charge him with the crime of murder.
For a whole month the w, ather con-
tinued boisterous, and for that whole
month the solitary survivor kept the
light all night now that his comrade
could no longer share the duty, watch
by watch, with him, and for that whole
month he kept the body OF the dead
man, although it had fallen into horri-
BILE corruption Can any more terrible
strait be conceived than that in which
the brave fellow was placedP Yet we
do not even know his name. All we
know is that in almost every great work
of public utility involving hazardous
labor, if one or two men have come to
the front and left their names for the
admiration of posterity, there have al
ways been a hup red obscure heroes
who have lived and died and LETT no
sign, but without whose strong nerves
and great hearts those works would
never have been accomplished.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-10-20
A Tale Of Two Buckets.

Two buckets in an ancient we'll got tall ing
once together,
And after sundry wise remarks-no doubt
about the weather
"Look here" quoth one, " this life we lead
don't exactlylike;
For--do you mind 7--however full we both
come up the well,
We go down empty-always shall, for aught
that can tell"
That's true" the other said; "but then
the way it looks to me-
However empty we go down, we come up
full you see."
Wise little buckets If we each would look
at life that way,
Would dwarf its ills and magnify its blessings
day by day,
The world would be happier place, since we
should all decide
Only the buckets full to count and let tho
empty slide.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-10-20
Hiding Money in Spain.

In old Spanish houses. says Temple
Bar, there is generally very cleverly-
contrived secret receptacle for money,
akin to the "secret drawer of the Eng
lish desk, Even now this secret cup
board is much used. the Spanish idea of
security being (an idea founded on bitter
experience OF many years) to cage the
windows in iron bars, lock up the house
at night in winter, look at the money,
and then say, in security and self-con-
graduation:
why, l am very safe; all love and
all | need is contained within the four
walls of my casa"
There is a vast deal of distrust of
banks and government securities, and a
great holding To the provero, mo friend
save God, and dollar in your pocket"
And now with the middle class there is
nc banking of money.
The bankers, to begin with, give no
interest as rule; and so, just as in
Scotland in the troubled year of 1850,
the goldsmiths were the only bankers,
so now, in Spain, tue gentry constantly
hoard their money in their own houses;
some put their iewelry and plate in the
monies de piedad.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-10-20
HUMOROUS.

Holds its sown--Good land.
The crysis in Spain-That little baby
daughter.
Stocking the fire department--Pur-
chasing hose.
Sweetness long drawn out The music
of an ACCORDION.
How many men there are who, like
corn, turn white when they pop.
A book on domestic Economy" has
been published which costs SO. Plea.
ysSne.
After all, marriage is but confidence
game. Wien the confidence is gone the
game is up.
The fellow who picked up the hot
penny originated the remark: "All is not
cold that glitters."
We are told that the doctors are daily
discovering new diseases. Let's abolish
the profession Posi-.
Ahe timber on 200, 900 acres of wood
land is annually cue away to furnish
cross-ties for the railroads OF the United
States.
The man who sighs, "How soon we
are forgotten" he's only to leave hotel
without paying his bill to hnd how sadly
mistaken he Is.
A mechanic who picked up a piece of
hot metal by mistake let go of it so
quickly as to throw his shoulder out of
JOINT. This is the fastest time on record.
"The difference" said the cook, ''be.
tween child of royal birth and a young
iamb is that the first is tended in splen-
dor and the other is splendid N tender"
If you can get one towel out of one
yard cloth, how many owelS can you
get out of two yardsP That depends
altogether on how many there are on the
clothes line.
Some ingenious observer has discov-
cred that there is q remarkable resem-
blance between baby and wheat, since
it is first Graded, then threshed, and
finally becomes the flower OF the fam
lily.
A young man on Main street says he
is going TO attempt the feat OF going
forvy days without working. He says
if his employers do not watch him, he
thinks he can accomplish the task
RocklGnd Courier.
A Hungarian officer named Szerkrem-
esky swan across the flatten sea, dis
tance of twenty miles, in seventeen
hours. The fact that his name followed
after him on a steam tug robs the feat of
half it's eclat, as it were. .-NorriStoton
Herald
"Can dogs find their way home from
long distanceP" says an exchange. It's
according to the dog. II it's one you
want to ges rid of, he can find his way
home from California. If it's good
one, he's apt to get lost if he goes around
the corner.
"Any good shooting on your farm?"
asked the hunter of the farmer. "Splen-
did," replied the agriculturist, There's
lightning-rod man down in the clover
meadow, cloth peddler at the house, a
boUk agent out in the barn and two
tramps down in the stock yard. Climb
right over the fence youRg man, load
both barrels and sail in. HGObeye.
When you meet a young man who is
smoking a cigar, it is your duty to stop
him, and say: Young man, that
cigar contains acetic, formic, entyrio,
valerie and proprionic acids, prussicRcid,
creosote, carbolic acid, ammonia, sui
phuretted hydrogen, pyridine, virodine,
picoline aud rubidene, to say nothing of
cabhagine and burdocic acid" He may
stick to the cigar, but you have done
your duty in the premises.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-10-20

thingi / wish he had beaten you half to
death! Ha! hal hal So you wouldn't
come into the house because you had no
wounds, ebp"
Precisely"
"And after you did get that thrash
ing you turned it to account by getting
our doctor, l supposee"
That's the idea"
She laughed while, somewhat hys-
terically, and got up and slapped him.
and then threw her arms around his
neck and kissed him.
"What did you tell me for, you
fraud"
Because Tarantula Joe wanted to
put on too much style, and was black.
mailing me outrageously."-S Fran
cisco ATgonGut.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-10-20

In Inc Orchard.

Mellow lies the sunshine on the orchard slopes
and meadows,
On hooks OF purple asters and the tints OF
leaGy hills;
The soft warm haze is tender with palpitat.
ing splendor,
And fresh, delicious odor all the dozing
valley Nils.
Colors like prairie in the glory OF its blossoms
Clean amid the grnssOs whore the luscious
fruitage lies,
And in their cozy places on tho boughs, with
tempting iaces,
Peep and nestle myriad apples, like birds
many dyes.
Golden, green and rusaot, and warm with
aeaFlst blushes,
Basking the silent noon upon their perches
'm6hg the leaves
How they glow like royal roses, where the
loving sun reposes,
How they tall from their own intuess on tho
crisp autumnal ewes.
Oh, apples, fragrant apples, piled high beside
the presses,
And hcaped in vain and basket meath the
broad-branched, mossy trees,
Gan we iaiily call him sober--the splendid,
rich October
Pouring ont his sweets and beauty in such
lavish gifts as thesef
Children frolicking and ieasting on the ripeness
10 the core
Monarohs OF the orchard kingdom, with
every tree throne
What are spring days tor your praises, or
wood.paths, or ekaies,
TO these provinces Of sweetness which, by
right Of love, ye owni
Sadly may the aged ponder liie's decays and
changes,
But youth sees nod dark omen as the mellow
apples fall.
pe, children keep your gladness; may you
have no more Of sadness
bar while, romping in the orchards, you are
kings and queens OF all
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-10-20

A boy at Beloit, Wis, pointed a shot
gun at two little girls. with the inten-
tion of soaring them. The weapon went
off, of course, portions of the charge
striking the girls in their faces. While
not fatally injured, they are disfgured
for life.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-10-20
Rates of Advertising.

Legal notices at established rates.
Marriage and death notices, gratis.
All bills for yearly advertisements COLI
lected quarterly. Temporary advertise
ments must be paid for in advance,
JOB work. Cash on Delivery.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-10-20

One of our wholesale dry goods houses
has new clerk, whose father from the
country went in to see him the other
day, and was surprised to learn that ali
the statesmen had nicknames. He asked
the fioor-walker why his son was called
"Jury." "Oh," was the reply, he is
always sitting on cases. ."-Ne1O Yor--
Herald.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-10-20

of sunshine came in through the door.
1t was Hardy's wife, the happiest and
proudest woman on The Alameda.
my DEAR" he said, "have we lived
happy these two yearsp"
"Why, John-what question:
And you have never regretted the
persistence of seedy stranger on Santa
Clara street two years and half agoP"
81 regret nothing, John, ana you
know It. didn't know what life was
until net you. But, oh! that was a
terrible night, wasn't it, Johnp"
"Awful!' he ejaculated, with broad
look of mischief in his eyes.
"Whas makes you look that way,
JohnP You are so provoking~
81 am villain, dear"
What do you meanp"
"Do you remember the robbersp'
81 think do! They nearly killed
you!"
"They were friends of mine, dear"
"Johnw she exclaimed, stunned.
Absolutely true. Old Tarantula
Joe and put up the job, so that / could
clean 'em out, become hero, and then
marry YOU"
She stared at him, astonished, shocked
and incredulous,
"Johnl"
"It's a fact" he said, laughing, as he
saw her anger rising.
She was utterly stupeied. Then a
quick light came into her eyes. She
knew he was joking.
"You are fooling me, John. You
know that horrid club nearly killed
YOU"
cit was made of paper, he explained,
still laughing.
A gloom again stole into her face, but
it was Immediately dispelled by another
recollection.
"But your face was really bloody"
"Joe got that for me at the slaughter
house."
She was thoroughly puzzled, not
knowing what to think.
"But, John, those were real hurts on
your head and face. l saw them my
self. There, now"
eyes; and can't you imagine how
received them?"
She thought she had cornered him,
but the look of confidence in his face
disheartened her.
"Well, how, thenP" she asked, petu-
liant and despairing.
You remember the fellow pitched
into the mudw
"Yes-well, what"
when went back to join the boys
and have a good laugh over the affair,
and to report progress, this fellow met
me, mad as Turk for spelling his
clothes ana nearly breaking his neck.
You see, it wssn't on the programme for
me to pitch him over. That was going
it little too strong; but couldn't re-
sist the temptation. Tarantula Joe said
I'd have TO fight him, as 1 hadn't done
the square thing. We went at it. and
he gave me the worst licking a mortal
ever had.
This was really so rich that the young
wife made the house ring with her
laughter.
! "I'm glad he did-you mean old
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-10-20

heard that it was considered a dangerous
place. They were both terrible liars.
His name was Hardy; hers, Sc
phronia. Her fathers name was Morris.
He was rich, kind hearted gentleman,
who had mansion on the Alameda
AS the two passed the postoffice cor
ner, "a pair of bleared eyes winked quietly,
and couple of lips grinned sardonicaly.
They belonged to Tarantula Joe.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-10-20

This made her thoroughly determined
to detain him. She had a strong will,
but his was stronger. She became
angry; then she bit her lips in the dark,
and implored him 10 remain.
He declined, in respectful, kindly
way.
"Well, then," she said, "where do
you liveP"
Nowhere"
please tell me-"
"Will you let me know tomorrow"
"Idon't know"
"Please do"
"Perhaps. Here is a street-car.
Goodnight"
Then she did very foolish thing.
She threw her arms around his neck,
and kissed him. He. left, doubly con-
queror.
There was tremendous excitement
over the affair. The police were in
formed as soon as the girls father could
hear the terrible story and reach the
police station. The officers could find
only a quantity of blood on the bridge,
the body having been removed. Rigor-
Gus search for several days failed to re-
veal tie identity of the robbers. Sew
eral arrests were made, and the strict
est vigilance maintained, but without
avail.
Another mysterious development was
the disappearance of Hardy. He could
not be found. However, on the second
day the old family physician of the
Morris household came painting up the
walk in great excitement, and exclaimed
to the girl:
CT have found himr'
Of,o ft1,.nod m o1o x1yith nxQitnnnnnf ond
"Where is hep" she asked, breath
lessly.
Jump into my buggy, and I'll take
you to him."
She did so. They found him in
small, dilapidated adobe house on Mar
ket street, with Spanish family. He
was delirious, and in q high fever. The
girl sat down by the bed, took his hot
hand in hers, and before the old doctor
knew what was coming next, she COM
menced to cry. Then she kissed Hardy's
hand.
The old man took her home, and she
came twice q day - see him, bringing
her father or mother, and always taking
some delicacy, and doing whatever a
kind and generous heart could suggest.
Gradually he recovered, and as soon as
he could be moved he was taken to her
home. There he became entirely well.
By his patience and gentleness he won
the hearts of every one-except the
girls. Hers was won already.
Time slipr ed away. Hardy was
established in business by the grateful
father. Poor old Tarantula Joe, who,
unacccuntably, seemed to be a great
IavoIite with the young man, was al
lowed to sit in the kitchen on the night
bD g fne HerSg HEenEng 0 brRnt SpRaf0n a MGi ST tho
way.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-18
The Caribbean Seq Rotsom.

Some interesting facts respecting depth of the western portion Of the c ibbean Sea have been recently brou to light. Amongst other researches II of soundings was run by the Unit States Coast Survey steamer Blake, fir St. Jago de Cuba to the east end of
 maica, when depth of 5000 fatht was found twenty-five miles south Cuba. Subsequent soundings proved deep spot to be the eastern end of an mensely deep valley extending from tween Cuba and Jamaica to the wi ward, south to the Cayman Islands, a up to the Bay of Honduras. The C. man islands and the Misteriosa Ba were found to be summits of mounta steep on its southern slope) of the ra running along the southeastern side |. Cuba. The valley is narrow at it's east ern end, but widens between the west ern end of Jamaica and Cape Cruz, whe the soundings were 5000 fathoms within fifteen miles of Cuba, and 2,800 fathon within twenty-five miles of Jamaica.
 Taking it altogether it was found tn. this submarine valley extends for 70 miles between Jamaica and Cuba, witt an average breadth of eighty miles. covers an area of over 85,000 squar miles, having a depth nowhere less tha POGO fathoms, except at two or thr points, which are the summits of su marine mountains, and with the grea' depth of g. 42S fathoms. The low isl of Grand Cayman, which stands scare twenty feet out of the sea, is really f.. summit of mountain 20,56S feet aboAp the bottom of this submarine valley, a altitude exceeding that of any mountai on the North American continent. Cal culating the height of Blue Mountain il Jamaica from the bottom of this valley 1t would give an altitude of nearly 20 900 feet, exceeding any of the Himalay range. It is proposed to call this grea valley the Bartlett Deep" in honor Q its discoverer.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-18
Schools of Homework.

1t would be an excellent thing if some schools for young women, similar to those which have recently been founded in Wurtemberg, were opened in Engand, as the course of training for household duties imparted at them cannot fail to be of the greatest utility. These War tumberg schools, intended for the daughters of small farmers and peasants, are only open during the winter months, and each of them accommodates about 50 pupils, the fee for tuition being about 25s., while sum equivalent to 9d. day is charged for board an lodging. The manageress of the school sees that her pupils are taught cooking, washing house cleaning, &c. while the ordinary village school master is emploped in the after. noon to give them lessons in reading and writing. A medical man also gives lectures on natural history and domestic medicine so that nothing is neglected which is likely to make good house wives of them. The system of Herr Clauson- Kass, which was first applied in Denmark, is also making it's way ir North Germany, though many of the masters do not much like the idea o having to teach the lads in their schools the rudiments of their future calling for this is what the Clauson- Kaas system practically amounts to. That 1t migh be introduced, with certain notifications into England is probable enough, bu more importance attaches to the Wur temberg experiment, which has in yer, short space of time done wonders there and which if 1t succeeded in this coun try, would do much to lengthen the live of the agricultural laborer and the smal farmer
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-18
Two Tramps.
St Louis Republican.

He was blind, the man that Officer Hill arrested on the bridge last night, and his wife had bright eyes, dark hair and face tanned by exposure to the weather. The officer caught the two drinking beer out of a tin bucket and both were drunk iron the effects of the liquor they had already disposed of. That is why he arrested them.
 What is your name?" Sergeant Reddy asked the man when he and the woman stood in front of the railings of the Third district station.
 "William O'Brien, sir"
 And yours?" he said to the W oman.
 Mary 0Brien, sir"
 Where did you come from7p
 Chicago, sir"
 "And how did you get here7"
 We walked here" said both in cho. rus.
 And where are you bound for," "The Hot Springs." Are you going to walk there?" "We are" The sergeant locked both up. but tc day will let them resume their iourne, The man lost bis eye-sight six years az while working in Lake Superior mins They are both well on in years and pep niless, but for all that last night the seemed as happy as hannw