The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-03-10
TIMELY TOPICS.


II. NJ. Stanley brought home from
Africa the skulls Of two animals called
sokos y which had been eaten by an
affable chief with whom he hobnobbed
one day, and Prof. Huxley at once
pronounced them to be human. But
Central America has now come forward
with the susmetu, and so far as sub
scriptions go at present this animal
would appear to come as near ourselves
as the soko, for the other natives of its
forests whom we call men and women
call the susmetu human.
The German minister at Washington
has recently inquired, on behalf of his
government, for exact information as to
the process by which the signal service
bureau so promptly collects at the war
department the meteorological reports
from all parts of the United States-an
extent of territory greater than Europe
and so rapidly drafts and publishes
them upon the printed daily weather
map, This is high compliment to
"old probabilities and his staff. It
is understood that Germany proposes to
take n step forward in meteorological
observations; and all the assistance at
the hands of the war department has
Ueeu CIle6Ilully gwen
When Washington was on his way to
Red Bank just 100 years ago he slept one
night at Chew's Landing, a village
which is also in New Jersey. Next
morning he was surprised to find that
half the inhabitants had formed them
selves into delegation to ask of him a
contribution toward a new Episcopal
church. He not only gave the contri-
button but signed the church book, and
so did Carroll of Carrollton. The book
has been religiously preserved in the
vestry, and every governor of New Jer-
sey has for many years given something
to keep the building in order. Now,
however, it is to be torn down and
commonplace brick church erected.
Some remarkable statements were
made by prominent physician before
the class of the college of physicians
and surgeons at Buffalo the other day.
He announced that one-fifth of all man.
kind die of consumption alone, and one
third of all from the ravages of tuber-
cles upon the bodily organs, including
the lungs. Comparing this mortality
with that from yellow fever during the
epidemic of 1878, he said that it would
require $50 years of such epidemics of
yellow fever to equal the devastation
wrought by consumption in a single
generation in this country alone, and
| $50 years of such work to equal the NOR
taliiy caused by tubercles in one genera
tion in this country" These state
ments are appalling, but they are made
by u man who has devoted the study of
a lifetime to the subject.
Dr.Willard Parker, an eminent physi-
clan and surgeon of New York, regards
our system of caring for the insane as
radically wrong. The institutions are
too large. Too much care and responsi-
| bility are placed upon one man. 1t is a
physical impossibilitY for him to con-
! suit the peculiarities Of each of several
| hundred patients whose cases differ
entirely from one another. Each case
should be distinctly studied. He has,
besides, to superintend and manage the
institution and the grounds, TO be
! { lrmer, treasurer, etc. " AS well eX-
pect the captain Of one of our large
steamers to act also as stoker and cook. -"
| The buildings are too magnificent
They should be inexpensive, so that
when the wards become saturated with
disease they may be destroyed and
others erected. Some occupation should
be provided adapted to the patients
conditions. DIR. Parker maintains that
| insanity is not diminishing in this
country, as under proper treatment it
ought to be.
Minnie Karell's fight with "A burglar
| in her room deserves to be immortalized.
She is slight girl only eighteen years
of age, and tends her fathers bakery in
New York. She was awakened at an
early hour in the morning by a man
standing over her bed, and was told by
the burglar that if she screamed he
would XIII her. Nothing daunted Min.
ME screamed and ut once struck the
burglar in the face with all her might.
Quite tussle now ensued, the burglar
trying to escape from Minnie's grasp,
and she trying to hold him until her
father and the worknen from below
could come to her assistance. But the
robber broke away from her and made
his exit from n window, not, however,
until Minnie had recognized him as John
Oates, resident of the next block:
When the police came they found Min
MES bureau ransacked and all her best
clothes gone; but fortunately they met
a man named Rogers in the street carry
ing n bundle of female wearing appare
and arrested him. The clothing proved
to be Minnie's. They next went In
search Of Oates and found him at a wake
next door to the bakery, cOolly smoking
his pipe and condOling with the be-
reaved family. Minnie gets her heroisn
from her mother, who is dead. Sh'
used to tell Minnie always to hight wheI
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