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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-09-28
Fish that Fly.

An old sailor said there was nothing
on land not to be found in the sea.
There are sea cucumbers and carrots,
and many other sea vegetables that look
very much like those whose names they
bear. Some of the fish even have names
like those of land animals. There are
hog-fsh, sea-horses, toad-fshes and sea-
cows. One very lovely fish is the
angel-fsh. But the most curious OF all
is the fying-fsh, which has broad fins
like wings.
This fish is shaped and colored some
thing like mackerel. It's back is blue
and its under parts are white. When it
flies it takes short flights from the top
of one wave to the top of another. The
flying squirrel can fly, in this way,
from high point up on tree to one
lower down. They are plentiful near
the West Indies, where the water is
warm. In the morning the sailor may
find dead fish on the deck. 1t had
seen the lights that the vessel carries
at night and flown toward them. 1t
could fly high enough to reach the YES
sells deck, but could not fly across it.
1t may have struck boom or sail and
fallen dead from the blow. After this
they grow more numerous, andyou will
see them in the daytime.
They will fly out of the water in front
of the ship in little groups, looking
like hocks of swallows. Their white
sides will CLEAN like silver in the sun.
They cannot fly far, perhaps a hundred
yards. After wetting their wings or
q a. e. L, nk
look as if they enjoyed their life in the
air, but they do not always fly for
pleasure. The dolphin, very fierce
and fast swimming fish, hunts them in
the water. When the poor fying-hsh
tries to escape him, the great sea-birds,
the gulls and pelicans, seize them as
they fly out. They are very good to
eat. The people in the islands about
which they live catch them in dip nets
and fry them.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-09-28
RnisInr CnIves on skImmllk.

A. b. Allen, writing to the Western
Agricuhu-iSt, gives some advice on rails
ing calves. He says: A friend who has
q large dairy in the western part of the
State of New York informs me that he
has kept twenty-four grade shorthorn
and Guernsey calves, dropped the last
spring, in the following manner: They
were allowed to suck their dams a few
times Immediately after birth, and then
taken away and taught to drink milk
from the pail. This was warm and fresh
from the COWS for a week or ten days,
and then skimmilk was gradually
mixed with it till substituted entirely
for the new milk. This was frequently
lobbered, in very hot weather, before
feeding, and was thought all the better
for it, as being more easily digested.
The calves were put into good pasture
and at few weeks old began to nibble
the grass. The summer being very
dry this failed considerably during
August; cut hay mixed up with wheat
shorts were then given in place of it.
One may Judge how well these calves
throVe when simply fed, for at six to
seven months old they weighed from
500 to 600 pounds each. The cream
from the milk of the dams of the
calves was made into butter of first
rate quality, stored till October, and
then brought good price. Many think
that choice calvers cannot be we'll
raised on skimmilk, and therefore feed
all new milk to them. But I think this
is wasting the cream on such as are de-
signed to grow up for dairy COWS and
that they are all the better for this pur-
pose when reared on the quality of milk
which is the least fattening and gives
the most muscle. Many a shorthorn
heifer is iniIred for the dairy by being
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-09-28
Recipes.

SWEET APPLE PIoKLEs.-Sweet apples
make delicious pickles peel and quar-
ter them, boil them until tender in
vinegar and water; to one quart of
vinegar add two pounds of sugar heat
the vinegar and dissolve the sugar in it;
add cloves and cinnamon, and pour
over the apples while hot.
CRANBERRY Ro1n.-Stew quart of
cranberries in just water enough to keep
them from burning. Make very sweet,
strain and cool. Make paste, and
when the cranberry is cold spread it on
the paste about an inch thick. Roll it,
tie it close in flannel cloth, boil two
hours and serve with sweet sauce.
Stewed apples or other fruit may be
used in the same way.
AN APPET1zNa DIsH.-One of the
most appetizing dishes that can be
placed before hungry family, and
which may tempt the appetite of one
who isn't hungry, is made in this way :
Take one dozen ears of corn, CRATE it,
stir in four eggs, one-fourth of cup of
-four, little salt, and fry in hot lard (;
if the corn is not milky add little milk
or cream. This is next to fried oysters.
To STEW VEAL OUTLETS. Gut them
about half an inch thick, fatten them
with chopper, and fry them in fresh
butter or dripping. When brown on
one side turn and do them on the other,
continuing to do so till they are thor
oughly done, which will be in about a
quarter of an hour. Make a gravy of
some trimmings, which put into stew
pan with bit of soft butter, an onion,
a roll of lemon peel, blade of mace,
some thyme, parsley, and stew the
whole over a slow fire for an hour, and
then strain it i; put one ounce of butter
into another pan, and when melted mix
with as much flour as will dry it up /;
stir this for a few minutes, then add
the gravy by degrees till the whole is
mixed boil it five minutes, then strain
it through sieve and put it to the
outlets. Some browning may be added,
together with mushroom or walnut cat
sup, or lemon pickle.
TO DRY PUMPKINS. Take ripe pump
kins, pare, cut into small pieces, stew
soft, mash and strain through colan-
der, as if for making pies. Spread
this pulp on plates, in layers some half
an inch thick dry it in stove oven,
which should be kept at SO low tenn
perature as not to scorch it. In about
day it will become dry and crisp. The
sheets thus made can then be slowed
away in a dry place, and are always
ready for use, either for pies or stewing.
The quick drying after cooking pre-
vents the souring which is almost al
ways the case when the uncooked pieces
are dried, while the flavor is much
better preserved and the after cooking
dispensed with. On going to use soak
portions of the article in little milk
over night, when it will return to as de-
licious pulp as if made of pumpkin
when fresh.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-09-28

overfed and kept too fat from its birth
up to three years old, when it is the
usual time for it to drop its first calf.
As fed above the calves occasionally
secured, and to stop this some astrin-
gent medicine had to be given in their
food. But if a heaping tablespoonful
of oilmeal, gradually increasing to a
pint for each calf as it grew older, had
been made into Cruel and mixed daily
with the skimmilk, il would have pre-
vented securing, kept the bowels in
good order and made them relish their
other food more heartily. Flaxseed
boiled to Jelly answers the same pur-
pose, also if ground mixed with oats,
one-fourth of the former to three
fourths of the latter, and then quart
or more, according to the age of the
calf, fed daily, is good substitute for
the oatmeal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-09-28
What a Gentleman is.

"The essential characteristics Of q
gentleman" says our American essayist,
Mr.. Mathews, care not an outward
varnish or veneer, but inward qualities,
developed in the heart"
The drover was gentleman at heart,
and in speech also, of whom this anec-
dote is told. He was driving cattle to
market one day when the snow was
deep, save on the highway. The drove
compelled a lady to turn out of the
road and tread in the deep snow.
Madam" said the drover, taking
off his hat, eff the cattle knew as we'll
as Iwhat they should do, you would not
walk in the snow"
Charles Lamb tells q story of Joseph
PAIGE, a London merchant, who rev.
erenced womanhood in every form in
which it came before him.
at have seen him." writes the genial
essayist, "stand bareheaded, (smile, if
you please), to a servant girl while she
has been inquiring of him the way to
some street. in such posture OF un-
forced civility as neither to embarrass
her in the acceptance, or himself IN the
offer, of it.
II have seen him." be continues,
"tenderly escort market-woman whom
he had encountered in a shower, exalt-
ing his umbrella over her poor basket
of fruit that it might receive no damage,
with as much carefuln ess as if she had
been countess"
These anecdotes show what genuine
politeness is. 1t is a kindly spirit which
expresses itself kindly to all. OF one
who possesses it the remark is never
made, He can be gentleman when be
pleases." AS Mr.. Mathews says-and
we wish the boys to memorize the say
ing-"He who can be gentleman
when he pleases, never pleases to be
anything else"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-09-28
DELIA'S REWARD.

"It was scandal" the neighbors
said, " that Miss Della should be
obliged to take boarders, after all she'd
been through; and heaven knows board
ers did not help body to work out her
salvation. And so much money in the
family, too, taking it by small and
large. Wasn't her Uncle Eben, over at
Dover, well-to-do, and not chick of
his own to care for, except the boy he
had adopted, who was no credit to him ?
It was odd, now, that a man with poor
relations sholld take to a stranger
when his own flesh and blood was
needy; but sometimes it does seem as
if folks had more feeling for others than
for their own kith and kin. Then there
were cousins in the city, forehanded
and fashionable, who were never worth
row of pins to Della, and there was
her great-uncle Johns widow a-larking
on the continent, a-gaming at Baden
Baden, and trying the waters OF every
mineral spring in the three kingdoms,
for no disease under the sun but old age.
She'd been known to say that cher folks
were too rich already, and probably she
would endow some hospital with
her property" Plainly, wealthy rela-
tives were of no value to Miss
Della. To be sure, she had
never seen her great aunt-niece
since she was child, when her Uncle
John had brought her into their simple
life for months visit with her French
maid and dresses, her jewels and fallals,
which won the heart of her namksake.
Since then Uncle Johns widow has be-
come sort of gilded creation, always
young and beautiful; for, though Della
had received little gifts from time to
time across the seas for the last fifteen
years, she had neither heard nor seen
anything of the being who had inspired
her youthful imagination, and was quite
uncertain if such person as Mrs. John
Rogerson was in the land of the living.
Dead or alive, she seemed to have made
no material difference to Delia's hum
drum life. After having nursed her
father through a long sickness, Della
found that he had left heavy mort
gage on the homestead, and her mother
and herself on the high road to the poor
house, unless they should bestir them
selves. As her mother was already
bedridden, the stirring naturally fell
upon Della, and she advertised foT
summer boarders:
"Good board in the country, by the
riverside, at seven dollars a week.
Large chambers, broad piazzas, fine
views, berries, and new milk. One
mile from the station.
" Address DELLA RoeERsoN,
Croftsborough, Maine"
"Cheap enoughl" commented al
elderly lady, who happened upon it
Della Rogerson-an old maid, I sup
pose, obliged to look out for herself
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-09-28
Onlr a Smile.

Only emile that was given me
On the crowded street one day
But it pierced the gloom of my saddenedsheart
Like sudden sunbeam's ray.
The shadow of doubt hung over me,
And the burden of pain l bore,
And the voice of Hope 1 could not hear,
Though listened DER and Ger.
But there came a rift in the crowd about,
And a face that / knew passed by,
And the smile caught was brighter to me
Than the blue Of a summer sky.
For it gave me back the sunshine,
And scattered each somber thought
And my heart rejoiced in the hndling warmth
Which that kindly smile had wrought.
Only smile from a friendly face
On the busy street that day
Forgotten as soon as given, perhaps,
As the donor went her way.
But straight to my heart it went speeding
To gild the clouds that were there,
And found that of sunshine and life's blue skies
also might take my share.
-Hdrpe's Weekly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-09-28
HUMOROUS.

The true way for a woman to drive q
nail is to aim the blow square at her
thumb. Then she'll avoid hitting her
thumb, anyway.
"Smith," said Brown, " there's for
tune in that minep 81 know" said
Smith "Tve put my fortune in it,
philadelphia San.
A Goldfish produces 1856, 760 eggs
There's millions waiting for the man
who succeeds in crossing the Goldfish
with the hen.-BoSton Post.
Sharks will eat cats if they can get
hold of them. We shall make arrange
ments for shipping large quantities Of
cats to the seacoast to enjoy bathing IA
cilities.-NelO HdUen Register.
A correspondent writes "Will you
tell us what Mrs. Langtry's maiden
name WASP" Certainly; her maiden aim
was to marry Mr.. Langtry.
"There is man in our town,
And he is wondrous wise;
Whenever he has goods to sell
He straight doth advertise;
And when he finds his goods are gone,
With all his might and main
He hurries in another lot
To advertise again"
Carrie was six years old and quite a
model of propriety; but one day she
shocked her mother by doing some
thing very much like ordinary naughty
children. "Why, Carrie |" exclaimed
Mrs. B., show could you do such
thing ?" "Other little girls do So" re-
piled Carrie. "But that doesn't make
it right, does it ?" asked Mrs. B. ''No,"
answered Carrie, with deliberation,
"but it makes it good deal more
comf'able."
Young man, be happy-hoot, holler,
skip, gambol and snap your fingers at
the nightmare of new overcoat for next
winter. Last fall Canadian genius
shivered awhile and then reflected
awhile, and the result was the purchase
of box of mustard plasters. These
were distributed around on his frame
where they would do the most good,
and while men in beaver overcoats shiv-
cred with cold he was warm and happy
in his shirt sleeves. One dollar takes
you through hard winter, and you
come out in spring fat.-Free Press.
Now the papers are predicting lum-
Der famine. Good gracious, have we got
to go through that horror, too. Have
we got to sit idly by and suffer, with nc
sixteen-foot board to fill an empty
stomach, no bunch of shingles to cool
our parched tongue, no cedar posts to
fill want long felt. and no bundles of
lath to press our fevered lips2 This is
too much. We could stand the famine
in box cars, predicted last spring, but
to cut off our supply of lumber, just as
we have got new bottle of stomach
bitters for an appetizer, is piling the
agony on too thick. .-Peck'S Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-09-28
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Make the Ground Count.

We have learned one mistake we have
made for years past, and that is cover
ing too much ground with too few
plants. Vacancies not only make loss,
but are expensive every wsy-in prep
aration and cultivation of soil, in extra
expenses for manure, and interest and
tax on land. We are too apt to be am
bilious as to having great number of
acres planted, regardless of the yield,
expense, etc. We will guarantee that,
as rule, persons having the least land
get the most fruit from their land in
proportion to the number of acres, and
make the most money.-FTuit Recorder.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-09-28
Cuttings.

M. Loiseau recommends that the us
ual method of striking cuttings should
be altered. When, he observes, a cut
ting is put in perpendicularly, the sap,
the natural tendency of which is to rise,
is expended in pushing forward new
bud instead of forming a root. But if
it is laid horizontally, or even with its
lower end higher than the upper, that
is not the case the sap prefers to move
toward the higher end, or at all events
is evenly distributed between the two
extremities. This causes the callus to
form so rapidly that if the cuttings are
put into warm place eight or ten days
are enough to secure its formation or
even that of the roots. Autumn cut
tings taken off little before the sap
ceases to move, and treated in this man
ner, form the callus so quickly that
they are ready for planting out before
winter. In winter it is necessary to
keep the cuttings in gentle heat, or
beneath leaves deep enough to keep off
frost, and even then a callus will he
round to have formed by spring time.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-09-28
TERMS ,l.5o YEAR.
Songs Of Birds.

The skylark's song "Arise, arise
Oh, free glad wings, awake the air.
On, on, above, the light is there
Pass the faint clouds and know the skies.
Oh, blneness oh, Deep endless height
Oh, unveiled sun
oh, ecstasy of upward Fight
mount mount Oh, skies oh, sun |"
The sparrow's song: "Let be to soar;
Skies blacken under night or rain;
Wild wings are weary all in vain.
Lo, the fair earth, the fruitful store
And the dear sunbeams travel down,
And warm our caves,
And bring gay summer TO the town,
Oh, sun OH bloom oh, safe warm caves /"
The linnets song: "Oh, joy of spring
Oh, blithe surprise of life And flowers
Wake in the birthday April hours
And wonder, and are fair, and bring
New promise Of new JOY to be.
Oh, hope oh, Now
oh, blossoms breaking on the treel
live Oh, day oh, happy Now /"
The right-owl's song "The flowers go dead,
Weak flowers that die for heat or cold
That die ere even spring turns old;
And with few hours the day is sped;
The calm gray shadows chase the noon,
Night comes, and dusk,
And stiffness, and the patient moon.
oh, stiffness and oh, long, cool dusk"
The thrush's song; "oh, welded wills
Oh, loves delight She mine, hers
And every little wind that stira
And every little brook that trills,
Makes music, and answer it
With Love- love, love-,
Oh, happy bough where we two sit1
/ love love Oh, song oh, Lowell"
The ravens song "waste no vain breath
On dead-born joys that fade from earth,
Nor talk Of blossoming or of birth,
For ali things are part of death,
Save love, that scarce waits death to die.
Spring has its graves;
Our yew-trees see the green leaves lie
Oh, churchyard yews oh, smooth new graves
The song of the sweet nightingale,
That has all hearts in hers, and knows
The secret of all joys and woes,
And till the listening stars grow pale,
And fade into the daybreak gleam,
Her mingled voice
Melts grief and gladness in dream.
She doth not SORROW nor rejoice.
She sings: "Heart, rest thee and be free,
Pour thyself on the unhindering wind;
Leave the dear pain of life behind;
Loosed heart, forget thou art and be.
Oh, pain oh, joy of life oh, love
My heart is these.
Oh, roses of the noon oh, stars above
Dead, waned, still with me 1 am these"
Augusta Webster.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-09-28

"Here lies the youngest of twenty
nine brothers and three sisters" Such
is the inscription on the stone that
marks the last resting-place of General
Marston G. Clark, at Salem, Washing
ton county, Ind. He was brave man
and had a great deal to do with the vic
tory at Tippecanoe, which made General
Harrison famous.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-09-28
The Grape.

Many vine-growers, says the Cincin-
natl Gazette, experience great disap-
pointment between the budding and
ripening of their grapes. In spring the
leaves and sprays shoot forth abun-
dainty and the BLOSSOMS appear in
gratifying profusion. As summer ad-
vances the growth of the berries is at
first satisfactory, and then a reverse
commences. Some shrivel up, others
mildew and many drop off, the curculio
takes share and general deterioration
ensues If the trunks of the vines are
large and the branches extensive these
changes are only the more remarkable.
But larger vines absolutely require to
be profusely watered, for the proper
tion of water in the skin of the grape
is evidently very considerable, and every
drop ascends through the pores of the
trunk. If the vines are near the dwell
ing waste washing water, soapsuds, ETC.,
cannot be poured too profusely on the
roots. We have known young trees,
vines, ETC., rescued from death by
drought by the profuse watering of their
roots. Again, the paper bag protection
to the punches is well worth trying.
Old vine growers near this city find it
to succeed admirably. There are few
noble grape "trees" in this neighbor-
hood which rival in size and production
the famous Black Hamburg at Hampton
Court, England, bUt they are well cared
for by their owners, although in our
latitude it is not necessary to keep
them in glass houses. He who hath a
thriving vineyard hath good posses
sion.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-09-28
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 form advance.
Job work. Cash on Delivery.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-09-28
A Valuable Table,

The following table will Oshow the
number of checks or hills contained in
an acre of ground at certain distances:
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-05-13
Ratification or Treaties.

The. Chinese immigration treaty
was ratified by the Senate on the 9Th,
without amendment, by a practic
ally unanimous vote, there being on
" three Senators recorded in the neg
alive The Chinese commercial
treaty, after brief discussion, was
also ratified without amendment, and
substantially without opposition. Pro-
ceeding with the calendar of treaties,
the Senate next ratified with quick
succession the extradition treaty with
the United States Of Columbia, the
consular convention with Italy, modl.
flying and defining the judicial pow
ers of certain Consulates, the conven-
ton with Morocco respecting the tax
alton prcrogatives of the Moorish
Government and the treaty with Jap
an, prescribing the reciprocal duties
of the Japanese and United States
Governments in cases of shipwrecks
upon their respective coasts.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-05-13

A LIVELY YARN.-About six years
ago Mr.. Libbey, Of Buxton, Me-, went
down to the pool and went out fishing
with party. Soon after they started
he began to grow hoarse and slightly
pressed for breath, but he thought IT
was caused by dampness and fog that
was rising from the water. lie stead
lily grew worse until he could hardly
whisper. About noon the party landed
on one Of the islands to cook their fish
and cat their dinner, and Mr.. Libbey,
who was standing beside the fire,
found himself unable to speak. The
party went home the next day, deeply
depIoring the condition OF their friend,
who sho wed no signs Of Improvement.
For three years Mr.. Libbey remained
in a mute state, communicating to his
fr ends by use Of slate. Mr.. Libbey
was prevailed upon to go down to the
pool again, fishing, and the party with
him landed on the island where three
wears before he had lost his speech.
They built a fire and proceeded to din.
ner, and as Mr. Libbey was walking
around after dinner he suddenly sltI-
ned on small stone aud fell on his
side. When he arose he found him
self able to 81 eak as we'll as ever he
could, and he continued to speak and
have full power Of speech until his
death, which occurred about two years
after his recovery Of speech.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-05-13

The New York Tribune says: Is De
Lesseps deceiving the French public
about the Isthmus Canal? All reports
from Panama agree that no digging
has begun yet, although the season Of
outdoor work is fast drawing to a
close. Considerable surveying is to
be done, and a small force Of laborers
are at work cutting brush, but that is
all. De Lesseps himself is in Franz Q
looking after his affairs there. His
representative at Panama, Lieutenan,
Moose, is about 10 start for Paris
The rainy season will soon put a stol
to field work, and as nothing has beer
accompli she'd in this direction wor'l
mentioning. A year has been as go
as lost.