The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1882-10-18

cnlld Is less than q year Old, Xl9 II more
than that and less than two years, and
so on up to 1923 at eleven years. The
idea is to provide for funeral expenses.
The traffic in meat is assuming a
new phase with the rapid increase in
the expectation of dressed meat
from the West to the East. The
butchers in New York. Baltimore and
Boston have already taken the alarm,
and their fears of sharp competition
from this source appear to be well
founded. Already one establishment
at Hamilton, Ind, is killing over SOC
cattle day and shipping the meat in
refrigerator cars, while elaborate pre-
parations are making at various points
for extending this business.
a gentleman writing on the habits
Of some western snakes tells how the
rattlesnakes worry the prairie dogs and
destroy their young. 1t seems it is not
an unusual occurrence to find whip,
racer and bullsnakes with the entire
contents Of fowls nests in their capa-
cious stomachs. This observer has
seen puffadder attached TO the hind
foot of a turtle, sucking its blood and
digesting off its toes He found many
boX-turtles deformed in their hind feet,
probably from this cause.-Dr. Foote's
Health Monthly.
Although the making of new nose
for a person deprived of his natural
organ of smelling has been repeatedly
undertaken with success, it is a nice
and difficult operation; and an attempt
just made in Vienna by Professor Bill
roth, one Of the most distinguished
surgeons in Austria, to supply sol
dier who had been frightfully mutt.
lated in Bosnia with an artificial nose,
has attracted much attention. The
material for the new organ was taken
from the skin of the forehead. The
operation is reported to have been en-
tirely successful, and with a supple
mentary shaping process, is expected
to result In nose that cannot be dis
tlnguished from a natural one.
Anovel eXpedient for giving strength
to an alibi was adopted recently by a
Massachusetts lawyer. His client was
an Italian, and several unimpeachable
witnesses had testified that the prisoner
was in certain place at certain time
On the second day of the trial the
lawyer put a friend of the accused man
in the dock, and sent his client to seat
among the spectators. The substitution
was not discovered for some time, when
the lawyer claimed that the witnesses
for the prosecution, who had identified
the prisoner as the man they had seen
at a certain time, might easily have
been mistaken, since the learned and
observant court did not detect the sub
The prisoner was acquitted.
During the year ended June 80,
1882, the total number of acres of
United States public land disposed of
was 15,699,S48, an increase over last
year of about 100000 acres. The
cash received for this land amounts to
about SS,36l ,O91, as against $5,000,000
during the last fiscal year. The num-
Der Of acres entered for agricultural
purposes as "caSh sales" during the
year amounted to 3,699,S99 acres for
purposes, 3,706,Sl0 acres for
desert lands, 166,055 acres for coal
lands, 7194 acres 6,347,729 acres
were entered under the homestead laws,
while 2,2l6,244 acres were "proved
up" under the same laws under the
timber culture acts, 2,609,797 acres
were entered and "proved up :" under
the various land warranU railroad
grant, school, and State selection acts
(including various kinds of sCip).
6l5,S66 acres We're disposed of. The
great increase in the disposition of
public lands during the past fiscal
year is said to be owing to the large
emigration in the Northwest. In
Dakota the increase Is more noticeable
than in any other State or Territory.
The area of cash sales in Dakota alone
was 690,094 acres, and the homestead
entries in the same Territory were
more than 100000 acres.
Secretary Teller has written a letter
on Indian education in which he SAYS:
The Indian requires education in the
practical affairs of life; he must be
taught to work as well as read; his hand
must be educated as well as his head.
With additional labor schools estab-
llshed within easy communication with
the tribe, yet not near enough to allow
the influences of savage life to coun-
teract and undo the work Of the
school, we may hope to repeat on Il
large scale what Captain Pratt and
Mr. Armstrong have so successfully
done at Carlisle and Hampton. Labor
IS and ever has been the great civil
izer of the human race, and whenever
the Indian becomes a laborer he is not