The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1882-09-06

June on, WD1Cn amounted IN value TO
about S35, ,00U, 900, are triple the value
OF the products of the factories ten
years ago. Since 1870 the product and
the productive capacity of the industry
have very greatly increased. Within
the decade the number of factories en-
gagged Ia silk manufacture has increased
from eighty.six to 3S8, while the looms
increased from 1000 to 5000, and the
hands employed from 5000 o731, 800
The wages paid rose in ten years from
$4,000. 900 TO So, ,000. 900, and many new
States not previously engaged in the
industry began to manufacture silk and
now have factories at work. These
States are Maine, Rhode Island, Cali
fornia, Illinois, Kansas and Missouri.
The salmon fisheries of the United
States have increased more than twenty
fold within ten years, and last years
product was nearly million cases,
worth five million dollars. But the
result of this vast business is that the
Boutherly and more accessible rivers are
becoming fshed out, as the greed of
the fishermen has extended to tie cap
cure of the salmon which are on the
way to their spawning places. The
Sacramento end even the seemingly in
hxhaustible Columbia are suf 4ring
from this cause. The more distant
.Raters of British Columbia and Alaska
Ire still bountiful, but they will be
ruined in their turn by such methods of
hshing. The experience of the Atlantic
b asst should teach the Pacific to
guard its treasures by appropriate laws
Regulating the time and manner of fish
Ing, lest it be compelled to go through
The process of restocking.
The 18th day of next December will
be the filtieth anniversary OF the first
Aection of Mr.. Gladstone, England's
prime minister, to parliament, and
i)me of the more enthusiastic admirers
bf " the grand old man" propose to hold
jubilee ON that occasion, Mr.. Glad
itone was then as rabid tory ss he is
how an uncompromising hbersl. His
address to the electors was dated from
!he Clinton Arms, Newark, on the Oh
ef October, 1882, and the nomination
look place on the following 11th of
December. Two days afterward Mr..
Gladstone was returned at the head OF
the poll, and from that day to this no
parliame ent has met in which be has not
had seat. 1t was in 1916 that he
changed his politics, at the time of the
corn laws. The liberals wish to make
The celebration a national affair, one
enthusiast describing Mr. Gladstone as
the member for "all EnglanG.'
In the ReulIe d GAnthTopologie DR.. Be-
cenger Ferand describes IN a paper
entitled "Les Griots" those peculiar
itinerant musicians who wander all over
Central Africa from shore to shore.
They belong to different low castles,
but are under one chief of great power,
who takes what he needs from the gen.
eIal receipts. "Griots" is o French
corruption Of the Ouolove word
.''Gwewonal.' This guild is both feared
and hated by the natives. The members
Of it ere considered impure. The bodies
OF the dead are thought to make sterile
the land in which they may be inferred
Bot it seems these people are skilled in
composing without previous study, and
in playing on the guitar and the violin
The least gifted among them beat the
instrument. They carry news from
place to place, and it is said they also
excite wars. But whether there is
peace or war in a locality, they have
the peculiar privilege of coming and
going as they please.
A gentleman who has recently taken
mp his residence in Salt Lake City writes
of one OF the means employed by the
Mormons to recruit their ranks with
emigrants from Europe. He says: We
had quite sight here last week-9OO
emigrants from Denmark and Sweden
arriving in one day. went to "the
Office" to see them. Those who have
friends are cared for, but those having
none stay in "the Office" until they find
employment. They know nothing about
polygamy until they get here, and are
made to believe that it they will come
and be good Mormons they will be
healed, physically as well as spiritually.
There are great many cripples among
them, but l have not seen any "healed"
physically yet There is one poor fell
low among their number who is minus
leg. They told him in the old country
they could give him another good leg
II he would just come to Salt Lake SO
he came full Of hope. Now that he is
here, they tell him they can give him
another sound limb but if they do he
will have three legs in the next world,
and as he cannot live very long in this
world would it not be best for him Il
continue as he 10, rather than go stump
ing around paradise with an extra limb
The Chinese colony of Boston per
formed strange and elaborate funera
ceremony over the body of Moy Dicl
Gam, who died of pneumonia. Thirt,
or forty mourneEs clad in full nativ,
costume and wearing the white sill
aprons of the Chinese Masonic order
with q band OF music at their head