The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-04-25

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first to the raising of grain, cattle and
hogs, giving a smaller portion of their
time to the culture of cotton.
Drunkenness has been investigated
by Professor Verga, of Milan. Ac-
cording to him, men or women given
20 intoXication are, strange to say, sell
dom given to kleptomania or suicide,
A woman is less apt to take tc liquor
than man, but when she does she can
hardly be reclaimed. She becomes
shameless and abominable, but seldom
dangerous. Cold weather seems TO
cause men to take to strong drink and
mild weather has the same influence
upon women.
The son of Baptist clergyman of
Philadelphia went into the army and
served through the war, faithfully as
an officer and uprightly as a man.
When he was discharged, to the
astoundment and horror of his friends,
he promptly and deliberately became
thief, and follows that calling, serving
one sentence after another in the
penitentiary, refusing TO return to his
friends and respectability, declaring
that he prefers his present mode of
life TO any other. The case is one
without recorded precedent or parallel.
The swindle planned by a Cincin-
natl Snowman consisted in advertising
for treasurer for minstrel show
and getting $500 from a candidate as
pretended security. A country grocer
was caught by the prospect of making
q tour of the country on "a salary of
$25 week, with all expenses paid, and
he supposed that he was safe against
fraud because company was ready to
actually start out. But the performers
were amateurs, lured into the affair a.
no cost to the managers, who fled with
all the money after the first perform
ance. The grocer committed suicide.
An international exhibition of
novel character is projected to be held
in Paris next autumn under the
auspices of the Societe Protectrce deS
Apimaux. The catalogue is to include
all apparatus, furniture, etc, connected
with the breaking and use of horses.
1t is possible that the exhibition may
become extended so as to embrace APP
pliances employed in the relations of
mankind with other animals. The
corporation Of Paris have granted the
use of the Pavilion in the Champs
Elysees for the month of September
next for the exhibition. The society
referred to, which has been established
over thirty years, now numbers some
5000 members, and, thanks to it's
efforts, in few countries is more done
than in France for the protection of
the animal world.
A specimen of the ''angry tree" in
digenous to Australia, is growing on
farm in Nevada and is now eight feet
high. When the sun sets its leaves
fold together and the ends of the ten
der twigs coil up like pigtail. If the
twigs are handled the leaves move un-
easily for minute or more. A sin
gular thing concerning the tree was its
apparent resentment on being removed
from pot, in which it had matured,
into much larger pot. Hardly had it
been placed in its new quarters before
the leaves began to stand up in all di-
rections, like the hair on the tail of an
angry cat, and son the whole plant
was in a quiver. At the same time it
gave out an odor most pungent and
sickening, resembling the odor given
off by rattlesnakes and other kinds of
snakes when teased. So strong and
offensive was this smell that it had to
be removed from the house for several
days.
Atlanta has gained greatly by her
cotton exhibition of 1881. There has
been continuous inflow of people and
capital, and real estate has been in con-
stant demand for residences and mer-
camille purposes. A grain elevator
and cotton compress has been built; a
spinning company has completed and
nearly filed its capacious building
with machinery, and is preparing to
double its capacity; the great fair
building has been purchased by COM
pany with capital of $250,000. and is
half filed with machinery; companies
have been formed for building appar-
atus to prepare cotton for the spinner;
fertilizer and other manufactures have
been established in and near the city;
and a concern has been organized for
the manufacture of oleomargarne.
The. aggregate capital invested since
the exposition in manufacturing enter
f1rises is about $1,500,000 employing
no fewer than 1000 operatives, and
paying annual wages approximating
100000.
According to Professor Langley sci
entiic men are convinced that space is
not an utter void, but that it furnishes
the carbonic acid gas by means of
which plants and animals grow. 1t is
calculated that the earth has absorbed