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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-04-30

2 AwRENCE HOUSE, Tionesia, Pa,
An s. Brockwav. Proprietor. This
house is centrally located. Everything
,,eN and well furnished. Superior Ac-
cnWlnodations and strict attention given
e. guests. Vegetables apd Fruits OF all
kinds served in their season. Sample
roam for Com mcrcial Agents.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-04-30
The &Ortst gspahIifau.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APR, 80, 1854.
BOROUGH oFFIcERs.

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yrs, w. A.. Eagles 2 yrs, Q. Bonner yr.
Justices Of the Pedce-J, Il. Brennan,
D. s. Knox.
C0nstable-H. II. Shoemaker.
school DirectorS-G. w. Robinson, A.
p. Kelly, J. II. Dingman, d. s. Knox, j..
w. Morrow, II. $. Broclkway.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-04-30
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.
Condensed Time Table TiOnesta station.

United Presbyterian services in
the Presbyterian church, next Sab
bath morning and evening, by Rev.
j. G. Greer. All are cordially invit.
ed to attend.
Preaching in the F. M. Church
next Sunday evening at 7 o'clock,
Rev. j. d. Rhodes officiating.
Rev. Hicks will occupy the pulpit
of the M. Z. Church next Sunday
evening, at 7:30.
Presbyterian Sabbath School at
1890 p. M; M. E. Sabbath School at
10 a. IN.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
What lIillionaires Eat.
[Cor. indianapolis Sentinel


Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, is the
wealthiest and one of the oldest United
States senators. He is also one of the
plainest men to be found anywhere.
He may be called "home granny"
He wears long white whiskers and store
clothes. He is fond of old-fashioned
things, especially olden-time dinners.
The other day he sat in the cloak-room
of the Democratic side of the senate
with number of his old senatorial
friends, smoking and joking. Finally
the conversation turned on dinners and
good things to eat Senator Butler, of
South Carolina, knows a good dinner
as well as any man when it is served
out to him, and in his most eloquent
terms he told how he liked canvas-back
duck and sauterne, and Canada grouse
and champagne, and terrapin and good
old sherry, and how he wanted it served
up hot, with royal crowd of boys
about him. Then several other sem
ators named their fayorite dishes. Sem
ator Brown looked on and listened,
while stream of water trickled out of
his mouth. Finally, he broke in:
"Well, gentlemen, you may talk of
your terrapin and champagne, and your
crowds, and all that, but you may just
dish up old 10 Brown and his old
woman puddle duck and sweet pota-
toes"
And he wiped his mouth on his coat
sleeye and fairly worked his jaws at the
thought of it.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
Padding a Cablegram.
[Cincinnati Times-Star.l


An interesting story is told of a Boston
journalist who at the time Of the Java earth
quake. made two-column article out of q
thirty word dispatch. He has a rare volume
in his possession which gave an account of a
former earthquake in Java, will. a very ac-
curate description of the place, names, etc.
This he simply rehashed, and, as it happened
he hit the nail on the head After while
several OF the papers to whom he sold the dis
patch began to think it strange that he should
have had such large item almost exclus-
lively, and they inquired aboutit. Dana, of The
New York Sun, asked the editor concerning
it, and wanted to see the original kilograms
He was tod that they had been given to an
other paper. Mr.. Dana again became sus
picious, and he was told that coffee mer-
chant in Java had sent the journalist in cues
ton 400 words, and he had amplified and
padded it until he made very vivid and
graphic account. For while Dana swallowed
the story, and then began to think it odd that
coffee merchant should have such wonder
full idea of news, and when he finally learned
the truth ne was gracious enough to saw that
after all it was well done
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
A Hereditary Little Girl Artist.
Lillian Whiting's Boston Letter.


Mr.. Howells has little 1O-year-
daughter winsome little maiden
with a strong artistic leading. To peo-
pie curious in heredity this may furnish
a marked instance. The little girls
mother is sister of the distinguished
sculptor, Larkin w. Mead, and is her.
self, [ am told, an artist of no slight
ability. Mr.. Howells has the artistic
temperament in fine and rare degree,
being himself, as an author should be,
greater and higher than his creations
even, and that the little daughter
should so early develop notable taste
and more notable power of execution
at SO early an age is not, p rhaps
singular.
"A Little Girl Among the Old Mas
ters" is the title of the little sketch book
kept by the little maiden when in
Europe last year, and is, as Mr.. Howells
exquisitely phrases it, "the reflection
in child's soul of the sweetness and
beauty of early Italian art" The little
maiden became enamored of seraphs
and madonnas; they told their own
stories to her, which she has ex-
pressed in her drawings, to each of
which Mr.. Howells prefxes half
humorous, half-tender preface of few
lines. She was accustomed to visit the
galleries and then, returning home,
curl herself up in an armchair and on
her little block draw the sketches.
have seldom in my life been more
interested than in tracing this little
maiden's thought in her pictured i'm.
pressions, and I am sure we shall all
watch her art development as she grows
older with a peculiar interest. If the
promise is indicative of the fulfllment
we shall have in Mr.. Howells' little
daughter an artist that America may be
honored in claiming.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
sharper than a Razor.
Wall Street News


A long wasted man, with the nose of
fox and an eye full of speculation,
walked up to a secondhand clothier in
Buffalo the other day and said:
"Sae that overcoat hanging out down
there?p
"Of course"
"Well, I've taken fancy to it. It's
rather cheeky to ask you to go down
there, but I'll make it an object; I
won't give but So for the coat, but I'll
give you 81 to buy it for me. You
are also Jew, and know how to beat
him down. Here are SO.
The dealer took the money and
started off, and in five minutes was
back with the coat
"Good," chuckled the other. s'I
reckoned you'd lay him out. How much
did you make for your share?"
9Vhell, ash dot is my branch sthore,
and | only ask Sc fur de goat, I was
about 50 ahead"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
A Battle with Rats ON Pixies Peak.
for Buffalo Cor1riar I

The officer in charge of the signal
station, Sergt. Boyington, of Grand
Haven, Mich, explainedt to us the meth
DDS of the signal service. I should
judge from what he said that the duties
of an officer stationed on Pixies peak are
about as trying as at any point. The
lightning playing on rocks mid torrents
OF rain and sleet In summer, and storms
of sleet and snow in spring and fall,
often striking the station, tearing the
instrument in pieces, and leaving the
persons in charge stunned and half
dead with he shock, the confinement by
snow and ice in winter without food or
fire for days together, the exceedingly
high altitude, aud the low degree Of
temperature the year round, all con-
tribute to render it anything but de-
sirable situation. He also told us the
particulars of the rats destroying the
little daughter of his predecessor, Sergt
O'Kief.
1t seems that the sergeant wife came
up on the peak to visit him, bringing
with her the baby and some fresh meat.
They had built somewhat hot fire in
the room, and, as thessun came out and
it grew warmer, they opened the doors
and windows. The rats, attracted by
the smell of the meat, came into the
house, few at first These the SER
geant killed and threw out. They kept
on coming, faster and faster, and grow
ing more and more furious, until the
whole mountain seemed alive with
them.
The sergeant and his wife sprang in
side of large helix and turned on the
full force of the battery. The rats that
struck the coil were killed by the cur
rent and rolled back. Those that
jumped over the sergeant and his wife
killed with clubs. This continued for
o couple of hours, and then, as there
seemed no prospect of it terminating in
that way, he rushed out and closed the
doors and windows, and, after being
terribly scratched and bitten, he sue
ceeded in killing those remaining in the
room. The baby had been lying on the
bed, and in the excitement they had for
gotten all about her. When things
were again quiet, and they turned to
look for her, they found nothing left
but, her bones. There were several
specimens Of this vermin sitting around
on the rocks, but they have been shot
at SO much by the tourists that they are
exceedingly shy now, and harder to hit
than weasel or prairie dog. They are
brown instead of gray, about three
times as large as an ordinary barn rat,
and have oil their points except the file
tail
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
Tale OF a Pet Dog and an Eagle.
montana Inter Mountain.

A woman living near Glendive. in
Dawson county, exhibited wonderful
GOODNESS and nerve few days ago and
furnished additional evidence that in
times of great danger woman is equal
to almost any emergency. She was the
owner of pet dog which on last
Thursday was playing in the yard with
another dog of about the same age and
complexion. Suddenly the canine gave
a yelp of almost mortal terror as large
eagle, with wings of more ample pro-
portions than blacksmith's apron,
swooped down from the blue empyrean
of heaven and picked up the little cur
in his muscular talons.
With the true western woman.
brought up amid the dangers of rough
border life and with no tight-ftting
skirt to prevent the free movement of
her limbs, to think is to act. On the
instant this noble representative of a
noble sex flew into the kitchen where
her. husband kept his trusty shotgun
with which, in the early days when
bloodthirsty Indians were rampant on
the plains, he had often gone out and
shot fool hens. She bounced ont of
the front door, gun in hand. In an in
slant she directed her eagle eye into
the air, where, soaring about ten feet
distant, she discerned the carnivorous
emblem of our national liberties with
her yellow poodle grasped co1vulsively
but firmly In its claws. For moment
she ran her trained eye along the bar
rel of the gun in the direction of the
larcenous bird, closed her liquid orbs
with q shudder and banged away.
When she opened them the eagle was
prospecting interstellar space and the
dog lay scattered in fragments all over
the yard. She wept bitter tears, and
as she picked up the pieces and told
her youngest boy to grease the sausage
machine she swore in broken Missouri.
and with many bitter sob, everlasting
war on the shotgun policy.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
THE TRAINING OF SINGERS.
Opportunities For the Promotion Of
Musical Culture as Good An Amer
len as In Eurnne

Opportunities For the Promotion Of
Musical Culture as Good An Amer
lea as In Europe.
IF. g. De Fontaine in American Art Journal. !
There is no theme which the pen of
the American journalist ought to en-
phasize more forcibly or combat more
persistently than the prevalent idea on
the part of many persons that musical
training in Europe is essential to sue
cess in the United States.
Its true that there are excellent teach
ers in many of the cities of Europe whose
several styles have been transmitted
from generation to generation, and who,
for round sum, are prepared to con-
tinue the process to all who may
afford the luxury, profusely prom
ising their too confding pupils the
while the honors of debut on some
continental stage. The victim, burn
ing with ambition, and cajojed into the
belief that she possesses a phenomenal
voice, plods on in her studies and i'm.
patiently awaits the hour when she is
to be introduced to manager and the
public. If she is handsome, or witty,
or wealthy, her half Bohemian life will, ;,
perhaps have made her careful or plia-
BILE under the pressure of the tempta-
tions by which she may be surrounded,
and the virtue she once so proudly
wore is yielded to the patron on
whom she blindlv rests her aspirations.
The end of her tutelage comes, her first
appearance is secured, probably in some
minor part on a provincial stage. The
event is heralded to her expectant
friends, and then she is dropped aside
as one of thousand other failures to
mourn the loss of time and money, if
not something more precious, and be
content to fill q second or third rate
position under some impresario who
may buy her for a song. Unfortun-
atelv such instances are not rare.
1t requires no argument to demon
strate the fact that here in America
abound facilities as ample, teachers as
good and opportunities as great for the
promotion of the highest musical Gull
ture as any that exist in Europe We
have Conservatives where one may
study everything from the rudiments to
the classics; professors who hay come
from and taught in the best schools of
the world, and who in coming here con-
fess that they have found an artistic
soil, and voices whose wealth of tone
and richness of quality are not sur
passed elsewhere; our orchestras, sym
phony and philharmonic societies are
replete with talent and the works of the
great composers are given with the
same skill that marks their production
abroad. When we fortify these facts
by the statement that America has been
the birthplace of such artists as Patti,
Van Zandt, Albani, Nordica, Hauk,
Kellogg, Sterling, and others whose
origin is half hidden under the foreign
manufactured names that seem to be
regarded as the necessary element of a
European reputation. Enough has
been said to prove that among our So
100000 people there are yet hundreds
and thousands of singers, who, under
favorable conditions, would be able to
take rank with the prime donne of the
world
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
LOST HIS APPETITE.
The Terror or the Plains Who Or
derea Rattiesnake on Toast.

ss#kOneye0n0 Oun.
Atypioal cowboy, fresh from his herd,
went into Elitch's chop-house last
night. The tables were all filled with
the exception of one, at which the ter
ror of the plains seated himself AS he
pulled off his hat and nntied the red
bandanna handkerchief from around his
throat he looked disdainfully around.
The nimble waiter brushed an imag-
mary bread crumb fran the cloth,
whisked bill Of fare from the castor,
and placed it before the festive and un-
tanned youth. -
"Take it away" he snarled. "I can't
eat that. want rattlesnake on toast" I"
"Rattlesnake on toastia yelled the
waiter.
"Ratt' esnake-- on toast" responded
the cook
There was q slight fntter among the
guests at this strange order, and the
cowboy was scanned by many curious
eyes.
He looked a little disconnected at
having his order so promptly taken,
and glanced furtively toward the front
of the house. He saw the cooks and
walters engaged in filling orders and
looking as solemn as grayeyards after
midnight.
A cook deftly removed the skin from
pickerel, and emitting q strip the
proper shape, placed it in a spider.
The waiter who had taken the order
came tripping back to the bold buc-
cancer of the pappas:
HWi11 Won hovo vOrr On oLo Uva11 dooA
or rare? e?''
"Rare, with oodles of milk gravy on
it."
Gimme that snake rare-milk gravy
On the side," was hallooed to the cook.
Snake rare; milk gravy side; ;"
cook shouted back.
"Say" said the bovine steerer as the
waiter passed him. "I'll take it we'll
done"
Make it we'll done"
Make it well done,". was answered
back
The lariat wrestler began to grow
nervous. The devil-may- care express
sion had left his eyes, and soft, SUBJ
dued, melancholy shade had taken its
place. He fdgeted in his chair, and
seemed to be nerving himself for an
ordeal.
Here you are. sir" said the culinary
Ganymede, placing dish in which was
something nicely coiled, which looked
like fried specimen of the genus GRO
talus. "Have a little Worcester sauce +?
Gives very fine. flavor. Some folks
like mushrooms with their snakes.
Others prefer Chill colorow. A little
salad dressing don't go bad. There is
vinegar and olive oil in the caster.
Will you have tea or coffee? Very fine
snake. Caught yesterday. Fat and
tender"
When the waiter was delivering him
self of this eulogy on the meal, the
STEER puncher showed his chair back.
His eyes bulged out and he became pale
around the gills.
II don't think I'll eat anything. I
Amt hungry" he said as he rose un-
steadily to mis- feet and reached for his
hat.
Maybe you'd prefer Drilled mocca-
SIM" in inuatingly suggested the
waiter.
"No," he replied, as the ashen pallor
deepened on his face. II amt bit
hungry" He cast another glance at
the dish he had ordered, and made a
break for the door, He forgot to ''pay
at the counter"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
Her First SMOKE,
New York Journal. !

The young wife of quite prominent
society man was sent home in carriage
from a fashionable modiste's very Ill,
but the family physician discovered it
was the effect of the "first smoke. ?
New York prominent society is to be
congratulated on the great Importance
given to SO small a discovery.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
UNLESS.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.l
Unless you can muse In a crowd all day
On the absent face that fixed you;
Unless you can love as the angels may,
With the breath of Heaven betwixt you;
Unless you can dream that his faith Is fast,
Through behooving and unbehooving;
Unless you can die when the dream is past
Oh, never call it lovingl
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
Plantation Philosophy.

Good hum9r is de safes quality in
a man. As bng as de deg wags his tail
dar ain no danger in him.
Use 'spicious O de man whut bows
low. De mole goes down mighty low.
but ah, Lawd, whut mischief he does.
Dar's no hope in dis worl an no hope
in de mex fur de man whnt doan Iub
his chile. In dis respeck he's wus den
de wolf.
Too close 'tention ter business amt
good fur de system. De rooster what
crows all night, crows de weakes' in de
mornin'.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
[Exchange.]

A gentleman who takes business
view OF things, when recently asked
respecting person of quite poetic
temperament, replied, ooh, he's one of
those men who have soarings after the
infinite, and diVings after the unfathom-
able, but who never pays cash."
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
A Beautiful Latin scholar.
Detroit Free Press l

iDbtIOlG TTE6 TT6SS.
Mother" said slangy Cass avenue boy at
the table when company was present, Gthis
butter is 0. K, but the bread is N. G., and
ought to get the G.. B."
"Just hear himl" explained the fond mother;
"he is such a beautiful Latin scholar that
don't pretend to understand word he sayslu
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29

Henry Ward Beecher: Men don't
like to think. It is work, and nobody
likes to work Prof. Stuart says that
laziness is two-thirds total deprayity
viii throw in the other third.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29

Life: Pooty felles in dis worr amt gin,-
rally good fur much 'ceptin' jes' to look at;
de rosebush doan' pan out well when yo' cum
to lay in Yo' wintah fah-wood.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29

Saturday Review: The passion 70
regulating peoples private affairs &C
cording to fixed standard of propriets
grows by indulgence upon certai
order of politicians.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29

Atlantic Monthly: Better to form
our closest alliance with those who will
not bear WITH our faults, but who will
use strenuous means to bear US out OF
them.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
Repartee ON the spur 0rthe Moment


Repartee on the spur Orthe Moment.
[San Francisco. Wasp
One of San Frartciscos- British col
ony: Il said rawther neat thing the
other day; neat enough to repeat, you
knaw. / was talking with fellah-an
American, you knaw-and we got into
abit of an argument which he C included
by yulgarly remarking, you knaw, I
think you're a d-n fool I waited a
moment to make it more crushing, you
kaaw, and then I said, you're another.
Neat, wasn't it?"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29

Cincinnati Judge, before whom a
man was arraigned for cruelty to ami
lnals, decided that mules have no rights
IN Cincinnati courts.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
Don,eseicated Fish.
[Chicago Tin1es.l

Col. Aderhold, of Kissimme City,
Fla, has trained fish which are as
gentle as chickens. When he appears
they swim toward him to receive their
food from his hand. The Dream and
perch feed at the first table, the catfish
comes afterward. The little creatures
form a thoroughly happy family.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29

Cor. Boston Commercial Bulletin.
There is another place where I got
fore BILE view of England upon the
water, and that was in the columns of
the leading London dailies which were
devoted to advertisements of the myr-
lad of lines of sailing and steamship
packets. that with London, Liverpool,
etc, for base, were making ready to
move across all seas, in search of all
the leading ports of the globe. I was
struck by the significance of the names
of the lines of great ocean steamers, for
the ingenuity that had been displayed
by their owners in selecting titles for
their lines and for their individual boats
revealed at once something of the ex
tent and number of Englands lines
and steamers.
There we're advertisements of national
lines, where the world had been ex-
hausted to find names of nations for
the sh ps of that line; clan lines,
where the names of all the clans of
Scotland were written upon its vessels;
hall lines, where the list of the stately
halls of England was fast being appro-
priated, from Chatsworth down, and
continental lines which had an apparent
copyright upon the names of five differ
ent countries of Europe; city lines,
with ships called after the greatest
cities of the world, from Rome to New
York, and so on indefinitely, as any
reader may see for himself, by simply
reading London and Liverpool steam
ship advertisements in English papers.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
Roast Reef for the English Tongue.



Every waiter in continental Europe
knows at least the meaning of two Eng
lish words, hut in the pronunciation of
which each has adopted a different
method. It never would be imagined
that there were so many ways to say
roast beef. At any rate, whenever you
approach waiter on the subject of what
you want for lunch, his entire English
vocabulary is fired at you. He is con-
vinced that because you use the English
tongue, you must subsist solely on that
standard national dish; and, as you cam
not command his language to convince
him to the contrary, you resign your
self to your fate and allow him to bring
it in. Thus the evil perpetuates itself
by circle Of conclusions. The useless
ness of contest becomes soon apparent,
and the virtue consists in entire
resignation, with only one consolation
to be reserved. Do not allow him the
pleasure of thinking that his suggestion
has set at rest mind struggling with
doubt, but as soon as his waitership ap-
pears anticipate the onslaught by
shouting "kosbif.' With the wind
taken out of his sails he looks the pic
ture of misery, but contact will soon
bring your heart to that deg ee OF
hardness that such exhibitions do not
have any appreciable effect.