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either stayed away from the polls or voted
for Cleveland, they have some reason In
their madness. In fact, we're it not that the
Blaineites are dividing their curses between
the Stalwarts, the Independents, the Prohib-
ittonists, the national committee and Rev.
DR.. Burchard, they would probably become
altogether frantic when Ssalwzrt's name
was mentioned. The latter, however, are
cheerfuiiy complacent and make side re-
marks about Folger being avenged, In
regard to the formation Of
cLEvELAND's CABINET.
there is of course much gossip, but no
news. All is conjecture, and no one knows
except Cleveland and he wont tell Indeed,
it is ridiculous to think that he has yet made
up his mind. II is known, Of course, that
the south wants the postoffice and the attor-
ney generals Office, and that it is generally
conceded that it is a moderate demand. The
treasury department will go to New York
state and the remaining positions ne dis
tributed around. Mcdonald, Bayard,
Thurman and Mcclellan are all talked of and
are prominent candidates. II the postoGiee
goes to the south. Reagan, Of Texas, NAV
Davis cabinet raises too great a howl among
the bloody shirt waYers. AS stated above
the matter is as yet entirely one of guess
work and will remain so for some time. The
principal business of the Republicans just
now is figuring ont
HOW THE THING WAS DONE.
AS said before each one has some particu-
lar element which he blames, be IL the Inde-
pendents, the Stalwarts, the Prohibitionists,
or the Rev. DR.. Burchard. The DelmOnico
supper comes in for its share Of
eursing. but the one thing that all
New York Blaine men unite in condeming
is the Republican national committee.
When John /. Davenport said that Elkins
did not have ability enough ''to run tramp
lodging house in the Bowery with any hope
OF success" he voiced the unanimous SEN
timent of the defeated, and Mike Cregan
touched a responsive chord when be
declared that they were "all a
set of chumps." As near as it
can now be figured out, the national com
mittee gave up New York early in the fight,
and planned TO carry Indiana and Connect
cut, thus electing Blaine without this state.
Accordingly the committee took ali the
money away from here 10 invest 1t in other
states, and now that the plurality is so small,
and it is evident that S20, 900 judiciously ex-
pended in the city on election afternoon
would have changed the result, the wrath Of
the defeated is perhaps justified.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-17
Blaine Interviewed.

BosToS, Nov. 16.-The Journals Augusta
correspondent sends the following interview
with Blaine:
81 asked Mr.. Blaine what he thought
would be the result of the count in New
York, and he replied that he had no more
meanE of knowing it than the unborn child.
He had from the first had no
other desire than that fair
count should be made, and
SO far as he was personally concerned he
would be content with either result. Sue
cess would not elate him and defeat would
not depress him. He was engaged in ener-
getic and profitable work, which had been
interrupted by the campaign, and the deep
regret that he would feel at a Democratic
triumph would be altogether for his party
and the country, not for himself.
II lived too near the presidency in 1881, -
Mr.. Blaine added, after q long pause, ssand
have too keen a sense of its burdens, its en-
barrassments and its perils to be unduly anx-
ious for the ofice.'
To the inquiry how he accounted for the
closeness of the election in New York, Mr..
Blaine said:
Well considering the loss BY the bolt Of
the Independent Republicans and the far
larger loss from the action of the Republican
Prohibitionists, the wonder at first sight is
that the Democrats did not carry the state by
a large majority, as they confidently expected
they would. This result was prevented by
the great accessions to the Republican ranks
of Irish and Irish-American voters and work
ing men of all classes, who sustained me be-
cause of my advocacy of protective tariff
They believe, and believe wisely, that free
trade would reduce their wages.r
''You really think them" queried the re-
porter, 'that you got a considerable vote in
New York"
'Oh, had thousands upon thousands" {"
replied Mr.. Blaine, land should have had
many more but for the intolerant and utterly
improper remark Of DR.. Bucbsrd, which was
quoted everywhere to my prejudice, aud in
many places attributed TO myself, though It
was in the highest degree distasteful
and offensive to me. But a lie, You
know, travels very fast and there
was not time before election to overtake and
correct that one, aud so 1 suffered for it,"
asked Mr.. Blaine If he thought the Irish
American vote was organized at al or had
competent leaders.
HYes,' said he, 81 was deeply impressed
by the ability, the earnestness, and the sin
cerity of those whom met.
There, for instance, is Patrick
Ford, of the Irish World. He is
a man of the most unseIhsh devotion to any
cause be espouses, possessing great faculty
FOR organization, with marked ability and
untiring energy. Gen. Kerwin, of the
7a6let, has, in a large degree, the same Guar
acteristies, and is far-sigbted and able man.
with fine record as Uuion soldier. The
Irish Nation, edited by John Dewey, also gave
US strong and valuable support Alex-
ander Sullivan and John Finertv
we're powerful on the stump.
and did royal service. Roth are natural ora
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Maxi 2 a Cabinet.

CHICAGO, Nov. 16.-The Times has col
leeIed the opinions Of various prominent
Chicago Democrats as to President Cleye-
lands cabinet, and resolves them into the
following: Secretary of state-Bayard; /;
secretary Of war-McClellan; secretary of
the interior-Kernsn; secretary Of the
navy-JOnas; attorney general-Hcadly {:
postmaster general-Vilas; secretary of the
treasury-Randsll: Secretary of state-Thur-
man; secretary Of war-McClellan secre-
tary OF the navy-Lamar; secretary Of treas
ury--Randall; secretary of the interior
Schurz; postmaster general-Reagan; attor-
ney general-McDonald: Secretary OF state
-Bayard; secretary of war-McClellan; sec
rotary of the navy-Hunton; secretary Of the
reasury-Carlisle; secretary of the
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Brooklyn Wants an omce.

foINtAa ANAC-iauA " AAlc OAooc-I
NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-There will be some
disappointment in Brooklyn If Coz. Cleve-
land, upon reaching the White House, does
not recognize the Kings county Democracy
as the political factor in his elevation. There
is no lack Of assurance on tue part Of the
faithful across the bridge in asserting that
they made Cleveland governor, then
nominated him for president, and then
elected him, and If this doesn't count
with him they would very much like to know
what will count SIngularly enough, this is
not 4 machine Democratic view alone, but
the crowd of higher grade politicians who
circle around the Hamilton club repeat in
essence what NAV be heard on the street cor
ners, and around the city hall 1t is question
now who is to be the next presidents chief
adviser in Brooklyn, and interest in
this question is all the greater
because Of the great expectations existing. II
there is not some heart burning as TO the
outcome it viii be a surprise.
Kingsley, it is admitted, did more at Chi
eago to make Cleveland the nominee than
any other man, but Beecher, it is urged,
bears of the honor, and should be preferred
In the White house counsels. Already there
is dispute. The Independents
think that Carl Schurz should
have portfolio and are confident that Mr..
Cleveland viii bestow one upon him. The
Democrats say that if Cleveland wants to dig
his grave as soon as he reaches the White
house, he will appoint Schurz, but that II he
lstens to good horse sense, such as be is
more likely to get from Kingsley
than from the Plymouth pulpit, be
will settle with Schurz in some
other way. The Independents think
that the state patronage should be disposed
ofwith a single eye to building up their party,
so as to compel the next Republican state
convention, or the Democratic state eonven-
tion, to nominate Mayor Low for governor
The Democrats want to know If they are to
he fed at the second table. They rather
think the president owes something to their
support The Independents demand what
they want, and the Democrats look 70 King
sley.
Many ask: 'sWin Gen. Slocum be secre-
tary of wari' He was sacrificed at Syracuse
for Mayor Cleveland, of Buffalo, and he was
sacrificed at Chicago for Gov. Cleveland, Of
NewYork. II Kings county had said the word
st Syracuse OF at Chicago at the critical time
Gen. Slocum's friends believe he would be
the president elect to-day.
Many ask, ''win Hugh Mclaughlin be col
lector of the port Of New Yorkl'' BE is now
viewed as one Of the ablest politicians in the
state. and Grover Cleveland has begun, il Is
said In have for him the same warm feeling
that Mr.. Tilden has always shown him. Nc
Laughlin's friends say that, now that the
Democrats have triumphed, he has no ambi-
ton except to live the rest Of his days under
a Democia attic administration He started bis
political career In the navy yard in the time
OF peace, and he viii be glad in all prob
ability to help put back there the survivors Of
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his Monumental Cheek.

PITTsBURG, Pa, Nov. 16.-Jos. d. Weeks,
treasurer Of the national Republican commit
tee, was in the city to-day and returned to
New YORK tonight. In an interview he said:
1T is impossible to tell what the national
committee will do when the official count is
finished. The board of county canvassers
have no power to change the face Of the re-
turns except in case OF manifest clerical er-
rors and under certain conditions tO count
ballots that were rejected by them as blanks
or defective. Any action look
ing TO change in the re-
turns except above stated.
must be brought before the courts, who have
power by mandamus TO instruct inspectors
and canvassers to change the iaee OF the re-
turns. The national committee viii stick II
out as long as there is any hope. The Re
publican people of this country expect their
national committee to exhaust every means
within their power 20 reach the actual results
Of the election, and until 1t has done that it
viii remain in active service. As far as I
am concerned, think there is still some
hope"
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Counting the Electoral Vote.
rSnecial telegram 10 The Glnr. 1


WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-A good many able
the electoral vote viii be counted by the two
houses Of congress in accordance with the
tEeuty-secoud joint rule. There is no tsen-
ty-second joint rule now in force. There is not
in existence any rule or law governing the
counting of the vote, so that
the only regulation for that
important duty is the very vague and gen
eral provision OF the constitution, which was
adopted before it was dreamed that there ever
would be dispute over an electoral vote
which would not be settled at the farthest nv
the electoral college itself. In consequence
Of this lack of provision for counting the
vote it is matter of con ngratulation that the
electoral vote Is not likely TO provoke objec-
tion when it gets TO congress.
II there were aoy prospect Of
disputed returns, congress would be in inst
the same condition that it was eight wears
ago, when, after the election had taken
place and was claimed by each party and each
party controlled one branch of congress. that
body had to attempt the delicate task of pro-
viding some way Of settling the disputed
points. The situatioa would be worse now
than 1t was then in the respect that then su
electoral commission bad never been tried.
now it has been and nothing could induce
both parties to agree on repetition.
There is some iatere sting political history
connected with this twenty-second joint rule.
1t was adopted February 6, 1865, at which
time Oliver 2. Morton was not member Of
the senate, but tradition credits him with
the inspiration of it. 1t provided that in
case of dispute, the two houses shall separate
aud no Affirmative action shall be taken
without the agrseiheAt Of both houses. nor
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the old company Of employees that helped
him into politics when he was their fore
man.
Before any plans for the future can be laid
In federal politics in Brooklyn the size Of
Cieveland's gratitude to either must be as
certafned
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-03-05
Curious Facts Ahont Cancer.

A writer in London Truth makes some
observations in regard to the causes of
cancer of curious and highly interest.
ing character. These observations are
based upon certain data furnished by
eminent French physicians. The writer
claims that the disease haunts low-lyino
river sides and the mouths of streams
and cities. Among the authorities. Ras-
pail, when in Holland some seventeen or
eighteen years ago, was struck with the
prevalence of the disease in the low-lying
districts, and still more along the mouths
of the Scheldt and the Rhine. This
investigation at first ascribed the fire.
quency of the malady to the electrical
conditions produced by the metallic
plates which the women of the different
Netherlandish Localities wear on their
heads to support their tulle lace and
muslin caps; but he also found that in
the tidal regions of the Seine. where the
soil is alluvial, there was great deal of
cancer, although no metal entered into
the head gear. Pursuing his obserya-
tions at the mouth of other rivers he was
led to believe that conditions of soil and
atmosphere which developed scrofula
were also favorable. to cancer, malady
which is apt to first show itself in a
glandular region. The writer in Truth
also cites Trousseau, who used to advise
patients with cancerous tendency to try
and live where the soil was dry, the air
brisk and the aspect sunny. A number
of prominent cases are given of people
who have died in Paris near underground
water courses and along the Seine, and
the prevalence of the disease in such low
lying districts as Athlone, Ireland, and
hartford, the Marshes, Woolwich and
Chelsea in corroboration of the above
theory
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-03-05
SELECT SIFTINGS.

The "Bay Psalm Book" published az
Cambridge in 1910, was the second book
printed in British America. 1t went
through seventy editions.
In France, until the introduction of
postage stamps, and the rule of double
postage for unpaid letters, it was consid-
cred ill-bred to prepay letter addressed
to a friend.
In Paris there are men who make liy.
ing by collecting linseed plasters from the
hospitals, pressing the Oil from the lin
seed and selling the linen to the paper
manufacturers
The ways in which the memory begins
to fail are often very curious. There is a
case on record of man who could never
remember words beginning with I'd, )"
and another person attached no idea
whatever to the figure "5."
Recent experiments in German schools
have shown that the difficulty in reading
black letters on a white ground compared
to that of reading white on black ground
is as 421 to 496, and, therefore, the slate
and the blackboard will probably fall into
disuse in the empire.
According to recent authority Jap
anese fish, known as Fuku, is so poison
GUS that death follows almost instantane-
ously after eating only moderate piece
OF it. 1t is not unfrequently the cause of
death among the lower classes, who be.
ieve it to be possessed of certain marvel
GUS properties, on account of which they
risk the danger of being poisoned.
On the top of the Washington monu-
ment, at height of four hundred and ten
feet, great quantities of bees and wasps
have been seen, and, strange to say, rats
even find their way up there after crumbs
from the luncheons of the worlxmen.
Three large rats found there made their
exit by jumping down the interior of the
column, finding sure death at the bottom.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-03-05
SCIENTIFIC AND 1NDUsTRIAL

A bureau of commercial science has
been instituted in France. Its purpose
is to bring together information bearing
on commerce, foreign industries, etc.
Luminous paint has been applied TO
harness with desirable RESULTS. AT fight
the position Of the horse is clearly In
dicated, and it does not appear that the
animal is alarmed in the slightest by his
bright equipment.
Two books formed with sheet-iron
leaves have been sent to the Amsterdam
exhibition by an English firm, as an
Illustration of the perfection to which
the process of rolling sheets of iron has
been brought. The leaves are said to be
no thicker than ''good-toned paper"
Leather wheels are made in France for
railroad and other cars. The inventor Of
the process is Nj. de Ia Roche Untanned
buffalo hides are cut into strips, and these
are built up into solid disks, which are
strongly held together by two iron rings
alter they have been subjected to hy-
draulic pressure.
A textile manufacturing firm in Boston
has adopted an electrical work indicator.
which records the movements of all the
looms and other machines within the
works. The indicator occupies little
more space in the office than a common
clock would fill, yet a glance at it will
tell how all the operations throughout
the large works are progressing.
From the observations taken at Colon
by the engineers engaged on the Panama
lnter-oceanic canal, M. de Lesseps finds,
according to his paper read before the
academy of sciences, Paris, that the
great earthquake wave caused by the re-
cent disturbances at Java, would appear
to have made its way across the Indian
and Atlantic oceans, round the Cape Of
Good Hope, to the east coast of Central
America in about thirty hours.
A company with capital of 50, 5OO,,
600, partly English, bought nearly
1000, 600 acres of swamp land in Louis
lana last spring, and had the most com
prehensive system of improvement by
draining and cultivating begun. The
territory lies in Vermillion, Cameron and
Calcasieu parishes, and has a frontage on
the Gulf of 100 miles, with depth of
thirty miles. Great quantities of sugar
may be raised upon it.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-03-05
A Remarkable Caterpillar.

There is genuine case living crea-
ture becoming converted into vegeta-
blel 1t occurs in caterpillar that lives
in New Zealand and in Australia. There
are several specimens at the College of
Surgeons, London, and elsewhere. We
see a caterpillar as hard as If it was carved
out of wood, and from it is growing a
long stem. The history of it is as fol-
lows:
The caterpillar eats fungus, or the
sporules of fungus, and these immedi-
ately begin to grow in its inside. The
insect feels uncomfortable, and possibly
thinking it is going to turn into a chrys-
ais, buries itself in the ground and there
dies.
The fungus goes on growing and alb
sorbing, the entire contents of the Skin
taking the exact form of the creature.
Having done this, it throws out a shoot.
and this always at certain fixed spot
namely, at the joint at the back of the
head. Several foreign naturalists pos
sess specimens which they have kindly
shown and explained.
This caterpillar is found also in China,
where it is used as food.
Nature, frequently prone to produce in
lnanimste substances models of her own
living creations, has produced plant
that resembles snake in a most remark
able manner. This is simple house-leek,
which in certain stages of its growth re-
markably resembles a snake.
A hairy viper was once seen in the AL
gerian country, near Drariah, which re-
sembled an enormous caterpillar 1t
was of a brownish-red color, and its
length was about twenty-five inches.
The moment it saw that it was observed.
it glided into the brushwood, and all
attempts to discover it were unavail-
in0
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-03-05
A Crow ROOst.

The learned men at the Smithsonian
Institution, with others interested in the
migration of the birds, are studying a
crow roost on bank of the Potomac.
above the Chain bridge. Washington,
Thousands of crows from all parts of the
country thereabouts go to and from this
''roost' daily.
As it lies directly west of Washington,
the consequence is those beneath whose
path the city lies are seen flying west in
the evening and east in the morning.
The latter flight occurs in the dawn, and
of course is witnessed by few persons, but
the returning movement is conspicuous.
1t begins carly in the afternoon and con-
tinues until dark.
During all those hours steady, cease
less stream of the great black birds
passes along, hundreds and thousands
of them, not in focks, but in continu-
GUS train. On fair days. the crows fly
high and firmly; on windy days there is
often much trouble, obliging the birds
to tack and shift, until they are some
times so heavy that they are forced to
alight on the housetops to gather strength
to proceed.
1t happens that most of the strong
winds, particularly of February and
March, come out of the West, thus di-
rectly opposing the progress of such
birds as pass over the city. Such
''roosts" are well known in various parts
of the eastern United States; but the
impulse whose potency forces such long
daily journeys upon the birds is a mys-
terry as yet unexplained.
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hour was able to talk with those about
him freely, though feebly.n
Another case, strongly attested by a
dozen or more British military officers in
India, was of falSir who was locked up
in sealed box, buried, and mound
piled over the place, on which barley
was sown. A guard of four was on
watch, night and day, at the mound.
The barley grew, and at the end of or we
remember arighD about two months, the
mound was opened, the man unearthed,
and found to be somewhat like amummy
in appearance, but was soon able to sit
up and speak, and soon recovered.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-03-05
FOX Wnrshin-

Among the japanese, it is said, is a
mythical person called Uza. Uza was
deifed, and honors supposed due him are
daily offered to his accredited servants.
the foxes. This alteration is accorded in
the belief that Uza (sOmetimes called
InarD discovered and cultivated the rice
plant, and all through Japan may be
seen shrines or temples for fox worship.
1t is one of the prevailing superstitions,
and the priests of fox temples bring of
ferlngs every morning to the two foxes
or badgers dwelling securely underneath
the small building.
At the shTines are two gilded foxes.
Before them is placed a tray, upon which
Yre small bowls of rice, and foxes nodded
n sugar, all supposed to be most CRATE
fully received.