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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-01
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A California electrician has invented a
process whereby gold, silver, and copper
can be instantly smelted by lightning
stroke
It is now claimed that one of the re-
suits of the recent earthquake is the
diminution of the flow of natural gas
from certain wells, and considerable
feeling of anxiety is consequently per
vading the circles interested.
The project of South Polar expedi-
tion is being seriously ventilated in the
scientific circles of Australia, the Gov
enment having expressed its intention
of assisting the enterprise. The Aus
tralian whalcmen are also becoming in
terested in the project, inquiries having
already reached London whether whaling
vessels for an antarctic voyage would
be subsidized by the Government.
Paper doors cost about the same as
wood, and are said to be much better,
because there is no shrinking, swelling,
or warping. The paper door IL com
posed of two thick paper boards stamped
and nodded into panels, and glazed to-
gether with glue and potash, and then
rolled through heavy rollers. 1t is first
covered with waterproof coating, and
then with a fireproof coating, and is
painted and vanished and hung in the
ordinary way.
1t is said that the great glazier of
Alaska is moving at the rate of quarter
of mile per annum toward the sea.
| The front presents wall of ice some five
hundred feet in thickness; its breadth
varies from three to ten miles, and it is
abb $50 miles long. Almost every
! quarter of an hour hundreds of tons of
ice in large blocks fall into the sea,
which they agitate in the most violent
manner, the waves being such as to toss
about the largest vessels that approach
the glacier as if they were small boats.
Even sea-weed has a certain value, and
some day may be in considerable de-
mand. A new English method of utiliz-
ing it consists in boiling it with carbo-
nate of soda. filtering and treating with
sulphuric acid. Thus is obtained a sub
stance to be known as "alguina," which
has more viscosity than starch, or eveh
| gumarabic, and may be proftably used
in stiffening textile fabrics. tits said to
be also adapted for the making of syrups
and for culinary purposes. From the
matter left after extracting this substance
very good writing paper may be cheap
ly made.
The duration of the infectious stages
/ of various diseases is thus given by DIR.
]. f. Pearse, an English physician
Measles, from the second day of the dis
ease, for three weeks; smallpox, from
the fourth day, for four weeks; scarlet
fever, from the fourth day, for seven
weeks; mumps, from the second day, for
three weeks; diphtheria, from the first
day, for three weeks. The incubation
periods, or intervals occurring between
exposure TO infection and the first symp-
toms, are as follows: Whooping cough,
fourteen days; mumps, eighteen days;
measles, ten days; smallpox, twelve
days; scarlet fever, three days; diph-
liberia, fourteen days.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-01
Peasant Life in Italy.

An English lady, the Hon. Margaret
Collier, has written a book, "Our Home
by the Adriatic, 'in which she gives some
very curious accounts of peasant life in
Italy. Cleanliness is not one of the vir-
tues of Italian peasants. Miss Collier
found that to ask for bath is to create
alarm regarding the state of ones health.
One old man who worked on the farm
being asked If he had ever been washed,
replied, after some reflection, that he be-
lieved some one had washed him when
he was a small child. In the rich houses
they have great boards of linen, which
enables them to hold only one washing a
year. The dirty linen is slowed away in
cupboards until the time comes round
for the annual wash. Then is seen
procession of carts, filing down to the
have hard time of it, Their legs are
still bandaged with the fascia, like the
limbs of mummies. Education is not
excessively INDUCED in. A young lady
who had received her education in a con
vent asked Miss Collier if it was really
necessary to cross the ocean to get to
England, and she did not know what an
island is. To animals the lower Italians
are exceedingly cruel, yet otherwise
they take better care of them than of
theA own families, and when doctor is
consulted it is almost always regarding
sick animal. The Italian country gen
tleman does not hesitate to beat the fe-
male members Of his family. Marriages
are arranged after the French method.
A young lady who came to be congratu-
lated by Miss Collier on her approaching
marriage, was asked the name of her
chosen husband. "Oh, don't know, ;"
she answered; papa has not yet told me
that -
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-01
The Stores of Paris.

Paris beauties herself as much for
the rest of the world as for her own
people. She lives off her visitors, and
her store windows are put up to catch
the eye Of the passer-by. These great
boIlevards are lined with stores which
at night are illuminated brilliantly, both
outside and in. Lines of gas-iets with
rei!actors are placed above the windows
on the outside so that they may cast a
strong blaze down upon the goods dis
played. Nearly all the goods of the
store, as a rule, are in the windows, and
the interior is not to be entered except
for purchase. Small stocks are carried,
judge, and as a general thing a first
class Paris store is not more than twelve
feet square on the inside. Iexcept, Of
course, the grand establishments of the
'Magazin du Louvre" and the "Bon
Marche.'
Your average Partisan merchant be-
gins business at about and closes at
about 8 in the evening. At no6n he
takes recess for two hours for his
breakfast, and between 1 and 2 little
business is done all over the city. The
man and his wife, as a rule, work to-
SCIuol5 anu INC WIG mere ~ Tue DelCer
half in business way. 1t is she whe
keeps the cash account, and the books OF
Paris may be said to be kept by women.
There are no smarter women in the
world than these Parisiennes. They are
not beautiful, but they are intensely
practical, and they make excellent wives
and good mothers. The love for family
IS strong in France, general reports to
the. contrary Notwithstanding, and no
nation has more loving fathers and
dotlng mothers than this.-Paris Letter.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-01
HEALTH HINTS.

Drinking cupful of southernwood tea
will often cure headache.
Frosted feet are said to be cured by
holding them in the smoke made by
sprinkling corn meal on live Goals; best
to have it under cover so as to get the
full benefit of the smoke.
In case of sickness a call for old linen
does not mean worn-out shirt bosoms (as
many seem to think, but soft pieces OF
handkerchiefs, napkins and tablecloths
or even old cotton goods, if very fine and
soft. All such pieces should be saved
if you have more than you want give
part to some one less fortunate than your
self.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-01
A SYcOnhant.

My Aunt Jemima-bless her soul
Is ancient and wealthy;
But fate. which is perverse and droll,
Has made her strong and healthy;
Still as l am the only heir
OF her, my antique aunt,
cultivate her age with care
Aud play the sycophant
But Aunt Jemima's robust health
viii last for aye, l fear,
Tho fain I'd gain the precious wealth,
She lives from year to year.
/ cater TO her, tho hate
Hypocrisy and cant.
This part play execrate,
And am sick of aunt.
Rambler
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-01

more than all other Lung Remedies" is
what e. w. Fairman, druggist, Dayton, Ind,
writes of Aliens Lung Balsam. He has sold
ali cases. 25c., SOC. & ST per bottle. Druggists.
AN Italian savant has discovered new and
simple method of catching fish. The bait is a
musical one. 1t Is supposed the Italian goes
down to the rivers edge and plays a hand Or
throw stones at him, he scoops 'em in with o
net. Very simple indeed
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-01

The British Museum has one of the
largest libraries in the world, and it is
greatly used by students and readers en-
gagged in special Tesearch, So great is
the overcrowding in the reading-room
that it is now proposed TO provide an
additional room for general readers.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-01

Dr. M. II. Hinsdale Kewanee, ILL.,, advises us OF a
remarkable cure OF Consumption; He says; "a
neighbors wife was attacked with violent lung dis
ease and pronounced beyond help from Quick Con
sumption. AS last resort the family persuaded
to try DIR. WIN. HALLS BALsAM FOR THE LUNGS. To
the astonishment of all, by the time she had used
one half dozen bottles she about the house do
ing her own work. l saw her at her worst and had
no idea she could recover"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-01

Mr.. Ed. p. Wells, Thetis p. o., Stevens Co,
wash. Territory, was entirely cured of rheu-
matism by the use Of St. Jacobs Oil. He says:
consider 1t a wonderful remedy and will
always speak a good word for it,"
Does the rock hurt you much, Pat?'' in
CURED s'mpathizer of an Ir.shman wht SO
Ioot was imprisoned under rock. mo. itdon't
tt hturt me bit" groaned Pat; "it's me foot that
Architect Edmond Legendre, 40 Sutter
street San Francisco, Cal. states that having
suffered for long time with a severe cough.
ana failing to obtain any relief from doctors
ana the numerous preparations he took, he
became alarmed. Tried Red Star Cough Cure,
ana one bottle entirely cured him.
A FASHION item asserts that "snowballs make
lovely trimming for tuue bonnet" II may
pe ialhef unreasonable 10 observe that small
boys consider snOwbals appropriate trim
mings for mems halls also
a uniform and natural Iesult is produced by
using buckingham's Dye for the Nhiskers.
r er slignt cold, a hacking cough. or lung
troubles take Ayers Cherry PeetoTaL
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-01
BoiIs

And pimples and other like affections caused by
impure blood are readily cured by Hoods sarsapa.
rllla. While 1t purihes this medicine also vitalzes
and enrlches the blood and builds up every function
of the body. Scrofula, humors OF al kinds, swell.
ngs in the neck. hives, rlngworm letter, abscesses
ulcers sores. salt rheum, scald head, ETC., also
cured by this excellent blood purifier
II was troubled with bols, having several OF them
at u time After enduring about all could bear in
suffering, took Hoods Sarsaparilla. Four Ave
bottles entirely cured me- and have had no symp.
toms OF the return OF the bos. l cheerfully recon.
mend Hoods Sarsaparllla to all like ailcted, being
sure they will find speedy relIef."-E. N. NIeHTN
GALE, Quincy, Mass.
Last spring was troubled with boils caused by
my blood being out OF order. Two bottles OF Hood &
Sarsaparil cured me. and recommend it to others
troubled with affections of the blood."-J. scHooH
Peoria, Ill
Hoods SarsapariIIa
Sold by all druggists. eli six for s.. Prepared only
by C. /. HOOD CO., Apothecaries, lowell, Mass.
100 Doses one Dollar
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-01

No lady should live in perpetual fear. and
suffer from the more serious troubles that SO
often appear, when DR.. Kilmer's COMPLETE
FEMALE REMEDY is certain to prevent and cure
Tumor and Cancer there
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-01

New Wonder
is not often recorded, bpt those who write to
Hallett d Co., Portland Maine, will learn of a
genuine one. You can earn from IS to S25 and
upwards day. You can do the work and live
at home, wherever you are located. Full par
ticulars will be sent you free. Some have
earned over $50 in a day. Capital not needed
You are started in business free. Both sexes
All ages. Immense profits sure for those who
start at once, Your first act should be to write
for particulars.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-01

LYONS Patent Metallic Stiffeners prevents
boots and shoes from running over, ripping in
the seams or wearing unevenly on the heels.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-01

Piso's Remedy for Catarrh is agreeable to
use. 1t is not liquid or a snuff. SOC.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-01

Agents Wanted
in every town in New York State
for the Mutual Benefit Life Company,
of Hartford, Conn.
One of tho strongest Companies in America
Life and Accident.
Ca on or write to
8. BROOKS BACON, General Agent,
Syracuse N Y
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-01

If afflicted with sore eyes use DIR. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye-water Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-08-18
Terrific Encounter With a Snake.

The reptile, when he saw he was dis
covered, lifted his scaly head above the
grass an instant to layh course, and with
fire sparkling from his wicked eyes came
straight toward us. Wien he was within
o few yards, however, q we'll directed
shot from revolver and q shower of
stones turned HIM a'ilc, little. AS he
paused, with the evident iatention of re-
newing his charge, fired another shot,
nv last cartridge, and grasping the club
with both hands, determined to sell my
life dearly. AS he came on again, /
struck at the monster twice, missing him
both times, but turning HIN back. AS
he fed crashing through the underbrush,
his hideous figure cleaning in terrible
undulations, was after him. He shot
out of the woods however, and swept
into the road far in advance ofm Less
than ten feet away from him a little girl
was picking berries at the road side, un-
conscious Of her danger. 1 shouted to
her with all my strength, calling upon
her to fly, and screamed: "The snake!
The snake.m The child saw the scaly
monster, and heading him off as he
crossed the road, put her bare foot upon
him and killed him with switch she
broke from bush near by. She then
went on picking raspberries while
measured the snake. He was nearly seven
inches long, but you need not say any
thing about that. -BrLstte, in Brooklyn
EnJls.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-08-18
Human Interest IN Animals.

The interest which yearly increases in
horses and other domcsticated animals
will be as much manifested as ever at the
summer resorts. Although attended with
much difficulty and annoyance, people
with no; ses of th ir own, used either for
the saddle or driving, try in many In
stances to have them removed to the sea-
side OF suburban places where they make
their longest suburban stay, in order that
they may have the en- oyment of them.
To a greater extent this is the case
with let dogs, though many of the best
summer hotels and clearinghouse OBJ
ject to receiving them, and there is
hardly hotel man who has not had to
meet and settle the difficult dog prob
lem; for while guests. AS a rule, object
to having miserable little whipper
snappers trotting and snarling around
the passages and seeing them, Jas
sometimes happens, brought into the
dining-room, there arc many persons who
think so much OF their pet bowwows
that they will not 60 tn mselves where
their canine darl:ngs are refused. 1t is
mainly in order to grutify the growing
human interest in the animal world that
at so many places OF summer resort
special accommodations for horses and
other animals are being provided and ia
cilities increased for having them con-
tribute to the amusement of the great
crowds that congregate at these places.
PHILADELPHIA Tins. ........
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-08-18
An Editors Goodness.

Mr.. McRoberts, now editor or the
Leeds (Eng.) Mercury, was at one time
reporter in this city. He was the most
argumentatiye and, at the same time, the
calmest man that ever struck the town.
He would stop work at fire to argue.
Mr.. McRoberts was on his way home
carly one morning, when an American
citizen suddenly popped up with pis'
tol leve.ed at his head and said:
Throw up yer hands"
"Why?" asked Mr.. McRobcrts, undis'
turbed.
| "Throw them up"
s'But, what fori"
"Put up yer hands, insisted the foot
pad, shaking tie pistol. will you dc
what tell ycul"
THAT depends" said Mr.. McRoberts.
: sTf We can show me any reason why
should pit up ma hands, I no say bat
what weell; but yer mere requaist wad
be no justification fur me to do sac ab'
surd a thing. Moo, why should you, g
complete stranger, ask me at this 'oor e
the mornin', on public street, tae put
up ma hands," 80.
s'Dash you" cried the robLer, "if you
don't quit gabbin' and obey orders, III
blow the top of your head OFF,
"Whaat! Faith, man, ye must be oot
O. yer heed. Come, moo: puir buddy, ,
said Mr.. McRoberts, soothingly, coolly
catching the pistol and wrestling it will
quick twist out of the mans hand
"come, moo, and Ill show ye where
they'll take care o ye. Hech! Dinna "
Try tae fecht, or ecod I'll shoot ye. By
the way, ye might as weeI put up yer all
hands, an jist walk aheed ONE. "That''
! it. Trudge away, moo"
And so Mr.. McRoberts marched hi!
man to the city prison and handed hin
over to Captain Douglass.
cit wuddna be bad idea tae pit hin
in a strait jacket" he said serenely tt
| the officer. "There's little doot but tn
buddy's daft"
And he resumed his interrupted home
ward walk.-San Francisco Post.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-08-18
Dollar Dinners for Half Price.

sIt is wonderful to know how many
prominent business men, who would not
put their hands in your pocket to pick
your purse for any consideration, will
stand in with restaurant walters to beat
the establishment" said q prominent
ho:el man.
sHow is the game worked9"
''It is simple thing, but it depends
entirely upon the large crowds that
throng fashionable restaurants at dinner
time. When sixty or seventy men are
eating in one room the cashier can't see
what each one has unless b, leaves his
desk, and it is very easy for customer
at the farther end of the apartment to
eat ninety-cent dinner and pay for a
thirty or forty cent meal.
"How?"
'In. this way: The customer gives the
water daily tip of dime. The waiter
is careful to zee that his be:efactor gets
thirty-cent check, say every time he
eats q nirety-cent meal. The check is
raid at the counter and no one is the
WISER"
"Are walters never caught at these
tricks?"
"0f course, once in great while. A
chap that wore his white apron a. the
end of that eating bar for six months, "
said the speaker, pointing to the bar,
"got caught at last. He was in the
habit of giving an old, white-mustached
gentleman soup. roast, three or four
Vegetables, dessert, COFFEE, and o:ten a
few crackers and Roquefort cheese, every
day. Well, that customer ought to have
paid 81 meal, but he never brought in
a check for over fifty cents. At last the
cashier took note of the meal provided
for half dollar. I called the waiter up
after inspecting one dinner purchased by
that man and the tifty-cent check turned
in. and bounced the waiter. 1t had a
good moral effect among the other
walters, forty in all"
'Ts there no means to prevent this
beating the house"
The hotel man shock his head sadly as
he said: "Not entirely"
But whenever waiter in his place
gets regular tips that waiter is suspected
and watched. philadelphia NsUs.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-08-18
A Queer Tavern.

George Wickham. the brother of ex-
Mayor Wickham. who has just returned
from Europe and dazzled the other dia.
mond merchants with the splendor OF
his in!portat;ors, describes an eccentric
establishment in Shoreditch, London,
known as "Dirty Dicks" The original
proprietor would not have the spiders
disturb ID nor the floor swept, and was
initiated by chop house in Thames
street, New York. But he had other Pc
culiaritics which are net Observed by his
successors. No person could be served
twice at his bar on the same day. Ways
who tried to deceive the landlord by
walking out and then coming. back
through another door, with their coat
collars turned up and their hats tipped
over their eyes, discovered that the bar
keeper was keen enough to detect them,
and that the rule was infexib!e. All
drinks were the same price. For three
pence YOU might take glass of ale. OF
GIN, of brandy or Of champagne. The
Queer tavern in a street of Lond on, which
corresponds to our Rowery, was the first
place in which champagne was sod by
the glass. As patent corks were not yet
invented. the cranky proprietor preferred
to spoil whole pint of the wine rather
than violate his own regulation about
prices.-New York Star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-08-18
WashingtOn's Private Secretary.

There is in the western part of the city
an old warehouse, built in the last cen.
tury, in which the archives of Govern
ment were stored when brought here by
water until houses conld be prepared for
their reception. This warchcu use belonged
to Col. Lear, native of Portsmouth, n.
H., who wfs fitted for college at Dunn
mer Academy at Byfeld, Mass. graduated
at Harvard University in 49,, and two
years later became Private Secretary to
Gen. Washington. In 1902 he became
Consul General at San Domingo, and III
1901 he filled the same position at AL
giers. The next year (1S05) he went rs
Commissioner to negotiate peace with
Tripoli. On returning to the United
States he became an accountant in the
War Depa tment. One morning in Octo:
Der, 1916, after Col. Lear had finished
breakfast, he took the morning paper
and walked to the summcrhouse in his
Yard. Soon after the sounds of pistol
" ere heard, which alarmed the family,
and proceeding to the summerhou:e th.y
found Col. Lear seated on bench with
his brains blown out and the fatal pistol
j, his death grip. When Washington
gave Col. Lear his war correspondence
to classify; he di iected him to burn the
letters of Mrs. Washington as he tame
across them. She vas not an accom-
plished scholar, and her noted closeness
in money matters doubtless led her to
make occasional remarks in Tally spelled
sentences, which Washington wished to
have destroyed. Ben: Perley Poore.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-08-18
Rich Editors Stables.

The stables belonging to George W.
Childs, proprietor Of the Philadelphia
Ledger, are described by the Philadelphia
NeDs as follows:
"a merciful man is merciful to his
beast" Mr.. Childs is :ncrciful man.
That goes without saying, but | will say
it nevertheless. His stable is large, fine
and fitte.l with every comfort for horse
ard convenience for atteEdants. 1t has
none of the brass mounted frippery or
nonsense that made me think, when l
visited Frank Works equine palace IN
New York, that there ,ught to be law
to prevent men wasting money in such
manner Mr.. Childss stable is not only
comfortable and convenient, but it is also
architectually beautiful and in harmony
with the house of which it is so ncces-
sary an adjunct. The stable for his Jersey
cows is plain, but fitted with every com
fort desirable for the beautiful animals.
What blessing it would be if all dairy
men were to have their kline rs clean and
as we'll kept as his are. There isplcnt!
of running water at Wootton. A little
creek is being trained at present to run
with multifurious. waterfalls. Its water l.
utilized in many ways and cools the milk
in the most perfect spring-house ever
saw. The trough in which the water
runs around the milk vessels is of white
glazed tile, and the water flows through
It as clear as crystal. The inte ior OF
the building itself is of white flint, and
I never saw anything cleaner or sweetei
looking.