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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10

Pasteurs method of preventing hydro
phobia is by inoculation, not by vaccina-
ton. The former process produces the
genuine malady in a mild and innocuous
form; the latter employs one malady to
antagonze and battle more serious one.
Thus cow-pox is employed to ward off
smallpox. In recent chat with cor
respondent NJ. Pasteur described his ex-
periments and their results as follows
'T began my experiments in 1882 in this
way: took portion of the spinal cord
of dog which had died of hydrophobia
and with that inoculated a rabbit in
the first membrane of the brain. 1t went
mad in fifteen days. Then with por.
ton of the spinal cord of this rabbit l
inoculated another rabbit In the same
way, and it went mad in thirteen days,
and so on. l continued inoculations from
rabbit to rabbit, finding the strength of
the virus increase each time until the
ninetieth time produced hydrophybia in
only seven days. then took very small
portions of the spinal cord of this nine
tieth rabbit, and which contained the
greatest virulence yet obtained, and
suspended these bits of virus in empty
bottles, in which the air was kept very
dry by means of potash on the bottom of
the bottle. After several days exposure
in dry, cold temperature the virus
loses all its strength. The time required
for this loss depends on the size of the
piece and the dryness and GOODNESS of
the air. Then of this virus which has
lost its strength / take a small portion
dissolved in sterile bouillon, and with
pravaz syringe innoculate the animal.
Each day / innoculate it again with
virus, just little stronger each time
until at last the system has become so
accustomed to the poison that can use
the virus which had not been dried at all
and which would produce hydrophobia
in seven days if the system had not been
so treated to it by degrees. have
treated one hundred dogs in this way,
and not one has become mad"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10

Commenting upon the vast fortune
left by the late w. II. Vanderbilt the
Chicago Herald says: 1.-TWO hundred
millionsl What are they7 Who can
compute their power for good or evil9
Who can imagine them in a single pile
or grasp the responsibilities involved in
their pos9essonl Two hundred millions
are one tenth OF the national debt at its
greatest figure. They are more by $780,
600 than the entire customs revenues of
the United States, and they are con.
siderably in excess of one-half of the en-
tire revenue of the republic from all
sources. They would support the United
States army of %, 900 men for five years,
pay the 25O, 900 pensioners for three
years, run the naval establish.
ment for ten years, build a double
track from New York to San Francisco,
and give every man, woman and child
in the United States 81. Five per cent.
interest on them would yield an income
of $40, 900, 900 per annum, enough to
support every charitable institution in
America not of public nature, to build
asylums and hospitals for the world in
fifty years, to educate, feed and clothe
the deserving poor forever, and to make
such thing as slum unknown in any
city of the republic. The man who con-
NrA 10 fhnf IN, ha
We'd unless he does some good with it."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10
Rabies.

Rabies is liable to attack dogs of any
breed or sex, though statistics seem to
show that it is more common among
males than females.
With regard to the early symptoms, an
animal that has the disease invariably
loses its appetite; and though this is
common to the majority of complaints,
it should not be ignored, but should act
as a warning to owners to watch for
other symptoms, which, in the case of
rabies, speedily develop. The dogs
manner changes he shows a disposition
to hide himself in corners or under
chairs; in fact, anywhere, so as to get
out of sight. Then he will never rest
in one place for long together, but is con
tinually changing his position. and APP
pears to be always on the watch. His bark,
too is altered, and without proyocation
he will at times give tongue to dismal
short howl, or to what would perhaps
be better described as half a howl and
half a bark. III III gnaw at anything
that comes in his ). II he be in a
room he will bite at tine chair legs, or
the carpet. or at a tablecloth; and if in
a kennel, he will attack the corners Of it.
He will also attempt to masticate stones,
and will readily consume straw and filth
of any kind. Another early symptom is
the disposition to bite other dogs-in
fact, rabid animal will unhesitatingly
attack a dog or cat with which he may
have lived for years on the most friendly
terms.
1t seems that rabies is more prevalent
in the spring and autumn, and not as is
generally supposed, in the summer
months. When an animal shows symp-
toms of the disease, it should be at once
securely chained mp. as, although it is
practically harmless in the early stages
10 those whom it knows, it is not so
with strangers. -L0Adoa Truth.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10
BEYOND THE GATE.

Two dimped hands the bars Of iron grasped;
Two blue aud wondering eyes che space
looked through.
This massive gate boundary had been set,
Nor was she ever known TO be bus true.
Strange were the sights she saw across the
way
A little child had died some days before
And as she watched, amid the silence hushed,
Some carried flowers, some a casket bore.
The little watcher at the garden gate
Grew fearful, hers such thoughts and won
derings were,
TIL said the nurse: "Come here, dear child.
Weep not.
We all must go. 'Tis God has sent for her.
"If He should send for mer-thus spoke the
child
"pll have to toll the angel, DO not wait.
Though God has sent for me, l cannot come;
never go beyond the garden gate"
Katharine Med. Rice, in Hayper.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10

In receiving visitors the President, ac-
cording to an exchange, has peculiar
habits in the management of his arms
and hands. When he is pleased or con.
tented to listen he holds his hands about
six inches apart, with the back part of
his hand against his coat. The fingers
generally are quiet; but If they begin to
work or contract he is growing tired
Then he will shift from one foot to the
other. If tho man bores him the arms
gradually come forward. The move is
gradual, but if the indiction continues
the hands fall to the side-thumbs in.
If still the visitor persists in staying the
arms go out and the thumbs beat against
his side. Then is the time for disap-
pearing.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10
HUMOR or THE DAY.

People we must put up with-Pawn-
brokers.
A fine art--Presiding over a pOlics
court. t.-Hatchet.
A detective story-"We've caught tho
culprit. "-,Jud0e.
There is only one bill more powerful
than the plumbcr's-the mosquitoes.
Whitehall Times.
The smart business man like the
woodman makes good use of his ''ads."
-Germantown Independent.
The clerk who works for the merchant
who will not advertise, knows the tor
lures of solitary confinement.-W Waterloo
Observer.
The cigar that is called imported is
about as appropriately named as the
hired girl we call domestic. Yonkers
Statesman.
ga genuine patriot" said an orator
recently, "must at all times be ready to
die for his country, even though it should
cost him his life" (Thundering ap-
plause.)
petroleum has declined twenty -one
cents" says an exchange. But before
YOU praise petroleum tor its honesty,
wait until it is offered one dollar, and sec
whether it declines that. Puck.
"Beans Regarded as Food" is the
heading in an exchange. That is the
way beans should be regarded. Any one
who would regard beans as beverage
would be away of.-Neto York Graphic.
An ancient old maiden in Cologne
Wished to give her pet poodle bognet
The condition of her cupboard
Equaled that of Nine. Hubbard,
Consequently the poor dog had nogne:
-PdLmer Journal
"You dear thing" she said gushingly;
chow handsome your bonnet does look.
l'm sure it looks as we'll as it did last
winter" Only a woman could say
things like this and say them so easy
RocktaRd (Ae.) Courier.
Gogglesop-"Ve stupid girl. that
Miss Wilpin." Hamworth-"How so9"
"Why, you see, we were guessing con-
undrums the other evening, and l asked
her what was the difference between my
self and donkey" "Well." "Well2
Why, by Jove, she said she didn't know"
philadelphia Times.
SHE SHOULD HAVE DARNED 'EM.
The beautiful maiden is shopping to-day,
Quite busy, and to her surprise,
While through the thronged street she is TAX
ing her way,
Her beau in the street she espies.
Good gracious! tits awfull He's coming, no
doubt,
And swift to her heart strikes pain;
The eyes of affection will single her out,
He'll see her and speak, that is plain,
She halts, bushes redly, then crosses the
street.
Avoidino tha vouth that she Ioves.
The maid it would mortify much should they
meet
There are holes in the tips of her glovesl
Boston Courier.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10
SPINNING

Just as the spinner turns the wheel
And with her song winds her thread,
So as turned the wheel Of thought
Its every round new pleasure brought,
Until there is" l said,
''No Joy that can compare with mine
In all the world no heart so blestm
And so the whole day long l spun,
And fast, SO fast tho thread wound on
Hopes shuttle in my breast.
But while in the sunlight turned
The busy whee! and sang my song,
And while my shuttle was SO full,
And all the Oiread so beautiful,
My spinning all went wrong.
The thread it broke and slipped my hold
Till could not discern
Where and which was the end I sought;
II tangled, and the wheel of thought
For me refused to turn
In the old-time exultant way;
My hand its cunning all had lost
1t could no longer deftly spin,
Because the thread of hope had in
The thread of sorrow crossed.
- Helen A. ManUille.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10

The English royal family are blessed
with good appetites. They look upon
four substantial meals day as by no
means an excessive allowance of food.
Even at their 5 o'clock tea the wafer
like bread and butter that customarily
accompany the syrupy Souchong or
Orange Pekoe is supplemented by beau
tifully cut sandwiches, pate de foie grass
and other tempting delicacies, and every
justice is done to them by the illustri-
GUS ones without in any way "spoiling"
the elaborate dinner that is to follow
later on.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10
The street Crler Gone.

The ancient colored man who, ON the
darkest winter mornings, was wont to
make his rounds carrying tray on his
head and melodiously singing, is no
longer a familiar feature OF Philadelphia
street life. This was his song, chanted
with peculiar gurgle, half warble, as
"catchy" as anything mock Tyrolean
ever warbled on the stage:
De hominy man
Am on h-e-e-s way,
Wild de good hommy!
The oyster peddlers put theirlextended
hand to their mouths, as "A sort Of voice
dedector, and yell at the tip top Of the
scale:
Oysters, ohi
Nere de go,
Forty cents a hundred
-IerdS SiftinQs
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10

A large and substantial vault has been
constructed in The New York assay Of
flee for the safe keeping of gold and sill
yer bullion The vault is fire and burg
lar proof and is fully as substantial as
any in the sub treasury at New York.
Few are aware that $40, 900 in gold
and silver bullion is stored in the assay
office, which is in fact, though not in
name, one of the repositories of the pub
lie money. The assay Office at Carson
City, New, has been suspended, and
nearly 81, 600, 900 in gold and silver on
deposit there for assay was transferred
to the Office in New York.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10

Doctor Sutro, of London, celebrated
for his knowledge of nervous diseases,
said to a Herald correspondent, while
talking of the treatment of hydrophobia
81 have never known case cured where
symptoms of hydrophobia had appeared,
however slight or intermittent. am
inclined to believe that M. Pasteur is
right and hope England and America
will send doctors to study his method.
The reported death of little girl after
inoculation under him proves nothing
adverse to M.'Pasteur, il thirty-six days
had elapsed before his treatment began.
People can't do better than try NJ. Pas.
tuer. His inoculation is harmless and
it may do good. Cauterization will best
prevent hydrophobia, but it must be
thorough, so that the part bitten may be
absolutely destroyed. This is best done,
have found, with fuming nitric acid.
Il hot iron might only destroy the sur
face. Nitrate of silver, in my opinion,
is utterly useless.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10

1eke Glazier, the newly discovered
source of the Mississippi, is sparkling
little lake, which nestles among the
pines of wild and unfrequented region
of Minnesota, just on the dividing ridge
which forms the great watershed of
North America. 1t is about a mile and
half in greatest diameter The waters
of the lake are exceedingly pure, com
ing from springs.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10

Buoyont clothing has been devised by
Londoner, and seems to be attracting
some attention in that metropolis.
Threads of cork are interwoven with cot
ton, silk, or wooden, machinery which
slices the cork to the required thinness
forming part of the invention. From
these new materials clothes of ordinary
appearance are constructed which bear
up the wearcr when committed unex-
pectedly to the water The worth of the
new fabrics was thoroughly tested by
throwing three persons clothed in them
from pier They foated as easily as if
incased in cork jackets. 1t is said they
remained in the water over an hour with
out discomfort. The possibilities of
fireproof apparel are next in order.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10

Anyone who sighs for breathing room.
should go to Alrska. The territory has
about $40, 900, 900 acres and the popua-
ton is less than 35, 900, or over 10, 500
acres for every man, woman, child, Creole,
Aleut, Indian and white. Persons de-
Iinng to grow up with the country will
dnd large opportunity in Alaska for
practicing that theory.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10

An extraordinary scene occurred re-
Gently in California theatre while a
Grip Van Wrinkle" performance was in
progress. The man whose duty it was
to manufacture the thunder was up in a
loft with big piece of sheet iron, which
he was agitating vigorously. In his en-
thusiasm he lost his balance, and, falling
off the narrow platform on which he
stood, he was pecipitated through the
ceiling of the auditorium, sheet iron and
oil, into the arms of the panic stricken
spectators beneath, wagon load of lath
and plaster following him down. All
who were not compelled to go to the
hospital agreed in pronouncing it the
most vivid representation of thunder
and lightning that they had ever wit
messed on any stage.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10

Evidently the life philosOphic tends to
longevity. There are, at present, at the
various German universities, no fewer
than 157 professors between the ages of
seventy and ninety. OF these, 1872 de-
liver their lectures as usual, seven of
them being more than eighty.fve years
of age. The oldest is the veteran Won
Ranke, the historian, who is now in his
ninetieth year, but is not considered
fully equal in vigor, memory and other
faculties to Professor Elvenich, who is
thirty nine days his Junior. After all, it
is not remarkable that professar should
live to a good old age. He has a secured
income and congenial pursuits. He
ought to be devoid Of the unworthy
passions that shorten existence, and to
lead life as placid as that of the gods
of Epicurus. But Germany, in spite of
ths figures we have quoted, cannot show
a professor equal to M. Chevreuil, of
Paris, who still lectures, still writes,
still conducts experiments in chemistry,
still walks every day from his house to
his laboratory, and will, if he lives, be
100 years of age in the August of next
year.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10

looking bride I would make, to be sure !;
but Pm happy-oh. so happyl He's just
the dearest fellow in the world
Now, I've kept my promise, and told
you tine whole story. -Annah r.. Watson.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10

At Russian railway stations passengers
now find grievance book, " in which
complaints are entered. The record of
wrongs reaches the central Office once a
month, when the complaints are inVesti-
gated.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-02-10

There are $50, 600, 600 tons Of coal
waste piled up in the anthracite regions.
New-York tribune., 1886-03-28
NATCR1L DEPRAVlTY Of CHILDREN

| OBSERVATIONS OF AN OLD CANDY WOMAN-HEE
own CHANGE NEEDED WATCHING.
While a TRIBUNE reporter waited in a small
stationery stOro HOustOn-st until the old woman IN
charge of She place coud change - BILL the other day
he treated to lecture on the natural dopTayy OF
| the youthful mind. The occasion was given by three
little girls, whs entered the shop In Indian ne and
made beene for the cand5 counter in the rear. Their
faces wore c c1pressions OF injured innocence.
Well What do you want now - the old woman in
quired.
"OA" said the Oldest gIr barely seven OF age,
jerking her elbow eIpressvcly In the direction OF OF
her smaller companions. she gave you nickel instead
| OF cent" Tho old woman went behind the candy
and took out tin box containing number OF
coppcrs. She peered into tho box shook H. 10 make
sure that nickel lurking among the other
coins and then held II under the noses OF tie grs eI
There. now Do you see any nickel in there"
Without replying, the girls filed out Of the shop eacb
childish facs couded By an expression OF hopeless disap
"You wouldn't believe it," said the old woman Bit
terry "I wouldn't believe 1t myself didn't stand
here oil day and see with my own eyes The deceit Of
children enough drive almost Iley
look you light IN the face with angel and lie 10 you
easy like as II their tongues were Oiled Many penny
have os because could not believe mat mere babies
would try svindle me. When catch them at IL they
but that don't keep then from coming back again with
tricks Tbs Boys about here are ns as bad as the
gyls One little rascal wanted change for silver dollar
telling me that MS mother sent MN e kept the dollar
iu his hand until counted out the change and then he
slippet the big SILVER plccO INTO MS mouth see
mm do It either, and II he hadn't tried to say
thank you with his mouth full would have lost
that dollar Why half dozen girls here getting
sticks OF candy day and they rad goi the candy but
hadn't paid for 1t when aboy stuck his head In at the
door and shouted say. ms,s, TOur siIn has tunDled
down." His eyes buget out II he was scared, and
my heart gave such jump that could hardly get out
10 the sidewalk That sign All light The girls left
the store while trying to catch the boy, and after
ward they declared that they pnid ior t4er eAnay when
they got IL. ON IL is horrible 10 think what bad ne
and women these children will be when they grow up.
Sucb deceit lI bab es didn't exist when was girl
wouldn't believe IL II didn't have TO stand here and sec
IL with my own eyes go
apron but her right optic was dry enough to sec di.
tucty the which she dropped INTO the reporter
hand When the reporter afterward took the trouble TO
count the money be found that 10 dime short VI
ihe reuuired amount
New-York tribune., 1886-03-28

actively oppose them. do not so real his speech
or his character. Neither he nor Sir
Henry James will, as Sir Henry said go
into cave. Both, l apprehend. will do
their best to defeat the new scheme If in their
Judgment it imperils the unity of the Empire.
There remains the question what Mr. Chamber
lain will do, and what Mr.. Trevelyan will do Mr..
Treveyan'S course concerns chiefly himsolf. Wlth
all his ability and high position, he has not a con
siderable personal following in the House of Com
mons. Mr Chamberlain has. He is not supposed
to favor Home Rule Whether he is ready 10 quit
the Cabinet rather than acquesce IN 1t, nobody
knows. He is not so old Parliamentary hand as
Mr. Gladstone, hut he is Old enough TO keep his
own counsel. His detection would have serious
consequences. II is calculated that from forty 10
sixty members will follow his lead. II
they rally to Mr. Gladstone, his scheme will 90
through. If they stand out, they and the Wings
together may more than compensate for the Par
Delitc support. In such case III ONE Rule viii either
be beaten in the House of Commons, or will pass
by so narrow majority to invite the House OF
Lords TO reject it with 5caut ceremony. That they
Will reject il at is taken for granted Mr. Glad
stone will then have his choice of three courses.
lie may dissolve at once. He NAV summon an au-
tumn session, pass his bill again through the House
the Lords. He may. in the third place, let the
whole subject stand over until next February.
Whichever course he chooses the policy on which
be has entered bids fair before II is affirmed to
shake the King gdOm TO its centre. 6. W. :.
New-York tribune., 1886-03-28

the skin taken of. In this performance the boy
companion assisted him. md bDth worked as It u was an
every day occurrence with them. When the jop WAS
finished the little fellow continued once more;
You see this alnt nothn' new 10 us. We kctch one
nearly every week an sell then skins to foler down
town. He knows wacre they come from, but ne won
give us away, an you won't neither will you mister
you don't wen SHOW YOU how TO set the trap lOu
see that sort OF mound Well that's muskrats Deu.
Whom he ont an In he climbs over that an IL wo
put the trap on top he'll step It an get ketchcd lO
can see them sometimes from the street II you look
close. When we get home with the SKIN we have 70
stretch 1t on board for few days an then we take u
down town an soil it, We here every day To look
AZ trap and II don't have ythlng chanee u
10 another place. The cops don't know moi hin 'bOut
il. ana aint afraid. II you don't tell its All
right"
The two small boys then walked away with their skin,
after once moro setting the trap