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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-04
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

One kind of egg plant--A chicken
farm.
For the baby there should always be a
slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.-Mer-
chant Tra0eJer.
Does it not seem strange that we
should employ contractors to enlarge
buildings2--- -Rambler.
knowledge is not always power.
Every thief knows that there is plenty Of
money in the banks, but how is he to get
at it2-CaU.
With all his experiences, his business
and in conversation the barber is not al
ways acquainted with the parts of speech.
Boston Budget.
An English champion pigeon shot an
nonnces that he "will shoot any man in
America for $1,000" Let him take
pop at Apache Chief Geronimo. Pitts
burgh Chronicle
Landlady-''The coffee, am sorry to
say, is exhausted, Mr.. Smith" Boarder
Smith--''Ah, yes, poor thing; I've no.
ticed that for some time it hasn't been
very strong. ng."-SVtings
Teacher-''How many elements are
therel" Little Boy-"Water, fish, earth,
air and" Teacher-"There isn't any
other element, is there2" Little Boy
"Oh yes, there is; there's the lawless ele-
ment in Chicago. SJtingS.
A young man in GAINESVILLE, Fla, sent
rs cents to fellow in New York, who
advertised "How to make money fast"
He received from the New Yorker the
valuable information: "1ake a paper
bill and make it fast to something with
paste" The young man now feels that
life is delusion. Neps.
A lady living "On the Hill," Rondout,
whose clock had run down the other
night, asked neighbours little girl if she
knew how to tell the time of day Eyes,
ma'am, replied the child. "Well, then,
will you just run into the house and see
what time it is for me2" "Oh, don't
know how to tell that way. only know
how when it strikes, was the reply."---
Kingston FREEMAN.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-04

z Thirty-seven Japanese publications are
devoted to matters connected with cdu-
cation, and these have a total circulation
of 42,640 per month. There are seven
medical papers, with monthly circula-
tion of 1854; nine relating to sanitary
matters, with circulation of s,105; two
on forestry and two on pharmacy. There
are seven devoted to various branches of
science, with circulation of 2, ,42S; but
to these must be added twenty-five en-.
gagged in popularizing science, with a
total circulation of 20, 666.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-04

Texas has a new industry. The Clear
Creek Crab Canning Company has been
organized in Galveston county, and is
doing big business in catching and can
ming crabs The shells are removed en-
tire except the claws, ground in mill
and sent to France, where they are manu-
factured into a dentifrice. The oil that
arises on the vats where the crabs are
boiled is used in making soap, and is
said to be equal TO cocoanut oil for this
purpose. The crabs themselves are
packed in five-gallon cans, and are reck-
oned good.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-04

Connecticut is the richest State in the
Union in Improbable mines. Gold and
silver and many other metals have been
found in score of townships, but not
in paying quantity. North Stonington
has a meagrc marble mine, New London
is going to dig for petroleum, and a day
or two ago soapstone mine, that once
was worked by the Indians, was discov-
cred within the borough limits of Will
limantic. The deposit cropped out on
the Young farm, near the @thestic Will
limantic thread mill, and not dozen
rods from the railroad 1t is on high
ground that is clear of timber, and all
about it there is evidence that consider.
able quantities of the stone were removed
at distant time in the past. Fragments
Of soapstone pots and dishes, finely
chiseled and polished, have frequently
been found by villagers, and mounds of
upthrown earth, now grass grown, indi-
cate the places in which the Indians
worked IN the old quarry. The mine is
to be worked by Springfield Mass. men,
who, by means of the magnetic needle,
which is strongly affected by the mag
netic ore in the stone, have traced the
deposit for long way down the hill
side, and who are confident that the
mine is a very large and valuable one.
The old opening in the quarry at which
the Indians worked has been enlarged,
and the rock as far down as the workmen
have penetrated is pure soapstone. At
every point on the hill where a shaft has
been made the stone is found in abund-
ance. The Springfield men will begin
to work the mine about the first of next
August.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-04
HAD BUT KNowNI


Had but known that nothing is undonc
From rising until setting of the sun,
That full-fedged words fly Off beyond our
reach,
That not a deed brought forth to life dies
ever,
would have measured out and weighed
my speech;
To bear good deeds had been nv sole
endeavor,
Had but knownl
had but known how swiftly speed away
The living hours that make the living day,
That 'tis above delay so dangerous slough
Is hung the Turing wisp-light of tomorrow,
would have seized times evanescent Now [!
would be spared this unavailing sorrow,
Had but knowni
Had 1 but known to dread the dreadful fire
That lay in ambush at my hearts desire,
Wherefrom it sprang and smote my naked
hand
And left q mark forever to remain.
would not bear the fires ignoble brand;
would have weighed the pleasure with the
pain,
Had but known!
Had but known we never can repeat
Life's springtime freshness or its summer
heat,
Nor gather second harvest from life's field.
Nor aged winter change to youthful spring,
10 me ifes flowers their honey all would
yield;
would not feel one wasted moments sting
Had but known!
Hunter MacCuIloch, in Lippinoott
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-04
SELECT SIFTINGS.

While a man in Clinton, Pa, was pre-
pairing to go to bed he was struck by q
thunderbolt and had all the clothing
stripped from his body, leaving him un.
harmed.
A large ball to the thumb in a bad
hand promises leaning to all sorts of
self indulgence; but in an artists hand it
indicates love of color and gifts of ex-
preston by means of color alone.
An accident in a Melbourne foundry
led to the discovery that plunging iron
castings into a mixture of treacle and
water softens the metal to such degree
that it can be worked as readily as
wrought iron.
A slave could be bought for about
seventy-fve cents in ancient Rome. This
was at the time of the conquest of Great
Britain, and one single Roman family
owned as many as 400 slaves. Among
them were some well-educated and supe-
rior people. Some were doctors, some
were tutors to the children and some
were artists.
Some of the monasteries in England
in the eighth century were presided over
by ladies. There was a famous one at
Whitby in Yorkshire which was ruled by
the Abbess Hilda. She belonged to the
royal family. She trained up many cler-
gymen, and no less than five bishops.
Cedmon, the first English poet, dwelt in
her abbey
The first light ever hoisted over the
Capitol at Washington, in 1S47, was a
lantern on mast towering about one
hundred and fifty feet above the dome.
The mast was secured by heavy iron
braces. The lantern was surmounted by
a ball and weather vane. With the glass
in the lantern it weighed about eight
hundred pounds. 1t contained large
burners, and when lighted it illuminated
not only the entire Capitol grounds, but
all the higher portions of the CITY,
The Chinese have the following legend
about the invention of the fan: "The
beautiful Kau 81, daughter of power
full mandarin, was assisting at the feast
of lanterns, when she became overpow-
cred by the heat. She was compelled to
take off her mask But, as it was illegal
to expose her face, she held her mask be-
fore it, and gently fluttered it to cool
herself. The court ladies present noticed
it, and in an instant a hundred other
hands were waving their masks. This
was the birth of the fan, which to-day
takes the place of the mask in China"
The vane, or weathercock, must have
been of very early origin. An old Latin
writer calls it triton, evidently from an
ancient form. The usual form on towers
and castles was that of banner, but on
ecclesiastical edifices it generally was a
weathercock. There was symbolic
reason for the adoption of the figure of
a cock. The cross surmounted by ball,
to symbolic the redemption of the world
by the cross of Christ; and the cock was
placed upon the cross in allusion to the
repentance of st. Peter, and as re-
minderof the important duties of repent
ance and Christian vigilance.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-04

Colonel Conway, who processes to
Know all the noted "bad men" of the
plains, tells st. Louis Globe Democrat
reporter that they are invariably blondes.
He says the traditional idea of a desper-
ado as man of raven locks, piercing
black eyes and long, jetty moustache is
all wrong. He goes into particulars thus:
"Masterson, the famous sheriff of Dodge.
who had killed twenty-seven men when
he was twenty-seven years old, has light
hair and blue eyes. So has Doc. Halli-
day, exiled from Arizona for trying to
kill off all Tombstone in one day. The
Erp brothers could join Lydia Thomp-
son troupe if yellow curls went for any
thing. Luke Short, notorious through
out the entire West, is little fellow of
a blonde cast. That is the complexion
of Mart Duggan and Jim Kinney, two
very bad men of great renown in Colo
RADIO; and so on throughout the list.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-04

speedily, he let them drop. They scat
tered sufficiently to allow her to see that
two of them were directed by Gertrude
There was no mistaking her small, run.
ming, insignificant writing.
After this discovery she withdrew
more and more from the conversation of
the gentlemen, and the bright. intelli.
gent looks with which she had used To
answer Rays inquiring glances were
more and more at fault. He saw and
felt the change, but failed to draw the
proper inference.
Things had indeed come to a position
in which it seemed to Fortune folly to
nurse longer asentiment which it was evi-
dent Ray had not the slightest desire to re-
ciprocate. She would at once give up
everything that encouraged so barren a
love. Letters to destroy she had none,
and as for tokens or souvenirs, she had
only one ancient brooch of a dead world
to give up. 1t was not a pretty ornament,
and she had never worn it; but Ray had
told her that it was very precious to him.
and valued above gold and silver. Yet
he had made no inquiries about its well
fare, and no remarks about her not wear
1t. If he valued it so much, he should
have it back; it was the only link be-
tween them, and it should be broken at
once.
She walked to her desk and took it
out of the little box in which it had lain
for years. She laid it upon her palm,
and it seemed to glow and burn and re-
fleet thousand lights. 1t was lovely.
1t was very dear to her. She kissed it
with passionate fervor. She threw her
self on the sofa and wept some very bit
ter tears for the death of dream SO
tender and so lovely, and she felt that
all of the sweetness and dew of her
youth went with it,
But as she lay weeping, Ray stepped
quietly up to her side. He took her in
his arms, and tenderly kissed away the
sad, large tears. Darling" he said,
81 have seen all. You have kept my
token; you were weeping over it. You
love me, Fortune-you love me. Oh,
beloved, do not now deny iti" -,
'How dare / love you, Ray?"
How dare you not love met Have
not carried your image in my heart for
six years9 won't have. my token back,
and won't leave you until you say that
you will be my wife. Think of it mo-
ment."
1T is enough, Ray. I have thought
only of you for six years"
'"Then, sweet Fortune, let us be mar
ried to-morrow-to day. Why delay
Ionger?n
zone thing, Ray, 1 must ask you. 1
saw two letters from Gertrude among the
papers you dropped one morning?"
Gertrude has written me in all six
letters"
"Ohr"
"About my cousin Hill. Hill loves
her desperately, and Gertrude has been
easing him to the point of distraction.
have written and given her some good
advice; she needed it."
There are no advocates like lovers.
They speak with the tongues of men and
angels, and Ray won his case in man
ler. There was hurried visit of Mrs.
Wayland and Miss Gertrude to New
Y ork, and the next day all the fashion
lble world knew that Ray Symington
lad been married in the most unfash-
enable season and in the most unfashion-
lble manner to Miss Fortune Wayland. -
Ha'per'S Weekly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-04

The object of those who provide doves
for shooting matches is to produce birds
which will rise rapidly from the trap, tiy
erratically, and make struggle to get
out of the bounds, even il hit. In Eng
land the plan used to be to pull few
feathers out of the birds tail and applv
tar to the spot or to run pin into the
flesh. These practices were stopped by
the authorities, and now new method
Is In use. The only water given to the
BIRDS for twelve to twenty-four hours be-
fore the tournament is salt water. This
almost maddens them, and when they
rise from the trap they fulfill all require.
ments.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-04
Suicides by MOnarchs.

There have been comparatively few in
stances of suicide among the occupants
of the thrones of modern times. The
most recent case was that of Abdul AziZ.
Sultan of Turkey, who killed himself in
June, 1876, by opening the veins of his
arm with pair of scissors. His subjects
had rebelled against him, and the Coun-
Gil and Ministers had determined to re-
move him and appoint his nephew Murad
as Sultan in his stead.
In 1868 Theodore, Emperor of Abyssi-
MIA, is said by some authorities to have
shot himself, while Others assert that he
was killed in battle by the British inva-
ders.
On Oct 8, 1920, Henry Christophe,
King of Hayti, in order to prevent him
self being taken prisoner by the insur-
gents, who had gained ascendancy in the
island, shot himself through the heart.
Charles VII, King of France, probably
inherited a taint of insanity from his
father, and the latter part of his life was
embittered by monomania, manifesting
itself in the apprehension that his chill
dren had conspired to poison him. Under
this apprehension he refused food for
seven days, and died of starvation near
Bourges, July %, 1461.
Concerning the death of Richard H.,
King of England, there were at the time
various conflicting reports, and there has
continued TO be difference of opinion
among historians. Walsingham, Otter
bourne and Peter of Blois say that he also
starved himself to death There is a GER
tain parallel between the case of Richard
nd haf Of nd,
weak characters, both were deposed in
behalf of stronger aspirants to power,
both were shut up in castle for safe
keeping, and both were reported to have
committed suicide. In the case of the
English king, however, the weight of
the evidence perhaps favors the theory
that some interested persons assisted in
his taking off.
Among the ancients it appears that sui
eide was rather a popular form of death.
Many of the philosophers advocated it as
an honorable and convenient method of
ending existence, and gave certain per-
tinence to their teaching by putting it in
practice themselves.
Among the long list Of the rulers of
antiquity who died by their own hand
are Nero, Cleopatra, Dido, Boadicea,
Queen of the Iceni in Britain; Otho, of
Rome; Ptolemy, of Cyprus; Mithridates,
of Pontus; Saul, of Israel; Rameses the
Great, and Sardanapalus, of Assyria,
VIII oburned himself in his palace with
his wives. -AeO York World.
The suicide of the deposed King Lud-
wig, of Bavaria, on June 13, 1856, is
the latest instance of a rulers self muir
der, ED.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-04

The emigration to this country from
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Russia and
China for the five years ended in 1885
was 341,7 77s. Nearly all of these emf
grants took the places of American labor
ers at starvation prices. A table recently
compiled shows that from 1876 to 1880.
inclusive, 2s3, 1853 skilled laborers came
to this country and 152, 467 unskilled Ia
borers. From 1881 to 1885 there were
54l, ,112 of the former and 62s, 7SS of the
latter, showing an increase of the latter
of moro than 800 per cent. All of the
unskilled laborers, as rule, remain in
the large cities.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-04
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
HOME

Two birds within one nest;
Two hearts within one breast;
Two souls within one fair
Firm league of love and prayer,
Together bound for aye, together blest.
An ear that waits to catch
A hand upon the latch;
A step that hastens its sweet rest to win.
A world of care without,
A world of strife shut out,
A world of love shut in.
Dora FcrntoeM
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-04

1t costs a good deal to support Queen
Victoria and her family. Here is list
of the amounts as near as they can be got
at in dollars The Queen receives annually
about $3, 100, 600; the Prince of Wales,
5000, 600; Prince Alfred, $3.50, 900;
Prince Arthur, $145, 900; Princess Royal,
$50, 900; Princess Helena, $40, 900;
Princess Louise, $50, 600; Princess
Beatrice, $50, 900; Duchess of Albany,
$50, 600; Duchess of Cambridge, $50, 600;
Princess Augusta, $15, 600; Duke of Cam
bridge, $4,000; Duke of Edinburgh,
$3.50, 900; Princess Mary, $25, 900;
Prince Edward of Sake w eimar, $16,-
900; Prince Leiningen, $3, 600; Prince
Victor of Hohenlohe, $4,000.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-04

According to recent statistics, foreign
emigration is steadily falling off. There
IS notable decrease in German emigra
tion.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-04

Polite, but absent-minded bather TO
friend up to his neck in waterl: "Ah,
Jones' very glad to see you. Won't you
sit downf'--LQe.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-04

The common mocking bird will attack
dogs, cats, hawks, crows and buzzards
when they invade his range. He is not a
forest bird, but Of the fields. He prefers
an open situation and the haunts of men.
The orchard, a hedge, solitary hawbush,
where he has plenty of sunlight and
breadth of view, suits him best
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-04

1t is reported that deposit of genuSA
meerschaum has been found on the beach
near Yaquina, Oregon.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-03-27
The Law of survival Asserted.

Every invention of artificial light in our
day has been obstinately opposed as per-
nicious to life, and have no doubt the
first tallow candle encountered persist
ent enemies, fearful of that crowning
achievement Of the dark ayes. The acct.
dents which ushered in the invention OF
gas for time retarded its general adop.
ton. Explosions were numerous, anG
deaths from suffocation everyday occur
rences, but in the course of time peopl,
learned how to use gas.
To-day all this is changed. Wher
water-gas was introduced the same spirit
of opposition was manifested, but it rap.
idly died out. Now the electric light is
exciting the apprehension Of timid peo-
whose hypercaution blinds them to its
But very few people have been killed
by electric light wires, and during the
past two or three years such fatalities
have been very few and far between.
The law of the survival of the fittest as.
serts itself in the scientific walks Of life,
and the result will be race of men
whose instincts will protect them from
coming in contact with two currents Of
electricity at the same time.-Col
Flad.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-03-27
One Peculiarly of the Redwood.

A striking popularity of the redwood
is the surprising facility with which it
initiates all other forms of coniferous
growth aud branching. Some Of the
tops of the younger trees have all the
wave, swing, and grace of feather palms,
others are sitter in line and resemble
more the sugar pine. The fir, the great
Sequoia, the Ponderosa or yellow pine,
and also the solid dome top, noticed so
sharply by Muir in the virgin groves of
Sequoia on the Kaweah, are all typified
by this versatile tree.
It also has peculiar feature of its
own, thick branching of long, extended,
and pendulous arms, leafless, except a
slight furriness all over. The branches
have delicate and graceful fexibility of
line and beautiful swing, without the
slightest woodiness or stiffness; and yet
this form of growth is the most repul-
sive of all the redwood's freaks, and is
best described as spidery, and that on a
giant scale. The branches, or, more
properly, arms, appear to have the power
of locomotives and to be able TO seize
and hold.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-03-27
THE PIGS AND THE WEATHER.

The Habit of Gathering sticks and Grass
A Meaningless Couplet.
OF pigs, have heard it said, very fire.
quently:
@when swine carry sticks, the clouds
will play tricks" but that-"When they
lie in the mud, no fears of flood"
The first of these couplets is Of twofold
interest. / have watched them for
years, to see what purport this carrying
of sticks and punches of grass might
have, and have only learned that it has
nothing whatever TO do with the
weather, or at least with coming rain
storms, The drouth of summer is SO far
a convenience as to throw light upon
this habit, as it did upon the uneasy
cows. Pigs carry sticks as frequently
then as during wet weather, or just pre-
ceding a shower. Furthermore, these
gathered twigs are not brought together
as though to make nest, but are scat
tered about in perfectly aimless man.
ner. For some cause, the animal is un-
easy, and takes this curious method of
relieving itself. The probabilities are
that it is survival of some habit COM
mon to swine in their feral condition,
just as we see dog turn about half q
dozen times before lying down.
In an interesting paper on local
weather-lore read by Mr.. Amos w. But
Ter before the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, during the
Philadelphia meeting of 1884, the author
has another version of this saying:
"When hogs gather up sticks and carry
them about, expect cold weather" This
is Nholly at variance with what have
observed, for my memoranda record this
habit almost wholly during the hot
weather, and this must necessarily be
the rule with New Jersey swine, or the
local weather-prophets would not have
coined the verse as have given it.
As to the other couplet, it is about as
near meaningless as any saying can well
be. Some rustic rhymer, a century ago,
may have added it as piece of fun, but
it has stuck most persistently. As il
stands now, it has stood for quite 100
years.-Dr. C. G. Abbott in Popular
Science Monthly.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-03-27
Selling Clothing by HaIf-sampIe.

Clothing drummers are always making
an effort to reduce the size Of their
sample trunks, and to prevent the losses
that occur at hotels by reason Of the ac-
cess which porters and housemaids have
to their rooms. The loss from this latter
source is not 30 large now as it formerly
was, because some manufacturers have
hit upon the plan Of making only one
half of each article of clothing for O
sample. A sample coat is only q half
coat; a sample vest only half vest, and
90 on. The porter who runs into drum
mer's room and out again will not get a
full garment, as he formerly did, and
girls do not have the same temptations
in the matter Of providing for their
beaux. The plan, too, reduces the
weight Of the drlmmer's samples, but ]
understand the manufacturers lose some
thing In the end, as pieces are now and
then mislaid, and the loss of one-half a
garment ruins It's value. Cor. Globe
Democrat.