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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-11
CURRENT COM M EMIT.
THE PRESIDENTS KINKS

Philadelphia North American.
The President still suffers from rheuma-
tism. This shows that getting into hot wa
ter is no cure for that complaint.
AT DISADVANTAGE.
Boston Post.
We believe in electng women to public Of
fee and are glad to see that voters generally
are willing to accord that privilege to the
weaker sex. But we notice that they gener-
ally get the Office that has no salary at
tached.
RUM IN MASSACHUSETTS MUNICIPALITIES.
Boston Traveller.
The prevalent no license vote is not only
in the highest degree gratifying, but it is de-
cidedly significant of the growth of an anti
saloon sentiment and a conviction on the
part of the people that prohibition can be
made to prohibit 1t will encourage the
friends of temperance in the cities where
elections are yet to be held to make a SUI
preme effort to free the municipalities of
Massachusetts from the curse and power of
theSaloon.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-11

SATURDAY MORNING. DEC. IL.

We do not read anonymous letters and commun
cations. The name and address Of the writer are
II all eases indispensable, not necessarily for pub
llcaticn but as a guarantee Of good faith.
We cannot undertake TO return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-11
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Price $1.O0, or six bottles for $500.
A large treatise on Diseases of Women, pro-
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-11

Our entire comprising Chnca
Eyan and Moscow Beaver OVERCOAS UTERS and REFERS
must be closed out by January l at prices that will show
reduction of 40 cent from early figures this all
fine goods These goods have distributed
from MAINE to CONNECTICUT and genuine bargains will be offered
all this month"; No cheap shOddy trash quoted prices
tract attention, but the finest goods made this
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-11
FINANCIAL.


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No. Pacific Gold..0s Maine Central. rs & IS
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-11
Only $40 each, all sizes.
LOT NO. 3.

1877 Young Mems Fine Melton, Kersey and Ely.
sian overeoats in Blue, Fancy Mixed and Brown
reduced in price from S1500and $500.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-11
To Only $500 each.
LOT NO. q.

85 Mems Fine Austrian Beavers, Blue. Chin
ehilla, Elysian Beaver and fine Kersey overcoats,
actually marked down from $500 and $500, to
mu4 40
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01
Ahead of Bullets.

Colonel Bob Leech, SAYS in the Ark1n-
Sdao IrGCeJer: 81 don't know how fast an
engine can travel, but 1 give you an idea
of how fast one did go. During the war
ran scouting engine for the Confed-
crate Government. 1t was my duty to
carry telegraph operator, who, at diff
terent points, would cut the wires and
send dispatches. We were running at q
rapid rate one day, when, upon rounding
a curve, saw thousand gun barrels
blaze In the sunlight. l also saw that a
number of cross-ties had been piled on
the track. To stop in time was an i'm
possibility, to go on seemed certain
death, for if we escaped being killed by
the wrecking of the engine we would be
shot to death, for we were regarded as
spies. l decided in second what to do.
Telling my companion to lie down in the
tender, l seized the throttle, and in loco
motive parlance threw her wide open.
The engine jumped like a rabbit. I
threw myself fat in the tender, expect
ing every second to be hurled to an awful
death. Bang, bang, bangl went the
guns. Then all was silent save the whir,
whlr OF the wheels. Could it be possible
that the engine had knocked off the OBJ
structions2 arose and looked out. We
had passed the enemy and scattered the
ties. My companion, as much astonished
as myself, got up. looked back, and
Just above the tender saw what l took
to be swarm of big black flies. I
reached out and took hold of one. Gra-
ciousl then dicovered what they were.
They were a shower of bullets that the
enemy had fired after us. Well, we ran
along at this rate until the bullets all fell
behind" The gentlemen looked at one
another, but no one disputed the state
ment.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01
A Barometer.

A kiss is an unfailing barometer. The
initiated can tell "the signs of the times
invariably. 1t is a sure indication of a
cold wave if the young lady's best beau
tells her her kisses are ever so much
sweeter than tho girls across the way.
There is sure TO be a storm If the younp
woman's father catches him in the act
There will be heavy clouds in the sky
if, when he is just about to kiss her, he
stops short aud asks her "how's her
motherl" The rule is Just as sure when
the girl has been eating onions.
If he puts his arms around her like a
bear and almost smothers her when he
kisses her, they are not married. If he
comes up with his hands in his pockets
and gives her a tasteess smack, the
probabilities are that they are.
After all, what would girl be with.
out lips2 She might be blind, and vet
be beautiful. She might be bald, and
yet wear some other womans hair Eut
if she had no lips life would be a desert
drear.
Ah, it is woman's lips that try mems
souls ! Chieago Ledger,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01

she was at home; and to keep her from
feeling lonesome and missing me toe
much, father was giving her as good a
time as he could. He had taken her on
an excursion up the Delaware that day,
ana l don't suppose she had had a
gloomy moment since l had left her.
But you said your dream had had a
great effect upon your life2"
II think it bad. l never saw either
Cousin John or his wife again; they both
died within the next ten years, leaving
all they possessed to the family of an
other cousin. I think it was very likely
that, as father afterward said, my foolish
falth in dream cost both Bess and my
self nice little legacy.
bessie lived to be fifty, and grand
mother, and though her death was
great sorrow to me, l have survived it
nfteen years, as you see and hope still to
spend some happy, cheerful years before
the Good Father summons me to ioir
her. "-YoutRS Companion.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01
Struck by a Meteor.

A correspondent writes: Gas a gem
tleman, well-known public official, was
passing from st. James's Park into Pail
Mall by the garden wall of Marlborough
House, on Saturday last, at 4:45 in the
afternoon, he suddenly received on the
right shoulder violent blow, accom-
panied by loud cracking noise, which
caused him great pain and to stumble
forward as he walked. On recovering
his footing, and turning round to see
who had so unceremoniously struck him,
he found that there was no one the pave
ment but himself and the policeman on
duty at the park end of it. On reach
ing home the shoulder was submitted to
examination, but nothing was at first
discovered to account for the pain in it.
But in little while the servant who had
taken away the coat to brush brought it
back to point out that over the right
shoulder the nap was pressed down fat
In long, straight line, exactly as if a
hot wire had been sharply drawn across
the cloth. The accident is therefore ex
planned as having been caused by the ex-
ploslon of a minute falling star or
meteor. 1t is an unprecedented and
most interesting occurrence, and de-
serves, | think, to be placed on public
record. ."-L0HdOR Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01

A Long Branch hotel-keeper is author
ity for the statement that it is possible
to hire wardrobes for the season, or
rather a week of the season, fourteen
irocks with their appurtenances being let
to any young woman who wishes to shize ?
on the piazza and beach and in the hotJl
parlors for seven days. The price
charged is not high, and the frocks are
good in material and fashionable in cut,
although they are not much more than
basted together, in order to permit alter
ations when they change wearers.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01

Says the sarcastic salt Lake City 7ri-
bune: eastern journals are much dis
tressed at the disappearance of the buff
falo. The writers of the lamentations
for JOs AmericaauS never saw a buffalo,
they never expect to sec one; they have
no idea in the world why the buffalo
should not be destroyed; they have no
possible interest in the question; yet they
are perpetually regretting the disappear
ance of the buffalo 1t would puzzle
them TO tell anything the buffalo is good
for; still less could they explain how the
country is to be inhabited by the whites
and the buffalo remain; all they are con-
scious of is sort of lackless yearning for
something, they don't know what, and
buffalo strikes their fancy"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

A good place to loaf-The bake-shop.
Are you tired of your engagement
Chew onions. .--SJtings.
We may not like hotel-keepers, but we
have to put > with them.
Some parts of Arkansaw are so dry
that the water is dusty y.-ArkGaSaio 1rag-
eLer.
After all, this world is dangerous
plscc-very few get out of it alive-,St.
Paul Herald.
Russia claims that the Turks have no
legal rights in Europe, as they are all
squatters.
The Labor Question-"Henr are you
going to get up and make the tire2''-
NorrlStotcn Herald
"Carpets will be lower than ever" says
an advertiser. Going to put them down
cellar next winter9- Call.
1t is curious about yachts. Everybody
seems to like them, and yet everybody
insists that they must go.--Burlington
(Vt.) Free Press.
''He lives above his station"
Was what the people said.
And true-he was the depot man,
And lived up over head.
-Yonkers Gazette.
'I hez bin movin' round on top dis
yairth moas' eighty vars now, an It am
my solemn belief dat de pusson who pays
de least attenshun to de weather enjoys
life thirty per cent. de best. brother
Gardner.
The man whose head was bald last year,
Who swore about the flies,
Now of these insects has no fear
And their attacks defies;
For their assaults cares not a fig,
Because this year he wears wig.
Boston Courier.
A couple OF visitors from a rural dis
trict in the House gallery were trying TO
pick out their Congressman on the floor.
Il can't distinguish him, said one, after
a hopeless visual observation. "Of course
not" was the honest reply; she can't
even distinguish himself. D. Washington
Critic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01
Hogs, Bristles and Hair.

After the hogs are killed in the great
slaughter houses of Chicago, they are
| dropped into cistern of boiling water,
where the hide is thoroughly scalded.
A machine then scrapes the hair and
bristles off before the meat is cut The
hair and brstles are then separated, the
bristles dropping out readily on account
of their stiffness They are taken to the
roofs of the houses and spread out to be
dried by the sun.
The hair is then loaded on wagons,
and taken out to the field prepared for
the purpose and dumped. There the men
with rakes begin their work of garden
ing. They spread the hair in layers as
thin and even as space will permit, shak.
ing it up to allow the hair to pass through
and to dry it thoroughly. Whatever
foreign matter, such as pieces of hide or
dirt, may be in the hair, generally drops
out when it is dry and is shaken well
with the rakes.
When the hair is dry it is taken back
to the packing house and put into a
steam press that makes compact bales of
comparatively small size. 1t is then sold
to the wholesale hair dealers by weight.
A single packing house in Chicago sendA
out ten OF twelve wagon loads to the
hair fields every day in summer. About
one pound of hair is taken from every
hog, and that is seven -eighths hair and
one-eighths bristles There were killed
and packed in all the packing houses Of
Chicago, during the year ending March
/, 1866, nearly 5000, 600 hogs, yielding
nearly 2, 500 tons of hair and bristles.
Some of the packing houses have ma
chimes to curl and comb the hair before
selling it. Most of the houses, however,
leave those processes to the hair dealers.
The hair is used principally for the up
holstering of furniture. 1t was sold last
year by the packers at four cents pound
wholesale but is now sold at five cents
a pound. The brstles sell at from fifteen
to eighteen cents pound.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01
WASHING THE DISHES.
She stood upon a shady porch

She stood upon a shady porch
Before a nlilk-white table,
And DER her head a rose-vine wreathed
The brown old fashioned gable.
A pretty cotton gown she wore.
With sleeves rolled up, displaying
/ er lovely arms, and on the breeze
Her curls were lightly straying.
This side cage Of song-birds hung,
And that globe Of fishes,
And butterflies flew in and out,
And lowered lovingly about
The maid that washed the dishes.
At first she dreamed not was near,
And never ceased her singing,
While through the shining bubbles fast
Her dainty mop went swinging.
But soon she spied me- and I heard
A little rill of laughter,
And straight my heart sprang to her side,
And 1 sprang quickly after.
And in a moment more I'd told
Mylove, my hopes, my wishes,
And marked her bright eyes brighter grow
And then-work must be done, yon know
She washed, wiped, the dishes.
-Mdrgaret Eytinge, IN BGSar
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01
AT VARIANCE.

Through the frost, and the cold, and the pas.
sion
or winters DESPAIR:
With tho earth buried deep in her shroud,
and the raving
OF storm in the air;
Unheeding the gloom, or the shock Of the
tempest,
Or any wild thing,
sang, and was glad and triumphant;
Inmy heart it was spring.
But now in white world of blossoms,
Wing haunted and sweet:
A wind blowing light DER the orchard, and
waving
The grass at my feet;
The song of bird overhead listen,
And look, and am dumb;
For lol in my heart of unreason
The winter has come.
Atlantic Monthly
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01

Captain Lyle, of the United States
Ordnance Department, has just returned
from Europe, whittier he was sent to ex-
anime the process of manufacturing big
guns and armor plates. He received a
cold sort of courteous attention, and was
allowed to look outside of their manu-
featuring works, but they declined to al
low him to investigate the inside The
captain complains bitterly of this dis
courteous treatment, because Of the great
courtesy shown by our government to
English and other foreign officers visit
ing our works. Minister West addresses
a note to the War or Navy Department
asking permission for officers of his gov,
ernment 20 visit our works and arsenals,
which is readily given. When our Off
GERS ask for similar privileges in Europe,
especially in England, they are snubbed.
Captain Lyle says the only salvation for
our seacoast cities is big guns to prevent
ironclads from coming within range suf-
ficient to lombard our cities.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01

Cotton-seed oil the Cultioator says, is
the strongest competitor that lard, tallow,
oleomargarine and other fats and oils
have ever met. As an adulterant of lard,
cotton-seed oil has forced the former
down to six and one-half cents per pound
in Chicago, the lowest price ever known
for lard. 1t is also largely used in soap
making everywhere, for cooking purposes
in the South, and as an adulterant of
olive oil in France. Cotton-seed oil has
evidently come to stay, and is destined to
play an important part in the economy of
the future, and in fixing lower range of
prices for other fat md oils.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01

There is prospect of scarcity of cod
fish balls during the next few months,
unless those engaged in cod fishing meet
with better success soon. Reports from
several large schooners, carrying crews
from twelve to twenty-five men each,
state that all they have to show for from
four to eight weeks fishing is from 200
to 600 quintals each.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01

There are now eleven guides appointed
to show visitors through the National
Capitol and explain its wonders. No
price is fixed for their services, and they
leave their fee to the generosity of the
visitor, generally receiving a fair COM
pensation for the long tramp through the
building and stereotyped descriptive
speeches Many members employ guides
to take their constituents over the build
ing, as they have not the time, and
cheerfully pay rather than be troubled
with the tiresome task One of the
guides, Benjamin Stewart, of Virginia
was brought up on President Madison's
homestead, and has fund of anecdote
about Madison, Monroe, Jefferson and
the other magnates of the Old Domin-
ion. The stories told by the guides about
G0me of those to whom they show the
Capitol and its inmates are very amusing.
Some of the hackdrivers who carry
strangers about the city TO Arlington and
to the Soldiers Home are well posted on
the public buildings aud history of the
sity, and eceive a good many extra
stipsn from those who employ them
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01
The Picnic.

The picnic is an ancient institution.
but 1t has reached its full-blown maturity
on American soil. With all its big bugs
and little bugs and red bugs and hum
bugs 1t comes TO US like water in a thirsty
land, like a benediction of rest to the
weary. 1t is better than the ball with
its full dress and its flirting, amid lamps
above and laughter below. 1t is better
than the religious festival so common in
the great cities of the North, when a
man is robbed to the sound of sacred
music and eats oysters for charity at a
dollar dozen Columbus (Ga) IN
qulrsr-SuR.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01

"A large firm of butter manufacturers
OF Delaware county have, for the last
sixteen years, provided the White House
with a special brand of butter at 81 q
pound. They still supply President
Cleveland's table, but they only get
sixty cents a pound.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01

Mustard plants used to be the terror
and disgust of the California wheat
grower. Now they are a source of profit.
BY ingenious mechanical harvesting both
crops are gathered separately, and the
mustard is worth more than the wheat on
the same land.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01

The population of Brooklyn by the
Federal census of 1880 was about J66, 663.
The cOmpilers of the new directory OF
that city, just published (Which contains
rs, 76l names), estimate that the present
population is 76e, O7j-an increase of
POI, 4l2 in less than six years.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01

It is estimated that there are no less
than fifty colored people in Philadelphia
worth more than $500 Half of thi.
number are worth over SEQ 600, and at
least fifteen of them are worth $50, coo.
while one is said TO be the possessor Of
$3.50 600
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01
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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01

An Italian chemist has invented a pho
phoreseent printing ink. Newspapers
printed with it can be read in the dark
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-01

Five snakes were killed in the top of
palmetto tree, at Crescent City, Fla.
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aides the use Of Madame SOnaloas Nut oil aud
MIX Weed Ii cleanses the pores ana keeps the
skin fine aud Is bcautiiyin ing IN it, effect "-DR z
q PYRUN 205 T. 35th street New York
The Nut on l. natural lubricant for the skin
sofening and keeping II youthful" DIR. GALE
Saratoga Springs, y. Y.
II find Madame SOuElea's preparations for the
skin most excellent"-DR MOUNT, 574 Lexington
avenue New York
Endorsed by the ProfessiOn.-"I have anaiyzed
Madame Sonaleas Toilet Goods They contain
nothing that viii injure the skin; they viii NAL ke
the complexion "-R. V. De GUSIoS, Chem
ist Chicago.
Send stamp for circular. Agents wanted in
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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-03-25
. Prominent Suicide.

Bloomington Ills, March 25-Hon.
William M. Smith, of Lexington, in this
county, suicided at z O'Clock this morn
ing. He left the house in good spirits,
and a few minutes later was found in
the barn dead, with a bullet hole through
his head. He vas a general merchant
and a large farmer and stock dealer,
worth 100000. He was formerly q men,
Der of the Illinois railroad and ware
house commission, and was for several
terms in the state legislature and speaker
of the house; and Tor a quarter of a CEN
fury a representative Illinois republican.
He was ffty.seven years of age, q
native of Kentucky and came to
this county thirty years ago. He
leaves q wife and one daughter. He had
been IN failing health for several years,
but was believed to be improving, and
his mind has not seemed to be affected,
The community is widely shocked.