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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-01
THE wINo1No HOUR

"H Is better TO do the most trifing thing u
he ,UOrld than 10 consider q hatf hour a
rife. n-Goethe's Sprueche in Prosa
Stay not Pause not
The moon is near;
The sun has climbed the height
Stay not nor fearl
Follow till thy work be donel
On, ever onl
No summer beam shall scorch thee,
Nor sudden wave o'erwhelm thee,
Till thy task be ended.
On, ever on
Through the mist and through the night
Through the binding morning light,
By elements befriended
Till thy work be done.
Thou wouldst sail the sea,
The mountain wouldst thou scale,
Upon the starry worlds
Exhaust thy vision frail,
Stay not for the storm
And stay not for the hour,
A greater master yet
Holds thee in his power.
The moon is here,
Thy work undone,
The end draws near
Ere thou hast won.
Conquer Death, for he is weak
And the gathering days are strougl
Time to struggle, time to seek
While the untired moments throng
Close about thee; seize the firstl
Then to thee the second turns,
And the third is all thine own;
Thine the light and thine the strength,
Thine the thronel
Mrs. Fields, in Century.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-01

Captain Albert s. Pillsbury, of Rock
land, Nc, who was recently granted a
certificate by the United States Board of
Inspectors to command a steamboat, is
the youngest Captain in the service, be-
ing only twenty-three years of age.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-01

An accommodation train in service on
the Omaha road between st. Paul and
saltwater is known among railroad men
as the hospital train, from the fact that
every engineer who has run on the train
for SC eral years past has either had a
stroke of paralysis while at the trottle or
been injured in some way.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-01

The large It amount of land held in the
United States by an alien corporation is
that owned by the Holland Company, in
New Mexico. 1t embraces 4,5OO, 600
ncroa
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-01

The st. John, N. b., Globe now open
ly advocates immediate annexation Of
Canada TO the United States.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-01
Two Great Foreign Armies,

A gentleman publishes the following
comparative statement in a southampton
journal, says London TRUTH 1t is clearly
put and worthy of recollection:
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-01

BRITISH ARMY.
Number of troops,
1875, O0J; cost, SIS,
293. 900.
o field marshals
Al generals.
l57 lieutenant gen
erals.
lS3 major generals,
so colonels.
$50 lieutenant-colo-
nels.
1, $50 majors.
400 broken wihied
tin pot, woOdenle <
gei or otherwise use
] IS h9l my generals.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-01

THERE'S big difference between get
ting ON well in life aud getting well on
in life
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-01

GERMAN ARMY.
Number of troops,
i2S, l14; c ost, eis,-
$50, 600.
2 field mars h a S
Count Moltke and
the Crown Prince.)
so generals.
16 lieutenant-gen-
III major-generals.
PIG colonels.
2lO lieutenant-colo.
nels.
900 majors.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-01

"H Is better TO do the most trifing thing IN
The tgorld than 20 consider a half hour q
fride. n-Goethe's Sprueche in Prosd
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30
When Not to Use Il Fork.

There are 4 number of edibles that
fashionable people now eat with their
fingers. They are:
Olives, to which fork should never
be applied.
Asparagus, whether hot or cold, when
served whole, as it should be.
Lettuce, which should be dipped in
the dressing or in little salt.
Celery, which may properly be
placed on the table-cloth beside the
plate.
Strawberries, when served with the
stem on, as they are in the most ele-
CANT houses.
Bread, toast, and all tarts and small
cakes.
Cheese, which is invariably eaten
with the fingers by the most particular
people.
Even the leg or other small pieces of
bird is taken in the fingers ut fashion,
able dinners and at most of the
luncheons ladies pick small pieces OF
chicken without using fork.-IUjn
city (JFiS.) NelCS.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30
How CamphOr is made.

Camphor is made in Japan in this
way; After tree is felled it is cut up
into chips, which are laid in tub, or
large iron pot partially filled with
water, and placed over a slow fire.
Through holes in the bottom of this
tub steam slowly arises, and, heating
the chips, generates oil and camphor.
OF course, the tubs with the chips have
closely fitting cover. From this cover
a bamboo pipe leads to a succession Of
other tubs with bamboo connections,
and the last of these tubs is divided
into two compartments, one above the
other, the dividing floor being perforat-
ed with small holes to allow the water
and oil to pass to the lower compart-
ment. The upper compartment is
supplied with a straw layer, which
catches and holds the camphor in
crystal deposit as it passes to the
cooling process. The camphor is then
separated from the straw, packed in
wooden tubs, and is then ready for
market. The oil is used by the natives
for illuminating and medical purposes.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30
Lotteries.

In charging jury in Philadelphia
the other day Judge Biddle said in sub
stance. The history of public morality
in regard to lotteries is quite curious.
| have a lottery ticket issued as far
back as 116l, to aid in building a
church at Oxford. That church was
afterward presided over by brother
of President Buchanan. At that dav
lotteries were considered legitimate,
and were almost as frequent as apothe-
cary shops are to-day. But experience
taught us that-they were demoralizing,
and stringent laws had to be passed
against anything in the semblance of "a
lottery. At the present day lotteries
are held only by two classes of people
very religious people and very bad
people-and, strange to say, the most
difficult thing is to eradicate them
among the good people"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30

NATURE OF INFECTIONS DIsEAsEs.-
This discovery of the parasitic nature of
infectious diseases is of more than scien
tltic interest; it is a vast practical value.
1t has not yet, perhaps, contributed very
materially TO the methods of treating dis
ease directly, although we may c0nfid-
entity expect great results in the future
along this line. There is nothing to
prevent direct experiments with germici-
des upon living bacteria in the laborat
DRY, and we may hope in this way TO get
a more scientific method Of curing infect.
ious diseases, after the theory of their
parasitic nature becomes more truly
the property OF doctors as we'll as scien-
lists. Thus far, however, the vaiue of
the theory has been rather as the founda.
ton Of the science of preventive medi-
cine. Here its importance cannot be
overrated, and is only beginning to be-
come realized.-H. w. Conn in Science
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30
Saved BY Arithmetic.

Representative Allen of Mississippi
has darby among his neighbors al
home who, if the statement of the pro-
fessiOnal humorist of the house is to be
believed, is even more shiftless thar
the average negro of the South gener
ally is found to be. One day this ne.
gro, so Allen says, went into the coun.
try to pick cotton, but presently re
turned much Disguised.
Didn't You get any offers to picI
cotton?" Allen asked
Yes, sich as deywas A white man
offered me one-fourth of what [ picked
| jest took look at de field and | saw
for myself dat when hit was all picked
hit wouldn't amount to one-fourth, sc
| left for home. | tell you. boss, l was
in luck that | didn't cit fooled. But
my 'rifmetic was all what saved me.
tell you, send yer chilluns to school,
Washington Letter.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30
Ants and Their Habits.

In spite of the multifarious duties
and tasks that are imposed on these
tiny burghers, they still find time to
clean and adorn their worthy little
persons. No spot, no atom OF dust or
ANYTHING else uncleanly will they tolcr
ate on their bodies. They get rid of
the dirt with the brushy tuft of their
feet or with their tongues, says the
New York Graphic. They act for all
the world like domestic cats when they
clean and lick themselves. and they
assist one another at the toilet precise
" like monkeys Their sense of
cleanliness goes SO far that the natural
list oftens finds 10 his unpleasant sur
prise the colored marks that he had
applied with so much care on his ''trial
ants removed by their dirt-hating
friends. They keep their dwellings
Just as clearly.
But the conveying away of their de-
ceased brethren. whose bodies they APP
pear to regard with the greatest anti
patty, gives them more trouble than
anything else. When some members
of an ant community which Mr.. Cook
kept imprisoned died and could not be
removed, those remaining seemed affect
ed with the greatest horror. For days
the insects ran about seeking way
out, and ceased onlyWhen completelyeX-
hausted. The ants belonging to the cam
ponorous species seized the dead and
threw them into the water-pail, which
they converted into sepulcher. Or
dinarily, though, the ants are said to
treat their dead with more reverence.
They even possess their own grave
wards, which lie in the vicinity of their
nests. They convey their deceased
companions thither, where they lay
them down in orderly little heaps or
rows.
1t is only the corpses of their fellows,
however, that they treatin this manner.
Dead strangers they throw out like
something unclean, or tear the body in
pieces. Even between the master and
slaves of the same community Miss
Trent says she has observed a dissimilar
mode of burial. While the masters find
their last repose in special grave
yard side-by-side, the slaves lie like
heaped-up refuse near the nest, despis-
ed equally in death as in life.
The ant cemeteries are often thickly
populated, for their life is short. The
male lives only through one summer;
the female lives somewhat longer, and
the workers die of old age in the eighth
or tenth year.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30

REGULARITY OF THE DISMAL SWAMP.
There was no one at Roper's sawmilI
who could give us any information, so
we padded on to the village of Deep
Check, before reaching which we passed
through another lock. Here the Dismal
Swamp proper may be said to begin.
AT this lock we were again raised sew
eral feet, so that we were now, although
only few miles from tidal water, pro-
badly sixteen feet above the sea level
''Shall we pay toll here? We asked the
lockman.
"Not till you come" he answered,
making It clear that there was only one
entrance and exit on this side of the Dis
nal wamp.
Does the swamp begin bere2'
Yes. said the lockman, leaning at an
angle of 40 degs., and slowly pushing
the great beam with his back. at be-
gins here, and it runs all the way to
Florida.
This was true in way. The whole
southern coast is margined by swamp
lands; but the Dismal Swamp is not of
them. 1t is high land instead of low
land; Its water Is fresh instead of salt or
brackish. Among swamps it is'an abnor
mality. 1t leans over the sea. and yet
contains its own moisture, like bowl.
Indeed the Dismal Swamp is a great
bowl, forty miles long and ten to twenty
wide, and, strange 60 say, with its high
est water in the center. The sides of the
bowl are miles of fallen and undecaying
trees, fixed in a mortar of melted leaves
and mold. Deep in the soft bosom of
the swamp are countless millions of feet
of precious timber, that has lain there,
the immense trunks crossing each other
like tumbled matches, "since the begin
ming of the world" as a jumper cutter
said.-John Boyle O'Reilly in Boston
Herald.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30

EGG LAYING EXTRAORDINARY. The
turtle bad assembled the beach to a point
above high tide. had stirred up the sand,
leaving great heap over her eggs, and
returned to the water but q short time
before we landed. This was shown by
til G ebbing tide, which had retreated
only q short distance from her last
tracks. The eggs we're laid in bunch
and covered with sand a foot and ha.f
deep. There were just 1879. of them.
They resemble white rubber ball, an
inch aud a half in diameter. The sea
turtles eggs have a peculiar flavor, but
are very palatable. The CLAIR becomes
tough and leathery by boiling, aud is al
ways thrown away.
The breeding season of the loggerhead
(chclCnia caretta) lasts from May well in
to August, according to the statement OF
our guide, who also said chat they de-
posted eggs several times in this period,
producing as many as $50 at the first
laying, and perhaps no more than two or
three at the last. The natives make a
businesslk Ike search for these eggs each
year, ard sometimes surprise the female
turtle OF the beach. When she has once
begun the egg laying process it has to be
finished, even If she IS turned on her
back and made prisoner, Immediately
after. The extraordinary egg producing
power of these animals is all that preser
yes them from immediate extinction.
Popular Science Monthly.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30
A skilled Chinese voodworke

A skilled Chinese voodworker who ar.
rived in New York some time ago to take
charge of the fancy work on a Chinese
town hall being built, put On airs TO the
extent of saying that America cabinet
makers could not earn their tobacco
money in China, as most Of their work,
while grand to the ere. was coarse in
construction. Any skiIlful Chinese
woodworker, he said, could make bed.
stead that would be worth $4,000 in
China, but it wouldn't Fay to make such
a one here. as it would take three years
time and no American would be willing
to pay such price for a bedstead except
as curiosity. In China, he said, bed
steads are valued as ornaments, as plan
os are here.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30

LETTERS 1000 YEARS OLD.-A re-
markable discovery has been made in
Egypt of tablets or letters, which com
pose literary correspondence of 5000
to 1000 years ago, carried on between
Egyptians and Asiatics. The tablets
now in Vienna represent letters and dis
patches sent to Egypt by the governors
and kings of Palestine, Syria, Babylonia
and other countries of Western Asia.
The find is remarkable every way, and
opens the people of that age to us with
freshness and familiarity. 1t is clear
that literary spirit is very ancient, and
Professor Sayce surmises we shall yet
fad libraries Of clay books. One town
in Judah was called "Book Town." or
Library Town" The momentum of
this discovery will be marked Rich
men should hesitate no longer to aid in
unearthing the vast treasures of the ORR
ent.-Globe- Democrat.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30
4 PUZZLED BLUE-BIRD.
HIS FIERCE ATTACKS ON WHAT II g SUPPOSED
TO BE RIVAL.

have spoken of nature as a stage
whereon the play, more or less Interrupt
ted and indirect, constantly goes on.
One amusing actor upon that stage one
season upon my own premises WIS GER
tain male blue bird. To the spectator it
was comedy, but to the actor himself
L imagine it was quite serious business.
The bird and his mate had q nest in an
clubhouse. In this clubhouse was win
dow with pane broken out. AT almost
any hour in the day from spring to early
summer the male bird could be seen iut-
tering and peckiDg against this window
from the outside. Did he want to get
wlthlnf Apparently so, and yet he
would now and then pause in his de-
monstrations, alight in the frame of the
broken pane, look intentIy within and
after q moment resume his assault upon
the window. The people who saw the
actions OF the bird were at a loss how to
interpret them. But could see at once
what was the matter. The bird saw its
image IN the mirror of the glass (the
dark interior helped the redection) and
was making war as he supposed upon a
rival. Only unyielding glass kept him
from tweaking out every saucy blue
feather upon the spoil Then he would
peep in through the vacant pane and try
to determine where his rival had SO sud
denly disappeared. How it must have
puzzled his little poll And he learned
nothing from experience. Hundreds of
times did he perch il the broken pane
and sharply eye the interior. And for
two months there did not seem to be an
hour when he was not assgulting the
window. He never lost faith in the re.
atty of the bird within and he never
abated one jot his enmity toward him.
Ii the glass had been rough surface he
would certainly have worn his beak and
claws and wings to mere stubs. The
incident shows the pugnacious disposi.
ton of blue bird, and it shows how
shallow birds wit is when new prob
lens Or conditions confront it.-Wide
Awake.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30
RENEWS HER YOUTH.

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay
Co., Iowa, tells the following remarkable
story, the truth Of which is vouched for
by the residents of the town: 81 am 70
years old, have been troubled with kid
ney complaint and lameness for many
years; could not dress myself without
help. Now am free from all pain and
soreness, and am able to do nv own
homework. owe my thanks to Electric
Bitters for having renewed my youth.
and removed completely all disease and
pain" Try bottle, SOC and 81 at Henry
Hinrichs Drug Store. 4
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30

Railroad lnen say that lightning oc-
casionally strikes locomotives when
they run through thunder storms, but
it has never been known to harm them
or the mea in their cabs. The electric
ity Trims out and spreads all over the
engine, running off the wheels ard
along the tracks when it leaves the
machinery. The impression is that the
locomotives are lightning catchers and
attract the bolts which otherwise
mimht bit the cars.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30

The total number of petitions filed
under the French divorce law from
1884 to 1886 exceeds 10000. OF the
couples who in 1886 asked for divorce
pure and simple twenty-four had been
married fifty years. The largest num-
Der Of disagreeing couples had been
married from five to ten years. One
hundred and nine couples wanted to
be divorced before the honeymoon had
waned. In 3,026 cases vioIence was
the reason OF the application.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30

much indebted TOR its remarkable growth in circi,-
latlon to the persistent adherence on the part
OF the other Chicago dailies to the blanket
| sheet style Of journalism. Of all the people in
America the average Chicagoan is most in a hurry
and least inclined to wade through columns OF
yerbiage and stuff. The DAILY News is the only
Chicago daily that has the facilities for giving all
the news and at the same time the good sense to
present 1t IN concise form The result Of such
condition of affairs is that THE DAILY News prints
more papers than all the other Chicago dailies
combined
In considering all the causes which have
entered into and produced so phenomenal Jour
nallstic growth the most important one unques-
tlonably has been the controlling conviction of its
managers that the "cheap paper" should be cheap
only IN price, that its should be as fresh and
complete, its editorial discussion as able and its
general tone and character as pure and heathful
as Its best and highest priced contemporary. All
this the cheap paper" may easily be even at its
reduced price.
The difference of revenue between the two
cent paper (even more so when the price is one
cent? and the higher-priced "blanket-sheet." the
latter throws away in useless and unasked for
sze that not only is of no worth to the reader
but is even an annoyance, in that it compels him
to CLEAN what is of real news interest from mass
OF verbiage and worthless application
." 1t is because its managers have been wise
enough to practically recognize these essential
elements of the best American journalism of to-
day that The DAILY News is the best and most
popular general family newspaper published in
Chicago or the West
1T OF merit couldbe framed in stronger terms than
S not the achievement now that such journal as
It the reduced price of ONE CENT A DAY.
y so J'ae' Certain, IS that The DAILY News Hqq kFc 9qn
at One Cent per copy will be mailed postage paid for
especially called to the fact that this metropolitan daily now
T VIII now have his daily market reports Address
F. LAWSON, Publisher The DAILY NEWS CHICAGO
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30
BUCKLIN'S ARNICA SALyF.

THE BEST SALvE in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piless, or no pay
required. II is guaranteed to give per-
feet satisfaction of money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For safe by II.
Hinrichs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30

4 perfect complexion, free from pimple
or blemish, is very rarely seen, because
few people have perfectly pure blood.
And yet, all disfguring eruptions are
easily removed by the use OF Ayers Sar-
saparilla. Try it, and surprise your
friends with the result
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30
Best Cough Cure.

For ali diseases Of the Throat and
Lungs, no remedy is so safe, speedy, and
certain IS Ayers Cherry Pectoral.
An indispensable family medicine.
Il find Ayers Cherry Pectoral an
invaluable remedy for colds, coughs,
and other ailments of the throat and
lungs. M. S. Randall, POI Broadway,
Albany, \. Y.
II have used Ayers Cherry Pectoral
for Irnnchifis aud
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30

Women are now wearing undressed
KID for their slippers. vet for ages they
have been wearing their slippers on
the undressed kid.-A!baHy Times.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-30

HE newspaper entitled to the distinction of
having the largest daily circulation in America is
HE CHICAGO DAILY News. (Since this state
ment was made It IS possible that the growth of
the Nf70 York W0'2a entities it to first place)
Tile Graphic to-day devotes page to sketches of
scenes IN and about its establishment The his
tory OF this paper is probably without parallel
IN the annals of American journalism. It was
founded December Goth, 1875, and was the first
low-prced daily successfully established in the
West At the end of its first year it had achieved
circulation of about 10000 From that time on
its growth has been remarkable. It now prints
seven editions daily, comprising both morning
and evening issues. It's statement of circulation
for the year 1884 shows daily average of 125,Iz8
copies, unquestonably the largest daily circulation
on the American continent. (The sworn state
ment for 1887 shows daily average Of I65,376)
In politics THE DAILY News is always indie
pendent, never neutral. While its editorial ex-
preston is sometimes vigorous to the degree of
severity, there is always in its utterances Of opinion
SO manifest purpose to be impartial and fair to
all opposing interests that it rarely loses the con-
fdence of the reader, however much it may fail to
bring him to an acceptance of its own view con-
corning the matter in hand
As newspaper proper, THE DAILY News
has earned a reputation for enterprisine news
gathering second to none in the United States.
1t IS the only cheap paper in the West that is a
member of the Associated Press 1t gives its
readers all the news worth giving and gives it for
two cents. (Now it does it for one cent day.
Aside from its own deserving merits as a
complete and cheap newspaper it is doubtless
1t seems hardly possible that an endorseme
the foregoing analysis, and yet how much greater
IHE DAILY News is placed in every mans hands
NE f, 7aar7ezs enterprise Of ave7equ joa,7,aa7z can hq,u
The CHICAGO DAILY News is sold by all newsdealer
$500 per year. or IS cents per month The of farmers
costs but little more than the old time weekly The farme
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