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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13
Dissecting an Elenhant.

The carcass of Big Chief, Adam Fore
paugh's elephant that had recently to be
killed, will be dissected at the Univer.
sity of Pennsylvania. 1t will take three
months to cut the car ass up, and twill
be fully two years before report of the
observations will be made by the staff of
surgeons who are to conduct the opera.
tions.
A gang of workmen were busily en-
gagged after the execution in getting the
body from the street in front of Biologi-
cal hall TO the rear of the macerating
building, and, although the distance is
but $50 feet, it was long after dark when
it was landed upon a floor of planks
which had been laid for its reception.
Carpenters then began to build large
frame about the carcass, and when this
was completed tackle was suspended from
a big cross bar and the body raised into
the air, hanging from ropes and a sling.
1t was necessary to do this in order that
the process of fembalming might be carried
on successfully. When the dead elephant
was raised in the air shed was built
over it.
A number of barrels of embalmine
fluid were poured into the carcass. The
heat of the flesh was so intense that large
quantities of the fluid were absorbed,
and in order TO prevent the flesh from
mortifying it was necessary to thor
oughly saturate it.
The dissection of this portion of the
anatomy will be most interesting, as
there exists an idea that the brute was
insane, or afflicted with what is known
in India as 'must," the symptoms oil
which are irascibility of temper and ex,
treme viciousness.- .-Net0 York CONNER
] ciaL Aduertiser.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13
New treatment o. Lung Consumption.

A new method Of treating tuberculosis,
or consumption Of the lungs, has been
proposed by NJ Haller. II consists in
inhaliug dry air heated to the tempera-
ture Of from $50 degrees to 275 degrees
Fahrenheit, the theory being that at this
temperature the bacilln which are sup
posed to produce the disease are de-
stroyed. Old experiments have shown
that there is no difficulty in inhaling air
at these temperatures, but it seems more
than doubtful whether the effect will be
in the least degree advantageous.
Another and more rational novelty in
the treatment is that described by Dett-
weller as in use at the Folkenstein sana.
torium. The essence of this method is
that the patients are required to live
permanently in the open air, to sleep
there even If the temperature fall as low
as fourteen degrees Fahrenheit. Thus
perfectly pure air is secured without the
break in the conditions which occurs
when patients live out Of doors in the
DAY time, but are housed at night. The
patients are said to become fond of the
treatment, and the recoverios are placed
at twenty-five per cent, of the cases
treated
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13
FARM AND GARDEN.
scab in sheep.

II is not an indication of scab when
sheep bite their sides and kick their
bellies. This may be caused by the
presence of ticks or lice. 1t is well,
when the sheep act in this way, to ex-
anime them to find the reason for it.
Usually the troublesome insects known
as ticks, brown and tough. skinned, will
be found with their heads buried IN the
skin and busy sucking blood from the
sheep. Scab appears as red patches on
the skin at first, then the patches arc
covered with small blisters, which break
and exude sticky serum which forms
crusts or scabs with which the wool is
tangled and matted. This disease is
caused by a very small insect which
burrows into the skin, and it spreads very
rapidly through the flock, and quickly
destroys it. The remedy is to apply a
decoction of tobacco in boiling hot
water with some sulphur in it, break
ing up the crusts so that the liquid
reaches the insects under them and kills
them. 1t is applied at such a heat that
the hand can just bear to be dipped in it.
1t usually applied by dipping the sheep
in it.-Neio York Times
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13

sketch two houses, writes Rev. 7. De
Witt Talmage in the Observer. The first is
bright as home can be. The father comes at
night.fall, and the children run ont TO meet
him. Luxuriant evening meal graduation, and
sympathy, and laughter Music IN the parlor.
Fine pictures on the wall. Costly books ON
the stand. Wellclad household. Plenty of
everything to make home happy.
House the second. Piano sold yesterday
by the sheriff. Wife's furs at pawnhroker's
shop. Clock gone Daughters iewelry sod
to get -four, Carpets gone off the floor.
Daughters in faded and patched dresses,
Wife sewing for the stores. Little child with
an ugly wound ON her face, struck in an
angry blow. Deep shadow of wTetchedneSs
falling in every room. Door bell rings Little
children hide Daughters turn pale, Wife
holds her breath Blundering steps in the
hall Door opens. Fiepd, brandishing his
fist, cries: "Out outl What are you doing
here.n Did call this house the second! No;
it is the same house. Rum transformed it.
Rum imbruted the man. Rum sold the
shawl. Rum tore up the carpets. Rum
shook its fist. Rum desolated the earth
Rum changed that paradise into hell
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13
A Fortune From a Song.

The most noted song writer in Phila;
delphia is septimus Winner, who still
owns music store in this city. 1t was
he who wrote the immensely popular
ballad, 'Listen to the Mocking Bird. -
The song was first published in 1888.
Mr. Winner using the nom-de plume Of
Alice Hawthorne, which was his mothers
maiden name. The song was published
in ballad form and at once became very
popular, and such is its hold upon public
fancy, that, although it has been sung
and whistled aud played the country
over for an average lifetime, it still re.
tains its place as a song of national Tepu.
tation. The profits from its sale have
exceeded 500, coo, perhaps the largest
amount ever realized from any musical
composition of its class. -Phaaaekphid
Press,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13

My homeless friend with tho chromatic
nose, while you are stirring up the sugar in
that 10-cent glass of gin, let me give you a
fact to wash down with it. You say you
have longed for years for the free, indie
pendent life of the farmer, but have never
been able to get enough money together to
buy farm. But this is Just where you are
mistaken For several years you have been
drinking a good improved farm at the rate
of 100 square feet gulp. Ii you doubt this
statement figure it out yourself. An acre of
land contains 4S, $50 square feet Estimating
for convenience the and at S43 90 per acre,
you will see that it brings the land to just
one mill per square foot, one cent for ten
square feet. Now pour down the fiery dose
and imagine you areswallowing n strawberry
patch. Call in five of your friends and have
them help you gulp down that 50O-f foot garden.
Get on prolonged spree some day and see
how long it requires to swallow a pasture
large enough to feed COW. Put down that
glass of gin; there's dirt in it-100 square
feet of good, rich dirt, worth S4S So per acre.
PObs1.t R,p,1cyfa
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13
An Ancient Tattooed Slave.

A notable old African woman, Diana
Middleton, died in Tennessee lately.
Aunt Diana was, according to accounts,
much over a hundred years old. She
was native of the Dark Continent, aud
was kidnapped and brought here before
the Revolutionary War. Before she lost
her mind she could tell many incidents
of that period. She was at that time a
slave in Virginia Later she was sold
into North Carolina, and from there she
came to Tennessee. She was freed be-
cause of her extreme age before the late
war, and has been looked upon for
many years as the oldest person in the
world. Her face and hands were heavily
tattooed, and these tattoo marks lasted
till her death. She was said to have
been cannibal in her native country,
Fnd some of her acquaintances remember
stories of her cannibalistic feats that
made her name terror to childhood. =
Nee York Independent.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13
How Mnmmies Are Made.

1t may be interesting to some to know
how mummies are made. The process
of cmbalming is as follows, and is called
the "Brunelli process The circulatory
system Is cleansed by washing with cold
water till it issues quite clear from the
body. This may occupy from two to
five hours. Alcohol is injected so as to
take out as much water as possible. This
occupies about quarter of an hour.
Ether is then injected to abstract the
fatty matter. This occupies from two
to ten hours. A strong solution of
tannin is then in ected. This occupies
for inhibition from two TO ten hours.
The body is then dried in o current of
warm air passed over heated chloride of
calcium. This may occupy from two to
five hours. The body is then perfectly
preserved and resists decay. - Chicago
HeJdll.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13
Poultry Yard Errors.

Many errors are liable to occur with
beginners at poultry raising, for even
the veterans are not free from mistakes
at times. In selecting the breed large
majority pay greater regard to color and
shape than to more desirable qualities.
1t is well to know that the character
istic of the breeds should be understood
il no mistakes are TO occur. But, after
a breeder has become perfectly familiar
with all that pertains to the choice of
fowls, the common routine of the
poultry yard next requires attention.
The times of feeding should be regular,
certain hours being fixed upon for that
purpose, but they are very few who
systematically feed their fowls. Water
should be kept in the presence of poultry
at all times, and it should not only be
clean and pure, but fresh, and yet this
important matter is overlooked by
many. Warmth in winter is very es-
sential to laying, being as important as
full supply OF feed, but every fowl
house is not warm and comfortable
The prevention of dampness in the house
avoids Toup, which is terrible
scourge in the flock, but the small
leaks here and there are not regarded as
dangerous matters by the average
breeders. Even the height of the roosts
and construction of the nests have more
or less tendency to effect the profits from
poultry than many may suppose, for
high roosts cause deformed feet, and
poor nests will not be occupied by the
hens if they can get better places in
which to lay. These things are seem
ingly small matters, which aIe usually
overlooked, but they are important tc
success. Why poultry should be ex-
pected to prove profitable without care
more than other stock is what we do moi
understand, and the fact that profit il
derived from flock that has been over
looked, is strong proof that poultry
raising can be made to pay well wheI
conducted by thoughtful, attentive per
sons. Ii is the small matters that shoult
receive the most careful attention, as III
observance of method and system is sur
to prove beneficial at all times. Farn
! and Garden.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13
Natural StimnInnts.

The New York Medical Record, under the
head of Natural Stimulants,n saws:
"Nilk heated to much above 100 degrees
Fahrenheit loses for a time a degree Of its
sweetness and density. No one who. fatigued
by over-eXertion of body or mind, has ever
experienced the reviving influence of tum-
bier OF this beverage heated as hot as it can
be slipped, will willingly forego a resort to it
Iecause of its being rendered somewhat less
acceptable to the palate. The prOmptneSs
with which its cordial influence is felt is in
deed surprising. Some portion of it seems to be
digested and appropriated almost Immediate
ly, and many who now fancy they need alco-
holic Stimulants when exhausted by fatigue
will find in this simple draught an equivalent
that will be abundanty satisfying, and far
more enduring in its effects. There is many
an ignorant overworked woman who fancies
she could not keep up without her beer; she
mistakes ITS momentary eXhilaraJion for
strength, and applies the whip, instead
of nourishment, to her poor, exhausted
frame. Any honest, intelligent physician
'ill tell her that there is more real strength
and nourishment in a slice of bread than in
quart of beer; Dut if she loves stimulants it
would he very useless piece Of information.
1t is claimed that some of the lady clerks in
our own city, and those, too, who are em-
ployed in respectable business houses, are In
the habit of ordering ale and beer at the
restaurants. They probably claim that they
are tired and no one who sees their faithful
devotion to customers all day will doubt
their assertions. But they should not mis-
take beer for n blessing, or stimulus for
strength. A careful examination of statis-
tics will prove that men and women who do
not drink can endure more hardship and do
more work, and live longer, than those less
temperate
We commend this hotmilk substitute for
beer, recommended by so good q scientific
authority as the Medical Record, to those
weary and exhausted people who are ac-
customed to resort for fancied help to an
alcoholic stimuant, t,-NationdL Temperance
AdUocute.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13
Temperance News and Note.a

LGliBCIahCG NEWS anu NOIciS
There are 93O00,0O0 gallons of whisky ''in
sight"
San Francisco, California, has III groceries
with bars attached.
There are 1856 coo drink-sellers in Belgium,
or one for every ten families.
Nellie Reynolds, four years old died re-
Gently at New York from alcoholism.
A National German American Prohibition
League has been organized at Chicago.
The Harve"ian Society of Great Britain
estimates that fourteen per cent of mortal
ity among adults in the United Kingdom is
due to alcohol.
Francis Murphy, who has been atoring
in the temperance field for twelve years, es-
Inmates that IA, 900, 600 persons have signed
the pledge under his crusade, and that OF
these eighty-tive per cent. have remained
faithful to their vows.
Antagonism to the jug trade was recently
expressed in a very IOrclble manner in the
town OF Cabin Creek near Little Rock, Ark.
Six masked men entered the Pacific Express
office, which contained lU3 Jugs of G.. O. ID.
whisky, and with clubs smashed every jug in
the place and allowed the contents to run
over the floor.
From statistics carefully compiled by Mrs
q. II. Read, OF Bloomington, ILL.,. the fact
appears that according to the records in the
Circuit Clerk's Office there has been one di,
yorce TO every twelve marriages within the
last five years in Mclean County. Of lOC
cases OF divorce taken at random and
examined, seventy charged drunkenness
among the causes, and twenty were based on
'desertlon But leading lawyers say that
''three-fourths OF the cases Of desertion can
be traced 10 drunkenness
Free whisky, it would appear, is terribly
destructive TO the mental as well as the
moral and physical condition of a nation. II
is reported from Norway. that since the re
moval OF the tax on whisky, insanity has in
creased so per cent and idiocy $50 per cent
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13

DR.. j. 5. CoMBs, Owensvillc, Ohio, says: 81
have given SCoTT's EMULSION of God Liver Oil
with Hypophosphites to four patients with
better results than seemed possible with any
remedy. All were hereditary cases of Lung
disease, and advanced 10 that s'agO when
Coughs, pain in the chest. frequent breathing,
frequent pulse, fever and Emaciation. All
these cases have increased in weight from ID
to rs lbs, and are not now needing any medi'
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13
Don't Treat.

1t is said that the Anti-Treating Societies
formed in New FORK year or two ago have
already produced much practical good for
temperance. Why cannot these organizations
be extended quite generally throughout the
countryi
The drinking habit is quite generally ac-
quired through our viciously absurd methods
OF treating If it were not q condition of
our social code to make drinking part OF
the convivial amenities of life, most men
would never think of drinking strong whisky
and old rum, any more than they would
think of drinking kerosene or cod liver oil.
To ask young man to take a drink OF
whisky, whose stomach had not been de-
moralized to the whisky standard, is about
equivalent to asking him to take a social
glass of benZine. Any mans stomach will
in time learn to accommodate itself to
strange visitors. Mlithridates trained him
self to eat poison, and there are plenty of
men in the country to-day who publicly
dine, in the dime museums, on a dinner of
window glass and lamp chimneys, But i'll
order TO do this they must educate their
stonachs; and this is precisely what the ha-
bitual whisky drinker does
Now, no one will eat or drink nauseous
foods or liquids unless it is the fashion to do
SO; unless there is some imperious social code
which they imagine must not be broken.
The habit of eating Is Just such an ineXora-
BILE code. Take away this social cement
from our drinking customs, and the younger
generation, at least that part of it that is not
poisoned by hereditary taint will not con-
tract drinking habits at all.
1t would he well for our generation il
these Anti-Treating Societies should multi
ply, If it is not practicable to form large
societies of this kind in any community; lot
each man form himself into society of one
-ldHkee Blade.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13

II the proprietor of Kemp's Balsam should
publish card of thanks, containing express
sions of gratitude which come to him daily,
from those who have been cured of severe
throat and lung troubles by the use of Kemp's
Balsam, it would fill fair-szed book. How
much better TO invite all to call on any drug
gist and get free sample bottle that you may
test for yourself its power. Large bottles 5Oc
and 81.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13

10 he Editor-Please inform your readers
that have positive remedy for the above
named disease which Warrant TO cure the
worst cases. So strong is my faith in its Vir
tues that l will send Il &c a sample bottle and
valuable treatise 20 any sufferer who will give
me his L o. and Express address. Resp'y,
II. q. ROOT. NJ @. lS3 Pearl St. New York,
No OPIUM in Piso's Cure for Consumption.
Cures where other remedies fail. 25c.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13

The most ceua
tain and safe
Pain REMEDY
in the world
that Instantly
stops tho moss
exoruotatinE
pains. It -
truly the great
CONQUERoR
OF PAIN, and
has done mere
good than any
known remedy.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13

For sPRAfns, HItUIsEs, .s nAsfNnTh.E, ,,,Sh
PAIN In the CHEST or SIDES, HEAD
ACHE, TOOTHACHH, or any other EN-
TERNAL PAIN, n few sppi.es.,ons NJ NJ
like magic, causing tho PAiN 10 IN
sTANTLf STOP. ......,..
For con NGEsTIoNs,I ,INFLAMMATI
SORE THROAT, BRONCHITIS. CDnD
in the CHEST. RHEUMATISM, NEU-.
RALGIA, LUMHAGO, sCIATICh, PAINS
In the Small of the Back, ctc., more 81.
tended, longer continued and repeated
applications sre necessary 10 e"ec'
cure -. -
All INTERNAL PAINS hn the Bews.ss
or stomachl, CIk8GiPs, APhsMs, sVuh@
HEARTBuRN, DIR RRH u A. collie,
FLATULENCY, PAINTING SPELLS. arc
relieved Instantly ard QulCM IL
CURED by taking internally as direct-
ed. sold by Druggists. Vrtce, Soc.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13

Woe unto him that Oireth his neighbor
drfnk, that puttest thy bottle TO him, and
mdkeSt him drunken dlso.-Hab. II, Is.
The wicked worketh a deceitful work; but
to him that soweth Righteousness shall be q
true reward.-Rev. II, is.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13

THE output of anthracite coal for 1883 was
over 80 COO COO tons
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13
w. G. T. u. COLUMN.
Conducted DO The Tionestd Union,

The w. G. T. U. meets the 2d and 4th
Tuesday OF each month, at 8 p. m.
President--Mrs. Eli Holeman.
vice Presidents-Mrs. ]. G. Dale, Mrs.
w. J. Roberts,
Recording Secy-Mrs. L. A. Howe.
Cor. Sec. and Treas-Mrs. s. d. Irwin.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13

Never despairi lost hope is a fatal
disease.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-13

20 Gross. Zen times was the
canvass, andst and won When at last. in
thing f. j, the Spaniards drove the Moors out
7of Spain, they remained masters of Glib
Taltar, and held it with undsputed sway
for little more than a hundred years.
They might have held it still but for a
surprise, hardly worthy to be called
siege, for the place was taken by a coup
de main that is one of the strangest in
cidents of history. 1t was the war of
the Spanish succession, waged by half
Europe 10 determine which of two in
competents should occupy the throne of
spain. The English sent a squadron into
the Mediterranean under Sir George
Rookie, who, after cruising about and
accomplishing little, bethought himself,
in order not to return in complete failure,
TO try his hand on Gibraltar. The place
was well fortified, with a hundred guns,
but inside the walls only hundred and
fifty men "a man and a half to a gun },
so that it could offer but a brief resist
ance TO a bombardment and thus the
SpaniaTds lost IN three days what they
spent more than three years to recover,
and all in vain.n
But in the year 1870 began the epoch in
the history of Gibraltar which has made
it famous for all time This was the
great four years siege, when the Span
iards and French undertook by starya,
ton and tiTeless bombardment to cap
ture the fortress from England. There
were about seven thousand men on the
Rock under General George Augustus
Elliott, who was as brave a soldier and
skilful an officer as Great Britain had in
her service. Earihworks of tremendous
magnitude were thrown up on the
Spanish coast and an enormous feet OF
Spanish men-of-war cruisod near the
Rock to cut of all supplies, for it wai
determined to starve the garrison. The
horrors of the situation in the fortress
can scarcely be pictured, Many officers
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-12
DECLINED TO BIZ ARRESTED.

Democratic Senators Give Mon
tana Republicans the Laugh.
Special to the Globe
HELENA, Mont. Dec. 1.-THE Re-
publican leaders realizing that they can
neither trick nor euerce the Democratic
senators to unite with them and organ
iZe the senate to-day ordered their
sergeant-at-arms to arrest all the absent
Democratic senators elect. At the meet
ing of Republican senators to-day Sem
atOr Hedges offered a resolution that an
order be made empowering the tempo
rary Sergeant-at-arms to take the neces-
sary assist nee and using no more force
than necessary to arrest and bring IN
the Democratic abSentees. After the
resolution had been adopted and ordered
to be spread on the minutes warrant
was made out and signed by Republican
members directing Matthew McQuirk.
temporary sergeant-at-arms, to take the
necessary assistance and bring the alb
sent members before the bar of the SEN
ate. The warrant is vOluminouS doc
ument and recites all the facts in the
case and is based upon the old terri
torial statutes empowering the senate TO
compel abSenteeS to attend. Mr.. Nc
Quirk started on his mission and re-
turned in about TWO hours, reporting
that the Democratic senators had ali
refused to obey the summons. The
Democrats claim that AS the senate is
not yet organized it has no power To
order their arrest, especially as they
have not qualified. The only recourse
is to declare the absentee's seats vacant
and then the governor, if he chooses.
can order new election. In the Dem
Ocratic house to-day all the committees
were named, and in the rump house
bill was introduced fixing the time for
the meeting of the supreme court.