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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01
His Lofty Ambition.

A thug who was recently imprisoned
in India, having been caught almost in
the actual commission of a murder, com
planned bitterly to an English officer at
having been deprived of the opportunity
to fulfil his ambition. He had begun
life with the fixed determination 10 kill
Ian even thousand human beings, and at
the time of his capture was in fair way
to carry out this design. He had already
killed 700 persons, and If the authorities
would have let him alone for quite a
little while longer he would have reached
the 1000 mark. lie was willing to agree
TO give himself up again if he were al
lowed 10 60 free long enough to bag the
additional 300 needed, and he thought
it great hardship that so reasonable a re-
quest should be refused.-lSaa Francisco
Chronicle
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01
RArsSor ADVERTISING.
DEGENERATE DAYS.


Oh. the man with a fist like the hoof Of
horse.
That can discount the kick of a mule in its
force
Has found, in the tussle
OF life, it is muscle,
And brains are a waste as a matter Of course.
He may get all the favors of fate he may
ask,
In glamour of gold for while can he bask,
If he pleases the asses
Who gather in masses
To see him go over the falls in cask.
If YOU only are born with head set awry;
If like a cyclop you have only an eye;
If you happen a midget,
Or have one extra digit,
You are bound to succeed and you needn't
half try.
So, away with your Latin, away with your
Greek,
All the training you need is to harden your
cheek.
They are thumpers, not scholars,
Who harvest the dollars,
And the wreath's ON the head Of the museum
freak.
Charles M Snyder, IN Lippincott.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01
The Proper Amount Of sleep.

Insomnia is rightly regarded as one of
the marks of an overweight or worried
nervous system, and conversely we may
take it that sound sleep lasting for
reasonable period, say, from six TO nine
hours in the case OF adults, is fair test
of nervous competence. Various acci-
dental causes may temporarily interfere
with sleep in the healthy; but still the
rule holds good, and normal brain re-
veals its condition by obedience to this
daily rhythmic variation. Custom can
do much to contract ones natural term of
sleep, fact of which we are constantly
reminded in these days of high pressure;
but the process is too artificial to be
freely employed. Laborious days with
scanty intervals of rest go far to secure
all the needful conditions of insomnia.
In allotting hours of sleep it is impossi-
bic to adopt any maxim or uniform Gus
tom. The due allowance varies with the
individual. Age, constitution, sex, fatigue,
exercise, each has its share of influence.
Young persons and hard workers naturally
need and should have more sleep than
those who neither grow nor labor. Wo-
men have by common consent been as
signed longer period of rest than men,
and this arrangement, in the event of
their doing hard work, is in strict accord
with their generally lighter physical con-
struction and recurrent infirmities. Abso-
lutte rule there is none, and it is of little
moment to fix an exact average allowance
provided the recurrence of sleep be regu-
lar and its amount sufficient for the
needs of given person, so that fatigue
docs not result in such nerve prostration
and irritability as render healthy rest i'm
possible. London Lancet.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01
A Professional Blush Producer.

Not very far from the corner of Locust
and Broadway, says the st. Louis Times
Star, in prettily furnished Office, can
be found a young man, eXquisitely
dressed, and as pretty as a picture in
personal appearance. He is a producer
of manly bushes, and can give any mas
culine cheek a sweet pink tint inside of
ten minutes. For long time past stu
deutr Of humanity have wondered at the
pink -heeks of narrow chested dudes.
They need wonder no longer. For a
good, liberal fee, this 'blush producer"
will place the softest of healthy pink
tints on any face. The artist-ifhe may
be so called-uses in the operation light
corroding acid, which keeps the porNnRf
the skin ope9~at all times. The n
excitement or breath Of fresh air eauA
this acid to getNin its fine work, and
the happy dude is blessed with a pair of
pink cheeks. Somehow or other, it
seems as though science was knocking
out old mother nature.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01

Thomas Lamb, United States pris-
oner received at the Omaha Penitentiary
from Texas in January, 1889, on an
eighteen months sentence Tor smuggling,
has been pardoned by the President.
Lamb, who is an Englishman by birth,
is the owner Of an enormous tract OF
land in Mexico, where higwife and four
children live, which is said to be valued
at 81, 900, 600, and yet he attempted to
increase his wealth by resorting to
crime
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01

Miss Kate Drexel, the Philadelphia
heiress to over IS, 600, 600, who was ad-
mitted as postulate into the severe or
ders of the Sisters of Mercy, has now
taken the white veil, her first six months
of probation having ended. This step
is new one toward the black veil which,
about three years hence, will separate
her from the world for life. ''H
would be a mistake" says the New
York Sun, ''to attribute to undue infiu.
ences the disposition Miss Drexel is max
ing of herself and her millions. 1t is
simply the natural development of the
life she has led since her infancy. Her
father was deeply religious man. So
was her mother, Miss Longstreth, who
died when Kate was only two years old,
but found time to SOW in her mind the
seeds of a mysticism which was carefully
cultivated since by her stepmother, a
Miss Bouyior, whose family was of the
strictest religious habits such as are still
to be found in highly cultivated French
families nowadays. Sister Drexel viii
devote her life TO the education of Indian
and colored girls, and few years from
now will probably BE- heard from as the
superioress of useful branch Of her or
der in the West. ,"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01
FALLING LEAVES.

They are dropping, slowly dpoping--
Embers from the flaming trees
All their radiance and splendor,
Kindled by the sunshine tender,
To the etrth they now surrender
And the wayward breeze.
They are ooming, softly coming
Amber, amethyst and pearl
With the ties of nature riven,
Tempest tossed and madly driven;
Flashing lustre back TO heaven
In their giddy whirl.
They are flitting-gayly fitting-
Fledglings of autumnal light
From their lofty perches straying,
With each passing zephyr playing,
Bough and bush the course delaying
OF their final fight.
They are lowering gently hovering--
Over vale and rugged steep;
Covering DER the bloom-lit spaces
Which the early frost defaces,
Mantling tenderly the places
Where our loved ones sleep.
Yes, they're falling falling
Russet, crimson, gold and gray
Beauteous millions headlong flying,
With the winds discordant signing,
AT our feet ignobly lying,
Waiting dread decay.
They are teaching fifty teaching
Thatwhich gladdens-that which grieves
There is naught of earth abiding;
But, behind all nature hiding,
Is hand our footsteps guiding
And the falling leaves
~ W. Rand IA Springfield Union.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01

The magistcrial tariff in England for
kissing ladies against their will is con-
stantly increasing. The operation for
merly cost about five dollars; but the
8ice Of kisses has nearly doubled of late,
ana tailor who chased lady creditor
round table and kissed her at the end
of the chase was recently mulcted in
ten dollars, including costs.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01

The translation of leading documents
from English into Spanish is quite an
important business in st. Louis. There
is also much correspondence relating to
mines that must be translated. A firm
recently received letter ordering sup
plies, in which the two languages were
strangely mixed. One of the items
called for certain number of "Monqua
Rinches." 1t took some time for the
clerk to guess that monkey wrenches
were wanted, but his guess was cor
rect.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01
The Lady and the TIGER.

A necklace composed of tigers claws
mounted in diamonds is the favorite
ornament of Baroness Marie Eide Won
Ameline, the famous tiger huntress. She
killed with her own hand the four beasts
from whose claws her unique piece of
iewelry is made, and preserves their
skins as rugs. She is now travelling in
this country, as is another huutress, Lady
Eva Wyndham Linn, who claims 10 have
slain six man-eaters during a visit TO her
uncle, the Governor Of Nepaul. .-Phila.
delphia Record,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01

II is said that never in the past twenty
years has the United States been so poorly
represented abroad by navy as at
present. The old wooden ships have
been disappearing at rapid rate during
the last year or so. The loss of the
Trenton and the Vandalia at Samoa was
bitter blow. All the foreign stations
are now held only in vague and
shadowy way. There is but one Ameri-
can war ship in European waters, con.
dition of affairs which has not occurred
before since 1920.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01

Africa requires 1000, 900 blankets to
supply the native population alone. Be-
sides this there is demand for wooden
clothing for the ever-increasing white
population. This has to be imported,
although the Cape wool is Of the best
quality in the world.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01
A POISONOUS PRACTICE.

If housekeepers everywhere would start
and maintain a crusade against the sale
of undrawn poultry in the markets or by
farmers it would work most wholesome
hygienic reform, says Good housekeeping.
1t IS vicious paactice, an abuse, in fact,
that people have endured as they have
many other abuses, because there is no
remedy except in concerted action or
legislation. 1t is impossible to keep un-
drawn poultry even few hours without
the beginning of putrefactiOn from the
effect of the gases from the undigested
food in the "crop" and intestines. The
longer it is kept the more of the poison
goes into the flesh, and, in the majority
of cases, the poultry that reaches the
kitchen from the market is actually unfit
for food. Housekeepers could well af
ford to pay larger price to have the
poultry dressed Immediately upon being
killed-they pay for much weight that
is thrown away, as it is, beside having
left mass of poisoned flesh. 1t is urged
that some people prefer the flavor of un
dressed poultry, but that fact only makes
the matter more alarming, since it indi-
Gates that we are cultivating a taste for
putrid meat.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01

English statistics give a notable de-
crease in their convict population during
the last twenty years. The total number
Of convicts under sentence of penal servi-
tudc was 64O5 in July; twenty years ago
it was II 500.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01

Neil w. Price, author Of several
popular songs, including "stick to Your
Mother, Tom," aud "a Boys Best
Friend is HIS Mother" has died at
Chattanooga, Tenn, in the most abject
poverty, from the opium habit.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01

All London is talking Of Barnum and
his circus. His levees at the hotel have
been thronged, aud Buffalo Bill is en-
tirely forgotten.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01

At the Illinois State Fair boy sixteen
years old had on exhibition sixty varie-
ties Of beans, all shelled aud named.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-01-01

A Toronto (Canada) inventor says his
ship will cross the ocean in four DAYS,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-01
? / SICIANS
TAKING HOLD OF THE
Ell TR0P Disc
New YORK, July Is, 1889.

New YORK, July rs, 1889.
John N. Webb,
President Decentralization Company
DEAR SIR have been using it or
the strongest point on myself from one
half to one and quarter hours day
for a week, and l must confess l am
perfectly astonished at the result upon
my general system as well as local
trouble Dyspepsia.
I assure you have never felt 50
well in twenty years as ] do now. It
seems as if a new world had opened
upon me and youth had been restored
as if BY A GENT WITH HIS WAND. I
have cause to become an enthusiast,
which I am indeed, and now begin to
think you did not say enough in its
praise.
am treating experimentally num-
Der of my Wall street patrons for brain
fatigue and general debility to give
them some idea what the instrument
can do in the hands Of one who under
stands it.
l am treating case of secondary
syphilitic eruption on the body and
face with the most prompt and salts
factory results. We can do very little
with medicine in this disease and I
look with establishment at the effect OF
the Electropoise upon it.
I see a great futule here for the
Electropoise. Refer every one you
like to me.
For further information apply to
Electropoise Company, room 16, Watts
Block, city.
The E1EcrRoPo1sE, e1o E. ST., NV,
WASHINGTON, D. c., July.26
Electro LIBERATION Co.,
Birmingham, Ala
GENTLEMEN-In explanation to the
foregoing letter it is proper to state
that the Electropoise has been in use
by DR.. K. but five days, having been
erected in his office on July Goth.
He said ri used to be such a ran
tankerous allopath that l would not
look at homeopath across the
street. But I found that they could
effect cures that I could not with my
methods, so I went to their college and
graduated. Now, if you will show me
a still better method, I will adopt it in
nv practice and advocate its use."
He has large practice among the
swell "4OO' and frequently has spe-
eial train to carry him to see some
rich patient out Of the city.
Yours truly, JOHN N. WEBB,
President.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-01
They Compromised.

A young married man named Johnson
in Chicago, who was drawing a liberal sal
airy, told his devoted wife that every two
dollar bill that came to him should be hers
for pin money. Gradually Mr.. Johnson's
friends learned of the promise, and began
to conspire to help out the popular young
lady. If they owed their friend anything,
they invariably paid him in two dollar bills.
Finally they got to borrowing from him on
purpose to liquidate in this way, and still
unsuspecting, Mr.. johnson continued tc
allow the bills to flow into the willing lar
of his better half.
Finally, the cashier of the firm that en-
ployed him learned of the generous prom
Use, and he, too, entered the conspiracy, and
on the next pay day handed Mr.. johnson q
roll that staggered him. Every dollar Of
it was in the denomination of "two.'
Sweating under the burden, the repentant
husband wendell his way homeward
Mary" he said, as he met her at the
door, GIVE got to break my promise with
you, for the government at Washington
has ceased to print any money except in two
dollar bills. ALI the V's and KS, double
KS, LIS and C's are being sent to the paper
mills. Gold and silver have gone out OF
circulation entirely. Nothing left, if you
will believe me, but copper and two dollar
bills. Pm sorry, but I must break my
promise, or else go into bankruptcy. Can't
we compromise the matter in some way
as, for instance, by my giving you regular
ly fifty dollars a week." They compro-
mised.-San Francisco Argonaut.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-01
HOW TO GET A SAFE OPEN.
A Hartford Locksmith Without the Con
bination Makes Short Work. -

A Hartford Locksmith Without the Com.
bination Makes Short Work. -
Occasionally one hears of safe that has
turned on it's owner and refuses to open
whether because the combination has been
lost or for some other equally convincing
reason, and the safe usually has the best Of
the argument for some time. That there
are a good many more of which nothing is
heard outside the people Immediately in.
terested, is shown by the fact that one
Hartford man has had fifteen of them tc
attend to in Hartford and its immediate
vicinity in little more than a year. His
name is w. H. Halliday, and he has lock
smith shop on Front street.
When R. J Ganley disappeared the com
bination of his safe went with him, and
after Mr.. E. w. Parsons had qualified
as assignee his troubles began with getting
that safe open. First he consulted the
agent who sold it. He was of the opinion
that there need be no trouble. Just send
the safe to the factory; they would drill
around the lock, get the thing open and
send it back with a new door on for from
$40 to $780, This did not sound encourag-
ing, and Mr.. Parsons meditated and in
quired He wanted key fitted and went
to Mr. Halliday, who recognized the key as
one fitting a lock at Ganley's place, and
presently asked how the safe had been left.
Mr. Parsons sorrowfully admitted that he
had been unable to get into it, and HALL
day suggested that he could get it open
without all the destruction that he was told
was impending. He admitted that he
should drill one hole, but added that it
would be small, and that when he had en-
tirely finished no one could find 1t.
On the strength of this he was told to go
ahead. Mr.. Halliday went to work, and
in about an hour and half the door swung
open.
Now for the way the trick was done.
Mr. Halliday has drawings of the ordinary
bank and safe locks. Finding out what
the lock in this case was he looked it up,
found just where he must drill to get at
the point where the tumbler slots must
come in line before the bolt can be thrown
Gust as they would be if the combination
were set), drilled quarter inch hole there,
and by using a wire to check them and
turning the knob till one after another
came round and was arrested at a proper
point, brought things to such pass that
he could throw the bolts and open the door.
When the little hole was plugged with a
screw and painted no one could see where
the hole was made.
But when peaceable citizen can toy
with locks in such fashion in the ordinary
course of trade it suggests something OF
the possibilities for expert bank robbers,
| who have plenty of brains and training
and big stake to make if they succeed
Hartford Courant
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-01
Found in the Bridge Ticket Boxes.

All sorts of articles are dropped in the
boxes. women give the most trouble in
this regard" a gentleman remarked, 'sas
they throw the first thing in the box that
happens to come handy. They frequently
drop their change and pocketbooks
More elevated railroad tickets are thrown
in than any other article, but a collection
of cardboard taken out of the boxes in.
cludes church tickets, a fourteen pound tea
check, visiting cards, theatre tickets and
checks, store and restaurant checks and
one blank bank check, ballots, ferry tick.
cts and any number of railroad tickets
worth ten times as much as a bridge ticket.
In addition to the above mentioned ar
ticles a great many coins are thrown in
the boxes. At the general ticket agents
office in Brooklyn there are two shot bags
and box filled with pennies which have
been received in that manner. There is
also box filled with coins of larger de-
nomination, running from three cents to
twenty-five cents in value, with an occa-
sional half dollar.-New York News.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-01
A Mathematical Wonder,

Zerah Colburn was born in Cabot, Vt,
in 1904. His powers lay chiefly in the line
of mathematics. Before he was years
old he displayed an astonishing readiness
in solving arithmetical problems, especial
ly in multiplication. At the age of he
was taken to London and his skill tested in
the presence of eminent mathematicians.
On being asked what number being multi
piled into itself gave 100, 1929, before the
figures could be written down he replied
327; when asked the cube root of 26S, 1885,
1875, he answered with equal readiness, 645.
He was asked how many minutes there are
in forty-eight years and before the ques-
ton could be written down, he said %, 22s,-
800, which is correct if no allowance is made
for leap year.
Unfortunately, at least for the science of
mathematics, Colburn's remarkable talent
left him as soon as he began to train his
mind in a systematic way. In later years
he taught school in various places; was for
a time an itinerant Methodist preacher and
in 1885 was made professor, not of mathe-
matics, but of languages, in the university
at Norwich, Vt. He died in 1910, leaving
behind him no works worthy of mention.
New York Ledger.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-01
daily except Sunday.
fN1NN E(nrIDNC

CONNECTIONS.
Train 4l6 connects at Harper's Ferry with
Fast Limited Express trains leaving at 1:07 D. M
arriving in Pittsburg at $50 a. M, Columbus at
3:23 a. M, and Chicago at lilo a. m. next morn
ing; with train leaving at 1853 p. M, arriving at
Cincinnati at 7:45a ST. Louis at $50 p M, and
connects at w averton with train arriving at
Hagerstown at 200 p. IN and at Washington
Junction with train arriving in Frederick at
$3.50 p. m.
Train 4lS connects with fast vestibuled trains
at Harper's Ferry at 1916 D. m. for Pittsburg.
1lo6 p. IN. for Chicago and los a. m. for Cncin-.
natl and St Louis Arrive at Pittsburg at 200 a
amidst Louis at $50 a. m.
Trains HI and 4lS have Pullman Buffet Parlor
cars between StauntOn and Baltimore.
B. & 0. Palace Sleeping through to
Cincinnati, st. Louis, Chicago, and Pittsburg, on
all eXp press trains.
Forrates, tickets, baggage checks, apply to any
office of the B. & o. K. r., to G. E. DUDROW,
Travelling Passenger Agent, Winchester, Va.
1T ODELL,
General Manager.
CHAS. o. SCULL,
General Passenger Agent. may2s
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-01
1.-THE OLD WEATHER VANE.n

There's many year has passed along
The broad highway Of time,
Since Jim an me fixed good an strong
Upon the old barns topmost ridge
That old red arrer made of pine, i
That's bravely p'inted, rain an shine,
The winds direction true
'tBut wind an rain has done their works
The old vane swings no more;
Jes' sways and trembles in the gale,
Instead of veerin', as of yore,
Now east r west, now north r south,
A warnin' us Of rain r drought,
Jes' as it happened So"
IAN like that poor, old, worn out vane.
Has Jim an me played out,
We've braved LIES changes, time again.
An stood the tempest an the rain,
But now we're simply waitin' here,
Until the breath of life shall veer,
An send us heavenward
Philadelphia Ledger
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-01
How to Make the Strongest Cement.

Professor Alexander Winchell is credited
with the invention of cement that will
stick to anything. Take two ounces of
clear gum arabic, one and half ounce of
fine starch and one half ounce of white
sugar. Pulverize the gum arabic and dis
solve it in as much water as the laundress
would use for the quantity of starch indi-
Gated. Dissolve the starch and sugar in
the gum solution. Then cook the mixture
in vessel suspended in boiling water until
the starch becomes clear.
The cement should be as thick as tar and
should be kept SO. 1t can be kept from
spelling by dropping in a lump of gum
camphor or a little oil of cloves or sassa-
fras. This cement is very strong, indeed,
and will stick perfectly to glazed surfaces,
and is good to repair broken rocks, miner
ais or fossils. The addition of small
amount of aluminium will increase the eff
fectiveness of the paste, besides helping to
prevent position.-Jewelers' Weekly.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-01
In 1886 the PRINCE of Monaco w,sn,n. =,

In 1886 the Prince of Monaco, wishing TO
study the course Of the Gulf Stream, threw
into it some copper TASKS from the Hiron-
dele. Three of these TASKS have come
ashore on the south coast Of Iceland, two
near the o mountains, in the Rangarvall
district, and the third ct Floj, in the Ar
naes district