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The Forrest City times., 1890-01-04
EPlT0ME OF THE WEEK.
Brief Summary of the News
 for Busy Men.
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD
Condensed Photographic Reports of the Current Events of tho Past Week h America and In the Countries ol
 tho Old World.
FOR ErGN.

 Carlos L was proclaimed King of Portu- gal at Lisbon. British finances show an encouraging outlook for the year. The ex- Empress of Brazil died at Oporto from heart disease. Disaffection of serious nature in the Russian army is reported The new American navy is drawing the attention of European naval officers. The Cretan situation threatens to call for the intervention of the powers again. The life of the French Republic is threat ened by the course of European events. revolution has broken out in the de- partment of Cuscatean, San Salvador The past week has been dull one in German circles ewing to holiday observ- ances. The influenza epidemic in Europe con tinucs to rage. The proclamation fete continued several days at Lisbon, Portugal Tippoo Tbs treachery to Stanley is be- fore consular court. MT. Gladstone celebrated his eightieth birthday at Hawarden h 'N A'eHtt'N I Ahlhitit ichbtif stHtiut Berlin has been ratified Five persons lost their lives in collision of steamers on the Clyde.
 Many telcgrams and letters of condo lence have been received by Dom Pedro MT. Sexton has made a remark about the Queen which causes comment.
 Canadian matters arc agitating the press of both England and France
 The Swiss government will take meas ures to repress the Salvationists.
 Pneumonia complications are adding fatality to the influenza in Paris
 The Odessa University has been closed because many students arc Nihilists
 The influenza epidemic shows few signs of abating throughout Europe,
 Boulangcr has denied that he will make lecture tour of the United States
 There is much gossip over Queen Victoria and her probable present to Princess Alice of Hesse
 Stanley will leave Zanzibar for Egypt December 30. Emin will not leave Baga move for three weeks.
 Mir. Sturgeon $ illness has taken a serious turn.
 The new Irish land bill will apply to the whole island.
 The College of Cardinals called on tho Pope Tuesday.
 Electric lighting has received decided impetus in England
 The Berlin Vossisehe Zei tung declares German attacks on Stanley mean spirited
 Emiu Pasha's condition is steadily i'm proving.
 Four cargoes of cotton have been dcs troyed by fire at Genoa.
 The session of the French Chamber of Deputies has been closed
 The German press still continues to at tack Henry NJ. Stanley.
 The suit over the property of the late Duke of Brunswick has been dismissed,
 Portugal has asked England to wait for further news from Serpa Pinto.
 An old speech by Lord Salisbury on the Irish question Is causing him trouble
 Many members Of the London Stock Ex. change have been made i'll by sewer gas
 The Gladstonian leaders will meet be. fore Parliament opens to settle on course in the House,
The Forrest City times., 1890-01-04
 A REWARD FOR SILCOTT.
Police officers Offered Reward to Catch
 the Defauiter

WASHINGTON, D. c, December So--A circular offering reward Of $500 for the apprehension of Siicott, the defaulting cashier of tho Sergeant-at- Arms office of the House of Representatives, has been sent To the various police headquarters throughout the country. Attached to the portrait is a picture of the defaulter A good description of Silcott is given, and the name of Marshal Ramsdeu appears as tho person who will pay the s5,ooo. So far as the circular is concerned, there is nothing in t to inform officers of the law that there is any charge whatever against Silcott, and writ of habeas corpus in any part of inc United States would upset the arrest before the proper officers could bring a formal charge against him. This circular Is tho only notification of the case that tho police department here has yet received.
The Forrest City times., 1890-01-04

THE MONTANA SENATORS.
Both Parties Make an EHort to Select
 Their Men.

HELENA, Mont, January Martin Ma ginnis and w. A. Clark were unanimously nominated by the Democrats in caucus foI the United States Senate. The nomina- tions will be ratified in the joint conven, tion.
 In the Republican Senate w F. Sanders, Republican, received out of votes for Unit ed States Senator. There were only scattering ballots for the second Senator and the Senate adjourned without choice until l1:30 today. All the Democratic Senators were absent yesterday, Matte Power, Carpenter and Knowels were put in nomination for second Senator, but without balloting the House adjourned until 10 to morrow morning At caucus of the Republicans last night Power was said to be in the lead with the prospect that dark horse would go away with the prize tomorrow
The Forrest City times., 1890-01-04
New rran for reach,aw o.oxr.phv.

Bnsrox, Mass, December S0. Joseph H Davis, of this city, has invented novel and original scheme for teaching people geography He has in the Patent ofice al Washington specifications of his design for parks. public or private, which are 10 be miniature representations of the whole ol rartions of the earth's surface. Geograph- icaI outlines, mountain elevations, river courses. seas, lakes, trees, plants and How CTS indigenous to the varied climates, are all to Dc represented in an educational way, and the ground 90 devoted will also be con ducivc to pleasure for old end young.
The Forrest City times., 1890-01-04
I,l,no,. q A R

CuicAGo, Ill. December AD---'rhc Grand Army men of Illinois will profit by the dis. solution of the Western States Passenger Association. The State Encampment of the order is to be held at Quincy next March, and the association rceentiy author. fred the rste cf fare and one third for the round trip for rcrsons attending. To-day representatives of the Chicago. Buriing- ton and Quincy and the Wabash appeared before the Council of Administration of the Grand Army and agreed to make the rate one faro for tho round trip.
The Forrest City times., 1890-01-04
No flrctIan nt Oklahoma.

OKLAHOMA, l. r., December so. Tho proposed election of Conncilmen in this city was not attempted to-day, as United States Marshal Walker, of the Southern District of Kansas, had orders from Presi- dent Harrison to suppress 1t in case 1t was attempted. Gen. Merritt arrived from Fort I.eavenworth last night, and kept the troops here under arms throughout the day to prevent disturbance, but as noac took place and none is expected he left to night for home
The Forrest City times., 1890-01-04
Dom Pedro Prnstrnted.

OPoaro, December Sn.--Dom Pedro con tinues utterly prostraied. The doctors have advised that efforts be made to rouse him by conversation, but he does not re spond to any ones question. The Comte and Confess d'Eu arrived here today The cx Emperor's meeting with his daughter was of Il painful character.
 The funeral of the late Empress Is fixed for the 4th of January. Tho Pope has sent his benediction to the deceased
The Forrest City times., 1890-01-04
Senator Gormxn on inc sar,o,,

BALTIMORE, Md, December 3o. In an address to Maryland Democratic editors to day, Senator Gormsn took a strong stand against the Australian ballot system. He requested that his address bo kept secret, but 1t leaked out and has made a political sensation
The Forrest City times., 1890-01-04
Lnckann Aecnnta.

LONDON, December ai.Jackson, the col ored Australian pugilist, has cahlsd his ac. ceptance of the Sullivan challenge of the California Athletic Club
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J. w Beck, of J. ". Beck & Co. Jas. Russell, of Russell, Graham & Co. l.. Rollwage, of L. Rollwage X Co. w, II. Mcdaniel, Capitalist and Planter.
 w. s. Hughes, of Hughes & Curtis.
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NO. 12.

Wm. NJ. Block, Dealer in Real Estate. Geo. F. Taylor, of Stewart & Taylor. A. Becker, of Becker x Lewis. J. W. Nynne, of Wynne Love X Co.,, Memphis,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05
In the Streets of TripOli.

In the variegated crowd filling the
streets scores of types may be distin-
guished: Arabs of the town, draped in
their blankets like Romans in their togas,
and, in fact, the 'jaram" is the direct
descendants of the toga and, judging from
its looks, seems to have retained all the
dirt of thoso intervening centuries; others,
whose costume consists simply of flow
ing robe, generally white, or, of pre-
else, which was once white! Sometimes
this robe is of silk of vivid hue, and the
effect of that gay note in bit of street is
like a poppy in wheat-field. Bedouins,
whose limbs, wiry and strongly muscled,
shine a superb bronze color through
their scanty coverings, elbow Jews in
ridiculous costumes, half native and half
European. In few moments one has
met with an infinite variety of negroes,
from the pure type almost without nose
and with enormous jawbones and huge
lips to those whose lineaments are abso-
lutely Caucasian. Porters, in simple
tunics corded about the waist, carry
heavy swinging bales on long poles rest
ing on their shoulders, cheering their
progress the while with an invocation to
Allah and his innnmerable prophets,
chanted by an old man and repeated by
the chorus; a true song of savages burst
ing forth like a fanfare of trumpets.
Yelled women, voluminously wrapped,
pass by like ambling bundles of clothes.
Officers by scores, those of the new school
stiff but neat, trying TO resemble their
German confreres, since the fashion in
Turkish circles is to initiate the lions of
the day; the older officers kindly look
ing enough. but in what miserable cos
tunes Moorish dandies stroll and pose
languidly about, seeming absorbed in pre-
serving their immaculate patent leather
slippers from any impertinent fleck of
dirt Crafty Greeks and Levan-
tines tread their insinuating way among
the motley groups. At each step it is a
new tableau, and the desire seizes you to
stop while the eyes follows a curious type,
and turning from it with regret you see
ten as interesting. ..-Scri5Her
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05
Sleeping.R0Om

In the most of our dwellings the i'm.
portant rooms, as far as the health of tho
inmates is concerned, are the kitchen
and the sleeping-room. In these two the
mistress of the house, who keeps no SER
want, spends the largest part of her life
but it is to Just these rooms that the
least sanitary attention is commonly
paid.
We shall speak now only of the sleep.
ing room. In this we all spend, OF
should spend, one-third of the day, the
period designed by nature for repairing
the wear of the physical and mental ma
chinery. No greater mistake was ever
made than to look on the time spent in
sleep as wasted.
We have improved upon such sleeping.
rooms as were not unusual few gener.
ations ago; rooms forever unvisited by
sunshine; rooms opening from the
kitchen, so that the spoiled air of the
day was breathed over again by night ;
rooms in low, sitting garrets, or, worse
still, mere closets, wholly cut off from
sunshine and from the pure outside air
But many housekeepers still need hints
on the subject.
l. A sleeping-room should never be a
small one, dependent for most of its air
on an open window. Such room is sci
dom safe, and in certain states of the
weather the air is sure to be shut off.
2. Few rooms are large enough not to
require continuous ventilation. The two
sleepers are constantly vitiating the air.
No air is pure which contains an excess
of carbonic acid, and at every breath a
certain amount of oxygen is converted
into this poisonous gas. Think of twelve
thousand such inspirations during the
night!
Moreover, each breath conveys with the
carbonic acid and throws into the air
elfete matter thrown off by the lungs,
which is also poisonous.
Nor is even this ALL Millions of sweat
tubes are all the time pouring their pol
luted waste into the room. Ventilation,
it is evident, is a hygienic necessity.
3. Sunshine is essential to a good sleep
ing-room. Sunshine is a powerful disin-
fectant, and every sleeping-room needs
to be disinfected daily Let the head of
the family appropriate the suuniest room;
the guest chamber, with its occasional
occupant, is Of secondary importance.
4. The sleeping-room should be in an
upper story, As the night air cools,
many of the disease-producing parti-
cles sink to the lower strata. 1t is
said that one may live safely ir a mala-
rial region by avoiding the night air and
sleeping above the ground floor.
3. The sleeping-room should be not
only one of the most spacious, but one of
the checriest and neaIest and best-fur-
nished rooms in the house. 1t should be
emphatically "the chamber of peace. -
Y0uths Companion.
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be more than compensated for the trouble
and expense it may have cost him.
The sheep is furnished by nature with
a warm covering, which is ample protec-
tion against dry cold, so that, except in
the case of young lambs, the single ele-
ment of cold will be neither uncomforta-
bic nor damaging. The housing of the
flock, therefore, need not be constructed
with especial reference to warmth, but
ample shelter from rains and sleet should
be afforded. When sheep are allowed to
remain exposed to storms until the. fleece
| has become saturated with rain, il is at
once changed from protection against
cold into an uncomfortable wet blanket
that is not soon easily dried, and be-
| comes a source of disease.
To keep flock healthy, the sheep
must have dry feet. Where pigs would
/ fatten in muddy Enclosures sheep would
contract diseases and die. Their out
door winter quarters should therefore be
on ground naturally dry, or made so ar
tifcially, and from which the water fall
ing on it will quickly drain off. Not
only should their winter quarters be on
dry ground, but they will always be
found in the best general condition when
pastured on uplands OF rather thin soil.
In the older sections of this country
sheep raising can only be profitable on
cheap, rolling or hilly lands with rather
scanty herbage, but ample area. They
do not flourish as well on rich soils, be-
sides such lands can be more advantage
ously used.
A sheep-house or shed for winter pro-
lection may be cheaply made, from eigh-
teen to twenty feet or more wide, and as
long as desired, either as an ordinary
frame building or with straight sapling
posts set in the ground. The siding may
be of ordinary barn boards set upright
aud without battening. The space for
the sheep below should be Just high
enough for man to walk about in it
without STOPPING. The floor overhead
should be of matched stuff to prevent
dust and hay seed from falling through
on the sheep. Between the floor and
the roof should be sufficient space for
hay, which can be put in through a door
in the end Of the building that can be
most conveniently reached with wagon.
A narrow space over the hay-rack is left
unfioored
A manger or trough wide enough for
feeding grain, etc, should run the length
of the building near the back. Over this
is the hay-rack, so placed that the trough
will catch whatever falls out of the rack.
The front Stats should be smooth and
about three inches apart and incline back
ward a little, so that the dust and hay
seed will not fall on the head and should
ers of the sheep. The back of the rack
should be of smooth boards, at such an
incline as will cause the hay to settle
down against the Stats in front. The
open front should face to the south, and
the rain falling on the roof, whether of
cheap construction or a more costly
sheep-barn, should not drip from the
caves, but be led down and away from
he premises. es.-FdrmerS' World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
SPECIAL CROPS.

Special crops are just now made very
profitable by farmers who are able to un-
dertalIe their culture. We say able, be-
cause this ability is an acquired habit,
and does not "come naturally" to them.
A specialist is person who gives his
whole thought and work to one thing.
It may be fruit growing, wheat, pota-
toes, hops, beans, poultry, sheep, the
dairy, or any other branch of agricul-
ture. But the whole man is thoroughly
imbued with enthusiasm in his specisl
industry. That he is successful goes
without saying, for when one fails in any
special business it is simply aud always
for want Of enthusiasm, and the perse-
verance and persistence which grow out
of it. The culture of any special crop
necessitates a certain suitable rotation of
culture, rs, for instance, with potatoes,
which come between two crops of wheat,
with clover and timothy between them.
Such rotation, with a liberal manur-
ing, made possible by feeding large
crops of hay is excellent for the soil,
and no surprise need be manifested that
the potato farmer gets rich. Grass and
clover two years, followed by wheat,
manured, then potatoes, then early pota-
toes, then wheat, followed by grass and
clover, with good culture, will bring in
an average of at least $50 per acre yearly,
an income which will enable any careful
man to accumulate moderate wealth.
Ne5 York Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL

OF the aboriginal Tssmanians there
still remains one survivor. She lives at
Port Cygnet, and is fifty-five years of
age.
Compressed air is being used as a mo-
tive power in. some Of the cities of
France 1t has started a new industry
in the manufacture of plant for the pur-
pose.
A new hypnotic called "somnal' pro-
duces six to eight hours of sleep, and is
claimed to have all the advantages of
chloral with none of the unpleasant af-
ter-effects.
A series of questions on the effects of
London fogs on cultivated plants has
been issued by the scientific committee
of the Royal Horticultural Society. The
experience Of the current season only Is
TO be utilized.
A method of treating pine leaves for
the purpose Of converting them into n
pulp for the manufacture Of a strong and
superior paper by exposing the leaves to
the action of steam under pressure has
been successfully tried.
A new process of burning coal without
smoke has lately been discovered. 1t
consists in sprinkling water containing a
special preparation of resin over the coal,
and the result is that there is no smoke,
and the glow is as intense as coke.
a writer in French paper calls the
attention of hygienists to the danger of
eating butter impregnated with danger
ous miasmata. Frequently the butter is
prepared and kept in inhabited rooms,
and sometimes even in rooms occupied by
sick persons.
Iron rolls, said to be the largest ever
manufactured, have been turned out by
the Phoenix Roll Works, of Pittsburg
They weigh $4,000 pounds, are 142
inches in length, and measure As inches
in diameter. They were made for the
Cambria Iron Works.
An examination of over 5000 pupils
of the schools of New York city, Stutt-
gart, Bordeaux, Munich and Glasgow has
shown that more than 26 per cent have
defective hearing, and that there are
twice as many SO affected among the
backward children as among the forward.
Scientists claim there can be no life on
the moon The day on the moon would
last for fortnight, and then there would
be black night for another fortnight.
Scorched by day and frozen by night.
The absence of water, and almost total
lack of air, would prevent the moon be-
ing an abode for human beings
In observations with kites and balloons,
Professor Leonhard Weber has found that
the atmosphere is negatively electrified
up to height of about one hundred
yards, beyond which it is positively cleo
trifed in degree increasing very rapidly
with the distance from the earth. The
negative electriication of the lower
strata of the air is attributed to the pre-
sence of germs and dust particles.
A new mineral compound has been
brought to notice bya German chemist,
whose method consists in making mag.
nesia into carbonate by exposing it to
carbonic acid as produced by burning
coke in close apartments. 1t thus forms
substance as hard as magnesia, and
capable of fine polish. Mixed with
marble dust it forms an artificial dolo-
mite, and with soluble silicates an arti.
fetal stucco.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05
vIoLETs AND PANsIEs IN WINTER.

To grow violets or pansies outside of
a greenhouse is considered by practical
gardeners one of the easiest things to per-
form. Many florists keep them in cold
framCs exclusively, for, as a rule they
have not room for them in the green
houses, unless house is built on purpose
for them. They may be grown in pots,
as window plants, provided plenty of air
can be given on sunny days and steady
temperature, between thirty y-iive and fifty
five degrees, can be kept up. If kept in
too high an artificial temperature they
will not flower much, but will make up
in red spider what they lack in blossom.
A geranium, a carnation and a monthly
rose may be wintered and fowered at
low temperature if plenty of sunlight
prevails.
The violet wants to be kept cool at all
times if it is expected that it will fulfil
its mission. All this does not imply that
the temperature of violet house or
frame should never be allowed to run up
to sixty degrees, because sometimes the
heat in the daytime is not always under
control. The sun may sometimes make
the atmosphere under glass warmer than
the gardener would like to have it, but
to raise the sash only one inch would let
the frost in and do more damage than
the heat. In such case a little too high
temperature is the lesser evil.
A good place to grow violets or
pansies may be constructed at the south
side of a dwelling. Dig pit two feet
deep along the house. Into this put a
stout frame to receive common hot bed
sash, the sash to lean against the
building. Tear down the wall that
separates the frame from the cellar under
the house and put a row of windows in
its place. The idea of that is that the
natural heat in the cellar shall keep your
frame at a steady temperature. At the
same time you may work over your
flowers, no matter what the outside
weather may be, and when no air can be
given from the outside it may be done
indirectly inside. When the outside
sash is open the inside may be shut.
Thus the sun will warm up the cellar,
and perhaps store up little heat for the
uight.-Ptiiadelphia Record.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05

The term professor is often used in q
loose fashion to denote generally the
teacher of any branch of learning with
out any reference to a university. From
the loose way in which it is applied-to
conjurors event has grown to be a
name without dignity and without definite
meaning. Originally the term was con.
fined to an officer in university whose
duty it was to instruct students or read
lectures on particular branches of learn
ing. In the early days of universities the
degrees conferred on students were
licenses to act as public teachers. Now
they may be divided into classes; simple
certificates of attainment by competent
officers or authorities, attesting either
that the school granting them has ascer-
tained the fact by examination, or that
the common fame of the individual is such
that the comforting body takes it for
granted; licenses to teach the branch with
which the holder is certified to be ac-
auainted, and licenses to practice a GER
tain profession of art. As an academical
title Master of Arts is believed to be the
oldest. By the canon of council, held
in Rome in 1926, we read of the APP
pointment of masters and doctors.
Gregory IX-1227 to 1241-is said to
have instituted the inferior rank of bache-
lors to denote a candidate who had un-
dergone his first academic trials and was
authorized to give lectures, but was not
yet admitted to the rank of an independ-
ent master or doctor. 1t is now the
lowest academical honor. Master of arts
is the highest in the faculty of arts, but
subordinate to that of bachelor of divin-
ity. These titles to be valid must be
conferred by some competent authority,
some institution of learning.-Ne,o York
Telegram.