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, 1891-07-23

LISBON, July 22.-During the past six
months 500. OOO, 200 in geld has been
withdrawn from Portugal. From the
beginning of August the drain will dimin-
ish. the principal payments, including those
Tor American wheat, being already met.
The importers are also cancelling com.
missions for the pound sterling. Portu-
guese gold and silver have almost dlsap-
Deared
, 1891-07-23

Columbus-Columbus 4, Louisville O.
Observation-Disclosures Boston IL.
Observation-Disclosures ., st. Louis 10.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. |. Baltimore IL.
, 1891-07-23
xyastar, Associ,no,

Duluth-Duluth 4. Milwaukee I.
Denver-Denver 10, Lincoln 8.
Observation-Disclosures 4. Sioux
CITY 5.
, 1891-07-23

Wisdom's Robertine Is the only thing
now used by fashionable women to per
petnate a beautiful complexion.
Soda water at David's drug store.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18
Mhat a Modern Gun Can Do.

Unless one is actually brought into
business relations with the great science
of modern warfare, it is difficult to con-
ceive of the terrible power of the latest
and largest guns. These engines of de-
struction, weighing 10 tons, hurl pro-
iectile OF solid steel sixteen inches in
diameter aud nearly four feet long at a
velocity of 2179 feet second. When
tested recently, one Of these guns sent a
shot through twenty inches of steel ar
mour. eight inches of iron, twenty feet
of oak, five feet of granite, eleven feet
of concrete and three feet OF buck, Com
paratiyely, a locomotive weighing 2OO,-
900 pounds would have 20 spin along the
tracks at the rate Of l35 miles an hour
to strike a blow equal to that projectile.
Think Of the damage wrought IN rail
road collision wlere the train speeds
dong at the rate of thirty miles an hour,
and enc mly calv1r" the destructive
ness of modern ordnance. e.-B0stoa
drGVeler.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18
The French Are Thrifty.

A chiffonier who carries on his curious
occupation in the Montparnasse quarter
yesterday found among heap of refuse
a small packet containing bonds payable
to bearer to the amount of $4,000. Moth
ing was on the packet to indicate the
owner, but the chiffonier is apparently q
man of the strictest integrity, and he
formulated inquiries in the quarter until
he discovered the owner. The bonds
belonged to a man of the name of Dory,
an employe of the Louvre. This is but
an instance of the wealth of France at
the present time. Nearly every French
man or woman has his or her actions or
shares. Thrift is imbued in almost
every living soul in Paris, and save, save,
save is the universal cry. Decimal parts
of actions can be purchased in all under
takiugs, from Government stock down.
ward, even at price as low as 81.
Hence an inducement is held out to the
working and poorer classes to save by
the accumulation of small sums. The
principle is an excellent one, no doubt,
but it has its drawbacks in the creating
Of mean aud narrow minded commun-
ity. There is nothing open or generous
about the Frenchman of the present day.
He is always thinking how he can econ
omize his sous aud "io" his neighbor in
the process. Even the washerwomen of
Paris are afflicted with the craze, and
she who has amassed the greatest amount
in petits actions, at they are termed, is
counted the best among her fellows.
Truly, these French are a marvellous
people Chicago Herald.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18
Cranberry Culture.

The cultivation of cranberries has be-
come one of the most important indus
tries of Cape Cod, Mass, and a number
of those who are engaged in it have
become wealthy through their enterprise
in the reclamation of formerly worthless
lands and their appropriation to this use.
The original cost of the land used for
this cultivation is about twenty five
dollars an acre, and the expense of con-
structing bog is ordinarily not more
than three hundred dollars. A yield of
one hundred barrels of berries to the acre
is not uncommon, and these sell at an
average price of seven dollars aud fifty
cents barrel, while in some years the
price rises to sixteen dollars and over.
As the cost per barrel for picking is not
much over one dollar and fifty cents and
the commission for marketing not over
eighty cents, it is apparent that the pro-
ducer secures handsome profit.
The gathering of the crop generally
begins about the second week in Septem-
Der. The bog is lined off into rows with
twine, and the pickers, men, women and
children of all ages, gather the berries
from the vines, working along the bogs
on their knees. Most of the berries are
picked by hand, but a machine is some
times used which scoops the berries from
the vines. An average picker with the
hands can gather one hundred and eighty
quarts day, for which he receives three
dollars Frank LeSlie's Weekly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18
Suicide Of a Sparrow.

A sparrow sat on the limb OF tree
near the fountain in City Hall Park the
other noon aud twittered. A dozen
ragged newsboys turned their attention
to the lonely little bird.
"Hully geel" said one; "where's me
shot. See me pick him now, Socky."
Takinga beanshooter from his pocket
the boy aimed at the bird. The pebble
whistled few inches from it. The spar
row broke off in the middle of a note,
futtered its wings and took to higher
branch. The bird was young and could
not fly far.
The same boy tried again to hit the
little bird, and six other boys had by this
time got their beansh )oters drawn on the
bird. The pebbles flew thick and fast
around the sparrow, driving 1t from limb
to limb. Then it tried to elude the young
sters by flying over the fountain. The
boys followed.
Back to the tree the sparrow went,
with the pebbles from dozen bean
shooters after it. Fron tree to foun.
tain, and from fountain to tree flew the
bird with the boys in pursuit.
The sparrow made one final laborious
effort aud futtered over the fountain. 1t
circled over the water q second or two,
aud then dived into the water and was
drowned. The little birds prosecutors
looked at each other in amazeneut.
"Hully gee" said the spokesman.
"Im blowedw-St. Louis Star-SayiH9s.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18
A Mountain Of Glass.

A mineral discovery of unusual value
is reported from Kamouras1a, in lower
Canada. 1t is stated that an entire
mountain, composed of silicates, other
wise known as vitrifable stone of purity
certified by the provincial engineer to
average ninety eight per cent, has been
found. This material is used for the
manufacture of the finest glass, and it is
believed to exist nowhere else on the
American continent in such purity. The
Provincial Government has been asked
by deputation to guarantee four per
cent, interest for ten years on 500, 900,
If a local company subscribes that
amount, to develop the new industry,
and has promised to consider the request
if the principal municipality concerned
is prepared to take fair share of the
risk.-NeW York Commercial Adoertiser.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18
WISE WORDS.

You laugh at some people; others
at you.
A woman is spoilt after she becomes
jealous.
The apple you mustn't have always
looks the sweetest.
Words hurt more than blows and heal
more than balsams.
Discomfort is the want OF self-reliance;
It is infrmity of will.
Truth sometimes walks slowly. False
hood takes long strides.
People who have nothing to give are
the only cheerful givers.
A lie is one degree worse than the sin
which it tries to conceal.
People do not grow in grace by look
ing at the faults of others.
Love and seasickness can't be we'll de.
scribed. They must be felt.
When trying to outwit Others take care
that you don't outwit yourself
We lose the peace of years when We
hunt after the rapture of moments.
Men philosophize with you In your
distress, but it is the women who con-
sole.
That mans end is easy and happy
whom death finds with weak body and
strong soul.
The best acquaintance man has is tho
stranger who knows neither good nor
bad of him.
The longer a man has been dead the
less positive his friends are that he is
with the angels.
How much the men admire woman
who does not expect a man to be better
than men can be.
Many men pride themselves on being
self-made In some cases the workmen
did not know their business.
When a man is near his ninetieth year,
like o'erripe fruit he is liable to fall from
the tree of life at any moment.
There are too many people in the
church who won't march unless they can
be at the head of the procession.
When an honest man insures the house
in which he lives, his insurance is lot
terry in which he hopes to draw blank.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18
Cocoa Cultivation.

Until within few years the cocoa ex-
ported from Brazil was obtained exclu-
sively from wild trees in the forests, but
recently its cultivation has been systemati.
cally begun. The farming Of this pro-
duct is very simple, involving no more
work than is necessary TO keep down the
weeds. During the first years banana
plants are grown between the rows to
shade the young plants. The trees will
produce on an average after the third
year 200 fruits, with from thirty to fifty
nuts each, aud a plantation of 80, 900
trees would yield $50, 900 pounds of
nuts. A plantation of cocoa trees is an
inheritance for the children of family,
as it produces from fifty to eighty years.
The mandloca, or "manioc," grows every
where in Brazil. From it is made the
tapioca Of commerce, and mandioca meal
is the chief farinaceous food of the lower
classes. 1t affords an excellent starch
for laundry purposes. So prolific is it
that a farm Of twelve acres will produce
$4,000 pounds of tapioca. The meal is
beautifully white, aud in the interior of
the country it is the inyariable accom-
paniment OF black beans aud pork on the
farmers table, Washington STIR.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18

Says the New York Mercury: The
English exchanges are just now busily
engaged in suggesting ways of making
village life attractive aud keeping rural
young men aud women at home. There
as here, the cities are drawing away
from home the sinew aud bloom of the
country and agricultural life suffers by
the change. This was the experience of
Italy after Rome became a great city,
and all France is suffering now because
Paris has world of amusements to offer.
It begins to look as if the tendency of
population to the towns were irresistible,
and as If the world must prepare to ac-
cept the fact that far,h life is becoming
discreditable in the eyes of the energetic
of both sexes.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18

Here's another exasperatiug develop
ment in the working of the Chinese ex-
clusiou act, discovered by the Chicago
Herald. A Chinaman in Jail in Tucson
gave an explanation of the attempted
exodus Of Chinese from Mexico into the
United States. He said that one China
man who was recently arrested for ille-
gally entering the United States from
Mexico and was taken to San Francisco
had first sent home all his savings OF sew
eral years work in Mexico and then de.
liberately crossed to the United States
that he might be captured and sent home
to China at the expense of tho United
States.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18
An Apple Without a Core.

A funny little story was heard on the
street the other day. Two small children
were standing on the sidewalk, one
busily engaged in munching a rosy
checked apple, the other looking on with
longing eyes. At length she could
stand it no longer, and began; "Say,
Mamie, gimme a bite"
MAN" drawled out the industrious
Mamie.
"Ah, Mamie, gimmie a bite"
'Naw," again retortel the selfish
child Of the streets, to whom the eating
of an apple was an event,
"Well, will yer gimme the corel"
"There amt goin to be no core to
this apple, was tho wonderful reply to
the last timidly expressed hope Of the
poor little waif.- Chicago Ners.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18
A LOST BABY,

"Well, good-by, said Aunt Jobson,
''and come to see us soon. I've had a
delightful visit. l bade good-by to
grandpa, didn't II Kiss the baby for
me. My good man, that hamper is to
60 into the carriage. Fasten the pad.
lock, and bring the key to me. Well,
good-by again"
And Aunt Jobson stepped into the
coach after the hamper, which contained
those things that would not go into the
trunk.
Remember me TO the Wilson's ~
shouted Uncle James.
"Why, dear me, how you scare me 7"
81 didn't say thatl" yelled Uncle
James. 81 said remember me to the
Wilsons!"
"Be sure to kill some of us9 OF
course it would" said Aunt Jobson,
who TO the best of our belief had mis-
understood every word that was said to
her during her visit, though she never
admitted that she was hard of hearing.
"Well, we really OF rht always to be
prepared for anything"
~ hope am"
And the carriage drove off, and the
Jones family went indoors, and Mrs.
Jones, the mother of an infant who for
its age-four months-was the most
beautiful, accomplished, charming and
good tempered creature known, pro-
ceeded to the nursery at once.
The nurse having acceded, baby had
for once been left in the care of its
great-grandpapa, venerable gentleman
of eighty, who had been seen religiously
shaking it up and down with the regu-
larity of machinery, at the last private
view taken of the pair by baby's anxious
mamma.
Now grandpapa sat reading his paper
and no baby was to be seen.
Mrs. Jones glanced bedward and
cradleward; both resting places were
empty. She fancied that she knew that
none of the family had the child, and a
little chill ran up her back.
"Grandpa, she cried, quite sharply,
''where is babyl"
''She went TO sleep be-e-autifully, my
dear, said grandpa, complacently, "and
Iput her down somewhere. He also
glanced at the bed and at the cradle and
then slowly about the room. az don't
know just where put her, but on some
couch or CRADLE" he said, slowly, "and
it was certainly in this room"
But wherever it was, baby was not to
be found, and after frantic search of
the premises the terrible fact that baby
was missing was conclusively arrived at.
Mamma tainted. Papa hurried to the
station house. Aunt Maria went into
Mysteries and Uncle James rushed wildly
along the streets asking all the strangers
whom he met if they had seen a baby
four months old in a long white dress,
with coral around its neck, go by.
1t was really terrible thing that had
happened to the Joneses, aud if they
temporarily lost their senses who can
wonder at it9
Meanwhile, quite unconscious of the
trouble which had btfallen her relatives
so soon after her departure, Aunt Jobson
was driven to the pier whence the boat
she desired TO take started daily. 1t
already lay at the dock and its hands
were hurrying the luggage on board.
Two of them seized Aunt Jobson's
trunk.
''Aud this hamper is mine" said the
old lady; ''can't you take that at the
same time and save me the trouble of
watching it any longer2"
One of the men put his hand out
toward the handle of the hamper as she
spoke, touched it, then paused.
ais there cat in there, ma amt" he
asked,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18
BEDTIME,

'Tis bedtimeI say your hymn, and bid
''Good night"
"God bless Mamma, Papa, and dear ones
ALL"
Your half-shut eyes beneath your eys-hds
fall,
Another minute you will shut them quite.
Yes, 1 win carry you, put out the light,
And tuck you up, altho you are so tall
What will you give me, Sleepy One, and
call
My wages, II l settle you all rightP
laid her golden curls upon my arm,
drew her little feet within my hand,
Her rosy palms were joined in truthful
bliss,
Her heart next mine beat gently, soft and
warm,
She nestled to me, and, by Loves COM
mand,
Paid me my precious wages-"Baby's kss"
Lord RosslyH.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18

Tho growth of the Argentine Repub.
lie In the past thirty years has been re-
markable. According to recent statistics
the population of tho republic Is now
1000, 900, as against 1880, 900 In 1861.
There are now 100000 acres under
cultivation, where in 1861 there were
but 400, 900, aud while in that year
there were but eighteen miles of rail-
road in the country there are now over
5000 miles in operation, and 5000 more,
including the great transcontinental
route, In course of construction. The
public debt has grown pretty vigorously,
too, however. 1t has increased from
SIT, 200, 900 to s61S, ,OOO,O 900.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18
A RUSTIC BALLAD

The pine-ttee grew in the wood,
Tapering, straight and high;
Stately and proud it stood,
Black-green against the sky.
Crowded so close, It sought the blue,
And ever upward it reached and grew.
The oak-tree stood In the field.
Beneath It dozod the herds;
II gave to the mower shield,
IL gave home to the birds.
Sturdy and broad, it guarded the farms.
With Its brawny trunk and knotted arms,
The apple-tree grew by the WALL
Ugly and crooked and black,
But it knew the gardeners call,
And the children rode on its back.
1t scattered lite blossoms upon the air,
1t covered the ground with fruitage fair.
'Now, hey" said the pine, ''for the wood
Come, live with the forest band.
Our comrades will do you good,
And tall aud straight you will stand.n
And he swung his boughs to a witcbinp
sound,
And flung his cones like coins around.
"OhoP laughed the sturdy oak;
"The life of the field for me.
weather the lightning-stroke;
My branches are broad and free,
Grow straight and slim in the wood II you
will,
Give me the sun and the wind-swept hill.n
And the apple-tree murmered low;
" am neither straight nor strong;
Crooked my back doth grow
With bearing my burdens long,"
And it dropped its fruit as 1t dropped tear,
And reddened the ground with fragrant
And the Lord Of the havest heard.
And he said, II have use for all.
For the bough that shelters bird,
For the beam that pillars hall;
And grow they tall or grow they III,
They grow but to wait their Masters will
So ship Of the oak was sent
Far over the ocean blue
And the pine was the mast that bent
As over the waves it few.
And the ruddy fruit Of the apple-tree
was borne TO starving isle of the sea.
Now the farmer grows like the oak.
And the townsman is proud and tall,
And city and field are full of folk
But the Lord has need of all.
And who will be like the apple-tree
That fed the starving over the sea9
Charles II. Crdndait, IN So. Nicholas.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
China is to have a silk-mill.

Iron is to be made at Chattanooga by
an electrical process.
M. Glammarian, the French astrono.
mer, declares that the climate of Europe
IA growing colder.
Recent researches show that persons
having a tendency to gout improve more
rapidly by abstaining from fruit.
The largest steam hammer in the
world is in this country. It's weight is
125 tons, and is used in forging armor
plates for our new navy.
Besides the large planets which re-
volve about the sun, over $50 others
have been discovered and catalogued, ,and
science is daily adding to this list.
The idea of establishing an observa-
tory on Mount Blanc, Switzerland, has
been abandoned. The ice was tunneled
100 feet without reaching the rock.
A Partisan electrician has succeeded
in forcing violets by the aid of his bat
terry, and recently sent bunch of these
hedglings only four hours old to the
Empress Eugenie.
Peter johnson, of Dassel, MINI. thinks
he has discovered the long lost art of
tempering copper. He and Nile Nelson,
machinist, want to organize a company
to build factory in Minneapolis. The
new process will make copper as hard as
steel.
1t is customary now to mount electric
light projectors on rails running athwart-
ship, usually over the bridge or forward
end of the poop. The rails are sunk SO
as to bring them flush with the deck.
When not in use the projectors are run
in board and protected better from the
weather.
AS instances of longevity in birds
while in state of captivity, Nature re.
ports the death Of a European crane
which had lived nearly forty three years
in the London Geological Gardens. This
is exceeded, however, by the case of a
black parrot which died in 1884, after
having lived fifty-four years in the Re.
gents Park.
The monthly bulletin of food and drug
inspection of the Massachusetts, State
Board of Health shows that milk is now
alarmingly poor in that State, being
fifty-three per cent. below the standard.
In 157 out of 26S cases milk dealers
were found to have adulterated the pro-
duct. This state of affairs will undoubt-
edly increase the infant mortality largely.
1t is claimed the steamer Majestic Is
the most economical coal burner of any
of the Atlantic "high fliers." She burns
220 tons of coul day, shows 10, 500
horse power, and makes au average OF
over twenty knots, or twenty-three miles,
per hour throughout the Atlantic passage.
There are only two other ships that have
reached this speed, namely, the dupli-
cate ship the Teutonic and City of Paris.
But there are few other vessels that
come near this speed.
A Prussian engineer, it is said, has
devised new plan for building q
subaqueous foundation, which, if it
prove effective, will greatly simplify and
cheaper one of the most troublesome and
expensive engineering operations. His
plan is to drive powdered cement by
means of powerful air blast into the
mud, or sand at the bottom of the water.
The cement Immediately sets under the
action of the water, and the bottom is
converted into solid stone.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18

Labouchere, editor of the London Truth,
says In the article on "English Royalty"
which ho contributes to the Forum, that
he does not think that the popularity of
the Prince Of Wales has permanently suf-
fered from the baccarat scandal. "The
general feeling was," he writes, "that 1t
might be well for him to so arrange his
amusements as to manage to keep out of
the law courts"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18

California has a law that is meant to
prevent train wrecking, and it seems to
be pretty etfectual. 1t provides that any
person who places dynamite or any OBJ.
struction on any railroad in the State, or
docs anything with the intention of
wrecking any passenger, freight or other
train, or attempts to rob train, shall
be guilty of felony, punishable with
death
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18
Our Oldest Occupied ,Dwelliny

Kilian Van Renssolaer's house in
Rensselaer, County, opposite Albany, n.
Y, is said to be the oldest mhabite
dwelling house in the Unitel States It
is of brick aud has a gambrel roof Two
portfolios, out OF which the early Van
Rensselaers shot at Indians, pierce the
front walls, and little plate in therear,
set up by the Albany Commemorative
Society, shows the ediice TO have beon
erected IN l642.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18

In the course of an interview with o
representative of the Paris EcIair, on the
opening up of African territory, Mr.,
Stanley declared that the center Of Africa
teemed with riches, which, however,
could not be utilized before the construc-
ton of railways, but this construction
would DO easy.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18

; Cotton production in the United
States has increased $50 per cent. during
the last twenty-five years, while the con-
sumption of cotton products throughout
the world increased only III per cent.
The natural result has been, comments
the Philadelphia Record, that the price
Of the product as we'll as the wages of
the wOrkmen have been reduced.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18

Vessel agents and mariners on the
Great Lakes are urging the establishment
of branch photographic Office on the
lakes to look out for the vast maritime
interests centered there.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18

The pest of rats has become 50 formid-
able in many parts of Brazil that snakes
are being educated to exterminate them.
Every well-regulated household now has
its pet boa to take the place of cat in
battling with the vermiu.