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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27
What Fog Means.

Professor Reynolds recently gave q
practical illustration of the effect of fog
in connection with some new betting
which had been running for four hours
at Owens College during a heavy fog.
The betting, which was new and bright
when started, was found, when stopped,
to be black and loaded with dirt. 1t had
been running at 1000 feet an hour. Pro-
fessor Reynolds pointed out the resem-
blance to the dirtiness of an express train,
the phenomenon in both cases being due
to the fact that the rapidly moving body
comes in contact with greater quantity
Of air in a given time than a stationary
body, and, therefore, picks up greater
quantity of atmospheric pollution
L0ui5oWe Courier Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27
Fresh Water Commerce.

Probably there are few people whose
attention has not been specially directed
to the subject, who are aware of the
magnitude of the commerce upon the
Great Lakes.
1t has been asserted that more tons of
freight pass through the Detroit River
in year than the total imports and ex-
ports of the United States for the same
period.
The commerce of the Great Lakes is
carried upon more than two thousand
vessels, of which more than half are pro-
PEELED by steam.
About six hundred schooners, some of
them great four-masted craft, ply on the
lakes during the five or six months when
the straits and ports are not closed by
ice. Many more are small schooners;
and of these large number, on the up
per lakes, are owned and manned by
hardy Norwegian sailors who have emil
grated to this country.
Steam is gradually displacing the wind
as the motive power of the lake traffic,
and steel is displacing wood as a mater
ial. The steam vessels, too, are con-
stantly increasing in size. In 1886,
there wero bnt six steel vessels on the
Great Lakes; in 1890 there were sixty
eight.
At the same time that these changes
in the size and material of vessels are
taking place, change is going on in
their ownership. There is smaller pro-
portion of vessels owned by individuals
or small partnerships. The traffic of the
lakes is rapidly coming under control of
corporations possessing large capital.
The two great items of freight in the
vast traffic of the Great Lakes are ore and
grain. Many millions of tons of ore are
yearly brought through the Sault Ste.
Marie canal down the lakes. Seventy
million bushels of wheat and four million
bushels of flour go annually by water to
Buffalo. The corn tonnage is still
larger.
Yet the Great Lakes are closed to
navigation during as least six months a
year, and winters have been known when
Lakes Superior and Michigan were frozen
from shore to shore. - Youths Compan
ian
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27
Tin in Silk.

An ingenious Frenchman has discov-
cred process Of recovering the tin con-
tanned in the wash waters of silks which
have been weighted, and has accordingly
received from the French Society for the
Encouragement of National Industry the
prize allotted for the utilization of resid-
eral substances, and it is estimated that
Lyons alone will effect an annual economy
of $50, 900 by these means.
The gentleman deserves his reward,
for the history of the reclamation of
waste products, although it has been full
of surprises and may be considered an
amazing testimony to the genius and
patience of man, contains nothing more
remarkable than this profit derived from
the refuse of this excessive adulterant.
The question has been more than once
asked why silk rags had no value, but
they may yet be sought after by dust
contractors and marine store dealers, not
for the sake of the silk, but of the tin,
and if we had an industrial mint we might
contemplate the contingency of an old
silk gown split and torn because it was
as much metal as textile, being converted
into dripping pan or some other kitchen
utensil. Francisco Chronicle.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27

The condition of rural France has some
resemblance to that of rural New Eng
land. The Ec0nomiSte Francois gives o
digest of number of recent documents
relating to the condition of the agricul.
tural laborer there. Wages of farm hands
have quadrupled during the present
century, and the greatest increase has
been in the lowest form of labor. The
man of all work, who was paid only 500
per year, in addition to his board in 1884,
now gets $50, while the shepherd, "the
aristocrat Of the farm" who received
then $62 and board, now gets only $780,
His wages have not doubled, while those
of the humber workman have more than
quadrupled The increase of wages OF
farm hands is ascribed in part to the de
mand for labor in factories and on rail
roads, and in part to the military service,
which takes young men from the farm.
at the period when their habits are form.
ing, and gives them a taste of town life
from which they are never wholly
weaned. When their term of service
expires, they begin to look for situations
in the towns and to worry the public mer
to find places for them. These drafts
upon the rural population, tending tc
lessen the number of farm laborers, raise
the wages of those who remain. The re,
suit is smaller profits to the farmer and
sort of agricultural crisis. Still another
fact in the matter of rural depopulation
is noticed, namely, diminution in the
number of children. Several cantons
are named in which there has been a
marked decrease of population since
1868. In two of these the ascertained
reason for a diminution of the number OF
births was ''the desire of the parents to
improve their own condition., and it is
added that this effect has followed.
Here We find real Malthusianism iu prac.
tice.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27
Engines Pursue a Runaway Fire.

The novel sight of burning charcoal
wagon being pursued by fire engine
created considerable excitement IN
Chicago the other evening. A charcoal
peddler, alighting from his wagon, went
into a store. During his absence some
small boys thrust a wad of burning
paper in the bottom of his wagon, and
in few minutes the big load Of char
coal was in a glow. The fire startled
the horse, aud it ran at furious rate.
Some one gave the alarm to Engine Com
pany No. u, aud when the fremen
turned the corner of Taylor street, the
blazing wagon was two blocks away,
with a crowd of about one hundred per.
sons in pursuit. The driver Of the en-
giue lashed his horses into a galop, and
an exciting chase commenced. After a
chase of several blocks, the engine COM
pany succeeded in heading of the runa
way horse, and the flames were extm
guished by a stream from the chemical
engine. Boston Transcript.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27

old mother go to the almshouse, sooner
than to take the trouble to maintain her,
can be no fit husband for any woman"
And then she sat down by the fire and
told Aunt Jo everything; for grabbed,
crusty old Aunt 10 had boen like
mother to her, and the girls heart was
full to overhowing.
When she had ceased speaking, Aunt
10 nodded her head,
''You have done well and wisely"
said she.
Old Mrs. Marlow died that winter in
Aldenbury Almshouse, with her head on
DR.. Mary Clarimont's arm, and never
knew that her garrulous confessions had
deprived her son of his promised wife.
And Mary says quietly and resolutely
that her profession must be husband aud
home to her henceforward.
'Just what it ought to be, says Aunt
10. "No women ever yet succeeded in
doing two things at once. ."-IndtanapoliS
Ne,cs
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27

There is quite little society war in
England over the wearing of cockades by
servants. When the custom began, the
cockade on servants hat signified that
his master was either in the army OF
navy. Now it signifies nothing, and
military men are inclined to assert their
prerogative to the exclusive right to
adorn their servants hats with cockades.
AS solution of all differences, it has
been proposed that Parliament should
pass an act imposing tax on cockades.
Everybody who wants to put a cockade
on 6unky's hat can then do 50 by pay
ing for the precious privilege.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27
IDEALS,
Like butterflies that fret
Entanpled in n net.

Like butterflies that fret
Entangled in a net,
Then at the last thro' some chance rift es.
cape
OF half their radiance shorn,
With ruffied plumes and torn,
Bright mockeries of their former hues and
shapes.
So in the poets mind
The rich ideas confined
Struggle to break in music from his tongue; /;
He speaks-he speaks--but ah,
How changed, how different far
The thought once uttered from the thought
unsungl
SO, too, the painter sees
Bewildering images,
And brush is seized, and canvass quick un.
furled
The bright creation glows,
But 10 his easel shows
Mere shadowy glimpses of that vision world.
Know then whate'er we Gull
From Arts fields beautiful,
Whatever fruits PHILOSOPHERS may yield,
Their prototypes more fair
Are blossoming elsewhere,
Sweet songs unsung and visions unrevealed:
Until the veil is rent,
Oar fesh-imprisonment,
And we are borne beyond this dust's con-
troll;
Then shall our orbless eyes
Behold realities,
And soul commune Immediately with soul,
a,,1o 10
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27

The old furniture mania has reached o
second and, in the estimation of the New
Orleans Times Democrat, more rational
stage. At first the rage was for old
furniture, simply without reference to its
quality. Now people ale more discrim.
mating, having learned that IN the good
old days there were bad or dishonest
workmen, just as there are to-day. Al
the present time the old houses in Hol.
land and Belgium are looked upon with
the greatest interest by collectors of an.
tique furniture, as they contain great
deal of the finest furniture, which has
been handed down for several genera
tions,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27
RightIandeduess.

There is evidently something in the
structure OF the human body that makes
person naturally right handed. If this
were not so the fashion of using mainly
the right hand or the lett would change
from generation TO generation instead of
remaining the same us il seems to have
done from the earliest times Of which we
have any account, The two sides of the
body are rarely the same The lelt foot
is generally smaller than the right tha
two sides OF a mans head do not curve
in the same way, aud the bntuu structure
is not exactly the same on both sides
81. Loats RePubl.e
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27

According to a census bulletin, the
ratio of land and water surface is 9S. 16
and 1.S4 per cent. respectively. This
bulletin also gives the area of the States
and Territories by counties, and the
classification of the latter by sizes. The
average number of persons to each square
mile of the land surface of the Union i.
2l.OS. AS illustrative of the sustaining
capacity of the United States, the bulletin
says that if Texas, the largest State in
the Union, was as thickly populated as
the State of Rhode Island, it would have
SO, ,523, 62S inhabitants, while if the
United States had density of popula-
tion equal to that OF Rhode Island, the
population of the Union, instead of being
62, 622, $50, would reach the enormous
sum of 945, ,766, 300, or nearly two.
thirds of the present population of the
world
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
THE DESERTED HOUSE.

Back from the road, up the old path,
Unmindful of harvest and aftermath,
With empty easements, drear and gray.
The house stands facing down the bay
And either side the slanting gate
The faithful sentinel lilacs wait.
Deep tangling vines with close embrace
The porch's fluted columns trace
And busy swallows dart and call
From out the rain stained, sagging WALL
And longing, watching, desolate,
The faithful sentinel lllacs wait.
At dusk in the old house / see
A dancing lights weird mystery.
Is it a flrehy's titful CLEAN,
Or some ghost candles Pickering beam?
Is it for this when the hour grows late.
The faithful sentinel liacs waltz
Boston Transcript.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27
The Strongest Race.

"The Irish is the strongest race in the
world" said one of them. ''We have
the breadth, the chest. A few years ago
two regiments of the British army were
lined up, the one in front of the other.
There were 1000 Englishmen of the
Royal Guard in one line, and 1000 Irish
men of the Connaught Rangers in the
other. The lines began at the same
place, but the line of Irishmen stretched
thirty-six feet further than the other
1t was caused by the difference in width
of chest, for the men in both regiments
touched elbows. st. Louis Republic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27
Telegraph Cable Pierced by Grass,

At a meeting of the Asiatic Society of
Bengal, at Calcutta, piece Of cable was
exhibited, showing that the India rubber
coverings had been pierced by blade
of grass. The piercing was so complete
and the contact with the copper core so
perfect that 'dead earth" as 1t IS tech
nically called, was produced and the
efficiency Of the cable destroyed. The
species Of the grass, owing to its dried
up condition, could not be determined.
st. L0Uis Republic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27
PardOning the Dead.

The Emperor of China has curious
way of expressing hls gratitude
for the faithful services of de-
ceased minister. In the issue of the Pc
kin Official Journal which followed the
death of the Marquis Tseng an imperial
decree was published announcing that
his majesty freely pardoned the dead
statesman all the faults and crimes
which he committed during his life
Chicago Net0s.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27

India silks are as cheap in Boston as in
Calcutta, and they do say, whispers the
Boston Transcript, that most of the
charming 'Indian" fabrics now for sale
on the bargain counters are made in
Manchester.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27

Brddstreet's makes the statement that
''out of 1000, 900 pounds of cotton.
seed oil produced in 1888, 1000, 900
pounds were used in the mixing with
lard, and that the competition with this
bogus product has reduced the price of
pure lard from ten down to six cents
t,ono1
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27

Thirteen members of the new United
States Senate are natives of New York,
Ohio comes next with eight of her sons
in the Senate, while Pennsylvania and
Kentucky have six each.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27

A writer describes Kodiak Island,
Alaska, as larger than either of the New
England States, with n genial climate
capable of producing many varieties of
friit
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-27

The Secretary of the Treasury has
made ruling which is in effect that
cigars arc not tobacco.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-08-14
KINGS AAO QUEENS.

THE Queen of Eng!and's savings In
round numbers are sS.0,o.000.
QUEEN MARGUERITE. Of Italy, is fond
of smoking and is said to have declared
that her cigarette is moro essential to
her comfort than any thing else in life.
Ex-KlNG MILAN, of Scrvia, is going to
descend upon London in search Of a
wife carly in the new year. Perhaps
he may continue his journey to Amer
lea.
QUEEN VICTORIA spends the two hours
from eleven at night Till one in the
morning threading or writing. Despite
her late hours for retiring to bed she
is an early riser.
KING HUMBERT of Italy has declined
to ask Parliament for an allowance for
the Prince of Naples, heir to the throne,
who has become of age, because the Ma
tional treasury is in a depleted condi-
ton.
QUEEN VICTORIA Is now unable to take
any walking exercise, and is more apt
than heretofore to get chilled when
driving. She regretfully acknowledges
that she is able to do less and less every
year.
QUEEN EMMA of Holland, who will be
regent during the minority Of the
Princess Wilhelmina, has greatly en-
dpared herself to the Dutch people by
her domestic qualities. She has been a
most attentive nurse to her husband,
and is singularly wise and devoted
mother.
THE Queen of Italy is exhibiting a
tendency toward stoutness, state OF
things that is most unwelcome to her.
To ward off this increasing corpulence
she spent the greater part of last sum
mer in long and exhaustive mountain
tramps, which reduced her weight but
used up the royal ladies who attended
her
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-08-14
a NOVEL FREIGHT STEAMER
She Will Float Easily in n Foot of Water
WHEN Loaded Down.

She Will Float Easily in n Foot of Water
When Loaded Down.
A freight boat drawing but eight
inches of water
The craft was built for the Mexican
trade and will be used in the shallow
waters of the Mexican country, says the
New York Continent. 1t is built OF
quarterback steel plates, is fifty feet, in
length over all and is three feet in
depth.
At the trial held recently she was
propelled by two si,z-inch high pressure
horizontal ca ines, which are placed on
brackets attached to the frame of the
vessel at tao extreme corner, SO to
speak. of tic stem. The engine worked
satisfactorily; al gave the boat speed
of twcivc miles an hour, which was
more than T5>.; expected, as she was not
built Tor f..3t +, .vcling.
She is itsci With an Althouse boiler
of the most Improved fashion. Her bow
is scrai-circ:.lar, While her bottom is
fiat. The pilot house on the forward
part CT TIC tIScll is Z feet wide, 10 feet
LONG and : feet 4inchcs high. The rest
of t:,e deck is perfectly clear, with the
exception of the small boiler, which
occupies space of only about 2 by 8
feet, which Will remain uncovered.
The vessel will easily float in a foot OF
water, IS SIC draws only eight inches,
The craft. instead of having keel, is
furnished with centcrpiece which Is
made of steel and runs the entire
length OF t'lc gessel.
The rrl;l!cr; 1.-TWO in number) are
placed IN fr3.it Of the wheel and are
eight feet apart.
Atprescnt q gang of workmen are
employed il taking her engine and
boiler apart, ~ ! when this is done she
will be tos.- Il down the East river to
the ward steamship Orizaba, when she
will be placed on the steamships deck,.
complete, and conveyed to Vera Cruz.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-08-14
watchers, wIi ciitefl tbs OF q,
l,osl. sexrs ffrosl, q. --h ! to sixteen years

~ ~ ~ -
b, III sexrs frosl 81 -h i to sixteen years
pff are.
a s,f.aEr tato Ii so1nshire which
sold for thirt y-osic thousand dollars In
1870 and has q hal two Thousand
dollars put. into additional buildings,
brought ten Thousand five hundred dol
lars last week
"a GER,Ily lieutenant Colonel has
been deprived of liz; commission be-
cause in i recently published work he
advises, t,r puaiie5,e,' - - to church,
which hs..:,...Tg; IN :lG=aad institu-
ton not in accordance. with modern sci
cnce.
The rate OF wages pail to firemen on
ships sailing fro.n Ea:dcn Is es 15s per
month on voyage up til Mediterranean
to Australia, aid Nc,v York. TO the
Cape OF Cool Hope. N.saal, China and
India i stands a.sfsom e3 15s to ga per
month.
Nor long ago, ;,so:..:. africa had TO i'm
portall tllccoal 81 n,r,l. but now she
mines al tho CA. wishes for her
own use an * .r'. surplus. The
reason is that Tie -. fields OF Natal
have Increased thci. output to remark
able lcgrce.
CLocSs arc out OF f:sv n in fashionable
Partisan DRAWN. =; iiIry suggest
tho hour Of / -; i" il visitors too
openly. Still y. ilccnvenicnt not
to know tho TN :, ,,.i.i sanctions an
old watch h.ng... III wall, framed
in an artistic i :.:m:y I antique bro
cade The w;..,:.l ciG!: - bo family
heirloom, the moro ol:Ilashioned the
better.
THREE young soldiers near Warsaw
returned from dob. =: 18th blood on
their clothes and The statement that
they had beaten some one they did not
know. At the same tinlc>a sergeant III
their regiment was Fi!::3 murdered,
and the three soldiers were tried, con-
victed and SHOT withia .wenty-four
hours. Tho next dry mother soldier
surrendered as the murderer.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-08-14
polNes AZ a DISTANCE.

In England about eighty seven peers
are directors OF public comp anics.
EHEREis one society Of boys and girls
{ In England to prot ANNA Is ~ "a has
over eight thousand mem berss
PEARL fishing IS still carried on in the
river Tay, III England, and some yalsla-
Bile jewels haze lately been found
is the purpose Of o company OF
s caniita It's sto run q steamer On the Sea
81 Galilae, for wh Itch they have obtained
d concession
uoB vel I and the plot OF ground
rosintii ing have been sold By the
Turkish segra mel The Greek
cllurah fel four thousand pounds.
DIS ia tllo cen trli nrogiilces Of
f,ilia iii pack OF
slei forty ca 6le-
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-08-14
Tas essss es stss sscc cess. !
sfbes| u


rs osfe mi rning yen rs
tesyaTt s. retait dry,
IS est s5ll eIat iie
.s,s bid his usslals
of ii i0sSs pssiat rs n IT e
Il D here,
HID al assss a4 81 ssia&s
III ID s les
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The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-08-14
COLONEL KINGS CONDITION.
In Close Cell is Telling o,
81. Him.

u 8 -
b Col. H. Clay Kings healthtis Telling,
and the jail physician, Dr.. Il. l.. MILFORD,
stated to2an Appeal Avalanche reporter
Yesterday that he would not live through
the summer if kept confined in the cell
he now. occupies.
Before Colonel King was convicted he
was permitted tosoccupy one of the large
sand airy rooms in the ntportionSof the
Jail, but .whenthe was pronounced guilty
of the highest crime known, to the law
Sheriff McLendon- could not, with Justice
to himself continue to keep him in quar-
tiers SO insecure. He was, therefore,
given eelljn the body of the Jail, and
has remained IN iteyer since. The cell
is neither.better nor worse than those oc-
icupied by other prisoners, except that it
has been more comfortably furnished by
the prisoners family. @
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-08-14
SIMULATED VIRTUE.
The valuo of Hypocrisy as a Social
Elevator.

Tho Value OF Hypocrisy as Social
| Elevator.
When atrabil.rious Hamlet, in his
eholaric interview with his mother in
the cabinet, iuprudently advised her
Assume o virtue if you have it or not,''
he 4unwittingly Ibid down general
rule Of high value to Individuals and the
community, says John AlcElroy in the
Popular Science Monthly,
Is Stimulation of virtue, though far, in
ferior to the real article, is still the
next best thing to it, just as whitewash,
though much inferior to marble, is yet
greatly superior to dirty nakedness
II is very desira bic that all men and
all women should stand together on
the very highest plane of goodness; but
the largest portion of them do not
probably never will. 1t is unreasona~
bic to expect that the mass Of humanity
will be steadily aligned on the most adj
vanced standards Of morality, especial
5 " when those standards are pushed for
+, ward as rapidly as they have been in the
IHore recent centuries Ethics is con-
stantly developing science. What was
higl, grade of morality in the eigh-
teenth century would be very ordi-
nary one to-day; just as the man who,
in our colonial times, would have been
regarded as neat AID cleanly: in his per-
! son, would seem good deal of a sloven
to-day. Then, nsnow, men and women
would assume to be much cleaner, NOR.
ally and physically, than they really
were. and by sheer force of persistence
and habit became really cleaner than
theyat first pretended to he. Persons
with the bump Of approbatiyeness high
sly developed constantly forge to the
front on lines which they think will
|, win them the esteem of their fellows,
and the latter follow with unequal
steps, first showing outward respect and
conformity to better ideas and practices,
and then making them more or less of
realities in their lives.