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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-10
REALISTIC WILD WEST

Presenting the fanatical Ghost Dance. Messiah
Craze, Slaughter at Wounded Knee Creek, Gus
ter's Last Rally, Hanging Horse Thief. Viz
ginia Reel on Horseback Captain A h Bogar-
dus and 100 Plainsmen, Savages and Scouts.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08
A New Dynamite Gun.

Louis Gathmann, a maker of mill ma.
chinery, exhibited in Chicago, recently,
cannon of his invention, which, he
says, is to be tested in the presence O.
United States army officers at Fort Sheri.
dan within a fortnight under instruc,
tions from War Department officials al
Washington. The weapon is nine and 6
half feet long, and is designed to be
discharged in rapid succession thousands
of times without becoming oyerheated
throwing shells three feet long, flleG
with dynamite, nitro -glycerine, OF any
other high explosive, a distance of tiv,
miles, the projectile exploding by the
conclusion when it strikes the object
The chief novel feature is the use Of
liquided carbonic acid gas, delivered au.
tomatically along the entire length of the
bore at the instant of discharge, not only
as an absorbent of the heat generated
but as a "cooler" after the charge has
left the gun.
BY another new device pneumatic pres.
sure is produced with the use of powder,
Mr. Gathmann claims to have already
made satisfactory tests with a small
model. Should the invention prove {
success, he expects that the existing sys.
TENS of coast defense particularly would
be northumberland and Express.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08
HI have not"


''Now you must take me forever OF
leave me forever tonight. have asked
you three times before"
''Four times. sir"
''Well, four times, then. Odd num-
bers are luckyi here is the fifth time.
You know what / want, Olive-yout
promise to be mine. Is il to BET Now
or neverl"
1 suppose every one has a good angel.
Mine must have been at his post Just
then, for strange feeling of humility
and gentleness came over me. glanced
up at the handsome face all aglow with
loves divine light; at the eyes full Of
gracious entreaty; at the arms half
stretched out to embrace me. Yet pride
struggled hard with love. / stood up
silent and trembling, quite unable to
acknowledge myself vanquished, until L
saw him turn away grieved and Sorrow
full. Then said:
"GeofTrey, come back; it is now."
That is the way l said eyes" and 1
have never been sorry for it. i'll live to
the age Of Methuselah, shall never be a
meek woman; but still 1 suit Geoffrey,
and take more kindly to his authority
than ever I did to paternal rule. Father
laughs with sly triumph at Geoffrey 8
victory, and he sent me as a wedding
present handsome copy of "The Tam
ing of the Shrew. w."-7he Ledger.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08
Books One Never Heard OF.

There is no doubt that there arc hun.
dreds of books in circulation to-day OF
which the general literary public has
never heard books which have sold into
the hundreds of thousands and brought
their authors and publishers mints OF
money. These books are sold by sub.
scription and never penetrate into the
cities. They are sold to country families,
sometimes hundred in a single small
village. Not long ago came across the
list of a subscription publishing house
which printed the number of copies sold
of the books on their catalogue. The
figures were amazing. OF twenty-eight
books not one had sold less than so, 00C
copies, and several had exceeded 300,
900. Yet had never heard of one OF
the titles to the books. / recall the
manuscript of a technical book on ma
chinery being handed in once into a large
publishing house. The firm declined it,
and it met the same fate at four Other
houses. Finally the author sent it to a
large subscription house, and they
snapped at it. The publishers who had
resected the manuscript laughed. Bu
they lived to have the laugh turned on
them. saw the authors royalty state
ments on that book about Il year ago
which showed a total sale of 10000
copies of that book in three years !-Nsa
York Commercial Ad0ertiSer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08
His Impudence Cost a Watch.

General Bligh and his wife happened
to arrive at Yorkshire inn when there
was only just so much in the larder as
was sufficient for them, and, of course,
they bespoke 1t. Some sporting gentle
men presently arrived, and on hearing
what had happened, asked who was the
guest. can Irish officer" said the
landlord; whereupon one said: "Oh, if
he's Irish, potato will do him. Here,
take my watch up to him. "a very hand
some gold one) "and ask him what's
o'clock" The inquiry had, doubtless,
some impertinent significance in those
days, which it has now lost; at all events
il brought down the General with the
watch in his hand and pistol under each
arm. II am come" ho said "to tell
you what o'clock it is. Whose watch is
thisl" Everybody hastened to deny any
knowledge of it whatever. "Then
have made a mistake, said the General,
''in the company. ~ received an I'M
pudent message, which l came down to
resent, but / find l have come to the
wrong room" The watch, which would
have paid the dinner bin fifty times over.
''he kept TO his death, and left il by
will to his brother, the Dean Of Elphiu. o
-Arg0aaut.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

sawdust is used instead of hair in
mortar.
Petroleum wells have been discovered
among the coal beds of Alabama.
1t is reported that French inventor
is manufacturing paper from hop vines.
A machine for making shoe strings out
Of paper is recent Philadelphia penn. }
invention.
a Cincinnati (Ohio) child has been re-
claimed from idiocy by the operation of
craniotomy.
A torpedo net constructed of inter-
locking steel rings is soon to be put to
q practical test.
II the SUN were a hollow air ball, it
would taks 1, 1891, 900 globes the size of
the earth to fill it.
Dry ropes immersed for four days in a
bath containing twenty grains Of sui
phite of copper to a quart of water are
for some time preserved from the attacks
of animal parasites and rot.
The Hungarian Minister Of Commerce
has under consideration a plan for the
fastest train in the world, to be run on
an electric railway, and to carry passen-
gers from Vienna to Budapesth, 15G
miles, in two hours and half.
The principle of the compressed paper
car wheels, which are so widely used
throughout the world, is applied in
France to the manufacture of pulleys for
power transmission. The pulleys are
said to be very light, cheap and service
able in every respect.
Forty-three vessels were built last year
in San Francisco, CAL, of which seven.
teen were schooners, fifteen propellers,
six sloops, three steamers, one barken.
tine and one ship. The total tonnage
was II, GIL. AZ net, which is largely in
excess of the previous year.
a new rolling mill in the Krupp
Works at Essen, Germany, is probably
larger than any other in the world. 1t
will roll plate about twenty-eight inches
thick and nearly twelve feet wide. The
rolls are of steel. Each pair in their
rough state weighed 100, 600 pounds.
Pyrogranite is new brick, of Russian
origin, that is being tried by English
builders. 1t is made from a combina-
ton of fusible and infusible clay, and is
strong and hard, resisting a crushing
force of five and one-half tons per square
inch. 1t takes a high polish, and the
clays may be mixed to give a great va.
riety of colors.
A patent has been granted for an elec.
trical drill for oil wells. The devise
consists of series of motors in tandem,
connected in such way as to make one
motor. The design has been to get the
power within six-inch diameter, so that
the entire mechanism, which much re.
sembles common boiler, can be low
cred in the well and the power can beap.
piled at the bottom. The drill bits arc
firmly fastened on the rod, which Is
worked rapidly in and out of cylinder
after the manner of piston rod.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08
Locks on United States Mail Pouches.

at is a very risky thing nowadays for
a mail agent to interfere with the lock
on the mail pouches in his care" said
Assistant Postmaster Gaylor, as he ham
died FURNISHED copper lock which lay
upon his desk. "This lock makes it
practically impossible for any interfer-
ence to go undiscovered. Examine this
lock, and you will see that each time
you turn the key, the register moves up
one number. 1 lock it on the number
1894. Now you unlock it. See, the
number is now 1885. And you cannot
get it back to the first number, do what
you may. All our locks begin at and
stop at 9999, giving them life of SER
sive of thirty-three years. When the
last number is reached the lock will not
work any more unless it is sent back to
the factory and upset This fact was
unknown to the route agent who ran be-
tween Altoona and Harrisburg in 1881,
when the lock was first adopted by the
Government. He had no difficulty in
procuring key to open the lock, and
figured that he could manage TO 90
through the contents of his pouch, and
by the use of turning table, which he
took in the car with him, he could soon
send the numbers flying till he would get
back to the number charged against him
on leaving the postoffibe at Harrisburg.
1t was mail lock No. 102, registered out
on No. 23. After going through the
contents of the pouch and gettinga good
swag he placed his lock in the lathe
and commenced to turn. 1t didn't take
very long to make 5000 revolutions on
the lathe, but when the lock refused to
go pass 9999 the fellow got frightened
and, throwing his booty down on the
floor of the car, he jumped off and took
to the woods. This was a warning to
others, and we scarcely ever hear of any
attempts to tackle this lock. 1t is the
best kind of protection against so-called
honest fellows who don't mind stealing
a few hundred if they risk nothing-fel-
lows who are in positions of trust. 1t
simply keeps watch, and if one of the
men acts dishonestly,it just tells on him.
That's all. But it tells every time and
can't be bribed. ."-Ne0 York World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08
Mighty Small But Mighty Expensive.

''What do you suppose is the most ex-
pensive part of those incandesceut cleo
trio lamps which we see burning in that
shop window ~ asked an electrician.
"You would naturally suppose it
would be the glass bulb, or perhaps the
brass fittings for screwing it into the
socket, but yoI would be wrong. Those
two little pieces of platinum wire, so fine
that you can hardly perceive them, which
pass through the glass stem up in the
base of the lamp, to which the fine car
bon tilament is attached, enter more
greatly into the cost than any other part
of these now almost indispensable cleo
trio lamps"
"Why don't they use some other metal
than platinum for this wirel"
''Because platinum is the only metal in
which the expansion and contraction are
the same as in glass, and great fortune
awaits the man who can produce a cheap
metal or alloy IN which this valuable
property of platinum can be preserved
"The cost of platinum Mt the present
market price in London is $50 per ounce,
or about the same as gold, and the
amount used for this purpose alone has
grown to be enormous. This demand,
together with the increased cost of
production, has caused the price to ad.
vance about 100 per cent. in eighteen
months. In each sixteen candle power
lamp there are from four to eight grains
of platinum. If six grains are taken as
nm ayeraup one Ouucp will ba usa1 in
eighty lamps. Based on the increased
use of incanaescent lights within tho
last two years, it is safe to state that the
demand for sixteen-candle power lamps,
or their equivalent, in the year 1891 will
be 10000, ,000 This means demand
for 1875, 900 ounces Of platinum, which,
at the present price, will amount to con
siderably over $1,000, 600 for this item
alone. - Washington Post
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08
LOVES PARTING.

He stood before her, and his ewes
As summer stars shone bright and fair:
The twilight deepened in the skies
And leaflet stir was In the air.
Within his own her pretty hand
Lay, soft and sweet as summer roset
Her pensive brow, by zephyrs famed,
Flushed crimson as the evenings close.
He stopped like some gay cavalier
And kissed the lips of blushing red,
He saw within her eyes the tear
That told of merry hours now dead.
"My love, you may not weep for me,
Though darkness fingers where I stray
Be brave and true; my love for thee
viii ding a lightness DER thy way"
They stood till darkness, creeping down
Yelled all the land in somber gloom;
His hand caressed her tresses brown,
His lips upon her soft cheeks bloom. y
Then, as the moon danced DER the hill,
And starlight flickered on the stream
And one lone chirp awoke the still
The holy calm Of their young dream.
He stole another parting kiss
And sadly passed, nor dared look back
He knew that partings oft like this
Left tears and sorrow in their track.
The leahet rustled at his feet
And one sweet voice came singing low
20 heaven, be kind; until we meet
Guard my true love, where'er he co.
II. f. Rotcldnd.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08

According to a report of the Statisti-
clan of the Department of Agriculture
about one tenth of our agricultural prod
ucts is exported. The sum is, however,
made up from very few articles. These
are cotton, tobacco, meats, breadstuffs
and cheese. Seven-tenths of the cotton
product goes to foreign markets. All
other articles except those above stated
when put together are but three per cent.
of the export. The expectation of to-
bacoo is not increasing materially or so
rapidly as home consumption. More
cheese could be sold if its reputation for
quality should be kept up and there were
more disposition to cater to fastidious or
peculiar foreign tastes. Butter exports
could be made larger if they were of bet
ter quality. Our great American crop
corn--is chiefly consumed on the spot,
noe more than one-ixth, it is said, going
beyond the boundary of the county in
which it is grown, and only two to three
per cent. being now exported. Nearly
two-thirds of this crop is produced in
seven states-Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska,
few others producing more than is re-
quired at home, and the larger portion
having a deficiency to be supplied by
those seven States.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08

The Indian Territory is not, protests
the San Francisco Chronicle, as often
supposed, chiefly Inhabited by red men.
The total population of the Territory is
about 1853, 900, and of this number 107,-
600 are whites. 1t is only question of
time when demand for a State Govern
ment will arise, and there will be trouble,
for all the land in the Territory is held
by the Indians, who are not citizens OF
the United States, although they hold
the realty. The complication promises
70 be pretty one.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08
A Movable Boulder.

There has been discovered about half
a mile west Of the "Bargytown Ledges"
a twirliug stone Of about five tons weight
1t has always been regarded as a boulder,
and from the way it is poised on the
rock beneath it no one could see why it
should not rock Hundreds have tried
to rock it in vain, and the surprise of
the man who first felt it move under
pressure may be imagined. 1t moves
hard, of course, but it moves, the finder
Informs us, round as lift was placed upon
a pivot. II has been carefully examined,
and, while it looks like a boulder, sew
erA allege that it must be a ceremonial
stone set there by some prehistoric race.
This rock IS creating great interest
among the boulder hunters OF Eastern
Connecticut. .-AorOieh (Coan.) Bulletin.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08

The lake marine is undergoing great
changes, notes the Boston Transcript.
Sailing vessels are fast giving place to
steamers, and the new steamers are
larger than their predecessors and are
steel. In 1886 the net tonnage on the
great lakes was 634, ,652; in 1890 1t was
S26, 800 tons, while the valuation of
vessels rose from $50, 597, 45O to $685. :
1913, 800. Whereas in 1886 there we're
but 81 propellers on the lakes of over
1900 tons, in 1890 the census expert
found 10. There were steel vessels
afloat on the lakes in 1906, now there
are 6s, valued at Sl1, ,964, 900. OF tho
lake marine 1853 were steam vessels,
and 902 used sail power alone, or were
employed as barges.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08

"The census returns show one feature
of American life which is not encourag-
ing, 'laments the San Francisco Chronicle
"They prove that with the exception of
France there are more childless married
women in New England than in any other
part of the world. One-fifth of the ma
tive married women in Massachusetts,
have no children, while throughout all
the Eastern States, where population is
most dense, small families are the rule.
This means that the increase of popula-
tion by birth is not keeping pace with
immigration, and that the children of
foreigners outnumbering the progeny
of ratives, as the percentage of childless
married women of foreign birth in this
country is only little over half that of
Americans.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08

One of the queerest problems with
which municipal government ever had
to struggle, thinks the Chicago Ns,cs, is
now confronting the city officials of Lon
don. According to the authentic re-
ports that metropolis is responsible for
the death of 5000 persons run over by
horses and teams during the last year.
As the traffic in the London streets is
constantly growing there seems to be no
show of an abatement of this mortality
and the "Mayor and the corporation"
are scratching their heads desperately to
discover some way out of the difficulty.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08

One can appreciate the cr'cction at
tanned by the modern science Of Wall
street rumor-mongering, soliloquizes the
New York Commercial AdUertiser, when
he learns that the leading railroad
manipulator of Wall street was shadowed
on his recent Southern trip by spy in
the pay of the "bear" combination, whose
duty it was to telegraph his employers
any unfavorable news about the health of
the tourist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08

A shipment of hfty-two natives of
East Africa arrived at Hamburg, Ger
many, the other day, and will enter the
service of the Woermann Line OF steam
ships as fremen. This is announced as
the first experiment in utilizing a semi
savage people in this kind of labor.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08

The Sultan Of Turkey lives in con-
slant dread Of assassination. He never
leaves the grounds of his palace except to
go once week to a neighboring mosque.
Once year he pays a visit to Stamboul,
but his route il never known in ad-
.,o.xoo
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
THE MAN OF OUR TOWN.

There was a man in our town
Who would not advertise,
And so, with me, you'll all agreo
He was not extra wise.
But when he found his cash decrease
With all his might and maiu
He set to work to figure up,
And make an increase plain.
Says he, "My cash must not decrease
1t paineth me full sore;
For 10, instead of getting less,
1t should be getting more.
Experience has taught me this:
The man who would be wise
Should advertise by night and day,
And / will advertise"
And soon this man of our town tss.s
Began to advertise;
And so, with me, you'll all agree
That he was very wise;
And To- the gold poured swiftly in,
1t overhowed the till;
Since that time he has advertised
Is advertising still
Montreal Witness.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-08

East side in New York City is the
most densely populated district in the
world, China not excepted.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-28

TN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE
i of California, in and for the county of Los
Angeles.
Christopher C. Prentice, plaintiff, VS.. Annie
Prentice, defendant
Action brought in the superior court of the
state OF California, in and for the county of
Los Angeles, and the complaint filed in said
county OF Los Angeles, in the office.of the clerk
of said superior court
The people of the state of California send
greeting to Annie Prentice, defendant.
You are hereby required to appear in an ac
ton brought against you by the above named
plaintiff in the superior court of the state of
California in and for Los Angeles county, and
to answer the complaint filed therein, within
ten days exclusive of the day of service), after
the service on you of this summons, if served
within this county; or, If served elsewhere,
within thirty days. or Judgment by default will
be taken against you according to the prayer of
said complaint
The said action is brought to obtain a judg-
ment and decree of this court dissolving the
bonds of matrimony now existing between the
plaintiff and the defendant, on the ground of
defendants willful desertion of plaintiff; also
for general relief as more fully appears in the
complaint on file, to which special reference is
hereby made.
And you are hereby notified that if you fail to
appear and answer the said complaint as above
required. the said plaintiff will cause your
default to be entered, and will apply to the
court for the relief therein demanded
Given under nv hand and the seal Of the
superior court of the state of California, in
and for the county of Los Angeles, this first day
of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand
SEAL I'''- - ' 7, Ii. WARD, Clerk.
BY d. E. ADAMS, Deputy Clerk
Indorst d: Julius Lyons attorney for plaintiff,
room g. Allen block Los Angeles
apr 7-Tues LOT
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-28
Armstrong and Booth.

DR.. Armstrong, who died in Atlanta q
few days ago ofapoplexy, led peculiar
ly romantic career. For years he fur
nished newspaper correspondents with
material for wild STORIES and numerous
efforts were made to prove that he was
identical with j. Wilkes Booth, who as
sassinated Abraham Lincoln James H.
Payson, of Sidney, o., who is in this city
at present, knew him intimately in for
mer days, and in referring to the matter
said:
DIR. Armstrong spent several years in
Sydney as United Presbyterian preach
er, and was noted for his eloquence and
for the theatrical methods which he
employed in the pulpits During the war
he mysteriously disappeared, but came
to the front a few years later as an Epis-
copal clergyman.
He continued in the latter capacity
until made the subject of two assaults
by persons who believed him to be ].
Wilkes Booth He then went to Cincin-
natl, where he achieved through the
newspapers an unenviable notoriety. For
ten years nothing has been heard from
him by his old associates. There is no
doubt that he bore remarkable resem-
blance to the assassin of Lincoln. He
limped with his right leg and wore long
black hair, which those who suspected
MIN claimed was utilized to conceal a
scar resulting from wound inflicted by
Boston Corbett who claimed to have
shot Booth. San Francisco Call