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The Portland daily press., 1892-10-29

that we have already wondered at; namely:
Why preachers should keep on after all the
hearers are tireds So l gather up into one
great armful all the why's, and hoWs' ana
wherefores of your life and NINE, whlch
we have not had time or the ability 10
answer, and write on them the words ''ad-
journed to eternity" l rejoice that we do
not understand all things now, Tor II we
did, what would we learn In Heaven! LII
we knew it all down here in the freshman
and sophomore class, what would be the
use of going I'D to stand amid the juniors
and the seniorss If we could put down
one leg of the compass and with the
other sweep circle clear around
all the insorutabes, if we could lift
our little steelyards and weigh the
throne OF the omnipotent, if we could with
our seven-day clock measure eternity, what
would be left for heavenly revelation! SO
move that we cheerfully adjourn what is
now beyond our comprehension, and as ac-
cording to Rollin, the historian, Alexander
the Great having obtained the gold casket
in which Darius had kept his rare perfume,
used that aromatic casket thereafter 70
keep his favorite copy Of Homer in, and
called the book, therefore, the edition OF
the casket,'' and at night he put the casket
and his sword under his pillow, SO put
this day into the perfumed casket of your
richest affection and hopes this promise,
worth more than Homer ever Wrote or
sword ever conquered: what DO thou
knowest not now, but thou shalt Know
hereafter" and that call the ''eoiflon
celestial"
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-29
Some r,cts ABOUT brazilian Coffeo.

In Sac Paulo, Brazil, there are two
coffee plantations, the larger with 60o,-
600 trees, of which 250,o00 are in bear
ing. This plantation produced $4,000
pounds of coffee in 1887; last year, 49,
900 pounds, when great losses were ex-
perienced, and this year the crop is esti-
mated by the best experts at 1,s8O,0oo
pounds, and should reach during the
next three or four years, when all the
trees are in bearing, an output Of $780,
600 pounds. The other plantation has
80, 600 coffee trees, which are now so
enormously loaded with fruit as to OBJ
struct the seven-foot paths between them.
The above details are interesting as
showing that in Brazil they obtain in
favorable localities and good seasons a
yield of from four to six pounds to the
tree
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-29

The DAILY PRESS will be sent to any adj
dress for so cents a month.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-29
Eaaer to Learn English.

AS proof of the manner in which the
civilization of the west is Selling hold
on Japan and all that is Japanese, it is
stated that in private mission school
in the town of Kiota there were 400
Japanese women. Ten years ago the
fathers of these girls looked upon them
as slaves, or at bestupper servants. Now
they strain every nerve to give them a
liberal education. Even young hus-
bands are sending their girl wives to
school. The craze to learn English is
universal. The cody will offer to work
for an English speaking master for the
price of two pounds of rice a day, if he
will only talk to him in English.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-29
Use Lots of Matches.

Some idea may be had of the extent of
the match industry in the Argentine Re
public when it is known that between
February, 1891, and July, 1892, one firm,
the Compania General de Fosforos, pur-
chased $529,00O worth of one cent rev.
enue stamps, which by law they are re-
CURED to fix upon the boxes containing
the matches.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-29

The UNION MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY has
achieved during the first three
quarters Of this year a very
large measure of success.
The causes that have operated
to secure same are not difficult
to determine.
Summed up, they are as fol-
lows:
Increasing public confidence
in the smaller and more cOnser.
yative of the Life Insurance.
Companies.
The desire to obtain the best
Insurance Contract in the mar
ket.
The knowledge that the poll
cies of the UNION MUTUAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
alone contain the benefits of
the Maine Non-FOrfeiture Law.
Which, combined with the
fact that the COmpany's man.
agement in its conduct Of bust
mess, makes everything subser-
Went to Absolute Security, con-
stitute the sources from which
its success has flowed.
ept22 e0dt
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-29
A Big Export of Wool.

The total export of unwashed wool
from the Argentine Republic in 1891 was
306, 141 900 pounds, of which about one
half went to France, IS, 100000 pounds
to Germany, 2,250,000 pounds to the
United Kingdom and 13,5oO,0Oo pounds
to the United States. 1t is estimated
that the export of wool during the pres
emit year will reach 800, 000,0 900 pounds.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-29
Decorations of an English King.

In an old painting Henry II of Eng
land is represented as wearing green
boots, his spurs fastened with red leather
straps, black leather gloves, with out
side Jewels on each finger, and star Of
gems ON the back of each glove.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-29

The PRESS is delivered mornings in Portland
and Woodfords at so cents a month.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24
THE CUP OF LIFE.

"But is it sweet, or bitter tell me true,
This Cup of Lifep Then, lying deep in dew,
A youth, who wore rose in bud, l think,
Made answer; at is bitter. Wherefore
drinkY
With that he tore his hearts first flower
away:
Love is a rose that withers in a day.
Love leaves a thorn that tears ones hands
and see,
How red the blood that thorn was wrung
from mep
So hummed the boy and vanished through
the trees,
Astir with dove-wings and in bloom with
bees,
But when dead leaves had whirlel in frozen
rain
For many year, met that boy again.
Hid in his mask Of scars, knew his face.
His white beard blew about him with q
grace.
All winds of God had walled about his head.
"But isit sweet or bltterY" still l said.
Oh, but that youth laughed lightlyl TN
my day
called it bitter Golden heads turn gray.
longed when young to break it at my feet.
But oh, its last drops are exceeding sweetP
Sarah NJ. b. Piatt, in Independent.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24

Flying machines for use in war have
engaged no little attention of late on the
part of inventors. Maxim, the designer
of the famous gun, claims to have pro-
duced one which can be controlled. He
declares that he can fill his aerial car
with explosives and hover in it over the
city of London, holding that great me-
tropolis at ransom to the extent of as
many millions of pounds as he chooses to
mention. Thus situated he can announce
his terms by dropping small package
containing a statement of them and his
ultimatum of "Cash or Crashl" His
continuance is a cylinder of aluminium
containing three fourths vacuum, its
collapse being prevented by strong ribs
inside. 1t is propelled and steered by
electric gear, aud is further sustained
and balanced by the wings of a great
acroplane, with an automatic arrange
ment of a compensatory nature that
brings the machine Immediately back to
the horizontal when it tends to vary
therelrom.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24
Drawn by the WebfoOted Cows.


The webfooted cows who inhabit the
marshes along the st. Johns River in
Florida-I know that they are webfooted, +,
for Captain Lund says so, and Captain
Lund never lies-are of some use after
all, it seems, and this is the how and the
wherefore of it.
In the merry month OF April the water
in the st. Johns gets very low, and the
two big steamboats,, Frederick De Barry
and City of Jacksonville, which go up
and down it during the winter season,
are sometimes hard put to it to get over
the numerous bars. If it were not for
the webfooters, Captain Lund says-and
Captain Lund never lies-they would
never get up to Sandford and Comfort
Cottage, and would have to come North
month or more before they could be OF
service.
The worst bar of all is Volusia Bar,
and here four times day, at the hours
when the steamboats, are due, number
of Floridians put in an appearance with
from four to eight yoke of the gay and
festive kind, almost too thin to cast o
shadow, hitched up for business.
Then follows scene such as few steam,
boat men have ever witnessed. The cows
are hitched to the boat by three stout
chains, the drivers Iaise shout, and
with all steam on and a mighty tug-of.
war, the stout iron steamboat is dragged
through the mud and sand and landed in
deep water again.
Captain Lund says he has set of iron
tires which he puts on the paddle wheels
the first of May, which enable him to
take short cuts across the country, thus
shortening the distance by about one
half, and as Captain Lund was never
no, never-known to draw the long
bow or to tell story which was not
strictly according to Hoyle, down go the
tires across country and all.
And yet there are people who persist
in going to Europe strange sights for to
see. 1t is one of the wonders which no
man, aud not very many hundreds of
women, can fathom. New York Herald.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24
Where There's No VIII Thcres 4 Mnr.

A prominent business man OF northern
Ohio recently expressed to one Of the
cashiers of a city bank a novel idea of
leaving his money so that there might be
no contest after his death. lie has a
wife, three sous and a wayward daughter
and purposes keeping his property in
municipal bends. His plan is this.
lie has divided his bonds into three
parts, after providing for his wife, and
put them into three separate boxes at
the safe deposit vaults; the keys he has
put into envelopes marked for each one
of his sons, to be delivered to them after
his death. For his daughter he has de-
posted with trust compony certain SO,
curities which will yield her 500 per
month as long as she lives, the principal
to revert TO the sons equally, share aud
share alike, at her death On his mer-
camille aud manufacturing interests he
has likewise arranged very clever
scheme. He has given outright to his
three sons all the mercantile and manu-
featuring property, share aud share alike.
but they have In turn executed 90 him
"A lease of the same during his life fora
nominal consideration, So that he has The
control of everything So long as he lives.
This man says no will can he drawn
which will stand every test and that the
above scheme is the only practical thing
he knows OF where there are family COM
pllcations. Cleveland Plain Dealer,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

BY years of exposure to atmospheric
temperature, hardened steel loses hard
ness.
A new application Of electricity con-
sists in determining by the conductlvity
of milk the presence Of adulteration.
Steel not only loses its magnetism, but
becomes non-magnetic when heated to
an orange color.
A remarkable strike has been made in
the Eclat mine, Creede, Col. The ore
runs high in silver. Specimens assay
over $500 a ton.
When lamp is FIRST lighted leave the
flame low until the metal of the burner
is heated: then turn as high as possible
without smoking. This secures a steady
flame.
A small cabinet containing an alarm
clock, a three-candle- power lamp, a
medical coil and gas-lighter, all OPP
Grated by electricity from four cells of
dry battery, is among the novelties re-
Gently devised.
Silvanus Thompson says that the sud-
den slamming on Of the armature of a
permanent magnet is liable to deterioratc
the magnetism and that the sudden de-
taching of the armature is of advantage
to tie magnet.
The Government authorities at Wash
ington are experimenting with a vege
table rarity called the "jumping bean"
If placed on a smooth table it keeps con-
stantly on the move, jumping about,
turning over, and performing all kinds
of acrobatic tricks.
Dymond has recently succeeded in eX-
tracting from lettuce an alkaloid which
closely resembles beladonna in appear
ance, taste and smell, but which in
dose of five grains, is without injurious
effects. The alkaloid corresponds in
formula closely to hyoscyamine.
Too quick discharge buckles the
plates and very sudden discharge draws
the paste out of them. When fulled
charged plates which have been removed
from the electrolyte are to be replaced,
the liquid put in should have the same
specific gravity as it was before.
Coal is mined in Turkey, in Heraclea
and Koslu, both on the Black Sea aud
about 100 miles from Constantinople.
The mines at Heraclea are controlled by
the Ottoman Government; the Koslu
mines by private firm, Kurtschi Il Co.
The coal obtained is inferior in quality
to the English mineral, especially to the
Cardiff and Newcastle coal.
Few people have an idea how thin a
sheet of veneer may be cut with the aid
of improved machinery. There is a firm
in Paris which make business of cutting
veneers, and to such perfection have
they brought it that from single tusk
thirty inches long they will cut sheet
Of ivory $50 inches long and twenty
inches wide. Some of the sheets of rose
wood and mahogany are only about a
tiftieth of an inch in thickness. OF
course, they cannot cut all woods so thin
as this, for the grain OF many varieties is
not sufficiently close to enable such fine
work to be done, but the sheets of box.
wood, maple and other woods of this
character are often so thin as to be
translucent
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24
A High Mountain Railway.

The most recently completed high
nountai railway in Switzerland is that
ip the Rothhorn, 1850 feet high, from
lake and town of Brienz, not far from
Interlaken. The road was completed so
that locomotive reached the summit
October 81, and will be opened the COM
ing season. The Rothhom will com
mand a magnificent view Of the Juugfrau
and the other mountains south aud south
east of Interlaken. The material through
which the eleven tunnels Of this line are
excayated consisted of debris which had
slipped down the mountain, and wbirh
seemed disposed to 90 on sliding when
disturbed. Subterranean springs also
made the work difficult, and in places
new beds had to be made for mountain
streams. Scientific American.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24
Lighting the Stars.

Mabel Greene is a Brooklyn fve-year-
old. She is full of odd couceits. The
other evening she stood at window of
her home with her pretty face hatteued
against the pane intcntly watching a
slowly gathering storm. Darker grew
the low hanging clouds, but Mabel
showed no signs OF fear. Instead her
features were animated aud she appeared
to be absorbed in the scene. Even
when violent clap Of thunder seemed
to rend the heavens aud forked light
ming flashed the child was unmoyed.
At last, tiring Of the sight, Mabel turned
to her mother, sitting near.
Mamma" she said 81 fink bod is
dettin' weady to light Ills stars.
"Why, darling"
"'Cause he's scratchin' matches on
the sky. New York Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24
Erenks of Human Yidon.

81 do not suppose this world looks
alike to any two persons, " said Thomas
McHenry at the Southern. "a dozen of
us were looking at the moon the other
night. To one it appeared the size of a
five cent piece, to another much larger
than cart wheel. To one it appeared
a well-rounded globe, and to another Il
fiat circular piece Of brass. noticed
this diversity of human vision once ia
Galveston, Texas. saw man named
O'Dell shoot Il fellow gambler named
Quinlan to death. He fired four shots
from large revolver. At the trial one
man testified that Quinlau had knife III
his hand at the time of the shooting.
Another thought it was a cane, while Il
third expressed the opinion that it was
a billiard cue. | was standing facing
him when he was shot, and would make
oath that his hands were open and con.
tanned nothing. Those who testified
were disinterested spectators, aud told
on the stand what they honestly though
they saw. The shooting began in a sa-
loon. Qunlan ran out, followed by
ODell, who kept shooting. Some
thought one shot was fired in the saloon,
others thought three, yet all were look.
ing right at the two men. You often
hear people say that what they see they
know; but they don't. They have no
assurance that they saw right A man
who implicitly believes bis eyes is liable
to fall into grieyous error. st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24
4 Strange Disease.

James Mullen, of Louisville, Ky, bled
to death the other day, as the result of
a strange malady which has for months
baflled the skill of the physicians. His
blood lost all its coaguative properties
and had taken on the appearance and
consistence of fresh milk. The corpus.
cles of the blood had become perfectly
white. From a small scratch or cut the
blood flowed with such rapidity that on
several occasions 1t was scarcely able to
be stopped before causing death. One
morning one of the smallest of the blood
vessels under the tongue became broken.
The point where the blood came from
was so small that no danger was appre.
hended at all. All efforts, however, to
stop the flow were futile. Every remedy
was resorted to, but to no avail, and in
little less than an hour Mr.. Mullen bled
to death.-New Orleans Picayune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24

or | him7 Why, it's all about Grace
Quinby. They were engaged, you know,
and then they had some ridiculous
trouble or other; and Grace and have
been so chummy ever since I've been
here that Mr.. Dudley came right to me
with it. He's been here two or three
times to tell me things to tell her, and
I've told her all of them, for Grace was
foolish and hasty, and it really wasn't
Mr.. Dudley's fault at all, and I've been
anxious for them to make it up. And
now they have. He came this morning
to get me to go there with him, aud he
met me on the street and we went. And
Grace began to cry when she saw him,
and l came away, and"
Constance was pathetically fearful.
"Well never quarrel, will we, Tomp
she demanded, tenderly.
And Tom stroked her hand
"Katel" cried Mr.. Partitt, sternly.
But his wife, laughing till her pink
checks were red, slipped her hand
through his arm.
"You're a dear, good boy" he
avowed, "and / was a mean, dreadtful
girl to do it, But, George, you were 50
cross about my jacket that 1 wanted So
you're always little cross when you're
at home sick, you knOw-and l thought
you'd know it 50 soon anyhow, and it
was temptation, and-Pm awful sor-
ry," said Mrs. Parfitt, pleadingly.
"Where's my pocket-book2 said
George. "You shall have that Jacket.
meant you to all the time. I'm over.
joyed and rejuvenated and cured,
and I'm going down to the office. -
Saturday Night.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24

A novelty in business enterprise is
soon to be introduced in New York City,
according to the News. 1t may be
tersely described as benevolent pawn
shop. The mere suggestion of pawn
ship with an aspiration higher than three
per cent. month makes this subject
highly interesting. It is said that GER
tain wealthy persons, connected with
the Charity Organization Society, have
determined to establish pawnshops
throughout the city, to be operated at
cost. Benevolence and philanthrophy
usually fail in the conduct of business
enterprises, however, and the project of
cut-rate pawnshop may disappoint its
well-meaning projectors.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24
Freak of a ThunderbOlt.

The annals of a French Academy of
Science tell of a tailor's adventure with
thuuderbolt. He lived in a house pro.
vided with two chimneys, one for fire.
place and the other for a stove, the latter
not in use. During thunderstorm a
tremendous report was heard, and every
body thought that the house had been
struck by lightning. Instantly blue
flaming ball dropped into the fireplace
and rolled out into the room, seemingly
about six inches above the floor. The
excited tailor ran around the room, the
ball of fire playing about his feet. Sud
denly it rose above his head and moved
off toward the stovepipe hole in the cell
ing, which had piece of paper pasted
over it. The ball moved straight through
the papsr and up the chimney. When
near the top it exploded and tore the
chimney into thousands of fragments.
The sight of the debris left by the ex-
plosion showed the family what would
have been the consequences had it ex-
ploded while on its gyrating passage
through the room.-St. Louis Republic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24

When Bernard Schmiz, having been in
this country twentY-six years, went back
to Germany on a visit two years ago, he
was seized and put into the German army
to serve his term as a German citizen.
Vainly his Kansas neighbors sent petit
tions for his release, as nobody paid any
attention TO them. Finally his little
eleven year old girl, Maggie Schmiz,
wrote letter to the Empress of Germany,
telling her in artless child fashion how
her mother aud the children all missed
their father, and begging that he might
be sent back to them. The letter was
neither properly addressed nor stamped,
but each official into whose hands it fell
sent it on, and at last it reached the
Empress, The little girls plea touched
her motherly heart, and through her in
tercession, as stated by the Berlin papers,
Schmiz was released and given free pass
age back to his home. The neighbors
have been celebrating his return, and in
a triumphal procession little Maggie had
the first place. Thus writes f. W. Howe,
the author of "The Story of a Country
Town." in which (Atchisou) this Incl
dent has just occurred.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24

The New York Independent believes
that the cultivation of athletics at girls
schools and colleges is likely to receive
some stimulus from an award made by
the United States Treasury Department
to Miss BERTHE Burr, of Nebraska, for
rescuing two young women from drown.
ing. Miss Burr, who learned how to
swim at Lasell Seminary, Auburndale,
Mass, will receive, no. the silver medal
awarded for heroism, but the gold medal
only granted for cases of extraordinary
daring and endurance
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24
Yellow Dust storm.

Prof Milne, of Toxic, records dense
storm of yellow dust which suddenly
covered the decks OF a vessel ninety five
miles from Nagasaki, japan, which is
upwards OF 400 miles from the coast OF
China. This dust was so fine that, though
composed of fespar, quartz, and a few
shreds of plants, It did not affect the
eyes, and had not the decks been COW
cred with it, it might have been mis-.
taken for a peculiarly yellow fog. Yet
it seems TO have extended for nearly
1000 miles, and to have come from the
"loess" plains OF China,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24
THE SONG OF PEACE.

A song is astir in the air
And l would drink IL in
With the scent of the roses rich and rare;
But still the battles din
Rings in my ears and deafens me;
cannot hear the strain.
The noise of the world, its misery,
Throbs like bitter pain.
But now and then, as in despair
l seek TO rend the bonds,
Comes a burst of harmony on the air
To which my heart responds;
And then the echo of the fray
A moment seems to cease;
Though the wondrous harmony dies away,
That moment brings me peace.
And then pray may retain
A peacefulness of heart,
Though the warriors laurels fail to gain
Or riches of the mart.
For that sweet song will give me rest,
And Danish all distress;
The flowers of God and the gold Of the West
viii be my happiness.
--Flavel Scott Mines, in Harper's Bazaar.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-24

A woman of inventive mind, dis.
covered by the New York SUM- expert
menting on u rubber coating for iron
stone china used in restaurants and do
mestc porcclains. She thinks these
should be as feasible as the noiseless tire
and the mounting of chair legs in libra.
ries and reading rooms. Incidentally she
expects to find in her invention q large
fortune, but her aim is distinctly phi
lanthropic.