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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22
The Power of the Rivers.

The possibility of utilizing the current
OF our rivers to furnish power on shore
has often been a subject of speculation
There are few minds which have not rec
ognized the immense benefits that would
accrue from such an achievement if it
were possible; but the majority, both
lay and expert, have been accustomed to
accept the difficulties presented by the
unreliability of the flow, the variation of
the height of the rivers and the slight
fall as practically insuperable from the
engineering point of view.
An expert who refuses to be tied up
by precedent, however, declares his be-
lief that these difficulties can be over
come. 1t says that it will be done half
a century hence, and the generation Of
fifty years from now will stand am zed
at the wastefulness of this day. The
methods by which he would harness the
river-air tight drums on water wheels
communicating their power to dynamos
which generate electricity to be distrib-
uted for power and light all over the
vicinity-do not appear to be as inher-
emily improbable as those by which any
of the inventions of the past were made
successful did before their success was
demonstrated by actual practice.
Without waiting for the grand chill
dren of the next generation to achieve
this advance, it is safe to say that the en-
gineer who can make it work in the
present day will confer an immense ben
eft. 1t will create zone of cheap elec-
trio power and light along the bank of
every river and stream with living cur
rent, aud revolutionize a great many of
the existing industrial institutions. 1t is
hard to draw a limit to the changes that
might not take place-when this power
is successfully utilized.
But we fear that any invention Of this
sort will have to depend for its success
on adventitious aid to prevent the shrink
age of streams in summer to a beggarly
inches or two feet in depth
with no current worth speaking off,
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22
EvERYeopY,s GARDEN.

ALI along the wayside is everybody's gar
den!
There the wild rose blossoms through the
summer days;
Bounded by field fences, and ever stretch
ing onward.
1t is Gods own garden. For it give Him
praise.
'Tis gay with goldenrod,
There blooming grasses nod,
And sunaowers, small and yellow turn ever
in to the sun;
Quaint darkey-heads are there,
And daisies wild and fair.
In everybody's garden, each flowers the
loveliest onel
All along the waysido is everybody's gar
denl
Come out and gather posies; the very air
is sweet.
Come out with hearts Of gladness We big
and little children,
Into our Fathers garden, made for our
strolling feet.
The fitting butterfly,
The fragrant winds that sigh,
The tiny clouds that hover above us In the
blue,
The birds song high and clear,
Make heaven draw more near:
In everybody's garden the world once more
is newl
William 2. Gladwin, in Christian Union.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22
A Wonderfully Dramatic Scene.

Benjamin Brewster, afterwards attor-
ney-general of the United States, was
some years ago the central figure in a
wonderfully dramatic scene in a Phila-
deiphia court. Mr.. Brewster's face, it
will be remembered, was frightfully
Scared by an accident in his youth. He
was extremely sensitive CT his facial mis-
fortune, but never referred to it himself
nor did any of his thousands of friends
ever ask him its cause. The trial referred
to was a bitterly contested affair, and
Brewster at every point got so much the
best of the opposing counsel that his
leading adversary was in white heat.
In denouncing the railroad company this
lawyer with his voice tremulous with
anger, exclaimed, "This grasping cor
poration is as dark, devious and scarri-
fed in its methods as is the face of its
chief attorney aud henchmau, Benjamin
Brewsterl" This violent outburst of rage
aud cruel invective was followed by a
breathless stiffness in the crowded court
room that was painful. Hundreds of
plying eyes were riveted on the poor
SCARED face of Brewster, expecting to see
him spring from his chair and catch his
heartess adversary by the throat. Mr..
Brewster slowly arose and spoke some
thing like this to the court: "Your
honor, in all my career as Il lawyer have
never dealt in personalities; nor did l
ever feel called upon to explain the cause
of my physical misfortune, but l will do
so now. When a boy-and my mother,
God bless her! said was pretty boy
when a little boy, while playing around
an open fire one day with Il little sister
just beginning to toddle, she fell into the
roaring flames. l rushed to her rescue,
pulled her out before she was seriously
hurt, and fell into the fire myself. When
they took me out of the Goals my face
was as black as that mans heart" The
last sentence was spoken in voice whose
rage was that of lion. 1t had an cleo
trical effect, and the applause that greeted
it was superb, but in an instant turned to
the most comtemptuous Kisses directed at
the lawyer who had so basely insulted
Mr.. Brewster. That lawyers practice in
Philadelphia afterward dwindled to such
insignificance that he had to leave the
city for new field.-Boston Transcript.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22
A Rude Theory Of the Creation.

The savage ISLANDERS of the South
Pacific believe that the world is a cocoa
nut shell of enormous Dimensions, at the
top of which is a single aperature com
municating with the upper air, where
human beings dwell. AT the very bot
tom OF this imaginary she'll is a stem
gradually taperiug to point, which rep
resents the beginning OF all things. This
point is a spirit or demon without human
form, whose name is "ROot Of All Exist
ence." BY him the entire fabric Of crea-
tion is sustained.
In the interior Of the cocoanut shell,
at its very bottom, lives female demon.
So narrow is the space into which she is
crowded that she is obliged to sit for
ever with knees and chin touching. Her
name is "The Very Beginning" aud
from her are sprung numerous spirits.
They inhabit five different floors, into
which the great cocoanut is divided.
From certain Of these spirits mankind is
descended. The islanders, regarding
themselves as the only real men aud
women, were formerly accustomed to re-
gard strangers as evil spirits in the guise
OF humanity, whom they killed when
they could, offering them as saeridees.-
Washington Star,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22

The New England Courier, German
American weekly, published in Boston,
Mass, gives some very interesting figures
showing how great and influential the
Teutonic race has become as an element
of immigration into this country. In
Illinois one-half of the foreign born popu-
lation is German. In Minnesota the pro.
portion is one-third; in Nebraska aud
Iowa more than one-third; in Wisconsin
half, or one-eighth of the whole
population; in Indiana, the banner Ger.
man State. out of 244, 900 foreigners,
$4,000 are If German birth, or fifty-hve
per cent. of the whole. Out of 12, O0O,-
900 immigrants into this country since
1920, 4,50O, O,000 have been Germans.
Coming from the most thrifty and best
educated country in Europe, observes the
Boston Globe, these people, constilu-
tionallY endowed with patience, skill
and perseverance, have engrafted a solid,
thoughtful, industrious, and peace-lov-
ing element into the composite structure
of the Union,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22
Pittlng Snakes Against Rabbits.

A good deal of attention, writes a
South Australian correspondent, has been
bestowed upon the subject of rabbit de-
struction, and some astounding sugges-
tions have been received from various
parts of the world. The last suggestion
is that number of carpet snakes should
be let loose among the rabbits, which
would, it is asserted, be speedily
eaten up by the reptiles. When from
five feet to six feet long they are able to
eat two or three rabbits at a meal, but
when fifteen or sixteen feet long they
are able to eat six rabbits. Anticipating
inquiry as TO what would happen if the
snakes became more numerous than rab-
bits, he proposes that carpet snakes of
one kind only should be used, and after
eating all the rabbits the snakes would
then proceed TO eat each other. Boston
Transcript.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22
A Successful Snhmnrlne Boat.

George G. Baker has dor Tonstrated
that water can be navigated at any rea-
sonable depth below the surface. A final
test of his submarine boat, upon which
he has been at work since December
1890, was made in the River Rouge, five
miles from Detroit, and was entirely sat.
isfactory.
The river is only sixteen feet deep,
which admits of the boat being sub
merged two feet. 1t was run up and
down and across the stream several
times, turning, sinking and rising at the
pilots pleasure. The boat is cigar.
shaped, made of oak, the shell being
forty feet long, fourteen feet high, nine
feet wide amidship and seven inches
thick. The motive power is storage
battery of 260 cells, which is believed to
be the largest ever made. This also gen
crates light. The course of the boat is
directed by a pilot who stands in a
small coming tower which is provided
with lookout holes. 1t is necessary, IN
taking bearings, to rise to the surface,
but in so doing only few inches of the
top of the tower appears above the sur
face. With the coming tower hermctl-
cally sealed, the interior of the boat CON
tains 1900 cubic feet of air The wheels
are on each side, midway between bow
and stern aud one foot below the center
line. The boat is raised and lowered by
letting water into the hold and by de
flecting the side wheels. Nj. Baker is
confident that this will eventually revo-
lutionize present methods of naval war
fare.-St. Louis Republic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22

The remarkable progress of women en-.
gagged in business affairs is instructively
set forth in the Massachusetts, State
Bureau of Labor statistics. According
to the figures there presented IN 1885,
there were only about 100000 women
engaged in industrial pursuits. Now
there are more than 100000. Two
thirds of these working women are under
thirty years of age, and inasmuch as this
proportion has been maintained during
the half dozen years, 1t seems to indicate
that marriage constantly tends to deplete
the ranks. "Such being the fact" com.
ments the New York News "theie need
be little fear that the Industrial indie
pendence of the gentler sex will result in
an increase of old maids"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22

1t is not very intrequent occurrence
In the London police courts, declares
once-A- Week, for infuriated prisoners
to attempt to assault the presiding magis.
trate. Mr.. Montagu Williams, who sits
in one of the East End Courts, often has
boots thrown at him, and on one occasion
he received severe blow in the face from
such missile. The habit seems to be
spreading. The other week the news
papers reported case in which disap.
pointed litigant kicked in open court his
own lawyer, for which he may have had
some excuse, and assaulted the reporters,
for which there could be no justifca.
tion.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22

Within three years passenger rate on
the railroad across the Isthmus of Pana-
ma have been reduced to ten and five
cents mile for first and second class
tickets. Up to that time the charge for
passenger transportation on the Panama
Railroad was the highest in the world,
being S25 in American gold for first. class
and $40 in gold for second class passen-
gers between Panama and Colon, or
about fifty cents aud twenty cents mile,
respectively.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22

Now that rance culture has begun
seriously to engage the attention of
planters in the Tropics, it is interesting
to learn on the authority of foreign
journal that rance fiber, under great
hydraulic pressure, may be made to as
sumo the compactness of steel. 1t is as
serted that when so prepared it will be
particularly serviceabie for steam pipes,
as it will not be subject to contraction or
expansion and also will not rust.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22
A Cow aud Calf as a Wedding Fee.

Some of the tribes Of India have a
marriage custom which calls for the
presence of COW and calf at the cere-
mony. The principals aud the priests
drivea COW and calf into the water, and
there the bride and bridegroom, as well
as the clergyman, clutch the the cows
tail while the officiating parsonage pours
water upon it from glass vessel aud ut
ters a religious formula. The couple are
now united in wedlock, and the priest,
for his part in the ceremony, claims the
animal, and also receives any sum in
money which the groom thinks it neces-
iary to propitiate the idols, Yankee
Blade.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22
The Summit of EpicurSa Pleasure.

The unfortunate who has not caught a
nectarine in its best stages has the sum
nit of epicurean pleasures yet to aspire
to. 1t wants to be perfectly ripe, and
then allowed TO shrivel just little in
the sun. The mau who got off the SEN
tence that ''doubtless the Lord could
have made better fruit than the straw
berry, but certainly He never did, "would
be ashamed of himself could he once
get bite of a perfectly manipulated
nectarine. There is difficulty in fruiting
them on account of the curculio. The
smooth skin is attractive to this insect
pest. Some day the man VINO has con,
quered the curculi) in the plum aud
made plum growing immensely profit
able, will try his hand on the nectarine
also.-Meehan's Monthly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22

There is much in the lingo of the
Wyoming war, confcsses the New York
Commercial Advertiser, which is as per-
picking as some of that in the Bering
Sea quarrel. A rustlcr appears to be
person who gains livelihood by steal
ing other peoples cattle, while regu-
lator is gentleman who Is paid Sc day
for killing rustlers.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22

1t is stated that sugar refining com.
pany in Chicago, ILL.,, is making $50
barrels of oil per day from corn. The
oil resembles liuseed oil and may be
used for similar purposes. There is
about four per cent. of this oil in the
grain, which has hitherto been wasted
by the ordinary methods of making
starch and glucose.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22

The city of Cincinnati has for many
years been favorable abiding place of
Hebrews. remarks the New York Press.
At recent celebration there Rabbi
Wise said that "Cincinnati would here
after be the Zion of Judaism in
America. "
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22

The New York Mail and Express cal
culates that a subscription of $32. 81
from every inhabitant of the United
States would wipe out all form of public
indebtedness-National, State and NUM-
cinal
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22

So delicate is the adjustment of the
most powerful cannon that allowance has
to be made for the curvature of the
earth before the discharge.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22

The cost of the great German arm,
for a year uuder its present condition.
IS said by military authorities to be
S12O, 900, 600.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22

On the fifth day she sucoumbed. A
week later she was married. The next
day Mr.. Cunningham foreclosed the
mortgages. San Francisco Examiner.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22
ATTHE RANCHO DEL FUEGO
BY GERTRUDE ArnEnToN.

L was so hot that
even the dogs did
not lift their heads
to bark at the ap-
preaching h ors e.
men; they lay with
swollen ton gu G S
hanging over their
teeth, occasionally
quivering in feeble
protest at the pre-
vading battalions of
insects which short.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22
A RECIPE FoR A DAY.

Take little dash OF water cold, =
Ands little leaven of prayer,
And little bit of morning gold
Dissolved in the morning air.
Add to your meal some merriment,
And thought for kith and Kin,
Aud then, as your prime ingredient,
A plenty Of work thrown in.
But spice it all with the essence OF love,
And little Whit Of play;
Let wise old book and a glauca above
Complete the we'll made day,
Amos Il. Well in New York Observer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22
RATES OF AovEeTlslNc,


Legal advertisements ten cents per line
each Insertion
Marriages and death notices gratis.
ALI bills for yearly advertisements collected
quarterly. Temporary advertisements must
be paid in advance.
Job work--cash on delivery.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-06
SPRINGS RESURRECTION.

Four Bodies Found Floating in the Rivers
Forcing the Waters to Give Up Their
Dead.
The body of man supposed to be Peter
Foster was found floating in the Yough-
iogheny river at Mckeesport yesterday
morning No money was found on the per-
son. In his coat pocket was found a
miners lamp and papers showing he had
been naturalized in Allegheny county on
April 8, 1885,
The body of a man supposed to be Peter
Adair. of Apollo, was found floating in the
Allegheny river at Creighton yesterday.
Adair has been missing from home for three
months.
The body of an unknown man, supposed
to have lived in Allegheny. was found float
ing in the Ohio river at Beaver Falls yes
terday. The body of an unknown man was
found floating in the Ohio river at Wheel
ing yesterday.
The four cases were yesterday reported to
Coroner Mcdowell, and the Coroner, after
glacing over the several kilograms, shook
his head mournfully, and began:
"The spring thunder storms are forcing
the waters to give up their dead. 1t is a
curious fact" he went on, "that fol-
lowing the first heavy thunder
storm each spring we are called
upon to take charge of several fioaters.
These bodies may remain hidden in the bed
of the river all the winter, but the first real
shock of thunder is sure to disturb them and
the missing come to the surface.
Scientists and men of learning will no
doubt dispute my statement, but years of
experience have proven my position to be
correct, and my records for years show just
what have told you"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-06

day l called on Michael Trump and OBJ.
tanned release Of access on my val1se, ana
Ithen left Pittsburg for Hanoverton, o. l
road robbery at Finleyville, March Z, nor do
I know who committed 1t.
A shadow was left on O'Niel and Camp
returned to Pittsburg. On Saturday last
the sick man left his bed and took train
for Frazerburg, where his brother lives.
His shadow followed him. The Pittsburg
office of the agency was notified, and on
Sunday Mr.. Camp left for his prisoner.
O'Niel submitted to arrest without objec-
tion, and he seemed relieved when the OF.
ficer took charge of him.
Ted O'Niel, the confessed burglar, is an
expert telegraph operator and train runner.
He has worked in Pittsburg and has wan
dered all over the country.
Where He LeArned to Steal.
He was for two years connected with
Forepaughs shows as candy butcher
where he says he first began stealing. He
is thin faced active young man of good
family. His mother and two sisters live at
Hanoverston, Ohio. One of his sisters is a
teacher in the public schools His brother
is prominent in politics at Frazersburg.
Ted's weakness was his admiration for
noted outlaws On his way from Ohio to
the Washington Jail yesterday he talked
glibly of the daring Fitzsimmons, of Perry,
the noted tram robber; of the courageous
James boys, and of others of that character.
He was familiar with the crimes of all Of
them, and he said in his attempt to elude
arrest after robbing the Finleyville store
he had checked his bundle occasionally and
then carried it occasionally just to throw the
officers that he expected after him off his
trail.
.tDo YOU think O'Niel had anything to do
with the Finleyville station robbery" was
asked Detective Camp.
81 am confident O'Niel had nothing to do
with that job. believe the station was
robbed by rowing band of tramps. In
fact my Investigation has satisfied me that
tramps did that job"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-06
In Memoria1n,

At meeting of the United Hebrew Relief
Association, held at the vestry rooms OF the
Eighth Street Temple, April 8, 1892 the fol-
lowing minute and resolutions were unani-
mously adopted;
Whereas, The Divine Ruler of the uni
verse has in his infinite wisdom removed
from our midst Mr.. Alexander Fink, who
for 16 consecutive years has served as Presi-
dent of the association. A true son OF Israel,
pious and abiding in the will of his Maker,
he bore a lingering illness with a fortitude
and patience such as characterized his life.
He loved the work incidental to the office
which he SO ably filled, to look after and
care for the poof, the needy and the dis
tressed.
To his devoted wife and family void has
been made which can never be filled. Mourn
ing hearts oppressed with grief in sympathy
in those who were wont to meet, but now
forever will miss the bright, cheerful and
beaming countenance of this good man.
Though removed from our sight, he and
his deeds in the field of charity will ever live
in the memory of all who knew him. There
FORE be il
Resolved, That we tender our sincere SYM
pathy and heartfelt coincidence to the be-
reaved wife and family, invoking our
Heavenly Father to comfort and uphold
them in their severe afIliction.
Resolved, That these resolutions be en-
tered upon our minutes, published in the
American Hebrew, OF New York; the Ameri-
can Israelite, OF Cincinnati; THE PITrsBURe
DISPATCH, and copy thereof be sent to the
family of the deceased.
A. LIPPMAN,
S. KAUFMAN,
L. !. AARON,
MRS. S. RAUH.
Mrs. j. NJ. GUsKY,
MRS. JOSIAH COHEN,
Committee,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-06
ALIOUIPPA.
First Sale Of Lots VIII Take Place on April

t1rSt sale OF LOIS W III ldAo TiaCe Ou hPrii
IA.
The interest manifested by people gener-
ally who have savings to invest in town so
solidIy started as Aliquippa, and by those
who are trying to make an investment, ex-
pecting to realize by the sale of their pur-
chase on an increased value, which the low
doubly sure. is guarantee that the first
sale will be wonderfully successful. For the
past three weeks the office of the A1iquippa
Steel Company, room 30, Westinghouse
building, has had steady flow of people,
who call to see the plans and assure them
selves that the new town is a straight deal,
and not land speculation, the only object
of the owners being to dispose OF their prop
erty at q big profit, and let the purchasers
make the town at Aliquippa. The three big
factories. and others asking for factory sites,
intend to stay and build the town. Thou
sands of dollars are, and will be, invested in
them, assuring work to a large population
and continued prosperity. All the improve
ments have been made at the expense of the
companies, for which the lot purchasers
will not be held responsible, although re-
railroad switches in, their works up, gas
wells drilled boardwal>s down, and other
permanent improvements made. No lots
will be sold until April II, although dozens
of lots have been picked out already, many
Offering to build Immediately ii given a
deed, and will be allotted to those selecting
them only on condition that they be at the
sale to secure them. 1t is not the intention
to sell the cream lots in the plant before the
SALE All will have equal chances. Attend
the sale ii possible. In the meantime see
the plans, and if not able to be at the sale,
get friend to secure q lot for you,a and make
money by SO doing.