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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-29


Gus coal field, containing 5000 square miles
more of coal than underlie all England. Gas
and oil are all around us. Ore fields ilimit-
able are not far of. One hundred miles OILY
more or LESLIE between the Ohio river
and the great unsalted sea that we call Lake
Erie. Connect the two by a ship canal and
calculate, if you can, how much of space has
been annlhilated that separates PittsburC
from her base of supplies, and from new
markets without number now practically in
accessible.
Take your map and trace the windings of
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and YOU will
find that in their journey to the sea they
wash the banks Of IA great States. And these
States are the seat of future empire. Their
possibilities as to population and production
are immeasureable Il is calculated that
YOU might place our ent tire population in the
State of Texas, and that State would not
De more denselY populated than is Germany.
Apply the rule to the great Ohio and Missis-
sippi Valleys, and whose imagination can
What market Is here for reciprocal trade?
a Debt the Government Owes.
And then again, no careful student of
affairs can doubt that the day is not far dis
tHns when reciprocity of trade shall open to
us the markets OF the great and growing Re-
pUhlics of South and Central America.
Nothing but Il narrow and illiberal govern
mental policy can postpone the coming of
the time when foreign flags shall testify
to the presence at our wharves of
foreign keels bringing to us foreign
merchandise in glad exchange for our own.
Hearken- then to the conclusion OF this
whole matter Pittsburg's place in the
nation is that of city with interests OF such
national importance as to demand such
aatioDal care as shall make real all the ad-
'ntages that nature intended her to have.
need improved waterways and we need
waterways And in this respect Gov
tment owes us duty, for the pason
it without its aid we cannot have
aud railways. With lavish hand il has
gridironed the continent: but railways can
not take the place of waterways, and private
capital cannot safely touch our rivers.
Under the most far-reaching and despotic
power, FOR the exercise OF which our Fed
eiai Constitution provides-the power to
regulate commerce-the Jurisdiction OF the
National Government is exclusive and su-
- over our waterways.
Shat Pittsburg Richly Deserves.
possession OF the power carries with
sponsibility for its wise exercise, and
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-29

rounds of applause. 1t read: 81 would
give all that space that lies between us,
provided the owners were willing, to be
with YOU tonight" from George H.
Welshons, who is in California at the meet
ing of the International League of Press
CluhS
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-03
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.


Bad salt meat is said to have caused
cholera on British vessel.
1t is rumored that DR.. Pasteur has dis
covered cure for epilepsy.
Parts of a mastodon have been un-
earthed near Sherman, Texas.
If cork is sunk 200 feet deep in the
ocean it will not rise again on account Of
the great pressure of the water.
Experienced planters in the South now
raise the male cotton plant, being thus
enabled to secure the seed without the
lint or cotton.
Three broad patents on electric loco.
motives and electric railway systems, APP
plication for which have been filed since
June 3, 1880, have just been issued to
Thomas A. Edison.
The General Manager of the Wiscon-
sin Central Railroad is reported to have
said that all the trains on that line will
be run by electricity before the Colum-
bian Exposition is over.
The greatest enemy of suburban tele-
phone and telegraph poles is the wood
pecker, whose search for the numerous
insects which inhabit the wood often
leaves the pole literally honeycombed.
A medical officer Of the French army
is credited with remarkable simple
cure for obesity. His plan is to restrict
the diet to one dish--it does not greatly
matter what-at each meal, and it has
proven very effective.
The part of the larynx commonly
known as Adams apple has just been re-
moved from the throat of man at the
Carney Hospital in Boston, Mass, the
first operation of the kind in that city.
A cancerous growth had started in the
affected part.
The electrical apparatus for extracting
teeth without pain has an arrangement
of adjustable prongs, carrying buttons
and connected with a battery. The
buttons are placed over the nerves lead
ing from the teeth to the brain, and
circuit is established the moment the ex-
tracting instrument touches the tooth.
Trials of compound armor plate at
Shoeburyness, England, are held to have
demonstrated that, when these plates
have been submitted to the Tresidden
supplemental process, they possess pow
ers of resistance and endurance much ex-
ceeding the compound plates tried 10
this country in competition with nickle
plate.
The longest span of telephone wire in
the world is said to cross the Ohio River
between Portsmouth, Ohio, and South
Portsmouth, Ky. The wires span the
river from a pole on the Ohio side, meas
uring 102 feet above ground, to the
Kentucky hills on the opposite side, the
distance being 3773 feet between poles.
The wire is made of steel and its size is
No. IL gauge.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-03
How Chinese Catch Shrlmp.

"There are some very curious fisheries
carried on by the Chinese on the Pacific
coast" said an officer of the United
States Fish Commission in Washington
recently. "One of the most remarkable
is the catching OF shrimp, which is an
important industry in San Francisco Bay
and adjacent waters. These little crus-
taceans upon being captured are taken
ashore and boiled in big iron vats, after
rude fashion, holes being scooped out
of the side of steep bank for fire.
places, which are built up with stones.
After the shrimp have remained in boil
ing water for ten minutes they are spread
out to dry upon bare ground. One such
shrimp yard at Hunters Point is about
fifteen acres in extent. The Chinese use
brooms, shaped somewhat like hoes, for
spreading the shrimp and to turn them
at the required intervals.
"After being thoroughly dried by ex-
posure to the sun for about five days the
shrimp are crushed by being trodden
upon by Chinese in wooden shoes. This
process loosens the meat from the shells,
which latter are removed by shaking in
basket or by passing them through
crude tanning mill. Both meat and shells
are then packed in sacks for expectation
to China, where the meats are sold for
food and the shells disposed of as fer.
tilizer for tea plants, rice and so forth. All
classes of people in China eat the meats,
although regarding them as inferior to
the native shrimp, which are compare
lively scarce aud proportionately dearer.
Both meats and shells are fed to fowls,
with remarkable egg producing results.
"Another interesting fishery prose-
cuted by the Chinese on the Pacific Coast
is for abalones. These beautiful uni
valve mollusks are found along the rocky
shores at low tide, clinging to the rocks
above the water line. Each shell is
slightly lifted, so that the fisherman eau
thrust a stick under it and pry it off;
but, if alarmed, the animal shuts down
its valve, so that it can only be removed
by breaking it to pieces. The meats are
taken from the shells and boiled on
shore in vats made of sheet iron. Shells
and meats are then packed in sacks aud
forwarded to San Francisco, whence
most of the meats are exported to China,
and the shells shipped to France, the
latter being highly valued for their beau
tiful mother-of-p baltimore Amer
icau,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-03
A Dust Detector.

Some curious color phenomena have
been observed by John Aitkin when air
is suddenly expanded, and have led to
the construction of new instrument
called the "koniscope," for roughly de-
termining the amount of Impurities in
the air. The instrument consists simply
of an air pump and tube twenty inches
long, provided with glass ends. The
air to be tested is drawn into the tube,
where it is moistt ned and expanded. If
comparatively few dust particles are
present, say so, 900 cubic centimeter, the
color is very faint, but blue of increas-
ing depth occurs as the PARTICLES increase
in number, becoming a very dark blue
with 100000 per cubic centimeter.
The koniscope makes 1t easy to trace the
pollution arising in our homes from
open flames aud other causes, and to
separate pure from impure currents in
the rooms. Trenton IN. J.) American.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-03

young friend to remain here as my
guests for the present. 1 have large
house, and am lonely man."
"Oh" said Miss Perkins, her eyes be.
coming larger than the lenses OF her
spectacle glasses. "You're not married
thena"
"No," said Mr.. Dalzeli. "Before
left the East, l fell in love. shall
never marry until can marty that first
love Of mine"
He looked Elma full in the eyes as he
spoke. She colored. Her long lashes
dropped.
At the end of the month Mrs. Per
kins aroused herself to the exigencies OF
the case.
"All this is like life in fairyland, dear
Elma, said she. "But itisn't business.
| see by the papers that several music
teachers have recently arrived from the
East, and if we are to get to work"
''But," said Elma, patting the dear
old wrinkled hand, ~ don't really see
any particular reason for our getting to
work."
bu SdSpCu ullss L SIhluss
"You see," went on Elma, "Mr. Dali
zell is engaged to that first love of his.
He has given me back the horseshoe, and
as couldn't think of breaking the cur
rent of luck by taking it from the house,
of course must stay here"
"Oh!" said Mrs. Perking. "Then it's
truea He's the same young man that
kissed you when you were hanging good
luck up over the smithy door-the sun
der the spreading chestnut tree young
mana"
Elma nodded assent.
ooh" again uttered Mrs. Perkins.
"But you said you never, never would
forgive him."
"Don't you know, Perky" coaxed
Elma, the audacious, "what the Bible
says about forgiving people9 Anyhow,
it's all settled, and we are to be married
very soon, and you are to live here with
us always. Does that plan suit you9"
And Mrs. Perkins said that it did.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-03
Roth Boy and Cub Walled.

One of Mr.. Lampson's boys came near
having serious encounter with bear
the other day. While going to work he
met large bear aud two cubs. The
mother and one of the cubs took to the
woods while the other cub climbed a
small tree. The boy thought to capture
the cub, and climbed up after it, where
upon the cub set up such wall that the
mother soon returned and started up
after the boy. It was now his turn to
wall, which he did quite Justify. Owing
to the smsllness of the tree, the bear
could not reach the boy; but the situa-
tion was anything but pleasant during
the interval that elapsed before the ar
rival of the boys father. The old bear
took to the woods. They succeeded in
capturing the cub by means OF ropes and
guuny sacks, end took it home. .-Lumas
City Washington News.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-03

1t is asserted that after this year the
United States will not only be able to
stop importing fruit, but will begin to
be factor in supplying the markets of
the world. The estimate is that New
York will have 100000 pounds of
fruit from California alone this summer.
Fast fruit trains now cross the continent
in seven days, aud enable the growers to
harvest a ripper product than heretofore.
Arizona and Oregon are coming to the
front as fruit states; Mississippi is getting
famous for tomatoes, and Florida oranges
and Georgia peaches are always sure of a
ready market. The outlook has never
been so promising.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-03
The Trade in Old Shoes.

There is large and growing demand
in big New York for secondhand shoes.
All along Seventh avenue there are deal
eas who make a specially of old shoes.
The men usually have stalls in cellars.
Their wares embrace shoes OF all sorts,
from the baby's tiny slipper 10 the big,
stiff brogans of the laborer.
"We get our old Shoes" said one OF
them, yesterday, "from all sorts of
places. | usually make couple of trips
Il week myself to lot of stylish flats in
the upper part of the city. | collect all
the old shoes am able to buy. What
do giyel Oh, verv little, of couse.
usually pay forty cents or so for pair
of five dollar shoes, but they must be in
good shape to win such price, for, you
know, we do not get much more than
twice that sum when we retail them
again over the counter"
"Who sell shoes to youl"
"You would be surprised il you saw
the fine, swell fellows that have to put
up their shoes occasionally to help keep
up appearances. We take the shoes,
black them up, repair them, aud then
offer them for sale"
"Who buys them"
GAN classes. Yes, we have nice,
prosperous people who wear second -haud
shoes, and think nothing of it. Then
there is a class Of young fellows in New
York who have expensive tastes and
small capital. They come to US, pick
out a good-looklng patent leather shoe,
pay seventy-fve cents or so for it, and
80 away rejoicing. They go home, put
them on, and, then, who can tell the
- 'enceF-New York Recorder.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-03
A SUMMERS DAY.

Black bees on the clover heads drowsily
clinging,
Where tall, feathered grasses andibutter-
cups sway;
And all through the fields whitelsprinkle
Of daisies
Open-eyed at the setting Of day.
oh, the heaps Of sweet roses, sweetlcinna
mon roses,
j. great crimson thickets thatjcover the
wall!
And focks of bright butterhiestgiddy to see
them,
And sunny blue sky overall.
Trailing boughs of the elms dropping over
the hedges,
Where spiders their glimmering laces
have spun;
And breezes that bend theilight tops of th
willows
And down through the meadow grass
run.
Silver-brown little birds sitting close in the
branches,
And yellow wings fIasuing from hillock to
tree,
And wide-wheeling swallows that dip to the
marshes
And bobolinks crazy with glee.
So crazy, they soar through the glow of the
sunset
And warDle their merriest notes as they
fly,
Nor heed how the moths hover low in the
hollows,
And the dew gathers soft in the sky.
Then a round beaming moon DER the bios
somed hill coming,
Making paler the fields and the shadows
more deep;
And through the wide meadows MUIR
murous humming
or insects too happy to sleep.
Enchanted sit on the bank by the willow
And trill the last snatch of rollickng
tune,
Aud since all this lovsliness cannot be
Heaven,
know In my heart IL is June.
Mrs A. G. oolson, in Boston Transcript.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-03

Miss Angelina Brooks, who is recog-
nized authority on all questions of KIN
dergarten methods, has recently devoted
her time to careful investigation of the
curbstone children in this city, says the
New York Commercial Advertiser. She
has ascertained that there are 140, 900
boys and girls between the ages of four
and six who spend their lives in the
streets and never once see the inside of a
school. She is trying to enlist sympathy
for these unfortunate waits which will
ultimately lead to the establishment for
them of free kindergarten school.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-03
A Most Wonderful Creature.

The chameleon has for ages been an OBJ.
ject of curiosity, not only on account Of
It's ability to change its color at will, as
one might suppose who had read ac-
counts which mentioned only that one
characteristic, but also on account of a
remarkable power which admits of the
creature instantly changing its form. At
times it takes upon itself almost the ex-
act form of a mouse; again, with back
curved and tail erect, it is the exact
counterpart of miniature crouching
lion, which no doubt gave origin to its
name, chameleon, which clearly means
"ground lion." BY initiating its sides
and flattening back and belly it takes
upon itself the form of an ovate leaf,
the tail acting as the petiole, the white
line over the stomach becoming the mid
rib. When thus expanded it also has
the extraordinary power to sway itself
over so as to present an edge to the oh.
server, thus greatly adding to its means
of concealment. AS is well known, the
least excitement, as in handling, will
cause n change in the color. In its nor
NAL state it is of a light pea green.
When excited the groundwork remains
the same, but transverse stripes about
thirty in number appear on the body.
These stripes, which are of a very dark
green to begin with, soon change to inky
blackness. The prevailing idea that the
chameleon takes upon himself the pc.
culiar hues of whatever he is placed upon
Is as curious and widespread as it is er-
roneous. Placed in boxes lined with red
or blue silk, they retain their pea green
color with no leaning toward the brighter
hues of the surroundings.-St. Louis
Republic
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-03
A Great Tree For the Fair.

The tree selected by the Tulare Board
of Trade for exhibition at the Worlds
Fair stands on the land of Mrs. NJ. G. X.
Shuey, one-half mile southeast of
Summerhome, on the summit between
North and Middle Tule, about thirty-fiYe
miles northeast of PorterYille. The tree
was selected at the request of the
National Worlds Fair Association. Mrs.
Shuey donates the tree as a gift. 1t is
said to be a magnificent specimen of
sequoia gigantea, some 300 feet in
height. At the base it is 76I feet in
circumference, and eleven feet from the
ground it is So feet in circumference.
This gives base diameter of "a feet.
The section that will be removed for ex-
hibition will be a portion thirty feet
long. This piece will be cut into two
fifteen-foot sections, with natural slab
between them. This circular piece will
be 21t feet in diameter aud 16 inches
thick. 1t will serve as a roof for the
lower section when followed and a floor
for the upper one.-Visalia (Cal.)
Times
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-03
O TIME AND CHANGE.

o Thee and Change. they range and range
From sunshine round to thunderl
They glance and go as the great winds blow,
And the best of our dreams drive under:
For Time and Change estrange, estrange-
And, now they have looked and seen us,
o we that were dear we are all too near
With the thick Of the world between us.
Death and Time, they chime and chime
Like bells at sunset fallingl
They end the song, they right the wrong,
They set the old echoes calling:
For Death and Time bring on the prime
OF Gods own chosen weather,
And we lie in the peace Of the Great Release
AS once in the grass together.
w. r. Henley.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-03

A company has been incorporated in
New Jersey for the manufacture of
membranoid, fancy leather made from
tripe-nothing else than tanned tripe.
The patent t-ofiice authorities insisted
that tripe was tripe, no matter through
what chemical process it might have
been put, and some time elapsed and
there was much parleying before a COM
promise was affected on the name of the
product now called membranoid. This
new species of leather is said to be pretty
and durable.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-03
Wonderful Work of Bees.

Bees must, in order to collect pound
Of clover honey, deprive 200 clover
blossoms of their nectar. To do this
the 62, 900 flowers must be visited by an
aggregate OF 3,750,000 bees. Or, in
other words, to collect his pound of
honey one bee must make $3.50, 600
trips from and to the hive. The enor-
nous amount of work here involved pre-
cludes idea of any one bee ever living
long enough to gather more than the
fraction OF pound Of nectarine sweets.
As bees are known to fly for miles in
quest Of suitable fields of operation il is
clear that a single ounce of honey re-
presents millions of miles of travel. It
is no wonder that these industrious little
insects have earned the reputation of
being "busy' bees. st. Louis Republic,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-03
His Load Burned In.

\ teamster in Boston, Mass, had quite
a surprise the other day. He was haul
ing a load Of furniture through the yard
oi railroad, when somebody shouted
fire. Turning around he discovered that
his load OF furniture was all in q blaze.
lie jumped OIL the wagon and uuhtched
ms horses as promptly as possible, and
an alarm brought fire engine that ey-
tlnsulshed the blaze, but not until tae
furniture was destroyed and the wagon
body badly damaged. A spark from a
iocorotive caused the trouble. --Nes
Orleans Picayune,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-03
Frank Leslie,s weekly States that N,

Frank Leslie's Weekly states that the
State of Pennsylvania shows the largest
percentage of foreign born adult males
who are aliens, the percentage in that
State being 1918 of the total number,
representing 1898 persons. In the
State of New York, 1885, GA foreign
born adult males, Or 2S. 13 per cent, are
aliens, and in New Jersey, 41,S77 or
2s.S7 per cent. are aliens. New York
shows the greatest number of naturalized
foreign-born adult males, there being in
that State 416, ,362, or 60.74 per cent.
of the total number offoreign. born adult
males returned. The city of New York
shows the largest percentage of foreign
born of the total population, the foreign
element in that city representing AZ. 23
per cent. of the total population as
against 80. 6S per cent. in 1880. Buffa-
10 shows $500 per cent. of foreign born
as against 33.O5 per cent. in 1880.
Brooklyn shows 32. 46 per cent, an iu-
crease from 31.36 per cent! in 1880.
Long Island City has foreign-bo
population Of 36.67 per cent, while in
1880 the foreign-born element in that
city was 34.27 per cent. of the total
population; sixteen places show a great
er per cent. of foreign born population
in 1890 than is shown in the State as a
whole, while in 1880 nineteen places
were reported as having larger percent.
age of foreign-boru population than was
reported in the State as a whole.