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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24
About Kid GInYes.

A town called Grenoble, France, is
the place where most kid gloves come
from; yet of the twenty thousand OF
more tourists who pass though the capi.
tai of the Isere Department each year not
more than ten ever go out of their way
to learn something Of this great national
industry.
For it is national, as France holds the
chief position in the world IN this line
of commerce, and wherever you go you
are sure to find that the best gloves are
of French manufacture. This success is
not due to question of taste only, but
to excellence of workmanship also.
There is nothing mechanical about
glove making it is all hand labor; there
fore experienced and skillful operatives
are necessary to produce good merchan-
disc. But as Frenchmen do not like to
leave their homes, it is the Belgians, the
Germans and the Italians who go abroad
and devote themselves to the production
of an inferior kind of goods for toilet
purposes in other countries.
At Grenoble alone 100000 dozen
pairs of gloves are manufactured au-
nually. This represents a value of
81, 900, 900 to $7,2OO,OOO, and this
gives employment to 25, 900 workpeople
of both sexes. There are 1000 men and
200 women residing in rayon of
thirty eight miles around Grenoble who
live by this work. Glove making, then,
is interesting from a social point of view,
as it is one of the few callings open to
female labor in which they can earn re-
spectacle wages without abandoning hus-
bands, homes and little ones.
When l add that out of the 7,200,-
600 worth of gloves in that region at
least SO, 600, 900 are distributed in wages
among an almost infinite number of fam
lilies, you can imagine the anxiety with
which recent parliamentary deliberate
over the proposition to franchise the raw
material were awaited by the population.
A tax on skins brought into France
would have meant ruin to many hard
working people who get a comfortable
living out of the industry. York
Recorder.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24

nit his house the honor of printing her
workl
Then you shouldlbhve seen her. She
was like glad June morning in her
loveliness. She laughed and cried all at
once.
When returned to the editors desk,
he read me over carefully, then he ex.
tracted quite long letter from pigeon
hole, and had an idea it concerned my
self. This surmise was correct.
The august presence deigned to per-
nit pleasant smile to play over his
features like fitting sunbeam as he an
swered the letter soto voice: "True, dear
friend I'VE do sometimes print even worse
from one cause or another" Then |
was sent to press in the hands of a sad
little ''devil."
Sister and her husband have always
maintained peculiar fondness for me,
but the rest Of my readers say, "Strange
how this magazine is degeneratingl
Do you suppose they refer unkindly to
me as l appear in "print. "-Harper's
Weekly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24

II the Prince of Wales persists in his
reported intention of marrying his chll-
dren into English families, observes the
San Francisco Examiner, he will give his
house a new lease OF popularity that it
needs. Albert Victor, the heir presump.
tive, is to marry Princess Mary Of Teck,
who is practically an English girl. His
brother, Prince George, is said to be en-
gagged to the daughter of an English
Duke. The eldest daughter is the wife
of the Duke of Fife, and it is reported
that the second daughter is to marry an
English nobleman. The British nation
has shown a good deal of irritation at the
marriage of Queen Victoria's children to
the little royalty of Germany. In ths
brave old days when England was made,
Englishmea and Englishwomen were
good enough for royal blood to mate
with, and the English people appear 20
believe that the policy is a good one to-
day.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24

AT last it has lawned upon the people of
Northwestern Ohio, announces the Pitts
burg Dispatch, that their supply of nat
ural gas is almost exhausted. So conf.
dent have they been in its performance
that the nature of the discovery is almost
startling. To-day not more than one
tenth of the manufactures in Northwest
ern Ohio are supplied with natural gas.
At the same time the supply for private
consumption has been so decreased that
many family has tossed the gasburner
into the back yard and returned to hick-
ory and coal. Many others kept con-
slant supplies of coal on hand ready for
emergency at any time. Coal is also
burned with the gas when it is low by a
majority Of the consumers. Since gas
was first used for fuel here the pressure
has decreased over $50 pounds. Ths vol
ume, however, is sufficient for all the
drains upon it. The trouble is that the
pressure is too weak to force the gas to
the burners. 1t lies sluggish and dor
mant in the mains, or in a state of inertia
in the rock and wells.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24
The American Sandwich.

"The great American sandwich is now
an established National institution, said
Frank P. Brodie at Hurst's Hotel. "Did
you ever think how the term originatedl 2
A great many people suppose that the
popular comestible is in some way con-
nected with the Sandwich Islands. This
is a mistake, because the civilized world
had sandwiches long before it knew it
had any Sandwich Islands. Another
popular fallacy is that the sandwich was
invented by the English Earl of Sand
wich, from whom it took its name. The
fact is, the name of the man who foisted
the sandwich on the world is unknown.
1t was known, however, in the times of
the Roman Empire, and the soldiers of
Claudius Cesar included it in their ra-
tions. As an article of food the sand.
witch dates from the time to which the
memory of man runneth not back. As
an instrument of torture and death it
made its advent with the first railroad
eating house. st. Louis Star-Sayings.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24

The chief figures of the chief medical
officer OF the Prefecture of Police show
that lunacy has increased in Paris,
France, in the last sixteen years some
thirty per cent. The incaease is due to
the prevalence of We morbid types, gen
eral paralysis and alcoholic insanity.
Alcoholic insanity is twice as prevalent
now as it was fifteen years ago. Almost
a third of thelunacy cases are due to this
disease, and thu tendency of 1t is to be.
come more violent aud to show a more
marked homicidal character. A dreadful
pecularity of it is that it descends to the
children of its victims. The extreme use
fulness of many of the candidates for
the guillotine must have been observed
of late years, and the explanation is
probably to be found in alcoholic in
sanity.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24

The proposition to have the old ship
President, which was captured from the
United States by the British IN the War
of 1912, transferred to Chicago for the
Columbian Exhib tion, is very generally
approved by the officers of the navy so
far as its sentiment goes, but the idea is
hardly practical suggests the Boston
Transcript. The old ship now lies in
the West India Dock near London, and,
although she makes au excellent ship for
the nominal headquarters of British navy
officers who are assigned to duty in Lon
don, and an excellent drill ship as we'll,
she is totally unable, because OF her ad-
vanced age, to cross the Atlantic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24
Telltaln SHOES.

"There is more character in shoes than
in any other article of mans dress, "
said a Broadway shoe dealer, looking
out upon the passing throng one dull
day. "a man may deceive the eye of
an expert in every other particular but in
shoes. mean the kind AID the way he
wears them. Walking is an involuntary
performance, and is not matter of study
and stimulation. Every man will GER
tainly wear his shoes in a certain way.
And as a rule he will wear shoes that fit
his build, his business and his tempera-
ment. In nine cases out of ten when he
comes in here for a new pair can tell
the kind of shoe he will want by the
manner in which he has worn out the
pair he has on-whether on the toes, the
inside or outside of the heels, on the ball
of the foot, inside or outside of the
ball, or whether the rest of the shoe
gives out before the sole. He may take
some other kind, but he'll want the shoes
/ select.
eyes, sir, there's a deal of character
in the wear of a shoe. Every clever de-
tective knows that. Give a good de-
tectlve the imprint of a criminals foot
on yielding soil and he can size his man
up pretty well, especially if the shoe be
rather worn. That's the only thing a
man can't disguise. Lots of first class
detective stories have been written on
this, but there is nothing remarkable
about it to me. The individuality in a
footprint is the individuality of the
wearer of a shoe, and I've been noticing
that for thirty years. New York
Herald
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24
A Famous Maine Mansion.

The old Pepperell mansion at Kittery
Point, Me-, built over 200 years ago,
has probably sheltered more famous peo.
pie than any other house on this side of
the Atlantic, with the exception Of
Mount Vernon and Monticello. The
house was built by the first William
Peppereu, a great merchant and ship.
builder of his time, who accumulated
vast wealth by trade, and his mansion
reflected the extent Of his means. Fac
ing the sea and surrounded by a great
park where herds Of deer disported, the
old mansion was a delightful place of
residence. The famous Sir William
Pepperell, son of the builder, enlarged
and adorned the mansion at the time OF
his marriage, in 1874. This William
Pepperell, the only American baronet,
was a remarkable man. He was the
richest man in the colonies, and had
at times as many as 200 vessels aaoat.
He was a successful General, and was
seen at Louisburg, aud his politi in.
fluence was very greatly TX
Sun
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
White tar is new.
Electric cranes increase.

White tar is new.
Electric cranes increase.
Chess matches by telephone arc
popular in England.
A mechanical letter-stamper worked
by electricity is being tested at the post.
Office in Washington.
A German inventor has patented q
system of employing the trolley electric
system to propel boats on canals or
rivers.
The Industrial Society of Mulhouse,
England, offers a silver medal for the
application, i n any form, of electricity
to calico printing.
Immense bituminous deposits have
been discovered in Alsace, Germany, and
no less than seven companies have re-
Gently been formed to work them.
1t is proposed to make the employ
ment of the electric light in the German
factories compulsory in places where
artificial light is required during working
hours.
Professor Dewar, an English scientist
found, in making some experiments with
liquid oxygen, that it has strong mag.
netic properties, adhering closely to .
magnet until entirely dissipated.
The output of the Baldwin Locomotive
Works, Philadelphia, Penn, last year
was 91S locomotives, Of which 101 were
compounds. The output for 1890 ex-
ceeded this number by thirty.five.
The iron work of the railway up the
Rigi, Switzerland, has been found to
suffer less from rust than that of the or
dinary surface roads. The ties are Won
derfully well preserved, those laid seven
teen years ago being still in good condi-
ton.
In popular histories of the seven
wonders of the world we read that the
Pharos, the first light house, could be
seen at distance of 100 miles. In or
der for this to have been possible the
Pharos must have been mile and q
quarter in height.
A new torpedo was recently tried at
Portsmouth, England. 1t is intended
for discharge under the water, and with
engines developing tifty-two horse. power,
it can realize a speed of thirty knots an
hour. The maximum diameter of the
torpedo is eighteen inches.
Down to the time CT Homer, who
fourished 207 B. c., as little was known
of the surface of the earth as is now
known of the interior. Greece was then
regarded as the center of the earth, which
was then surrounded at the distance of
500 miles by the ocean river. Later the
land was extended further and a limited
form given to the old continent.
Very extensive and valuable deposits
of nickel have been found at Sudbury,
the junction of the Canadian Pacific and
the $500" Road about 130 miles cast of
Saul Ste. Marie. The mining is confined
largely to three companies, one of which
is an American company with headquar-
ters at Cleveland, Ohio, and its works
represent an investment of between ST.
900, 900 and 50, 000,0
To distinguish genuine butter from
oleomargarine the following test is recon
mended: Draw knife through piec-
of the questioned butter and separate the
parts thus divided. If it ever saw the
inside of a churn there will be watery
exudations in the track of the knife, but
if it is combination of prepared and
disguised fat there will bea smooth
greasy surface only. This test is largely
used by butter merchants.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24

One afternoon when I returned from
a pereSrination longer than usual, was
handed to my fair creator where she
walked in the sweet-scented green and
gold light of the garden, accompanied
by tall and handsome young man.
She sighed, "Againl" as she received
me; then | trembled in her fingers, and
somehow my string became united, and
| escaped from my wrappings.
Her companion fastened to pick me
up, handling me with a consideration
no other man had evinced toward me-
Then he said to Sister, taking both her
pretty hands as he placed me in her
keeping.
Sweetheart, if you love me, why in
sist on this long, this endless delay?n
Sister looked down, and rosy color
stole over her face, while her lips quiv-
cred.
at is so hard to speak of. l have
contracted a debt, and, until can repay
it by my own earnings, cannot marry /;
it would not be honorable; and no one
will publish my story"
She was still looking down, sad and
embarrassed, so she did not note her
companions expression, but l thought
he was about to rend the pale evening
air with a wild peal of laughter, so
sparkling were his eyes with mirth and
happiness.
Imagine my astonishment on seeing
him quite grave when she lifted her eyes,
as he said, pathetically:
"Yes, / understand, dear. Blythe
way, have you tried the Gushington
Publishing House"
Yesi l had but just returned from
their commodious scrap-basket. He
seemed very kind. When he left us,
Sister took me to her pretty silk -draped
room. She sat by the open window,
and lay still in her lap, and wondered
from Title TO Finish what could do to
make her happy.
1t was, think, two days after that a
letter lay beside me on Sisters desk. It
was from the house Of Gushington, and
contained a check for seventy-6ve dol
lars, and a note from the editor stating
that by mistake had gotten in a pile of
rejected MSS, and been sent TO her by
his assistant without his knowledge.
Would she kindly overlook this, and per I.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24

The San Francisco Chronicle opines
that the cultivation of peaceful dispo-
sition is not calculated to inspire respect
in such countries as Chile. "Had we
been as truculent IN our dealings with
fifth-rate countries as England" it be-
licves, "the Chileans would not be
speaking of the Yankees and their navy
with contempt"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24
The "FacIal Angle"

What is called the "facial angle" was
invented by Peter Camper, and first de-
scribed by him in book published in
1881. It's use is in measuring the ele-
walton of the forehead. One line is
drawn from the middle of the ear to the
edge of the nostrils, and another thence
to the ridge of the frontal bone, and the
greater the angle the greater Is supposed
to be the intelligence of the 'subject
measured. In the inferior re- le fa-
cial angle is usually betw, and
seventy; with European sew
enty-iiye to eighty San
Francisco Examine
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24

The new monitor Miantonomah, with
four ten-inch guns aud fine lot Of
rapid fire weapons, will prove formid.
able antagonist to any but the very heavi.
est foreign ironclads, observes the San
Francisco Chronicle. Stationed at the
right place she could keep whole fleet
of cruisers from entering and approach
ing close to New York harbor.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24
KISSING THn ac,p,

o heart of mine, we shouldn't
Worry sol
What we've missed of calm we couldn't
Have, you knowi
What we've met of stormy pain
And of sorrows driving rain
We can better meet again
If IL blow.
We have erred in that dark hour
We have known
When our tears fell with the shower,
All alone
Were not shine and shower blent
AS the gracious Master meantS
Let us temper our content
With his own.
For, we know, not every morrow
Can be sad;
So, forgetting all the sorrow
We have had,
Letus fold away our fears
And put by our foolish tears,
And through all the coming years
Just be glad.
j. w. Riley, in Indianapolis Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24
ATTAINMENT.

Passing, I saw a woman fair and sweet
With lilies at her feet;
flush of triumph on her lifted face
As IL her soul victorious in its race
In Loves ethereal fight Unfettered sprapg
through space.
/ saw her once again, her sad eyes wet
With limitless regret,
Pallid with countless wounds that hidden
bled;
The lilies in her pathway lying dead,
Yet in despair, sublime her soul still swept
o'erhead,
Crowned by its own defeat
Mrs. Whiton-Stone, in Boston Transcript.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24
The Smallest Shoe store.

The Boot and Shoe Weeklr
the smallest shoe store IL
is a little shop at
street. It's width
ment, it says, sis just
three inches d ween walls, "
its sole occupant, as he sits wi
against one side, barely room
his work and swing his hammer
touching the opposite side"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A
MANUSCRIPT.
by CLIFTON EsDAILE.

stein, my creator
loved the thing she
had created. Out
of innumerable
scraps was l created,
and built upon a
disused skeleton of
some old romance.
Nevertheless, l was
beloved and tender
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24
Arabia and the Horse.

BY great many people Arabia is sup
posed to be the home of the horse.
From ancient Roman, Grecian, aud He
brew history it is readily learned that
the horse was unknown in Arabia long
after he was common factor in the l4ie
Of Southern Europe. Chicago Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24

A county in New York State is on
sidering becoming its own insurer against
fire. One argument used is that the
county having S1OO, 600, 900 of property
is more responsible than most of the
insurance companies.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24

In the last five years the number OF
Methodist churches in Chicago, ILL.,, has
been doubled. The membership has
also doubled and one million dollars
added to the church property.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24

The New York Commercial Bulletin
says perhaps there is no greater test, and
no better evidence of the general activity
Of business throughout the country, than
the earnings of the principal railroads.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24

Tho grip is pronounced by Vienna
physician of high standing to be mias-
matte in character.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-23
Pnrsonnl and Gennrnl.

Superintendent lynn. of the peniten-
tlaYy, has Just returned with his family
from his former home in LOudoun county.
where they have had family reunion.
Mr. Fitzhueh MAYO. the brother of Cap
tain =. u. Mayo. received "A stroke of apo
plexy few days ago at his residence, on
Staten Island, n. I. The prompt assistance
OF q physician. at Whose house he fortu-
nate,y was at the time, 50 far relieved Mr..
Mayo that his recovery is hopefully looked
for
The Southern Churchman. organ of the
Protestant Episcopal Church IN Virginia.
mentions the receipt OF letter from Bishop
White which tells OF his Improvement,
though lie is still feeble and suffering. lie
does not think he will oe able TO attend the
general convention 10 be held IN Baltimore
in October.
The third in the series of meeting Of the
local union of the Christian Endeavor So
cieties will bs held this evening ut the Mar
shall-street Christian church.
Mr.. L. Salomonsky has been added to the
Italian celebration committee. They are
making final arrangements ior the 18th of
October festivities.
Mr. W. Sherwood De Wolf, formerly of
Bristol. L. l.. late of Richmond, has gone
to St. Louis, which will be Ms future home.
Drs. Bosher and Shields have reached
New ork on their return from thor trip
abroad. and are expected home on Sstur-
day.
At the hastings court yesterday dates
were set for trial of the numerous cases
which will engage the courts attention at
this term.
The County Court Of Heurco was prn-
cipally engaged in chancery matters yes
terday.
Mr. John W. Perley, Of Charlottesville,
is on a visit 10 friends hero.
Rev. ". V. Tudor. D. D.. spent the day
at Old Point yesterday with Mr.. aud Mrs.
Baker, his Old friends and church members
in It. Louis. Dr.. Tudor Will return to-day.
They stOppeG over here Sunday to hear him
preach and expressed strong desire TO
have him back n St. Louis.
The alarm Of fire from station 43 at 9.1O
o'clock last evening was caused by the ex-
pl0sIon OF a lamp at No. sos south Pine
street. 10 damage resulted.
Mr. II. NJ. Smith celebrated his eighty
third birthday last night.
The old colored carrier Of newspapers.
Tom James by name who was injured by
An engine o. the Chesapeake and OHIO Rail
way Company at their Denny-street cross
ing, died on yesterday at noon.
The president of the Thurman Demo-
cratic Club requests the members Ot that
organization to assemble NJ their hail
promptly at 7:l5 2. NJ. 70 take part IN the
procession attending Mr.. Steyenson's visit.