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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Some experiments at Leavenworth,
Kan, show that packed snow offers
an excellent resistance to bullets.
The atmosphere is so clear in Zulu.
land, that objects can be seen by
starlight at a distance Of seven miles.
The mouth of the lobster is small,
and he must tear his food to pieces
with his claws before he can devour it.
Telegraph poles in Switzerland are
preserved from rapid decay by being
charged with a creosote compound,
pressed by gravity into one end OF the
wood.
As speaking tubes are found not to
work on the English war ships owing
to the rafting of the machinery, the
Admiralty has determined to try tele'
phones.
The electric stevedore is movable
conveyor for loading ship With -four
or grain in bulk. 1t works on the
endless chain and bucket plan, and
has record of seventy-five tons per
hour.
A new knapsack attachment without
straps is being tried on the Gordon
Highlanders The pack is fastened to
the shoulders by metal hooks, and is
prevented from wabbling by back
plate.
Egyptians are very prolific. The
native births in 1894 were 335, $40,
while the deaths were only 1872, 1903;
the native population of Egypt up to
the Second Cataract and including the
oases, is about 100000.
A proposition has been made recent
ly by bicycle riders to several agents
and manufacturers of bicycles that
the manufacturers get together IN a
convention and agree to reduce nu-
merous parts of their different ma
chimes to standard proportions.
An examination of the two products,
butter and oleomargaine, for microbes,
reveals an average in the former of
from 700, 900 to l 800, 900 to the grain,
against 25, 900 to 40, 900 in margarine.
Cold, moreover, reduces the microbes
in margarine thirty-three per cent, 4,
and in butter but three per cent.
Achange of 100 degrees in tempera-
ture changes the length of an iron
post in one of the monster buildings
by an inch and half. In case of fire
a change of 1000 degrees may result,
causing an expansion of fifteen inches.
This would wreck the building, Us the
brick and tile would not similarly ex-
pand.
Among illustrious personages with
queer fads must be numbered Priuce
Luitpold of Bavaria. His collection
of beetles is the most extensive and
complete in the world, and the Prince
is skilled entomologist, deeply versed
in the habits of ants, bees, moths,
flies, earwigs and all creatures that
creep and Grail and wriggle.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
Electric Light for InralIds.

There has been designed by clever
Englishman little electric-light fit.
ting for the bedroom that deserves
to be widely appreciated. 1t is in
tended more particularly for the use
of invalids, especially in houses
still unequipped with the electric
light The lamp is of two-candle
power, and gives a beautiful soft
illumination. 1t eau be fastened to
any part of the bedstead and concen-
trated in whatever direction may be
required. The accumulator is con-
tanned in a small box, which may be
placed beneath the bed. New York
Mail and Express.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26

In 1894 there were in the United
States 10, 731 mercantile failures. The
number increased last year to 1908,
20 per cent. more than the number
for the previous year. The per cent.
of failures during 1895 was 1923 as
compared with l.21 for 1894 and 1.5O
for 1898. The percentage of assets
was ifty-fve in 1895, as against fifty
three per cent. in 1894 and sixty-fiye
in 1898. Bradstreet's, commenting
on these figures, says that the sin.
crease in business failures in 1895 con-
frasted with 1894 amounts to only
292, for which gains the Western,
Northwestern and Middle States are
responsible, they having been respec-
lively 333, seventy-seven and sixty.
four. While the increase in the total
number of business failures in the
Western States was apparently large
about eleven per cent. the in
crease in total liabilities of failing
traders did not amount to more than
seven per cent, from which it may be
perceived that commercial and indus
trial embarrassments in that region
were largely among smaller concerns.
1t will be seen from the figures given
above, observes the Atlanta Journal,
that the number of failures il the
South last year was much less than the
number for 1894. The increase in the
number for the whole country was
292, but the increase in the Northern
and Western States was 472. There
fore. the South shows a decrease OF
IS2 in the number of mercantile fail
ures last year. This speaks remarka'
ably we'll for our part of the country
and is another proof that the South
endured the panic better and came out
from it with less injury than any other
section,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
Town THE STREAM,

Love II began with Il glance,
Grew with the growing OF flowers,
Smiled in dreamful trance,
Rocked not the passage Of hours;
Our passions food rose ever,
Flowing for her and me,
Till the brook became a river,
And the river became a sea.
Grief II began with word,
Grew with the winds that raved;
A prayer for pardon unheard,
Pardon in turn uncraved;
The stream so swift to be freei
Till the brook became q river,
And the river became sea.
Life! II began with Sigh,
Grew with the leaves that are dead;
Its pleasures with wings to fly,
Its sorrows with limbs Of lead;
And rest remaineth never
For the wearler years to be,
TIL the brook shall become a river,
And the river become sea.
Lord Houghton
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
An Rngineerlng Frenk.

'If you want TO see a curiosity in
the way of railroad engineering, said
a prominent railroad officer, "you
must take a ride over the Guerneville
branch of the Donahue road. 1t is a
narrow-guage line, with more twists
and curves in it than you would think
possible. In one place an immense
redwood stump stood directly on the
surveyed line, and instead of blasting
it out the men who constructed the
road built around the stump, and there
it proudly stands to-day, the only
stump in the country that ever made
a railroad turl out."-SAn Francisco
Post
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26

sroull fc2ie San3s in iar-off days

Shoull fci!e hands in irr-off days
40 longe; stroke toy hair.
Anvil lips that once were proud TO urais)
Forget to ctll thee fair.
SiSI bat my name aud though bo
Nlu IN the cdur'hyarl mold
] will arise AID come t1 thee
All worship rs o. old.
An should I meet tue wcnkied brow,
Or lind the silver tress.
Wlat war.', t. M, it woIl be thou
could no. love thee less.
'Gainst love time wages ho2.'ess strif5'
What now is would be then;
Tha cry that brought ne back to life
WJull MAKE thee young again.
Alfred Austin.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26

1t is claimed that the large gold
fields, covering several thousands of
acres in Buckingham County, Virginia,
have recently been investigated by ex.
perts aud that the average of the ores
gives a much better percentage ofgold
than either the South African or Grip
pie Creek districts.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
Where They Should Go,

Singers to Alto, Ga.
Bakers to Cakes, Penn.
Jewellers to Gem, Ind.
Smokers to Weed, Cal.
Printers to Agate, Col.
The sleepy to Gap, Penn.
The idle to Rust, Minn.
Cranks to Peculiar, Mo.
Poets to Parnassus, Penn
Dead heads to Gratis, Ohio.
Actors to Star City, Ark.
Perfumers to Aroma, IL.
Apiarists to Beeville, Ind.
Tramps to Grubtown, Penn.
Bankers to Deposit, N. Y,
Small men to Bigger, Ind.
Widowers to Widows, Ala.
Brokers to Stockville, New.
Old maids to Antiquity, Ohio.
Lovers to Spoonville. Mich.
Hunters to Deer Trail, Col.
Young ladies to Bangs, Va.
Hueksters to Yellville, ARK.
Cobblers to Shoe Heel, N. C.
Politicians to Buncombe, n. G.
Theosophists to Mystic, Conn.
Physicians to Doctortown, Ga.
Puzzle fiends to Riddleville, Ga.
Drummers to Modest Town, Va.
Druggists TO Balsam Lake, Wis.
Prohibitlonists to Drystone, Cal.
Political orators to Stumptown.
Penn.
The gum brigade to Chewtown.
Penn.
Newly married couples to Bliss,
Mich.
Three-card-monte men to Trickum,
Ky.-New York World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
MIGHT MAKES PEACE.

Mammal hear, Bobby, that you
were a very good little boy this morn
ing, and didn't strike Tommy Jones
back when nc hit YOU you must have
remembered what / told you about a
soft answer turned away wrath"
Bobby--'I did, mamma, and be-
sides"
Mamma "And besides what,
Bobby"
Bobby-"Tommy Joues's bigger
than am. - Harper's Bazaar.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
A AIISCALCULAToR.

Wife-'Amos, why don't Won spend
more of your time with me?"
Husband-"My angel, l just count
thu hours that keep me from your
side |"
Wife-"Then there is something
wrong with your arithmetic. In
dianapolis Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
CHANGED HER MIND.

'I am going to be married." said
Miss Trotter to Miss Kittish.
"Youl You going to be married |
l thought you were an inveterate man
hater, who wouldn't marry the best
man living"
"Yes, but that was before one of tho
horrid men had proposed to me. -
Life.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

An Irresistible Comblnation-De-
ceptive Countenance - Precau-
tionary-Just the Thing, Etc.
Little drops OF water
Little grains Of sand
Tears and nerve together mako
A combination grand.
Detroit Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26

Major Armistead; but she ner we'd him
to this as to much besides. Norah
had found once more q purpose in
life, while Eric's father began a new
career that day. And q career which
went far TO make atonement for the
past, Household Words.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26

The Chicago Physicians Club has de-
oided that organized charity means q
wild desire on the part of some peo-
pie that other people should help the
poor" and that the doctors generally
get the heavy end of the stick.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
TIE HOUSEHOLD HuMonIsr.

Mrs Wickwire-."You don't know
what grief it is TO have a husband
who thinks he is funny"
Mrs. Watts-"What is the trouble,
dear?"
Mrs. Wickwire-'u asked him last
evening to bring home some good up
todAte literature, and he brought a
bundle of Nlmanacs. ."-Indianapolis
Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
POETRY AND REALITY.

Mrs. De B-''So you received fifty
dollars for your ode to the New
Year, Mr.. Scribley? You seem in low
spirits for one who can command fifty
dollars just for an ode.
Scribley-"Had to invest it in an
other one, right away"
"Another oder"
eyes. Owed to my tailor. Brown
ing's Monthly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
THE UP.To-DATE BARD.

Jenks-"Ah, but you modern poets
are not much like the old singers.
Binks-"No? Well, just imagine
John Milton taking Paradise Lost to
dyspeptic editor, and being told to
change it into dialect, and put in
bill at fifty cents an inch. Life.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
DECEPTIVE coUNTENANcE.

"What benevolent look old Mr..
Podds has?"
Mhm. I'll bet he wastes the time
of more beggars than any other man
in town. "-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
Five million dollars are spent each
year in England on the game OF foot
ball.

Since the MannlicLer gun came into
use the ratio is four killed to one
wounded-iust the opposite to what it
formerly was.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
REAsSURED.

She-"Why do you start SOP"
He-"Did I understand you to soy
that your father is failing?"
She-"Physically, / mean"
He (settling back )-"Oh, all right l
was afraid it was something serious"
Pick Me- Up.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
A WORLD AT STAKE.

columbus took big chances when
he illustrated that the world was
round"
"How so?"
Suppose the egg had been a bad
one. Truth.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26

They say, remarks the New Orleans
Picayune, that the New York specula-
tors made enough out of British bond
holders over the late war scare to pay
pretty we'll all the expenses OF the
war, if it should come.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
JUST THE THING.

"We have no use for bear stories,
said the editor. "Our readers demand
something spicy"
"Well," said the man with the man.
uscript, "this story is about cinna-
mon bear. Sports Afeld.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26

Queen Victoria for the last year or
two has manifested an inclination to
direct the affairs of her own Govern
ment, much to the disgust of her
Prime Minister.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
he WAS SYMPATHETIC.

Johnnie Fewcads-"It breaks me
all up to see a man so reduced to pow
erty that he has to go around begging
money from his friends. "
Hostetter McGinnis-"T whom do
you allude?"
Johnnie Fewcads-"I allude TO Gill
hooly. He has been to me at least u
dozen times during tue past week with
tears in his eyes, begging me TO pay
him that S5 borrowed from BIN last
4th of July. Texas Siftings
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
NOT A BIT.

Jack-"A woman doesn't know how
to conceal her feelings."
Jess-"Doesn't, ehP She Can kiss
the woman she hates"
Jack--"Of course but she doesn't
fool the woman any."-Puck.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
NO DIFFERENCE.

Clara-"He broke Off the engage
ment just because wanted the ring
reset"
Maude-"How foolish OF him p
wasn't it? But 1 am going TO
have it reset iu9t the same. Puck.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26

The Atlanta (Ga-) fair wound up
with the year in blaze Of glory, and
with big cash balance to its credit,
The hvs.esnt strsst car fare has $50
been S.sstGblishtd In Atlanta.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
PRECAUTIONARY.

"Do you know there are deadly mi
crobes in the ice?"
"Dear mel Will / have TO, put
moth balls in the refrigerator ~
Chicago Record.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
FOR ERlCS SAKE.

EARLY 3 o'clock in the
morning ha1 arrived
when Norah's carriage
drove up to the door
of the house in South
Audley street. The
footman rang the bell,
and, alighting, she en-
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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26

Major Armistead glanced round the
dining room. He was tall and spare,
the more noticeably because he al.
ways buttoned himself tightly in a
long f-ock coat. His darkly tanned
face appeared above very high col
lar; he wore an enormous iron-graY
mustache. Long a widower, since
Norah's marriage two years ago he had
lodged near Hyde Park, possessing
only small income besides his pen
sion.
She took his hand and kissed him,
then looked out of the window.
ga delicious morning after the
rain" she faltered.
"Come, come, you didn't drag me
out before breakfast to tell me it was
fine morning, Norah. Little chap
all right?"
"Oh, Eric is splendid" she said
"Then what on earth is 1t? You're
not looking we'll this morning-too
much dissipation. Isn't Digby down
yet?"
"He's gone-gone away. he is
ruined"
Ruined Digby Bless my"
"Worse," she continued; "he has
committed a crime. You can hardly
realize it? Neither could /. But it is
true. He has committed crime. All
this" she waved her hands. as she
glanced round the large, handsomely
furnished room, call this is the result,
am wearing some OF the proceeds.
can't stay, father; take me away from
it all--me and poor little Eric"
The evening papers we're full of the
news, and sold largely in consequence.
The hue and cry being raised, and q
reward offered, few days later the
fugitive was arrested. Tried and con
victed in due course, Digby Fordyce
was sentenced to seven years penal
servitude.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26

"Ah, Noish. anything upf Where's
DigbyN
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-23
Elm EoR LIE SERIOUS.

Kleptomania is rated to be, by all
odds, the most lucrative form OF in
sanity.-Lampoon.
When a man goes to live in the top
Of a six-story fiat 1t Is all up with him.
-Binghamton Republican.
"This is n hard set as the hen said
when she was trying to hatch porce-
lain egg.-Boston Bulletin.
Everything depends on early train
ing. A rope gets tight because that's
the way it is taut-Yonkers States
man.
There is really no tangible objection
to violently plaid trousers except that
they keep one constantly wondering
whose move it s.-Washington Post.
The Nile river at present is very
low Serious results are feared as 1t
is confined to It's bed and unable to
rse.-Baltlmore American.
The expression of the mouth In art
really constitutes the picture. In 9th
er relations of life more depends on
the expression of the tongue.-Phila-
delphia Times.
Yes" said he, rehectively, II was
at the races" And then, with a SOL
emn minor tone, he continued: do
YOU remember that Enchanted Horse
in the Arabian Nights that used to
fly about a mile minute? Well, If l
were to bet on that horse, he would
fall down and let COW beat him.
Cincinnati Enquirer
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-23

Do you want to delight your friend by
making him present of box Of cigars,
pipe, or Il sample of smoking tobacco
from large and varied stock 2 II so,
you can do no better than make your pur-
chases from Schadel, the Belvidere Cigar
Factory, Masonic Hall, 81 Bridge street.
Coombe & Carlhew, foundrymen and
machiuists, extend greetings to the public
and hearty desire that all may enjoy a
Merry Christmas and have plenty to do
during the coming year. This firm is do
ing steady business with new orders
constantly arriving. They are now better
prepared than ever before, to furnish cast
ings for all kinds OF machinery. Foundry,
Union and Mount Hope streets.
For Christmas presents 60 10 John d.
Cox, lT3 north Union street, the tobac-
conist, where you can get anything in the
way of Tobacco, Cigars, Pipes, &c. All
cigars his own manufacture.
Does your wheel need repairing Do
you need bicycle sundries of any descrip-
ton The safest and most reliable place
TO visit in such a case is No. 43 Elm
street, conducted by Morse & FIX, who
thoroughly understand their business.
They do repairing, cleaning, nickel plat
ing, enamelliug, sc. Are also agents for
the Ideal Tire Protector.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-23


Leave Lambertville for Manunka Chunk $50
1920 m. 1877. 5.g7 and 1925 p M Sunday, 1925 IA
For Phillipsburg and EastOn only 62s m week
days.
S54 p m week days 8 54 p m Sundays For Phil
lipsburg and Easton only, TOP p m.
Arrive at Phillipsburg Q 40 and 1922 a. M. 9i5,
sos 1856 and 9.s p. m sunday 9.si p. IN
Leave Phillipsburg TBS, 3 IS and II 81 10, $50.
6.04 and 50 m. Sunday, 50 pm.
Arrive Belvidere 1853, 1929 and l153 m, 327
G.32, 1902 IN. Sunday, 1902 NJ.
Arrive Manunka Chunk sos. 1880 ard 1859 IN
3Ss, 49, and lO.lopm- Sunday. 1910 p m.
Additional trains leave Befvidere for Manunka
Chunk 90 and $50 m, and 80 m. Sunday.
100 M Returning leave Mauunka hunk for
Belvidere s25. 104S m, 4.20, $40 and l0.l5 p.
Sunday, 1918 pm.
Freight or mixed trains leaving Manunka
Chunk at on NJ. Beividere 6l5 a m, Martins
Greek 6 .35 a IN. arriving Lehigh Junction SO m,
will carry passengers and make stops at flag sta
tions north of Phillipsburg.
Passengers for Broad Street Station, Philadel-
phia, by trains leaving Manunka Chunk 7.25 a nj
daily. and 1925. 5.2l p m weekdays and leaving
Phillipsburg SEQ a m daily, LOO and $50 III
weekdays go through without change at Tren-
ton. A through car for Manunka Chunk is at
tached to trains leaving Broad Street Station at
$50, 800 m, 1900 noon, and So. pm. BY all
other trains passengers to or from Broad Street
change cars at Trenton.
Connection Is made ut MapunkA CHUNK with
Delaware, Lackawanna g. Western Railroad; lie.
high junction with Lehigh Valley Lshigh Sus.
quehAnna Morris Essex, and New Jersey Contra
Railroads. AT Lambertville wlth Pennington Rat
road AtTrentOn with trains to and from Ne.
York, Camden. dc.
Foffurtber nformation see timetables, which
can be obtained atLhe ticket Offices
General Passenger Agent.
6. NJ. PROVOST,
General Manager