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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-10-22

Clan plaids are popular, and almost
every stylish young woman has one or
more waists made from these extreme
ly serviceable and reliable materials.
Made in good quality, any one of tho
genuine tartans is well worth the mon.
CIV one puts into it.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-10-22
Idle Mine To BE Worked Again.

Bellefonte, Pa, Oct. 20.-Rogers,
Brown e. Co. of Cincinnati have. leased
the entire plant, furnace and ore mines
Of the Valentine Iron company, and will
prepare for resumption Of the works
on Nov. l.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-10-22
Two Views.

First Man Ga bibulous party)-There's
/. lot of body in this wine.
Second Man-Yes, and I'm beginning
10 think there's lot of wine in this
body Tit Bits.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-10-22

Those unhappy persons who suffer from
nervousness and dyspepsia should use
Carriers Little Nerve Pills, make expressly
for this class.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-10-22
SLEEPING AND PARLoR CAR SERVICE

SLEEPING AND PARLOR CAR SERVICE.
wEsTBoUND.
1902 a. m. train has Parlor car to Grand Rap
ids. Extra charge 25 cents.
7:17 p. m. train has Parlor car to Graz Hav-
en-. Extra charge, rs cents. Conrects with
steamer for Milwaukee.
EAsTBoUND.
900 a. m. train has Parlor car to Detroit. Elk
ira charge rs cents. Pullman Parlor car. De.
troit to Toronto, connecting with Sleeper for
the east and New York. Connects with G. n
G.. Il. division at Durand for Chicago and PIT.
Huron and with c., s. & M. division for Saginaw
and Bay City.
600 p. m. train has Paror car TO Detroit. Elk.
TIA charge 25 cents and Pullman Sleeping car
Detroit to Toronto Suspension Bridge, Buffalo,
Philadelphia and New York Connects at Du-
rand with O., ). and M div. for Saginaw and
Bay City and with O. & G. T. for TT Huron and
Battle Creek.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02

Harry NJ. Church, of New Bedford,
Mass, who last October shot the larg-
est bull moose ever seen in New
Brunswick, has just received word that
the Provincial Government at Fred
erickton has confscated the moose's
head and placed it in one of the public
buildings at Fredericton, says the
Boston Herald.
Mr.. Church left the head to be
dressed when he returned home, but
found afterward that the man he left it
with had endeavored to steal it from
him. He secured legal advice and
made a strong fight to secure the head.
Finally the attention of the Govern
ment was called to the matter, and, it
being the finest specimen ever shot in
New Brunswick, the antlers spreading
out over five feet and having twenty
prongs, the head was confscated on
the ground that the animal was illegal
ly shot, and it was thus prevented
from leaving the Provinces. The
moose weighed 1000 pounds.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02
This Dog Carries an Umbrella.

A New Orleans correspondent of the
Philadelphia Times writes: On a
quiet little thoroughfare letting off of
ST. Charles avenue, there might have
been seen during the heavy rain yes
terdaY afternoon IA big shaggy New
foundland dog carrying spread UNI
brella in his mouth, his dripping tail
sticking out from under and wagging
complacently.
Investigation revealed the fact that
there was little girl under the um-
brella with the dog, her tiny arm
arm thrown around his neck, and the
two tripping along most amicably,
my name is Marie" said the little
maid upon being questioned, "and
this is Beauregard, my very own dog.
Yes, Beaury goes to school with me.
1 go to the kindergarten, you know,
and he always carries the umbrella if
it's raining, because 1 cant, you see,
and he can" And the big umbrella
sheltering the two friends passed on.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02

Many of the Russian farmers west of
town are complaining about jack rab-
bits falling down their chimneys and
frequently lodging therein, stopping
the passage of the smoke. Their pea
santlike houses-which are all pro-
vided with large freplaces and pro-
portionately large chimneys--are most
iy low aud covered with the "beauti-
full" The chimneys, of course, have
to be kept clear of snow. After it has
been shoveled away several times, a
large funnel-shaped cone remains, the
walls of which are rendered icy by the
alternate influence Of the fire below
and the cold above. Any wild an
imal prowling around ON a bitter
cold night, upon nearing one of these
smoke cones and feeling the warmth
would naturally seek closer proximity
thereto, whereupon its ventures would
invariably result in a slide, Mr.. An
imal landing in the fire box below
Kuhn IN. d. Wind.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Munich, Bavaria, reports bottled
liquefied air.


Munich, Bavaria, reports bottled
liquefied air.
Some comets have more than one
tail. The great comet of 1744 had six
tails spread fan shape.
Two French biologists find evidence
that fasting lessons the effect of diph-
iberia and other microbial poisons.
The largest mammoth found in the
Siberian ice fields measured seventeen
feet in length and was ten feet high.
Electricity has been adopted as the
motive power of the machinery con-
nected with the drainage system in
New Orleans.
To guard against disease the Legis-
lature of New Hampshire passed law
providing for the inspection of all ice
sold within the State.
The eye of the vulture is so con-
structed that it is a high-power tele-
scope, enabling the bird to see objects
at an almost incredible distance.
A nugget of platinum, weighing
nearly two pounds, is on exhibition in
New York. This is believed to be the
largest nugget ever discovered, the
metel being usually found in very
small grains.
A company has been formed which
made ON offer to the municipality of
st. Petersburg, Russia, to light all the
streets of the city with electric lights
for the same price that is now paid for
the very unsatisfactory lighting with
oil lamps.
Charles Burckhalter, the astronomer
of the. Chabot Observatory, of Cali
fornia, will travel halfway around the
world so that for two minutes, in far
off India, he may endeavor to photo
graph the sun during solar eclipse OF
next January.
True mama is said to be found on
the blades of blue grass growing in
Queensland Nearly three parts of it
consist of mannite, which, though
sweet, is not sugar. Masses as large
as marbles appear on the nodes of the
stems The manna-bearing grass is
not only indigenous to Australia, but
is found in tropical Asia and Africa.
Telegraph and telephone poles are
the latest development in the line of
manufactures from paper. They are
made of pulp in which small amount
of borax, tallow, aud other Ingredients
are mixed. These are cast in mold
in the form of hollow rod of the de-
sired length. The poles are claimed
to be lighter and stronger than wood,
and it is said that the weather does
not affect them.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02
RAISING A BIG BELL.
1t Weighs Ninety y-Eight Tons and Is Over
Twelve Feet High.

1t Weighs Ninety Eight Tons and is Over
Twelve Feet High.
For some time past there has been a
sort of dead-heat between the two big
gest bells in the world, the one at the
Cathedral in Moscow, aud the other at
the unfinished pagoda of Mengoon,
India, north of Mandalay across the
river. If the former was the bigger of
the two, it was cracked, and therefore
useless as bell, while the latter,
though whole, has dragged its sup
ports down till it rested on the ground,
and would not emit any sound. Now,
however, it has been reswung, aud can
claim attention as the biggest bell, in
working order, in the world, says Lon
don Sketch.
In 1896 the Burmese community
decided to have the bell raised, and
employed the Irrawaddy Flotilla Com
pany, Limited, to do the work. The
rim of the bell was first supported by
huge baulks of timber wedged in all
round, and tripod erected over it to
fasten the shackle to and keep it up
right. - The. old supports having been
knocked away, two large iron columns,
twenty five feet high, cast by the IRA
waddy Company, were erected, with
concrete foundations. A large steel
cross-girder, with a distributing girder
on the top of it, was then passed
through the shackle, and the bell was
raised by screwjacks all round and
wedges of timber, until the cross
girder could be placed on the pillars
and riveted in position. The screw
jacks were then eased and the bell left
swinging, with its lower rim about two
feet ten inches from the ground The
weight is about ninety-eight tons, the
circumference at the base being 51I
feet, and at the top twenty-six feet.
1t averages over foot in thickness.
The bell itself is over twelve feet high,
and the shackle, which was intended
for logs of timber, about twelve feet.
The pin in the shackle has a diameter
of sixteen inches. The bell was cast
about the beginning of the century by
King Bodaw-paya as an accompani-
ment to the huge brick pagoda which
he never finished. 1t is said to have
been cast on an island and RATED across.
No proper means yet exist for striking
the bell, but when hit with a heavy
piece of wood it gives out a deep
vibrating boom.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02

A newspaper artist has been telling
some of the woes of the men who make
pictures for the daily papers. He says:
1t makes me tired sometimes when 1
hear some smart Aleck who couldn't
tell the difference between art and a
side of sole leather criticise newspaper
illustrations. The public doesn't un-
derstand what handicaps are continu-
ally thrown about our work. A few
days before election was given in
structions to make portrait of one
of the candidates. He gave me an old
daguerreotype, made just after the
war, aud said he had had no photo
graph taken since then. Well, made
his picture all right, but in order to
do il 1 first had to cut off full beard
and curl his moustache. Then l gave
him hair cut, parted his hair on tho
other side, gave him a stand-up collar
aud a modern cravat, and added thirty
wears worth of wrinkles to his face.
And yet they say such work isn't art. -
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02
derivation of the Names Of the Days.

Sunday is so called, because it was
auciently dedicated to the worship of
the sun. Monday means literally the
day of the moon. Tuesday was dedi-
Gated to Tuisco, the Mars of our Saxon
ancestors, the deity that presided over
combats, strifes aud litigation. Hence
in England Tuesday isA ASsize day; the
day for combat, or commencing litiga-
tion, In this country it is generally
the day selected for the opening of
court terms or sessions. Wednesday
is so called from Wodin, or Odin, a
deity or chief among the northern
nations of Europe. ThISsday was
named by the Saxons from Thor, the
old Teutonic god of thunder. Friday
is from Frea or Friga, goddess of the
old Saxon mythology. Saturday means
simply Saturn's day, the name being
derived from the deity of that name.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02

Those interested in new industries
may be glad to hear that it is possible
to manufacture good soaps from sun.
flower seeds Sunhowers grow easily,
and need little attention A company
has been organized in the United
States to manufacture this sort of soap.
1t is claimed that the average yield Of
plants to the acre is $500 pounds gross;
percentage of oil is one-third the
weight of the seeds, so that 900 pounds
of seed will make 200 pounds of oil.
The latter, when refined and ready to
use in making soap, is worth about
81 a pound, aud is said to make the
finest of toilet soaps. The net profit
of the sunhowers to the grower is put
at Sll an acre.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02
Episodes Of the Flood.

When John Andrews, a farmer liv-
ing on Island No. 8, in the lower Ten
nessee, woke up one morning during
the recent high-water experience he
found good-sized house stranded in
one of his fields. Like other struct-
ures carried away by the food, it had
fioated down stream from some point
above to find lodgment in the shadows.
The wanderer was large two-story
log house, sealed and plastered and
filled with furniture.
One of the results of the food in the
west end of East st. Louis brought
about novel funeral procession. Will
lam Lorman, a plasterer, died. The
street was flooded and neither car
riages nor hearse could get near the
house. The street-car company was
appealed to and responded with two
trolley cars. One was used for q
hearse and the other was utilized by
the mourners. The journey to the
gates of the cemetery was made in this
manner
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02
HuMoR OF THE DAY,

Bobby-"Pa, what is an heir-at-
law?" Pa-"Usually the lawyer,
by."-Judge.
81 can't see why they speak of the
wisdom of the serpent. " ''Well, you
never heard Of serpent getting its leg
pulled, did u?"-Truth.
Gosling-"NIiss Oldstyle seems to
be very strong on literature. Miss
Giddy-"Yes, poor thing; that's all
that is left to her!'-Truth.
"My husband is a great lover of the
beautiful" " "Indeed he is. should
think that you would almost feel iea-
lous sometimes. Detroit Journal.
JIMMY heard Tommy Jones was
i'll nearly all the holidays. " Johnny
Yes, and what's worse, he got we'll
just in time to go to school. Boston
Traveller.
Mrs. Hashcroft-"Is there too much
seasoning in the turkey, Mr.. Billings?"
Billings-"No; 1 should say there is
too little turkey in the seasoning. -
Indianapolis Journal.
Freshman-'I would like to get
shaved, sir-close, sir. " Barber
Exactly, sir; there is nothing better
for the scalp than that, if you don't
mind the looks. Judge.
Frances-"Yes, he is pursuing
literature. Gertrude Indeed. And
is he very successful" Frances
''No. 1t is still long way ahead of
him. ."-Cleveland Leader.
Teacher-"Tomm if you gave your
little brother nine sticks of candy and
then took away seven, what would that
make?" Tommy-"It would make
him yell. ."-Harper's Bazaar
''How could you have the nerve
after hearing her-to tell her that she
sang divinely?" "Why, my dear fell
low, woman who would sing like that
could be told anything?"-Puck.
The Boarding Mistress-"And she
moved away owing you for three weeks
meat?" The Fat Boy-"Yes'm It
wasn't so much, mum. She kept a
boardin' house, you know. Puck.
"Willie Washington" said the
friend, sis one of those people who
tell everything they know" eyes,
replied Miss Cayenne YEARLY, "and
he doesn't talk very much, either. -
Washington Star.
First Cabman-'I axed him tree
dollars, but he said he had only two;
an, anyhow, he said de legal fare was
only one" Second Qabman-"Well,
1 s'pose you took de two dollars an ac-
cepted de apology, Puck.
Tramp desperately, to reporter)-
eff yer don't give me some money,
guv'nor, I'll commit suicide before yer
very eyes. Reporter eagerly CT
wish you would my good fellow;
copy" is awfully scarcel"-Standard.
Waggish Friend-"Where did you
get that" Spriggins (gasping).
'Eh! Wha-" "That hat?" "Ohl
Hat? OF comse Bought it around
the corner, 1 was afraid You were go
ing to ask me where 1 got this UNI
brella. New York Weekly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02

silence was only broken by q faint
trickling sound. Tricklingl Yes; 1
put my hand to the level. and found
half an inch of water-and hotter and
sitting grew the atmosphere. Pray
ing hard to myself, / realized now that,
should no help come, only few hours
could live betwixt us aud the end.
And then-old Jim might go first, and
should be left Nay, I was already
practically alone; the fear that was
slowly whitening my hair had turned
old Jim's brain.
"He suddenly sent up q peal of
delirious laughter. 'Waterl Who
says water? Why, mates, I'm swim
ming in it! Here a go!'
Presently he began creeping round
to find me. L could hear him coming,
by his labored respiration, and the
swishiug of the ooze as he moved
Round and round the space we went
stealthily, until at last he made cum
ming rush and caught me by the ankle
Got him! He yelled it with glee
that was unmistakable.
''More words could never convey
the sensation of that moment. Half
suffocated, past all ordinary fear, /
closed with my poor old mate, and we
went staggered to and fro across our
prison, until at last I managed to throw
him so that his head struck heavily
against the wall. After that he lay
quite still. / believed at the time that
l had killed him, but we knew after.
ward that it was that blow which pre-.
served his reason.
"The rest can be told in few words.
After that / lay there like one in q
dream, while the pestilential air slowly
did its work. Sometimes l fancied ]
could feel cool breezes blowing down
on me, and at others heard some one
telling me to wake up, for that the
whistle had sounded at the pits. How
long 1 lay so, can only conjecture. ]
really knew nothing more until 1 wa:
reused by the sound of that coal bar.
rier crashing down before the picks
and spades of a dozen rescuers, and
the hubbub from q dozen throats Of
they broke into our tomb.
"Only just in time Old Jim's face
Nbo OiiiJ Juob OuN Va tiiS hlN
they said that no human being could
have lived in that atmosphere for an
other two hours. And young Jim?-
well, there was just enough life left il
him to last three days.
"Till the end of that third day,
kept to my bed; and then they sent tC
say that he was going, but that he
wished TO see me first Preached the
house just in time to catch his last
whisper.
=" 'You-you'll take her, mattel Marry
her-no one elsel Only--only, you'll
let my ring stay there. Promise--me
that
"What could I do but promise?
had no thought then of marrying hii
sweetheart-but it was his dying wish
and for years Jim and 1 had been like
brothers.
"Just a year later I asked her i
there was room in her heart for me
and--and--well, that's enough. Nov
you know why my wife wears two wed
ding rings. "--Tit-Bits.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02

Illinois women are making strong
effort to lift the compulsory education
law of their State into activity. At
present the law only remains that
every child shall attend school for six
teen weeks each year. Children easily
evade it by an irregular attendance
during the last term of school. When
the school has closed it becomes diff
cult to determine whether or not they
have had the prescribed amount of
tuition. Actually, although there is a
penalty for infraction of the law, and
although infraetion is frequent, the
penalty has never been imposed 1t
is believed that simple amendment
requiring the sixteen weeks of tuition
TO be consecutive aud at the begin
ming of the term, and providing for the
enforcement of the law, will be suffi-
eient.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02
RAJ knnInr rheIr Fnd.

The newest fad in Scott County,
Indiana, is rat killings" The vicinity
has lately been invaded by hordes OF
rats, which are doing much damage.
When killing is arranged all the
men and robust boys in the neighbor-
hood are invited and, armed with
clubs and accompanied by dogs, they
begin a systematic cleaning out Of
barns, haystacks aud corn cribs. The
rats are very fierce, and several men
have been severely bitten by them, but
the work goes ON nevertheless, and the
average mortality of rodents at a kill-
inn is about 300. Detroit Free Press.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02

"Did you speak to my father?' said
Miss Gushley.
eyes, " replied the young man with
embarrassment,
"You told him that despite your
humble fortune, we wished to marry?"
"Yes-or something to that pur-
pose"
"And what did he reply2 That !
was too young?"
"No, not exactly. He said that
was old enough to have more sense, u
Washington Star
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02

One of the new dictionaries has in il
a pretty big and yet perhaps a useable
word, 'politicalization," of which it
seems to be itself somewhat in doubt,
although it half-supports it with a
quotation from the Brooklyn Eagle,
which coined the phrase. The Eagle.
it seems, once referred to ''the steady
politicalization of the public schools, /"
by which it meant the subsection of
these schools to political control.
Whatever we may think of the word,
comments the New York Observer, the
danger indicated is certainly a real
ona
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02

"Ah," said Sherlock Holmes, sitting
down on the corner of the editors desk,
81 see you have just received a story
from young woman in a lawyers
office"
"How can you tell?" asked the edi-
tor. "Can you recognize the type
writing?"
'No. Don't you see the strihg is
tied in a regulation true love knot?
That is the young woman end of 1t.
And instead of ribbon she has used
red tape. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02

Mothers, too. with the snowy skin,
By-lo, by-lo, tenderly sing,
And tell the dustman coming in,
Into the baby's eyes to fling
Atoms Of dust to make him wink,
And into dreamland gently sink
We-wa, we-wa, by-lo, by-lo,
Le-ro-la, le-ro-la. ever the same
Ever the tune Of the long agol
Out Of the motherly heart IL came,
Born Of sense that mothers know,
Rocking the baby to and fro.
White or black or bronze the hue,
Always the same sweet tune is heard.
The sweetest song earth ever knew,
Happy as trill of the Nesting bird.
Mothers content In the twilight glow
Are rocking their babies to and fro.
Mothers, out OF the mother-heart,
Fashion song both sweet and Low
Always the same, dear mother art,
Rocking the baby to and fro.
Always lazy, loving crone,
Hummed in dreamy undertone.
The Home Queen.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02

For the first time in twenty eight
years the State of Ohio is without
Democratic representation in the
United States Senate. The long period
Of divided representation began in
1869, with the election of Allen G.
Thurman as the colleague of John
Sherman. Once only has the rule Of
divided representation been broken,
and that was in the Forty-sixth Con-
gross, when George H. Pendleton was
the colleague of Senator Thurman.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02

A curious illustration of the diverse
conditions that may exist in this coun-
try is the fact that while so many
people in the Mississippi Valley are
suffering from foods the New Orleans
papers are raising money for sufferers
from the drouth in Louisiana.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02

Promotions are coming rapidly these
days in the upper official circles of the
regular army. What few veterans of
the Civil War are left find the age of
retirement close at hand in the young
est cases. ''The army will soon be
in the hands of officers trained only in
the walks of peace" observes the New
Orleans Picayune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-02
LlFE'S JOURNEY.

He went to seek his fortune
With light and joyous tread,
And all his bag and baggage
Was just n crust OF bread
SO proud and Independent.
That youth upon that day,
So brightly beamed the future,
He threw the crust away.
Years afterward a pilgrim
without sack OF load,
But with a stick to lean on,
Came hobbling down the road. \
1t was the youth you wot Of,
Now humbled, bowed and bust"
And be had journeyed homeward
To try and find that crust.
l. l.. Parks, in Truth