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The herald., 1897-08-18

with the Mississippi squadron In 1868
he entered the regular navy as an en-
sign and has been regularly promoted
He once commanded the naval station
at Puget sound. His retirement pro-
notes Lieutenant Commander Albert
Ross to be commander; Lieutenant j.
A. Norris to be lieutenant commander.
and Lieutenant Hart of the Junior grade
to be lieutenant, and Ensign Dural to be
lieutenant, Junior grade.
The herald., 1897-08-18
Star Route Service

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE post
office department has prepared adver-
tisements for contracts for all star and
steamboat mail service in all of the
states west of the Mississippi river ex
cept Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri
These contracts, embracing about 500
routes, will run for four years, begin
ming July l, 1S9S Bids will be opened
In the second assistant postmaster gen
erals office December 1st.
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Shot to Kill

THE DALLES, Or, Aug. III. N.
Prawl shot and mortally wounded Dan
iel Mallory, ex-city marshal of The
Dalles, this afternoon. The trouble arose
over a horserace which occurred in
Klickitat county two months ago. Thl
men INST today and Maloney struck
Prawl, who immediatel drew a revolver
and shot three times, hitting Maloney
once just below the heart Prawl i'm.
mediately gave himself up.
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Army Orders

WASHINGTON. Aug. 17-An order
has been issued by the navy department
retiring Commander ]. c. Morong on
August %, he having reached the age
limit of 81 years. Commander Morong
was volunteer naval officer and enter
ed the service April 1, 1868, when he was
made ensign and assigned to the duty
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Death of General Swain

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.-David G.
Swain, U. s. A., retired judge advoca te-
general. appointed by President Hayes
in 1878, died here today, aged CO, of
Bright's disease.
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Tailors Attacked

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1.-THE firm
of Rothschild & Schoerberg, dealers in
tailors' supplies, was attached, today by
]. e. Bien, who represents creditors
whose notes he holds to the extent of
$16.67O
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Stopped by Storm

COLORADO SPRINGS. Col. Aug. IL
An electric storm broke over the city al
D. m. and the horse show was post
poned until Friday.
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FOR Observation-Disclosures

FOR RENT-2 GOOD GROUND FLOOR
rooms. suitable for almost any kind of
business purpose; IS and $40; very CEN
trai; call and see. A B c PRESS. 12S 8
Broadway. 90
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WANTED SITUATI0NS-FEMALE

WANTED A SITUATION TO DO
chamber work or general housework in
small family. 927 W. Third st. IS
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Silver Shipments

NEW YORK Aug. 1.-THE steam
chip Paris, for Southampton tomorrow,
will take out $50. 900 ounces of silver.
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SPECIAL NOTICES

ALBERT P. WILSON & SON, THE MOST
competent jewelers.. opticians and watch
makers on the coast have opened up at
244 S. Broadway, and are prepared to do
work which IL rarely accomplished.
Therefore, ie your eyes I'll to see and
your timepieces fail to run, visit the
Wilson's. Their prices are lower than
anybody's for good " ork. tt
The herald., 1897-08-18
FOR ExCHANGE-REAL ESTATE

FOR EXCHANGE THE LITTLE
book, "Klondyke Nuggets" will be ex-
changed at The Herald office for 10 cents,
coin of the realm. or postage stamps. If
you live out of town, send 2 cents extra
to cover mailing. A new supply Of books
will be on hand in few days.
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LOST AND FOUND

NOTICE-THE FIRST SUPPLY OF
that popular little book, "Krondyke Mug
GETS has been exhausted, but another
lot has been ordered and will be here
in few days. Send in your names and
get them on the list First come, first
served.
LOST-A LADY'S DARK LEATHER
purse, containing money and bills; lost
between Pasadena and Los Angeles; SIS
reward, 210 Henne building. 10
LOST-A GOLD WATCH, SUNDAY
August 18th. Liberal reward. Return to
S. G. FOY, 315 N. Los Angeles ST., city. 10
LOST-GOLD-RIMM SPECTACLES,
between Fourth and Temple SITS. Finder
please return to H., box c. Herald. IS
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WANTED-AGENTS

insurance; salary and commission; eXpe-
r!ence not necessary. Apply room Q, 105
E. First st. S-27
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WANTED-T0 BUY LIVE STOCK

WANTED-CALvES AND FAT STOCK.
FRED HUGHES, Durham market. 1867
Temple st. 6-24tf
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WATCH MAKING

REMEMBER, YOU GET A GUARANTEE
worth something when you have you:
watch repaired by w. J. GETZ. 1886 South
broadway. II
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WANTED-MALEH HELP
HUMMELL BROS. & co.
% EMPLOYMENT AGENTS
California Bank Building,
S00-S02 w. Second street, in basement.
Telephone sos.
MEMS DEPARTMENT

MEMS DEPARTMENT
Fruit ranch hand, $40, ETC.; carpenter
solicitor; ranch hand, $40, ETC.. three men
to pile lumber. 81 and board: two men
to break rock. 1926 day; old man. chores,
$40, ETC.; butcher, slaughter, $S5, etc.;
family to cut fruit; German boy, ranch,
SO, etc.; blacksmith. 81. so, etc. mountain
teamster, haul wood, $1.50, ETC.; laborer,
German. $50, ETC.: seventy grape and
prune pickers. long job; eight practical
miners; married man, dairy $50, house,
etc.
MfJN'S HOTEL DEPARTMENT
Second cook. s35; ranch COX. $25; shop
baker, 50; second cook, $40, etc.; dish
washer $40.
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT
House girl, near city, 500; house girl,
Pomona. SIS, employer here: woman. light
housework, sl2; house girl Redondo
Beach, $40; house girl. Phoenix, Ariz.,
$40; house girl, two people, country, 500;
house girl, Santa Ana, $l6 employer here;
nurse, one child. $40. employer here.
WOMEN'S HOTEL DEPARTMENT
Cook. delicacy. IS week: hotel. country,
S25; waitress near Santa Barbara, $40:
mattresses, city, $3.50 and $40: pantry
girl s2O and room; three mattresses, hotel,
country, 500 each.
HUMMEL BROS. G. co
WANTED-ADVERTI TO KNOW
that they can telephone their classified
advertsements-want for sales, to
lets, etc.-to The Herald from any of
our sub-agencies. Might save trip up
town when you don't want to go and ten
cents car fare. See list of sub-agencies
at head of classified columns.
WANTED-TEACHE OF PENMAN-
ship and commercial branches. B., box
Harald
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TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

SEE ANNOUNCEMENT OF SPECIAL
Klondyke gold premiums for advertisers
in The Herald's classified columns.
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NoTICE-THE LOS ANGELES CITY
Water Co. will strictly enforce the fol-
lowing rules: The hours for sprinkling
are between the hours of and o'clock
a. m. and and o'clock p. m For vio-
lation of the above regulations the water
will be shu. Off and a fine of 81 will be
charged before the water will be turned
on again.
The herald., 1897-08-18

FOR RENT GOOD GROUND FLOOR
rooms, suitable for almost any kind of
business purpose; IS and $40; very cen
tral; call and see. A B c PRESS. 12S s.
Broadway. 22
The herald., 1897-08-18

FOR RENT-A GROOM HOUSE; LARGE
yard; rent, sl2, including water. 1856 South
Pearl. IL
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FREE CONCERT, AUG. 10, 20, p, AT
Paulks opera house. Washington st.,Sta-
tion D. Prof. G. Ramirez and other we'll
known artists will appear All are well
come. IL
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FOR RENT-FURNISHED ROOMS. 81
per week and up; 25 cts. per night SIG s..
Spring. S-23
The herald., 1897-08-18

FOR RENT-101s s. OLIVE ST.. 2-STORY
house; 9 rooms. bath. Apply room 1854
Wilcox building. corner Second and
Spring SITS. II
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FOR RENT-OR LEASE, 3-ROOM COT
tage: 6 lots with windmill; good water;
5OOO-gallon tank; 500 per year. T. SLAT-
Terry, Reed ST., near Vernon ave. 1922
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FOR RENT-2 GOOD GROUND FLOOR
rooms suitable for almost any kind OF
business purpose: IS and $40; very cen.
trail: call and see. A B c PRESS, 1928 s.
Broadway. %
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FOR RENT-ROOMS

FOR RENT-ADvERTISE AC-
cepted at any of The Herald SUBJ
agencies and telephoned TO the main Of
flee. 1t might be more conyenient to go
to your nearest drug store instead of
making trip uptown. Try the new
scheme.
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FOR EXCHANGE-IF YOU WANT TO
exchange city property for Orange coun-
ty homes, good ones. too or vice versa,
see FRED l.. SEXTON, 266 Wilson
block. 10
FOR EXCHANGE-R. Z. MUNCY HAS
removed his real estate office to the
Drexel, 1881 w. Third. Telephone brown
362 %
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FOR EXCHANGE-10-ACRE RANCH, 8
miles from ocean; close to postoffice,
church and school; 5-room cottage, barn.
plenty of water; nice home; worth s37OO;
want $500 property in Los Angeles.
FRED L. SEXTON, 2G6 Wilson block 10
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FOR RENT-FOUR NICE ROOMS, CON-
vcriently arranged with kitchen: plumb
ing connected with sewer; Sc. 12151a w.
Washington st. IS
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TIUMMEL BROS. g. co

WANTED-TEACHER OF PENMAN-
ship and commercial branches. B., box
SO, Herald. Is
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FOR RENT-THE KLONDYKE; SUNNY
furnished rooms. 1922 S. Spring ST. s-S
The herald., 1897-08-18

FOR RENT--2 OR FURNISHED ROOMS
complete for housekeeping; nice location; !;
gas and bath. 1131 S. Hill St. 20
The herald., 1897-08-18

FOR RENT-SUNNY ROOMS; Low
rates. At THE ALBERT, 453la S. Spring
st. 9-3
The herald., 1897-08-18

FOR RENT-3-ROOM COTTAGE, FUR
nished for housekeeping. sol E. Sixth st. 20
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FOR RENT-HOUSES

FOR RENT-ADVERTISE AC-
cepted at any of The Herald sub
agencies and telephoned to the main Of
flee. 1t might be more convenient to go
70 your nearest drug store instead of
making a trip uptown. Try the new
scheme,
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OFFICE OF R. e. MUNCY, REAL ES-
tate at the Drexel, corner of Main and
Third sts.; telephone brown 1862. %
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SPECIAL SALE-NO CHARGE FOR
borders with DC and TIC wall paper.
WALTER, 21S w. Sixth st. 2-12-9S
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BRYANT BROS, REAL ESTATE BRO
kers. have moved their office to 206ls S.
Broadway, room 20. 10
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FOR SALE-LIVE STOCK
FOR SALE-MISCELLANEOUS

FOR sALE-UNIFORM K. OF P. COAT;
cheap. Address N. box 81. Herald. 10
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classified ads on second page)
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-09
"Sundown Minister'S"

:. "Sundown ministers, by which I
mean preachers who are engaged in
departmental or other work during the
daytime and who preach evenings and
days when ON leave of Absence" ex-
planned a gentleman who attended
recent conference in Baltimore, ''get
little or no consideration in our relig-
ious conferences any more, and while
preachers do not like to talk out at
meetin', they have no hesitancy in
speaking plainly in private conyersa-
tion. Ministers have au honorable
profession. They spend years prepar-
ing themselves for their duties, have
no other occupations or employment,
and seek no other. There is but little
money in the ministry, after all, for
though few gifted or fortunate men
draw financial prizes by it, the great
body of them do not receive the wages
received by the average mechanic in
the large cities. 1t is not strange,
therefore, that they should not like
sundowners. They have no jealousy
toward workers in the vineyard who
feel they can give their talents to the
good work, What they object to is
that persons should compete with them
when they have other engagements un-
til after sundown. As a minister at
the conference said TO me, the sun
down preacher is neither fish, flesh,
fowl, nor even good red herring. -
Washington Star.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-09
How Flowers FascInate Insects.

Professor +. Plateau, of the Univer-
sity of Ghent, has for many years car
ried on q series of observations on the
mode on which insects are attracted to
flowers, the results of which are pub
lished in the bulletin of the Royal
Academy of Sciences of Belgium. His
conclusions are not in accord with
those of Darwin, that the bright color
of the corolla acts as a beacon to at
tract insects. He believes that they
are attracted chiefly by some other
sense than that of sight, probably that
of smell. In the case of the dahlia
(single) and other species of Compo-
site, the removal of the conspicuous
ray fiorets have but little effect on the
visits of insects; nor had the removal
of the conspicuous part of the corolla
in other flowers, as long as the nee
tary remained. On the other hand,
says Nature, the artificial placing of
honey on otherwise scentless flowers
resulted in their being Immediately
visited by numbers of insects. Where
the same species varies in the color of
the flower, as between blue and white,
or red and white, insects visit quite
indifferently flowers of different colors
belonging to the same species
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-09
HUMoR OF THE DAY.

There's Charley Skates in black. I
wonder if he is in mourning for his
sins" "No, l don't think they're all
dead yet. Truth.
Jinks-"Was his father a great
man?" Binks-"I guess so; he doesn't
seem to amount to much himself. -
New York Advertiser. -
Spykes-"Do you have any trouble
meeting your creditors?" Spokes-
''Not at all. find my trouble in dodg-
ing them. Detroit Free Press.
Freddy-"What is a bucket shop,
papaT Papa-"A bucket shop, my
son, is the business place of the broker
across the way. New York Adver-
tiser.
"Did you get your name cleared in
that investigations" asked the Alder
mans friend. ''No," was the gloomy
answer. "It is still mud, "-Philadei-
phia journal.
Blizzard Bill-'I have seen cyclones
out West that blew the bark off trees"
Texas That's nothing. 1 saw
one once that blew the bark off bull
dog. Truth.
To Reader" Tomorrow will be
Wednesday, Tomorrow isn't Wednes-
day, substantially for the same reason
that yesterday isn't Monday. Grasp
it?-Chicago Tribune.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch says
that there is no State in the Union in
which anybody but a funny writer
says "sah" for "sir" Yes, sub; that's
50, sub. Chicago Times Herald.
eat what age does q man really be-
gin to feel the weight of years?" "Usu-
ally on his twenty first birthday; and
it takes the sensation at least four or
five years to wear of. Cincinnati
Enquirer.
"And would you love me just as
much, count, if L were a poor girlP"
''How can you doubt me? 1 would
love you just as much as you would
me if you should find out that 1 wasn't
a count. Standard.
An Unconscious Explanation: First
Chappie-'I wonder now, Charlie,
how the donkey ever came to be used
as the-er, emblem of stupidityP"
Second Chappie with yawn)-"Don't
know, I'm sure, deah boy; it must
have been before our day. Brooklyn
Life.
"What would our wives say, if they
knew where we are?" said the captain
Of Liverpool clipper, feeling his way
along the banks of Newfoundland in a
thick fog. 81 wouldn't mind what they
said, rejoined the mate, "if we only
knew where we are ourselves. -
Household Words.
Philadelphia MAXWELL, you can
make all the fun you want to of our
slowness, but know one country chap
who came here and made $500, 900 in
three months" New Yorker-.'Is
that SO? How did he make it?" Phila-
delphian-"Got a job in the mint. -
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Slurs of the Ignorant" There are
entirely too many offices, said a pri-
vate citizen. "How you fellows do
like to hear yourselves kick, said the
oiilceholder, with much warmth "Too
many offices! And here l am so over
crowded with work that have to give
up two good hours every day from my
business to attend TO my job. Gin
cinnati Inquirer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-09

What is known as the Compass plant,
Pilot weed, and Polas plant in differ
ent localities, is quite curious, and in
former days, when there were no rail
roads, was of great value in guiding
travellers. The leaves invariably point
north and south. Mungo Park has
immortalized it as he says he was
guided by it, when otherwise his way
would have been lost and he would
have perished on the dry plains. The
peculiar faculty of thus pointing to the
north and south attempted TO be ex-
planned by the fact that both surfaces
of the leaves display equal suscepti-
bility to light whereas the upper sur
face of the leaves of plants, in general,
is more sensitive to light than the
lower; hence the vertical position of
the Compass plant, as unerring as the
mariners compass. Professor Asa says
of it "on the wide open prairies the
leaves are said to present their faces
uniformly with the north or south. -
American Gardening.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-09
MIN He Thought Them a Fake.

Carson City, New, has had to fall
back on its "giaut footprints" in
neighboring quarry as its star attrac-
tion. A gang of cOnvicts has been set
to work at hewing steps and paths lead
ing to the footprints" in the solid rock
of the quarry. Among other things a
tunnel has been dug, showing where
the footprints" disappear into the
mountain. This tunnel is about as
high as man. Arecent visitor brought
grief to the unfortunate convicts who
had to 'overhear the following shrewd
deductions: "Pshaw, / thought it was
a fake before, but this proves it, You
say them feetsteps are of a beast forty
one feet high, do you? Well, if that's
so, you just tell me how the critter
managed to walk into tunnel which
bumps my head to stand erect in?" 1t
is said that when the convicts heard
this, several of them went over to the
other side and wept bitterly, and the
guards did not reprimand them for it..
New York Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-09

A story was recently started by the
newspapers, relates the Trenton IN,
J.) American, to the effect that Mrs.
Cleveland had melted the spoons in the
White House which had been used by
Dolly Madison and had had the silver
made into prettier spoons. The story
was a circumstantial one, going ON at
much length to state that the silver
smith had offered their weight in gold
for the spoons, but that Mrs. Cleve-
land rejected the offer, sent the spoons
TO the mint, had them melted into in
gots, and then required an affidavit of
the silversmith that the same silver was
put into the new spoons. 1t is scarcely
necessary to say that the story was
made out of the whole cloth. 1t was
promptly denied at the White House,
and the declaration was made that the
Dolly Madison spoons are still there.
The denial has not kept pace, however,
with the original story, which is still
going the rounds of the press.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-09

Official news has reached London to
the effect that the Chilean Government
is about to offer State bounty of
1926, 900 to any foreign country or firm
which will undertake to establish an
iron foundry in that country on q suffi-
ciently large scale. The action of the
Government in this matter has been
prompted, it is said, by the increasing
evidences in that country of the exist
Snce of iron ore in large quantities.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-09

A writer in Public Opinion observes.
'Hrhe French and Germans have fire.
quently made much fuss about alleged
trichina in our pork, and pretended
that other of our exports, that they
wanted an excuse for excluding, were
adulterated; and all the time the peo-
pie of those nations have sent over
here liquid poison, in the shape of
vines, brandies, beer, ale, etc, and
their confections have been notorious
for containing deleterious ingredients.
Both the German and French wines
aud food articles-candies, etc.-are
shamelessly adulterated, and often
with materials that are dangerous to
health. Not six months ago the
chemists of the British Board of Trade
tested long list of German, French,
American and British food and drink
materials. The revelations were de-
eidedly favorable to the American ar
tieles, and much to the discredit of
German and French honesty. Several
of the German food articles were
found mixed with stuff dangerous to
health, and all the French and German
wines were discovered to be about as
bad as bad could be.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-09

Ignatius Donnelly says the great
floods are caused by sun spots. Why
the sun spots, which must exercise an
equal influence on the entire circuit of
the globe every twenty-four hours,
should cause the Mississippi to burst
its banks and leave the Rhine, Danube
or Volga practically undisturbed, may
not be very clear. But since Mr..
Donnelly has said it, it is evident the
planting forests or building levees on
a broader plan is of no use. The only
way to cure the foods, suggests the
New Orleans Picayune, is to knock the
spots of the sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-09
An IdeaI CltiLen.

The ideal citizen is the man who
believes that all men are brothers, and
that the nation is merely an extension
of his family, to be loved, respected,
and cared for accordingly. Such Il
man attends personally to all civic du-
ties with which he deems himself
charged Those which are within his
own control he would no more trust to
his interiors than he would leave the
lucation of his children to kitchen
servants. The public demands upon
his time, thought, and money, come
upon him suddenly, aud often they find
him ill-prepared; but he nerves himself
to the inevitable, knowing that in the
village, State and Nation, any mistake
or neglect upon his part must impose
a penalty, sooner or later, upon those
whom he loves. John Habberton.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-09
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Germany Las now electric lights in
over 1000 postal cars, and Austria is
about to adopt the same system.
Among 1918 children in the Weis-
baden schools it has been found that
only three per cent. had sound teeth,
The falling waters of Kern River
have been made to furnish the electric
power for the town Of Bakersfield,
Cal.
The Japanese Government has voted
12,S00,0 600 silver dollars for improve
ments and extensions in the telephone
service
The grand total of the hydraulic
power at Niagara Falls secured through
electrical appliances is over 10000
horse power.
1t has been estimated that an oak of
average size, during the five months it
is in leaf every year, sucks from the
earth about 1913 tons of water.
In new invention for making ve-
hicle wheels, they are formed from
sheet metal by stamping, pressing or
cutting out, and are secured to the
axle by bolts, bosses and collars.
Herr Cuffey, German expert, sent
to Bombay by the Emperor William,
has arranged for an animal hospital for
the purpose of studying the plague
poison. He intends making extensive
experiments.
Barrels, casks, pals, ETC., are made in
Germany by molding wood-pulp in the
desired shape, subjecting it to heat in
the form of hot air or water, steam or
other vapor, and compressing it by hy-
draulic pressure.
Paris and Madrid will soon be con-
nected by telephone, the construction
of line from Paris to Bayonne having
recently been determined upon. As
Madrid is already connected with San
Sebastian, it will be only necessary
then to join that place with Biarritz.
Professor Forbes, the eminent cleo
trician, whose appointment by the
Egyptian government to report on the
possibilities of utilizing the Nile catar-
acts for the generation of electricity
was noted in this column some weeks
ago, has returned to Cairo and expressed
himself as strongly in favor of the pro-
ject.
Following up the researches of two
German physicists, who were recently
led to conclude that three lines of oxy-
gen in the solar spectrum were not at
mospheric, Lewis Jewell considers that
he has proven conclusively that the
lines are produced by water vapor in
the earth's atmosphere, aud that,
therefore, the spectroscope does not
indicate oxygen in the sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-09
A woodchuck That climbs Trees,

"Jack" Dodge, of Lanesboro, Penn,
was sitting in his doorway when he
saw big woodchuck stealing along a
knoll across the creek, not more than
hundred rods away. The wood
chuck stopped at the foot of the tree,
inspected it for a moment, and then
climbed it with the ease of a squirrel,
but going up as a bear climbs a tree.
The animal did not remain long in the
tree and came down, letting itself
down backward. 1t then went up an
other tree, where it could be seen nip
ping of the sprigs of the pine tree.
After eying the unusual sight for some
time Dodge took his rifle and picked
the woodchuek from his perch. The
animal weighed twenty pounds.