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Daily globe., 1879-03-20
BsI7ns0h.
ORIGIN OF RECENT TROuRI.Es

URIGIN' OF REGENT TROUBLES.
CALCUTTA, March 19.-The origin Of the
trouble between the Burmese and the British
residents at Mondelay is that the latter protect
and refuse to deliver up to slaughter two royal
princes and their families who have taken
refuge at.the residenoy. The king of Burmah,
who is said to be mad with drink, urged by
fanatics and the reactionary party, threatens to
force the residency. Such hostile measure
on the part of the government, it is believed
would be the signal for general massacre of
citizens.
KINGS PROMISES.
LAHORE, March ia British resident at
Mondelay has received assurances from the
king of Burmah respecting the maintenance of
tranquility.
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DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN.

OFFICE OF OBSERVATION. SIGNAL CORPS, q. q. A.
INGERsoLL BLOCK, THIRD STREET.
ST.. PAUL, MINI.
Observations taken at the same moment of
time at all stations
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Szegedi,,.

LIFE AND PROPERTY LOSSES
szEaEDN, March 19.-Eighty 1.-TWO hundred
out of 10000 houses have fallen and ], 800 per-
sons are drowned. The waters are subsidinp
and the adjacent towns are out of danger.
PEsTH, March l9-One hundred and twenty
thousand persons were rendered homeless by
the flood.
AGAIN IN DANGER.
PEsrH, March 19.-Szenetz is again in great
danger from food on account of high wind.
Two hundred and sixty-seven more corpses
have been recovered at Szegedin.
PARIS. March ia st. Petersburg dispatch
reports that eight officers of the imperial guard
have been arrested as nihilists.
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4MStri0,
EXPENSES.

VIENNA, March l9.-The government has
asked the reichsrath to authorize the issue of
l0o, 600 forms, gold rentes, to meet the re-
quirements of the current year.
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England.
AMERICAN CATTLE.

AMERICAN CATTLE.
LONDON, March l9.-An English company is
about to start at Flushing, Holland, for the inn
portation of American meat, alive and dead, for
the German market.
COMPROMISE.
Manchester mill masters have agreed to COM
promise on per cent. the proposed reduction
of wages, on the ground of the recent abolition
of Indian import duties.
ORDERED TO HIS POST.
LONDON, March 19.-Sir Austin Lsyard has
been directed to resume his duties as British
ambassador at Constantinople the first of May.
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Private Signal Corps, o.
TO-DAY.

WASHINGTON, March 70, A. M.-Indications
for the upper lake region: Partly cloudy
weather with rain or snow areas, westerly
winds, generally shifting to northeast and
northwest, and in south portions lower pressure
with higher temperature. For the upper Mis-
slssippl and lower Missouri valleys: Cloudy
weather, with snow or rain; warm westerly
WINDS lacking to colder northwesterly, fol-
lowed lowed by clearing weather and higher barome-
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Decision Ordering the Probate of Wander
bilta Will.

NEW YORK, March 19.-Surrogate Colvin in
concluding very lengthy decision in the
Commodore Vanderbilt will case. says: II am
of opinion that the probate of the will and
codlcli should in all things be confirmed. Let
settlement and signature on two DAYS notice. !"
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DAILY LOCAL MEANS.
Bar. Their. Rel. Hum. Wind. Weather.
30.O71 22.O $50 ". ''ei' FAR
Amount OF rainfall or melted snow, o; max-
imum thermometer, 81; minimum thermome-
ter, 8.
W. B. GREENE,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31
The Queen of All.

Honor the dear old mother. Time has
scattered the snowy flakes on her brow,
plowed deep furrows on her cheek, but
is she not sweet and beautiful now? The
lips are thin and shrunken, but those are
the lips which have kissed many n hot
tear from the childish cheeks, and they
are the sweetest lips in all tie world.
The eye is dim, yet it glows with the
soft radiance of holy love which can
never fade. All, yet, she is a dear old
mother. The sands of life are nearly run
out, but feeble as she is, will go further
and reach down lower for you than any
other upon earth. You cannot walk into
a midnight where she cannot see you
You cannot enter prison whose bars
will keep her out you can never mount
n scaffold too high for her to reach that
she may kiss and bless you in evidence
of her deathless love. When the world
shall despise and forsake you, when it
leaves you by the wayside to die un-
noticed, the dear old mother will gather
you in her feeble arms and carry you
home and tell you of all your virtues un-
til you almost forget that your soul is
dis6gured by vice. Love her tenderly,
and cheer her declining years with holy
devotion. n.-EGchangs.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31
Wrapping Food i'm Paper.

1t is matter of daily experience on
the part of every one who purchases
such common necessities of life rs butter,
bacon, cheese, sausages, ETC., that these
goods are almost invariably wrapped up
in printed or manuscript paper. Per-
haps we might also say that provisions
for picnics and other hampers are slowed
away in similar coverings, and it will,
therefore. not be amiss if we call atten-
ton to the fact that danger has been dis
covered to lurk in these newspaper
wrappings.
In the ease of printed paper, the char
acters have often been transferred to the
cheese or butter, and either they are cut
away by the observant cook, or they are
unnoticed, and in due course become as
simulated in the process of satisfying
hunger. 1t is supposed that the ink or
the paper itself may possibly by some
chance contain something deleteriOus.
But written paper is even more likely to
be hurtful, inasmuch us in writing the
paper has been in close contact with the
hand, which not improbably may be
giving olf perspiratiOn, that may enter
the pores of the paper and may there
ferment, not with advantage to health
in the event of any portion of the manus-
cript being allowed to accompany the
food down unsuspecting threats.
This subject has called forth some
correspondence in German papers, and
though we would not attach absurd i'm
portance to it, it may still be said that
clean unused paper is so cheap that
retail dealers have small excuse for
using either printed or written matter
for wrapping up their commodities
Exchange.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31
The Giant Cactl Of Ariz0ni.

A writer in the Philadelphia Times,
describing q trip through Arizona, says:
We soon entered the land of giant
cacti. l was never more surprised than
Mt seeing the wonderful development of
this plant in this region. am satisfied
that nowhere in the world is such size
attained. The species called Swatara
grows to the enormous height of sixty
feet, and measures six feet in diameter.
There are tens of thousands of this
species. Most oftllem will measure from
eight inches to two feet in diameter and
reach a height of twenty to thirty feet.
Some have no limbs, and resemble II
high post; Others have from one to three
arms. They seem to stand on the top of
the sand, with scarcely any root. and
the atmosphere. They are capped with a
beautiful flower. and later with fruit. Tha
Indians remove the fruit with II long
spiked pole, and use it in large quanti-
ties. The center of this cactus is pierced
with hard, tough rod, which supports
it in times of storm. So firm is this sup
port that one is seldom found broken or
blown to the earth. When in state of
decay you can extract the centre, which
resembles more than anything else fish
ing-rod.
There are fifteen or twenty different
species of cacei growing in this region.
The pole cactus grows much like a large
corn-stalk. Each years growth is indi-
Gated by joint, and rich, tenacious
gum eXudes from the surface, causing it
to burn like pine when it is entirely
green. There are two varieties of what
is called the bulb. These grow in the
form of a ball and nearly the size of n
pint cup. One variety is armed with
thorns half an inch in length, the other
with different kind of thorn, much re-
semhling a porcupine's quill. These
thorns are as sharp as needles. and re-
quire but little pressure to penetrate
their entire length into the foot of man
or the hoof of horse. The variety hav-
ing the short tholns bears red-colored
fruit, about the size of a small peach; it
is very sweet, and the juice flows from a
gold pen us beautiful red ink. There is
another species which bears different
kind of fruit, resembling cucumb Der
about wo-thirdSmatured The pulp is
of the consistency of the banana, but
much sweeter, and very full of black, fiat
seeds, the size of a dime. AS far as |
have been able to ascertain there are
three kinds of fruit growing on as many
different species of cacti in this desert
land. Another kind, priced more than
all the rest by the Indians, very much
resembles our century plant. The wild
Apaches have for ages depended largely
on this for sustenance. They boil the
root, make it into mush and thus eat it.
and from the rest of the plant make a
sour drink, which they greatly enjoy.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31
Just Like q Man.

Mrs. Cligho went down to the Sand
wich Springs the other day with some
friends, and after she had departed her
husband looked around the house to see
what he could do to busy himself. The
front steps looked rather brown and he
pulled off his coat, hunted up paint and
brush, and in an hour he had completed
as nice a job of painting us any house
wife would care to see. He had right
to chuckle over it. and to imagine how
pleased his wife would be; but no one
could tell whata an hour may bring forth.
Even before she had opened the gate on
her return the wife got red in the face,
flourished her parasol around, and called
out:
"You great big idiot! Won't you
never learn anythingp"
Wh-what's the matter nowP" he
gasped.
"Matter! Why, l have invited a
dozen people to come in this evening"
"Yes-well, can't they Gomez"
"Can theyP Hasn't every blessed one
of them got to come in at the side door
and see that sitting.room carpet all full
of holes, and the back hall all torn up ?
I'll die before I'll let 'em, and If you
don't get soap-suds and rag and take
that paint off I'll hire it done!"
Mr.. Cligho was just an hour and a
half at the job, and when men went past
and asked him what he was doing, he
softly replied that he was using soap
suds TO exterminate red ants Detroit
Free Press.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31
1t is Better.

1t is better to look up and take pleas
ure in contemplating the good and
great, than to find happiness in low de-
vices and mean acts. 1t is better TO tell
the truth than to tell lie; to do good
than to do mean; to save reputation,
than to blast one; to have charity than
to he critically severe: to love your fel-
lows than to hate them; better to lit up
the fallen than to pull down those al
ready up; to speak kind words than to
hiss out the gall of bitterness; to keep
pure than to reek with filth; to be on
the losing side of right than to be on the
triumphant side of wrong; to be honest
than to cheat; to have honest piety than
to be Haunting hypocrite; to be indus
trious than to be an idle vagrant to be
n fair and square human being than to
be az uncertain quantity. With YOUR
virtue worship the true and you may at
tain unto greatness, but you can never
do it in the eyes of justice by trampling
upon, or by despising what is under you.
The poor have as bright eyes and as ten
der hearts as the rich. They are not be-
low your consideration. Natures will
low will bend over them with the same
grace and beauty they will over the
proudest son and daughter ofearth. Con-
cerning being true in life, Grace Green
wood says: Never unsex yourself for
greatness. The worship of one true
heart is better than the wonder of the
world. Don't trample on the flowers
while longing for the stars. Live up to
the full measure of life, give way to your
impulses, loves and enthusiasms; sing,
smile, labor and be happy. Adore poetry
for its own sake; yearn for, strive after
excellence; rejoice when Others attain itF
feel for your contemporaries loving
envy; steal into your country's heart (;
glory in its greatness. eXult in its power,
honor its gallant men, immortalize its
matchless women" How much better
to do these things than to go sulking and
skulking through life like some dishon-
ored cur! It is better and easier to do
right than to do wrong. You go straight
forward to the right, but you approach
the wrong by devious and doubtful ways.
-Qui1cy Modern A1yo.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31
Where He Stored His Money.

A few days ago there died in the town
of Vernon, Winneshick county, an aged
farmer named Carpenter, who left WILL
bequeathing 10, his son an old chest that
had been an heirloom in the family. On
opening the chest the son was surprised
and incensed to find that it contained
nothing of value. He so reported to the
remaining members of the family, when
they persuaded him to make further in
vestigations, which he did in taking the
chest apart. In doing so, two cleats,
each half an inch thick and perforated
with auger holes, were discovered. Tear
ing off these cleats the young man found
that they were hollow, and that the
space between the lid and the bottoms OF
the cleats had been filled with gold coins
by the thoughtful parent. How long
they had been stored in such singular
manner in that old chest is a mystery
Io,cd STATE Register.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31
Little JOhnny's Philosophy.

There was n dog, and there was n cat.
and there was n OK. The dog it sed to
the OK, the dog did:
That's mighty long tail you got
there, mister. with nice tossle to the
end, but you can't waggle it when you
meet your master"
Then the cat it sed to the OK:
-, No, indeed, and you can't bio it up
like bloom when YOU git mad.n
Then the lam il sed:
You amt able for to twinkle it.,
either. wen you think of something
funny"
The OK he thot while, and bime by
he spoke up and sed his ownself:
81 plade hooky wen | was little boy
so much that / dident learn them vain
accomplishments, that's a fack, but got
a tolably good bisness edecashun, and
CESS mebbe you fellers wude have to cum
to me for to hellep you out if you had to
fiji a order for OK tail SOUP"
Wen Mister Gipple was in Africa he
seen sum natifs, wich is called Hotten-
tops, and they likes their beef raw, like
dogs, and he see EN- cut it orf of the cat
ties vile they was a life and bellerin.
And sum of the cattles had ben cut up
day the King of the Hottentops he see
Ma ~, ''li' nu ,.Ins Iiie mS 81 ~
rood D,u no, Sou Spe an any ; oa.ol1s 10 IoiiS .lle
nUnu Sou d Iuaa Gos G5 l,,ie n,, HIVE s'r"oe
MI, i;Es,+o, ,,rif Cinnin u,',, 10 nl,u nod eiii
''Yes, sir, jest over beyond that hill is
OF and 'hn,,t MI t,,1.thny I, ,n o,o1o ,,l
find rib roast eatin the wilers, and near
soon homes e"o onS onto tbe 9th nther 's side e'' Of
aooP ociioo, .'ii M oh,o wv , D'hoi eiuo vi
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31
HypOchOndria.

There are mild forms of hypochondria
which never receive that specific name
from the doctors who attend them, but
nevertheless give their victims much
trouble. The nervous man who is visited
with pimple magnifies it into malig-
nsnt pastule, and his imagination tor
lures him with the morbid picture OF
the suffering and sudden death which he
will be called to undergo. Many people
are haunted all their lives in this way
without anything serious ever happen
ing, and when they reach old age have,
for sole compensation, the opportunity
of cOngratulating themselves that not
one OF the disagreeable omens they had
was ever realized. But after the hypo-
chondriac is cured of one of his un-
healthy. fancies he is sure, sooner or later,
to acquire another. AS DR.. Maudesley
Mental Disease" though the patient
may seem to 60 away entirely disabused
of his sick fancies, they return to him or
are supplanted by worse.
In very exceptional instances, indeed,
the hypochondriac may take new de-
parture and with daily supreme effort
of will shake off the encumbrance that
weighs upon Him. But this is so sell
dom the case that statistics scarce make
mention of it; and it may generally be
taken for granted that when hypochon-
dria is cured a change of surrounding
conditions is more responsible for it than
is the direct exercise of will on the part
of the patient, his environment remain.
Ing unchanged. Few men thus afflicted
have the perseverance and the strength
of will necessary to lift off every day the
incubus which fastens them down ano
TO think and act like we'll men merely
because they choose to do so.-=Mew Kori
Telegram.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31
TIMELY TOPICS.

Prof. Bencke, of Marburg, Germany,
after measuring go human hearts, says
that the growth of that organ is greatest
in the first and second years of life. At
the end of the second year it is double in
size, and during the next five years is
again doubled. Then its growth is much
slower, though from the fifteenth to the
twentieth year its size increases by two
thirds. A very slight growthis then OBJ
served UP to fifty, when it gradually
dimin;shes. Except in childhood, mems
hearts are decidedly larger than those of
women.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31
WatcllwOrds.

Through gathering clouds and stormy seas OF
fate
Two golden watchwords guide and comfort
me;
Toiling along my path, early and late,
I cling to patience and fidelity
In all the weary changes of my day
] strive TO follow duty faithfully;
And when ialter, fainting by the way,
With subtle influence patience strengthens
So onward, through what suffering God may
send,
1 walk with faith, and feet that shall not
tire,
Trusting with patience, strong unto the end,
To reach at last oh, Lord my souls desire.
Helen s. Conant, in Hlrper's.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31

A French minister of finance has II
good word for toads, moles and birds.
For toads because they live entirely on
insect food. and are entirely harmless !;
for moles because they live on grubs,
larve, palmer worms and insects injuri-
Gus to agriculture, it having been pref
ty well demonstrated that the true mole
does not eat vegetable food. Ofbirds he
millions annually through insects. Birds
are the only enemies able to contend
against them vigorously. They are the
great caterpillar killers and agricultural
assistants.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31

Mr.. John B. Cough is in his sixty
second year, has travelled about 100000
miles and delivered nearly 5000 lectures
within the last thirty-seyen years, and
vet he has not been in bed whole day
from illness since 1916.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31

The Charleston (Ill.) Plaindealer saws
that the farmers of that vicinity have
discovered new cure for hog cholera.
When the cholera appears among their
animals they cook dead one and feed It
to the others, and it rarely fails to effect
q cure,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31

IN St. Petersburg more than six htn-
dred persons of the noble or privileged
GLASSES are under arrest to be deportel to
Siberia without trial. In one of the TIM
porary governor-generalshi in the
south of the empire (Odessa) sixty
privileged persons have been alraldy
sent to Siberia without triad, and two
hundred persons of this class are under
arrest to be judged. So great is the num-
Der of persons of this category to be eX-
lied that II practical difficulty is said to
have arisen in connection with their de
portation. A noble or privileged person,
who has not been judicially sentenced,
when sent to Siberia, by the ordets of
the Third Section, or Secret Police, must
be escorted by two gendarmes, it Icing
against the laws to manacle privileged
person who is uncondemned. 1t appears
that there are not gcndarmes enough
thus to escort the number of persons to
be deported, and the Ministry of Secret
Police has proposed to get rid of this
difficulty by sending the privileged per-
sons fettered like ordinary criminals.
On the other hand, the officials ara op-
posed to any such course.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31

"The Americans endeavor to combine
strength with lightness," says the Lon
don Economist, "while we look only to
strength; notice the locomotive AMI cars,
American implements and tools, which
have beautiful finish and lghtness, and
American and English scythes, as nm in
stance. I find that the American weighs
little over two pounds, and having n
good curve and polish under the surface,
are handler and cut easier and closer
than the English, which weigh nearly
five pounds, and are broad, straight and
rough, just as the hammer leaves them"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31

A Paris correspondent tells a strange
story of the Zulu war. In 1868 Captain
Lambert, of the Fourth Voltigeurs Of the
French Imperial guard, was caught cheat
ing at cards and was expelled from his
regiment. He decided to drown him
self, but his godfather convinced him
that it would be better try his fortune in
foreign lands. So he went to the Cape of
Good Hope, learned the native dialects
and BECAME a purveyor of ammunition
to tie Zulus, and afterward obtained n
commission in the Zulu army, of which
he finally became COMMANDMENTS chief.
He died in the service, but it is sail that
to him the Zulus owe their knowledge of
military tactics.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-03
CLIPPINGS.

A handkerchief Irritation is a very simple
thing. 1t only requires two fools and two
handkerchiefs.
Science must take back seat when a
cross-eyed woman begins TO beat q carpet
with her left hand.-N. Y. Express.
Two twin brothers are said to be so much
alike that they frequently borrow money Of
each other without knowing it.
Have you a mother-in-l law" asked a
man of disconsolate looking person
"No," he replied, "but have father in
jail"
MY souls a. the gate" is the title of a
new piece of music. He had better be
careful, or he may find the old mans sole
at the gate, too, some of these fine evenings.
A western editor speaks of his rival as
"mean enough to steal the swill from a
blind hog" The rival retorts by saying
"He knows he lies ! never stole his swill.'
It's old but true: Trying to do business
without advertising is like winking at a
pretty girl in the dark-you may know
what you are doing, but nobody else does, y
Mrs. Partington again-"Poor man."
SAID the old lady, $50 he's really gone at
last. Ninety-eight, was hel Dear, dear
to think how that if he lived two years
more he'd have been a centurion"
A short time ago a Danbury man had
$40 stolen from him. The thief was sub
sequently struck with remorse, and sent back
$50, with a note 10 the effect that as soon as
he received more remorse he would send
back the rest.-Danbury News.
"John, did you 90 round and ask how
Old Mrs. Jones is this morning, as told you
last night!" "Yes, sir well, what's
the resultl' "She said that seeing as how
you'd had the impudence to send to ask
how old she was, she'd no objection to tell
ing you that she's twenty-four."
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-03

Is 1T TRuE.-Is It true that a remedy has
been compounded which will do away with
the mineral and drastic purgatives Of the
past centuries, and which, while entirely
efficient, will leave the system in its former
healthy conditiong Yes. the remedy is
iaoiers Portaline, or Vegetable Liver Pow
DER; cure for all the disorders arising
from atorpid liver, and as innocent as spring
wafer. Give IT trial. 1t will do what il
promises. Price 50 cents bottle. For
sale by Barclay Bros.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-03

OUT AT LAST -"Gooa morning. friend
A., am surprised to see YOU out. and look
ing so well heard YOU were confined 70
your no room. and bed, by that pest Of human
NY; rlles. YES, Mr.. B, / had been long a
9 1,;, e when l heard OF Tabler's Buckeye
re ointment. II proved blessing to me
inuceu' one bottle having SO far restored me
as to enable me to be about nv business
again with ease and comfort. You can rec.
ommend il as q genuine remedy Price
o. o. cents bottle. For sale by Barclay