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The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-04-18
BOUND FOR SIERRA LEONE.

The Liberian Exodus Company. whose head
quarters are In Charleston, g. g.. contemplate
another voyage of the bark Azor. with a second
installment of emigrents to Sierra Leone. In
the coming December. Martin II. Delaney. who
ran for Lieutenant Governor OF South Carolina
on the Independent ticket In 1874. Is in charge
OF the movement. 1t Ia his intention to accom-
pany the next party OF emgrants. He states
that all the letters received from the Azors pas
seugers speak In high terms OF the fertility
of the SOIL the salubrity of the climate and the
kindness of the inhabitants. who received and
treated them with marked considers tion. He
contends that. aside from oil political consider
ations. the white people Of the South ought to
encourage the movement to relieve themselves
of surplus population that may
prove troublesome hereafter. Where three Ia
borers were employed before emancipation he
claims only one Is engaged now. Planters to
avoid petition, refuse to rent or sell land
cons equently large numbers Of agricultural
laborers remain idle and become discomfort
ed. The only relief he can think OF is emf
grafton. and where" he asks. rs more 1t
place to seek new homes than In the land of
their fathers and mothers. specially provided
for them by nature?" Some changes have been
mads In the fare and number Of passengers
the former has been reduced to $50: and. in
stead OF 256 passengers. the number carried
last time the bark will only take out 150. which,
1t Is believed will insure health and comfort
during the voyage. Each OF the passengers
will also be required to carry provisions to last
six months. sufficient money to provide neces-
saries to the end OF the year. and. II possible.
household articles an d farming and mechanlca
i'm plementS.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-22
Caring for Snakes.

A reporter of the Philadelphia Press
has been learning on what the snake
man at the Geological gardens, in tina,
city, feeds his pets. This is what he
learned on entering the professors pri-
vate office: Two cages stood on the
side of the room, one on top of the other,
Immediately facing the door. One cage
held white and spotted rabbits, and the
other cage contained guinea pigs. There
were twenty or thirty altogether. This
was the food the snake-keeper was fat
tening for his serpents-the boa. con-
strictors and other large snakes of the
expanding jaws, which can swallow
down the largest-sized rabbits without
the slightest difficulty. The rabbits
were seen sporting about the cage, all
unconscious of the fate in store for
them, fate all the harder from the
fact that the luxurious serpents must
have them to swallow alive or not at
all, as they will not eat dead food. The
guinea pigs are sacrificed the same way
This form OF serpent diet the snake
keeper does not 60 down into New
Jersey for. The rabbits and guinea pigs
are kept in the gardens, where they
breed very fast, and more than keep
up the supply for the large serpents
The garter-snakes and water-snakes, and
worms and frogs, which he brings in his
satchel and tin can, are fed to the rattle
snakes and the king-snakes, and serpents
of that sort. The way the snake keeper
gathers up his food for these reptiles is
amply in keeping with his giant charac-
teristics, and well calculated to inspire
terror to the weak and timorous. He
gets out in field or woods down about
Woodbury., N. j., where garter-snakes
gathers them up with his hands and
throws them into his tin can or satchel.
The water-snakes he gets along the
brooks and swamps. EVERY man to
his calling" says the adage. The snake
keeper, on the authority of those who
know something of his habits and pecu
liarities, has his heart in his work, and
by all accounts would not exchange
with anybody.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-22
A Bad Day for Alligators.

The Orlando (Fla.) Reporter says !:
Mond ay proved tield day with the alli-
gators. They came out in large num-
bers TO bask in the warm sunlight after
the rain. Fatal recreation! everybody
on board went to shooting them. Even
the scullion would leave his dishpan to
take a shot. And it seemed hard to miss
them. The champion SLAYER was an old
hunter from the Granite State. When
ever he raised his rifle death was in the
air, and It's sharp report was the crack
of doom for some cousin of the croco-
die. The 'gator-slayer expended his
last cartridge in the evening; but not
until he had scored his sixty fifth alliga-
tor. Their vitality is remarkable. |
chopped off the head of one a few min
ut 's after he had been shot. Several
minutes after the head was entirely sew
cred from the body, thrust an oar al
it. The jaws opened and snapped to
again. like y huge steel-trap, driving the
teeth three-fourths of an inch into the
hard oak and splitting the oar handle
Even twenty minutes later that gator.
head would not have been safe toy fol
children.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-22
Victims of Opium.

The New York correspondent Of the
Detroit Free Press writes; The death
of a woman connected with the old Van
Buren family from the effect of a con-
slant use of opium, has been written
about n good deal, and talked about a !.
good deal more. This unfortunate wo
mans appetite for the terrible drug was
almost Unsuitable. Her case was an
especially bad one, but thore are hum
dreds of similar cases in New York.
Doctors and druggists tell astonishing
stories about the use of opium among
people of good social position, and, ex-
cept in this particular, good ways OF liv-
ing. There seems to be no difficulty
about these people getting all the opium
they want. There are many drug stores
in which it is sold as openly as patent
medicine, and small quantities could be
procured at any time. The people who
buy it are not of the common class, but
generally educated and refined, and
many are brain workers, who crave 1T
| that their overburdened nerves may be
composed in some way. The woman
who died the other day, from over-ln-
diligence in it, was the daughter OF a
physician once ranking at the top OF his!
profession in New YORK. She married
| a good d-for-nothing husband, against her
parents will, aud no doubt the life he
| led her had much 10 do with her Goa
traction of the opium habit.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-22
What 1t Costs Us for. Smoke.

The New York correspondent of the
Troy Times says: The amount spent in
smoking by some of our citizens is sur
prisiug. New York pays more for cigars
than for bread, and this is easily seen
when individual cigar bills run up to
$500 per annum. / know one man who
was unable to save anything on an in
come of $l2,00 a year, and who gave
among The reasons hat it cost him $40
per week for cigars. II all his expenses
were at such rate there could be little
chance at accumulation. There are
many smokers who average 100 cigars
a week. These are the men who build
UP such fortunes "a the Gilseys and
others have made. Peter Gilsey landed
in this city poor emf rant. he was
piano maker, but opened cigar shop in
the Bowery, which his wife tended
while he wrought at his trade. From
this humble beginning Gilsey became
one of the most extensive dealers in the
city. He had at one time nearly a
dozen cigar shops, and he left an estate
worth g., 1000, 900. The Gilsey house is
one of his creations, and the splendid
estab ishment known as the Gilsey
building corner of Broadway and Cort-
landt street, is another. The first
Broadway cigar store thai reached dis
tinction was John Anderson's. The
unfortunate Mary Rogers, better known
as 1.-THE pretty cigar girl" was in his
service, and her tragic end will always
be one of the mysteries of New York
crime.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-22
How to Judg @ a Horse.

The following simple rules will be
found useful to all parties about to buy
a horse:
l. Never take the sellers word; if
dist onest he will be certain to cheat
you; if disposed to be fair, he may have
been the dupe of another, and will de-
ceive you through representations which
cannot be relied upon.
2. Never trust to horses mouth as a
sure index of his age.
3. Never buy horse while in motion;
watch him while he stands at rest, and
you will discover his weak points. II
on his limbs without moving any of
them, the feet planted fiat upon the
ground, with legs plumb and naturally
poised. Ii one foot is thrown for ward
with the Toe pointing to the gr ound and
the heel raised, or If the foot is lifted
from the ground and the weight taken
from it, disease of the navicular bone
may be suspected, or at least tenderness,
which is precursor of disease. If the
foot is thrown out, the toe raised, and
the heel brought down. the horse has
suffered flom laminitis, founder, or the
back sinews have been sprained, and he
is of little future value. When the feet
are all drawn together beneath the
horse, if there has been no disease there
is a displacement of the limbs at least
and weak disposition of the muscles.
If she horse stands with his feet spread
apart or straddles with the hind legs,
there is weakness of the loins and the
kidneys are disordered. When the
knees are bent and the legs totter and
tremble the beast has been ruined by
heavy pulling, and will never be right
again whatever rest and treatment he
may have. Contracted or Uniformed
hoois speak for themselves.
/ Never buy horse with a blush
or milky cast in his eyes. They indicate
a constitutional tendency to ophthalmia,
moon blindness, etc.
5. Never have anything to do with a
horse who keeps his ears thrown back
ward. This is an invariable indication
of bad temper.
g. If the horses hind legs are SCARED
the fact denotes that lie is kicker.
z. Ifthe knees are blemished the horse
is apt to stumble.
g. When the skin is rough and harsh
and does not move easily and smoothly
to the touch, the horse is heavy eater
and his digestion is bad.
0. Avoid horse whose respirator,
organs are at all impaired. If the eai
is placed at the side of the heart, and ,
whizzing sound is heard, 1t is an indi
cation OF trouble. Let him go.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-22
Life in the Polar Regions.

1t is impossible to form an idea of
tempest in the polar sea. The icebergs
are like floating rocks whirled along a
rapio current. The crystal mountains
dash against each other, backward AMI
forward, bursting with roar like thun-
der, and returning to the charge until
losing their equilibrium they tumble
over in cloud of spray, upheaving the
ice-fields, which fall afterward like the
crack of a whip-lash on the boiling sea.
The sea gulls fly away screaming, and
often black, shining whale comes for
ar instant putting to the surface. When
the midnight sun grazes the horizon, the
floating mountains and the rocks seem
immersed in wave of purple light. The
cold is by no means so insupportable as
is supposed. We passed from heated
cabin at thirty degrees above zero to
forty seven below zero in the open air
without inconvenience. A much higher
degree of cold becomes, however, in
sutferable if there is wind. At fifteen
degrees below zero a steam, as if from
boiling kettle, rises from the water.
At once frozen by the wind, it falls in a
fine powder. This phenomenon is
called ice-smoke, At forty degrees the
snow and human bodies also smoke,
which smoke changes at once into mil
lions of tiny particles, like needles of ice,
which fill the air, and make a light, con
tinuous noise, like the rustic of a stiff
silk. At this temperature the trunks OF
trees burst with loud report, the rocks
break up, and the earth opens and
vomits smoking water. Knives break
in cutting butter. Cigars go out by con,
tact with the ice on the board. To tall
| is fatiguinq. At night the evelids arf
covered with witt, crust Of ice: which mus
open them.-Professor Nordenskjold.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-22
Life Among the Central Park Animals.

Mr.. William A. Conklin, director of
the Central Park menagerie, in his an
nual report gives much interesting IN
formation. There were 1906 animals
in the park during the year. Of these
4O2 were birds, 242 mammals and twen-
ty- four reptiles. The births were as
follows: Eight lions 1.-TWO litters of four
each), one puma, five prairie wolves Cat
one birth), one Nubian goat, ore zebu,
one Cape buffalo, one Wapiti deer, one
Virginia deer, one Mexican deer, one
Toulouse goose, five wild geese, four
white swans, four black swans, eight
pea fowls, five white turkeys, twenty
Guinea fowls.
The mortuary record is as follows:
One leopard, one prairie wolf, one sea-
lion, one tapir, one vicuna, one camel,
one yak, one Samboo deer, one tiger
bittern and one European crane.
The animals consume l93,S30 pounds
of hay, 1926 pounds of straw, SAL bush
els OF oats, 466 bushels of corn, 1876 bags
of bran, thirteen bushels OF seed, II, $50
pounds of meat, 25,7 ,762 pounds of bread,
7493 pounds of fish, 3,ll6 quarts of milk
and ten barre's OF crackers. A large
prol ortion of the above provision was fur
nished by the owners of the animals. The
maintenance of the animals cost the city
nearly Sll, 200. Repairs, etc, made the
total expenditure Sl4 992 SO.
The most valuable animals on exhibit
tion, according 10 the report, were two
black leopards, four polar bears, one
two-horned rhinoceros, a sea-lion and
cub. The mother sea-lion was the one
that died. The cub was discon solate,
and refused food, but after tom-cod and
smelts had been forced down its throat
for time it took to regular diet and
survived.
Among the fish in the Central Park
lakes are catfish, white perch, yellow
perch, goldfish, suIfish, black bass,
suckers and eels.
Thirty gray squirrels and fifty quail
set free in the park have increased and
multiplied wonderfully, and their pres
ence has drawn great numbers of hawks
of which many have been shot.
The extermjnation of cats and dogs
does not come in Director Conklin's pro
vince. Superintendent Dawson, who
has charge of this work, reports the
killing of nearly 800 cats and 100 dogs
in the past year, besides many moles
and a few muskrats. .-Nes0 York Sun.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-22
IS [ Am Guiminei!"

The New York correspondent of the
Louisville Conrier-,JOurndL writes.
Everybody had heard of Stradivarius, of
Cfemona, who achieved his celebrity by
baating every other man in the fiddle
business In fact he was equally cele-
brated with the gentleman who lived
in Lexington and made such wonderful
rifles. A third celebrity has sprung up
in New York, named Guiminei, who
boasts that he can make better fiddle
than Stradivarius or the other varius,
who also lives in fame by the same
means. When asked why he doesn't
advertise his business, he poses, heroic
ally strikes his left breast, and exclaims; /;
am Guiminei. Let them come to
mew Whenever an old church with
wooden easements thousand years old
is pulled down, and they are always do
ing such thing@ here, the modern Stradi-
varius is sure to be on hand sounding
and poking for Eastwood and other
coffi ms of the wood nymphs to get hold
of something that is seasoned. He sent
to the Paris exposition one of his violins,
expecting to get a first class medal, of
course. He was like Ophelia, the
more deceived" and more his hopes
scared high. The chairman of the COM
mittee on tuneful things sent back by
mail knowing wink suggested in the
phrases: "You can't TOOL us; what you
sent US as your own is genuine Stradi-
varius." He had unintentionally mis-
led the most knowing OF experts. When
the Italian received this decision, which
| will not positively aver was couched
in the language l have used, he instantly
proceeded TO the nearest curbstone, CAV,
three flaps of encouragement with hi
elbows, and crowed aloud: Il an
Guimineil" / understand that he i'm
mediately raised the price of fiddles t
$4,000. In some kinds of art il is bette
to be an imitator than an original
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A dead langua age-Cold tongue.
A report that can't be contradicted-
The report of a gun.
Making light of troubles-Burning
up your unpaid bills.
The Marathan Independent says that
the letters to beware of are 8.
Dumb-belle xercises-Talking with
a deaf and dumb girl.-Salern Sunbeam.
Hens are not exactly lazy, and yet
they are always laying 'round.-Derrfcb.
A little learning is dangerous thing.
This applies especially to violin play
ing.
Eleven million pounds of tea was i'm
ported into this country from China in
1879.
There are now six telegraph cables
connecting the United States with
Europe.
1t doesn't follow because things come
under our notice that they are beneath
our notice.-Nes0 York Ne,os.
The farmer feeds the bleating uu
The sailor sails the C
The gardener plants p p he does,
The printer takes his g.
Ed l.. adams.
dlbOSctilcl VI htb
and nature do not begin to interest the
inquisitive female so much as the view
she gets through a keyhole. e.-FW ton
Times.
The total value of church property in
the United States is placed at $500, ,00O,-
600. Should it continue to increase in
ri-2 rif-n2rsame proportion as in the past, it
is estimafa that its value in 1900 will
reach re the snn5If 5000. 900, 900, or one
third more than tisf,na e national debt.
New steel works are TO 81 erected IN
Chicago at cost, including eseVggMnty gn
five acres of land, of so 600, COO. .~-4Hey
are to be completed within year, ant
will consist of four blast furnaces, Bes
semer converting works, and steel raj
mills. They will employ 1000 men
consume $50, 600 tons of ore yearly, anC
turn out 10000 tons of rails.
At the Dark Hollow stone quarry
near Bedford, o., one of the larges
stones ever blasted in America wa
lifted" short time ago. The ston
is forty or fifty feet square and abou
thirty feet thick and it required l8
slip wedges to make successful blast
When cut up into pieces it will max
nearly 300 car loads of building stone
immense blocks of stone arc fr6quentl
taken out of the quarries here whic
would make the stones in Solomon
temple mere pebbles in comp arisor
/ Its weig bit was estimated to be 90 0,0(
! pnunds
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-22
Women Voting,

Miss Louise M. A,cott, in letter to
the Wontdn's journal about the Con-
cord, Mass, election, at which womn-
voted for the first time for school COM
mittee, thus describes the scene and rer
ports her impressions. The moderator
(who is also the registrar, and has most
kindly and faithfully done his duty to
the women, in spite of his own differs
ence of opinion) then announced that
the ladies would prepare their votes and
deposit them before the men did. No
one objected, we were ready, and filed
out in good order, dropping our votes
and passing back to our seats
as quickly and quietly as posi-
man watched us in solemn silence.
No bolt fell on our audacious heads, no
earthquake shook the town, but
pleasing surprise created general out.
break of laughter and applause, for
scarcely were we seated when Judge
Hoar rose and proposed that the polls
be closed. The motion was carried be-
fore the laugh subsided, and the polls
were closed without mans voting-a
perfectly fair proceeding, we thought,
since we were allowed no voice on any
other question. The business of the
meeting went on, and the women re-
manned to hear the discussion of
ways and means, and see the officers
elected with neatness and dispatch by
the few who appeared to run the town
pretty much as they pleased. At five
o'clock the housewives retired to get ten
for the exhausted gentlemen, some of
whom certainly looked as if they would
need refreshments of some sort after
their labors. was curious to observe,
as the women went out, how the faces
which had regarded them with disap-
proval, derision, or doubt when they
went in, now smiled affably, while
several men hoped the ladies would
come again, asked how they liked it and
assured them that there had not been SO
orderly a meeting for years. One of
the pleasant sights to my eyes
was a flock of schoolboys watching
with great interest their mothers,
aunts and sisters, who were showing
them how to vote when their own eman-
cipation day came. Another was the
spectacle of women sitting beside their
husbands, who greatly enjoyed the
affair, though many of them differed in
opinion and had their doubts about the
suffrage question. Among the new
voters were the descendants of Major
Rn+t;Skk. of Concord fight renown, two
of Hancock ana Quincy, and others
whose grandfathers Sr~-Si SieaV-gtu .ain,,,
fathers had been among the ffsSsseessI.lesi;7 ffssS ses.lei7
of the town. A goodly array OF dTsx.
fed and earnest women, though some c
the first families" of the historic town
were conspicuous by their absence.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-22
Making a King Sing.


An Englishman arrived at Paris some
days before the revolution of July, 1880.
He very eagerly sought to inspect the
interior court of the Palais Royal, where
the prince, Louis Philippe of Orleans.
was receiving deputations that came to
him from all parts OF the country, vii
layers with the mayor and drummer at
their head, brave fellows well furnished
with addresses and often excited by the
fatigues of the road and the heat of the
day.
The Englishlnan, on arriving, asked
if Louis Philippe had made his appear
ance.
Certainly" they answered him, "he
is just retired"
"Ah! am very sorry for that" he
said. 81 am come to Paris to see
him."
Never mind" said one near him; 81
will show him to you" So he shouted
out: "Vive Louis Philippe! Vive la
Charte" and the multitude cried out
the, same.
A window opened over balcony, the
prince appeared, humbly saluted the
crowd, and retired.
"Ah! am very glad indeed" said the
Englishman; "but have heard some
say that one might see him with the
tricolored flag, and surrounded by his
family"
"That is very easy" said the other ;
give me some sous, and he will come
forth"
"Indeed! Here are some, with great
pleasure" said the Englishman, handing
franc to his neighbor.
Immediately voice raised the coup
let, which thousand voices immedi
ately repeated:
Soldier. with the tricolor flag,
Who from Orleans dearest it," etc.
And the couplet did not cease to be
heard before the prince, surrounded by
his family and holding the three-col-
ored flag, came forth to salute the
crowd.
ThcssSas silence for short time.
Then the compiasa ans ns me- hheigloor, turn-
ing toward the ear Ine J.: Ensiisnih'Ii, , ,
said: "Now shall pane ,...an Hlam sIngt i,i AZ
it is rather difficult nns na;,ei' you y" III
have to give me ten trHSSsi trsHSsS,, ;, 0o;a .ho
~ will do so willingf, s,soao,a SUI 'nt af
Englishman, assured by theSsSo'e'' Vi
the former engagements. No,,os
Then the man, with his ten fNfnos,
exerted himself and shouted with otff6f
| dIOuuu nlul 50 edgefly anu luSIlly
"Vive lie roip Vive la Charte! la Mar
seillaisem that at the end of twent
minutes Louis Philippe presented him
self again before large crowd exultin
with impatience and joy.
The Marseillaise was Justify raised b
the crowd. The new king was about t
retire from the balcony, but stopped i
the midst of the applause. and sang wit
the people, marking time with his feet
The story relates that The king-cxhibi
tor, addressing the Englishman, said
him: Now if you give me one hundre
francs he shall dance" But the othel
thinking that the show had gone ia
enough, went away
} Some may think this anecdote come
/ from suspicious source. 1t is take
word for word from the contemporar
history of G. A. Daubin, work in u:
among students of philosophy. 1t ar
peared to the learned professor to be S
characteristic that he thought it wort
relating, although at first sight it az
peared to him unworthy of the gravity
history.-LeiS are Hour.