The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-03

Forty per cent. of the Chinese of San
Francisco have been back and forth be
tween the United States and China four
or five times. Most of the Chinese go
back once in FIVE years. aud rarely any
one stays longer than eight years contin-
uously in this country. Many Chinese |
merchants return regularly to spend the |
Chinese New Year at home.
Bartholdi, the French sculptor, says |
there is no doubt that the great statue |
of Liberty enlightening the world will |
be ready for its place IL New York har-
Dor in 1883, the year in which New
York's great worlds fair is to be held.
This statue, when erected, will be the
largest in America. 1t was presented
to the United States by the French peo-
pie, and Bartholdi is hard at work at it
in France.
Buckley is a Texas horse thief and
murderer. for whom the law officers
searched long and fruftlessly. A man
called on the governor, introduced him
self as friend of the outlaw, and said
that he was prepared to buy his pardon
by giving information against other
criminals. The governor was inclined
to make such bargain, and sent him
to the attorney general, who recognized
him as none other than Buckley him
self. The rascal drew q long knife out
of his bootleg, but was overpowered
and locked up
The New York Bulletin makes COM
pilation of crop reports which shows
so far as can be shown at this time
that the wheat production of 1880 will
fully equal that of 1879. Iowa and
Kansas will fall off, but their deficiency
will be fully made up by gains in llli-
nois, Ohio. MINES ota and Pennsylvania.
If present promise shall be verified, that
will be the fourth successive great grain
crop in the United States-a conSinu-
ance of prosperity almost if not quite
without precedent.
The New York State fish commits
sioners are advocating the culture of
carp. The experiments at the govern
ment ponds in Washington have been
very successful, fish that were put in
there three years ago having grown
much larger than in Europe under the
same circumstances. They are an easy
fish to raise. Any kind Of a pond, no
matter how restricted, can be used.
Providing that the water is not too cold,
carp thrive, no matter how impure it
is. No natural water has been found
too warm for them. They thrive on
plants growing in the water, on boiled
grain or even offal. A pond may be
dug in arabic land and used for three or
four years rs 4 carp pond, after which
the land may be again cultivated.
A correspondent of the Leavenworth
Time calls attention to the similarity
between the stand storm in Kansas and
one in the island of Sicily, in the Medit-
terranean, two days afterward, and be-
lieves both were of meteoric origin. The
Kansas dust was composed of brown
antt black irnpt ptaaPPssSSlss q @atter. and Sc $.
! abundant that on the reXt day traces ol
the deposits could be seen on the surface
of the ground, and on a north porch
sufficient to receive the imprints of q
cats feet. The writer says: The nea.
coincidence of dates between the phe-
nomenon in Sicily and here, with an ap-
parent similarity in the physical proper.
ties of the dust, might sug est Il common
origin.
J The act incorporating the New York
J worlds fair of 1888, in celebration o.
the treaty of peace between Great
Britain and the United States, provide;
for the subscription of $l2 900, 600, which
is 10000 900 more than the centennia
2 exposition estimate was based upon
I the commissioners of that celebration
) limiting their financial operations tC
$40 900, 900. This extra $4,000, COO doe:
not by any meansrepresentt the increased
magnitude of the proposed exposition
r over the last one held in the Unitec
States, for it is confidently expected
! that the receipts alone, owing to tn,
y,,ntr1pplitan nj lnnot ion nf tha arnositio,
+ and its ready means of access 10 all pal
= OF the world, will be immensely create
g than at the Philadelphia exposition
f Besides this, the commissioners having
= in charge the projected fair believ,
2 there will be no difficulty in raising
the amount mentioned in the act, OF
| even more.
. Women are doing good work in
. foreign fields under the direction OF thu
l Woman's Union Missionary society
whose nineteenth anniversary was cele
!, brated recently at the Broad way taber
= nacle in New York. In Calcutta ant
: Rajpore !, l62 women and girls are unde
? the instruction of one lady and her assist
! ants. An orphanage has been estab
lished at Calcutta, where more thai
800 children receive care. Twenty-tiv,
pupils are now boarding at the mission
! in Pekin, and there are also IL larg
t number of day scholars. Moreoy er
village schools are being opened i,
China. In Cyprus a school has beer
e opened for Greek girls, and about sixt,
l are in attendance. In Allahabad, India
Q where there are about 450 pupils unde
; instruction, the earnestness of tn
!, women in their mission work has beei
, rewarded by gift of $4,000 from th
Q government.