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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-28
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Biyoy OPEpA HOUSE." Oivefte ,,.,y
BoOrns THEATRE" Uncle Tours oae'n"
OAIYsy THEArRg---" Zatina atlanta,
havERLYa lara STREET .H.HpE aaI vsn,,s D'"""
9AvppIYss NiRIO's GARDEN" Back Nenus'
PARK THEATRE" Oivette.
SAN FRANCISCO MfNsInGLs.
srAKpAgp THEATRE-" BigaIny.
Tu.I,s TYR ATRE-" Three Pair Shoes"
IJSIox soUARR THEATRE-" The Creole
WxLLAcK's THEATRE" SCHOOL Tor ecahon'
AouARUN-2 and s-Cifcus.
CiiICKEsISG HALL-Recitals. ,s..,,
NATIONAI ACADEMY OF DEsIGN-Exhibtion
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-28

For the first time in her fiscal history, the
statistics of Canada show an increase of ex-
ports over imports. This, with other evidences
of growth, falsfes the gloomy forebOdings
which were made when she adopted the pro-
t4ctiye policy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-28

It was the greatest effort of Beck's life, and
it was cruel.in Mr.. Blaine to spoil it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-28

Under the title of " New Ground in the West"
Extra No. 49, The TRIBUNE issues this morning
another of ITS popular series. 1t tans ten letters
from Leadville which have recently appeared IN
1HE TRIBUNE, including two admirable studies OF
Aiming mislnanagc Pittsburg and Little
Chief The same district vas described IN an earlier
number of this series no. 40). but tho phenomenal
growth OF its mining operations has rendered a
second budget OF CORES pondenco necessary. The
new Extra" also contains a graphic account OF
an ascent of Pixies Peak an interesting article OH
Pocket. Mining and letter on Old Spanish Mon
terey 'fhc Extra will be sent postpaid to any ad-
dless Price, ~ cents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-28

The Liberal appeal to Mr.. Gladstone not to
waste his strength in parliamentary skirmsh-
ing is timely, although it may go anheedcd.
The Liberal party cannot afford to be indif-
ferent when it sees its leader destroying his
health in contending against obstructive tao
tics. which are trials of physical endurance
rathsr than of mental power.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-28


There never was anything less satisfactory than
the great Muldoon-W Whistler wrestling match. WINCH
began at Terrace Garden. 1" for the championship
of the world" on Wednesday evening at O'CLOCK
Both men were strong. and both so tremendously
and unspeakably and equally scientific that,
although they Rugged and wriggled aud embraced
each other until o'clock yesterday morning. 1t
was n diSeracefu and discOuraging draw after all.
Both men have retired to recruit themselves. and
will try conclusions again upon some other day.
What good will come of 1t ALL any moro than OF the
dreary walking match which is going on III another
place, we really do not know. Society does not
physically grow any stronger though the Muldoons
and Whistlcrs provo themselves to be perfect sam
sons The men who stand around and bet aud
drink and smoke while the giants are contendng
are none the better for the exhibition but often
much worse in health and pocket. Giants are no;
particularly useful members of society. and man
may have moro strength than he has any use for.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-28
musical NOTES.

to attend the ball TO be given next week bythsGsv
or nor General. s.t.t.<s.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-28

There is no charity which gives so much
Measure at 80 little cost either of money OF
labor as tho "boOk and paper collection of
the State Charities AID Association. For
those who superintend the operations of the
charity there is 20 doubt work enough. bnt
for the giver it ia very easy benevoence in-
deed. Even the Lesite who passed by on tue
other side would have had nc objection to
dropping newspaper in box put at his very
hand for the benefit Of the man who had
fallen among thieves, if there had been news
papers and their coneomitants in those
days. The committee having this. book
and paper work in charge met yester-
day, and held an interesting meeting. The
fruit of their exertions cheers many sick
bed and cell and lonely post of duty. They
age deserving of gratitude, and--which is not
always the rule-they get it.
There is new and instructive development
in the attempt of the Democrats of the House
nj Representatives to pass the BickneLl electo-
raj resolution. Finding themselves unable to
secure the attendance of enough Democratic
meubers to make Quorum. even while they
ne IN Washington. they have conceived the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-28

FoRFiGx.-The blockade OF CallaO has been
raised, - There has been skirmisbng near Pre-
tora A meeting has been held at
Ottawa to aid tho Irish land movement
Iohn Pr obt smoke on tho Coercion bill in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-28

election case furnished Republicans an opportunity
to give the Democrats warning not to carry injus-
tice too far - The Naval Appropriation bill was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-28

Ono thing concerning General Garfirld's Cabinet
becomes palmer every day-he is still determined to
L., -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-28

To come within throe votes of alecing United
State, senator in a State which has been firmly
welded to the Solid South ever since Andrew john
sons trracLery ~ a substantial vlciOry OF which
the Tennessee Republicans may feel proud.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-28

The electoral c0uut-Out resolutions will never pas:
the House and the sooner the Democrats back
down tho less Illuminating will be their defeat.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-28

passed finally IN tile Senate.
CITY AND SUBuEBAN.-Ex-JudgeD Dillon and ex-
Judge Porter argued on the side of the coupanies
-, +Yo taIaor.nb snt yesterday. The charges
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-19
The Caterpillar and the FIy.

A corpulent caterpillar is stuffing his
furred or velvet doublet with the juicy
pulp of a young and tender oak leaf
His thoughts-at all events his sensa-
tions are completely centered in the
business which he has in hand-more
properly in mouth; and he dreams as
little of approaching danger as an al
derman at a city feast imbibing the
green fat Of turtle, while a sparkling
chandelier hangs, perhaps suspended by
an all but severed chain, over his de
voted head No chandelier, indeed, but
destruction in living form as bril-
liant, hangs suspended over the un-
conscious glutton of the oak leaf. An
ichneumon fly, poised in the air above
him, her iridescent wings and black
shining body glittering in the sun, is
fearfully vibrating her tail like piercer,
with intent to plunge it into the feshy
back of her well-fed victim. She stoops
her weapon enters-is withdrawn, and
leaves behind it, in the wound, germ
of nascent torture thousand times
more dreadful than drop of deadly
poison-a tiny egg deposited within the
warm orifice pierced for its reception.
In a few hours this egg becomes a
gnawing worm, which thrives and fat
tens on the juices, leaving carefully un-
touched the vital organs of the helpless
gormandizer thus compelled to foster
1t. Its growth completed the parasite
emerges, and then, in completion of its
murderous part, spins a silken thread,
with which it proceeds to bind the
nearly exhausted body of its supporter
las Gulliver by Lilliputian cords) to the
surface of the oak leaf. Thus manacled,
the shrunken remnant of the once
plump crawler exists yet few miser-
able days, while the young ichneumon,
having inclosed itself within a shroud
of silk, undergoes its transformations,
and finally emerges into a perfect life,
a sparkling fly, like its parent, close be-
side the then dead body of the creature
by which it had been nourished to ma
turity. -" Episodes Of Insect Life"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-19
A Queer Way of Building Houses.

There are in the world many queer
ways of making houses, and one of the
queerest is found in the city of Palem-
bang, in Sumatra. The town extends
for three or four miles on both sides of
q rather wide river, and both shores are
lined with houses. First comes q row
built upon piles which are driven into
the bottom of the river, and outside of
that another row resting on great bam-
boo RATS, which are held by cables of
rattan to the piles of the next houses.
OF course these rats rise and fall with
the tide, and the doors open upon the
water, so that they are reached by boats.
The thresholds are not more than a foot
above water, and one steps directly
from boat into house. One can buy
anything there is for sale in this town
without getting out of his boat. The
people are Malays, and it is said that
they never build house on dry land il
they can find water to set it in, and
never go anywhere on foot if they can
reach the place in boat.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-19
The Monkey and the Crab.

A careless assistant to fshmonger,
with basket of crabs ON his arm, took
it into his head while passing the mon
keys house in the Jardin des Plantes,
Paris, the other day, that it would be
amusing to give a crab to one of the
monkeys which held ont its "hand Z"
through the wires of the cage. The
animal, we are told, looked at it curiously,
then raised it to his mouth. The crab,
hitherto inert, now recovered its self
possession, and took hold of the mon
keys nose between his large claws.
The other, with piercing cry, rushed
to the roof of the building, clinging to a
cord. 1t continued to maintain it's
hold, the monkey frantically endeavor-
ing to tear it away. Weary of the strug-
gle he suspended himself to bar by
the tail, hoping thus to throw off his
enemy, the other apes sitting on the
ground, looking on with establishment
at the strange spectacle. Suddenly the
poor animal became motionless. He
was, as an eyewitness suggests, think
ing, and his reflections, we are told,
We're of a melancholy character, as they
ended in suicide. He let go the bar to
which he had been suspended, and fall
ing head foremost was killed instantly,
his nose still in the claws of his perse-
ltor.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-19
A Rank Feast in India.

Squatting in the center of various
piles of delicacies sits the vender. And
curious are these sweets. Milky cream
and coarse brown sugar are their chief
ingredients. No attempt is made at
decoration. In fact, the native would
not appreciate anything which savored
of delicacy. His cookery is always
strong. Horrid garlic, greasy ghi or
clarified butter-condiments at which
the European would sicken-are the
choicest of their culinary efforts. The
quantity of sweets q strong man con-
sumes borders on the marvellous. The
reasoL is of easy account. A Hindoo,
by his religion, is,forbidden to eat meat,
and the most nourishing food they can
obtain is saccharine matter A sweet
meat called "ielabi" is in high esteem.
This is made in imitation of hollow
coil of rope and filled with treacle. A
mouthful to tender stomach is pro-
vocative of cholera OF biljousness for at
least month. But the English school
boy has been known to compete with
he Hindo in such gastronomic feats;
for one boy has been known at sitting
to eat twelve solid pounds. The doctors
prophesied of him immediate death, but
he smiled sickly and thought glass of
milk would set him all right.
In all great native feasts confection-
cry takes an important place. First, as
the guests arrange themselves, is
handed round in silver tray the altar,
scent procured from the rose. This
is rubbed into the clothes of the guests.
Then follow the pan and betel. This
is the nut of the areca pounded, and
with lime inclosed in large, green, sue
culent leaves. 1t is an appetizer, and
eaten just in the same manner as a
European would drink just before din
ner sherry and bitters. The taste is acid,
but withal pleasant, and the lime
brightly reddens the lips. This is
greatly admired by the native. Then
follow rice, sugar and milk, and pound
upon pound of the coarsest lollypops.
Not word is spoken during the feast.
Each man is bent upon his meal, and
those who wish to highly honor their
guest tie around their stomach before
sitting down tender thread. When
this breaks the gentleman thinks
he has satisfied his appetite. As when
in olden times in Europe lady thought
she paid compliment to her host wheu
she said she had been so drunk as to
forget how she reached home, so ma
tive of certain caste thinks he is cour-
teous when he says the repast was SO
good as to cause severe indigestion. 1t
is not an uncommon thing after grand
feast for at least two or three people to
die of over-gorgiug: and then another
feast has to be given, at which, proba-
bly,, some more die. Thus is deaths
sickle not permitted to rust A sweet
meat shop is a frequented place not
only by the younger members of the
community, but by The sage and hoary.
But nothing can be bought without
wrangling. Though a man may buy q
pound of the self-same article for ten
years running, he would each time try
to reduce the price, and the seller,
knowing this popularity, invariably asks
double the real price Californian.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-19

The Congregational church at Ver-
million, Oak, lost its house of worship,
with all its furniture, by the recent
food.
Seventy years ago the first Christian
baptism of Eindoo took place. There
are now in India, Burmah and Ceylon
100000 native Christians.
A new uptown Methodist church is
projected in New York. 1t is proposed
to commence work when 5000, 1000 has
been raised, of which S150,000 has al
ready been subscribed.
According to the present programme
prepared for the Methodist Gcumenical
conference, to be held in London in
September next, Bishop Simpson is to
preach the opening sermon.
Some one has counted up the Sunday
school conventions, institutes and
assemblies held in this country during
1880. They numbered 1920, an aver
age of over 100 q week. But the coun-
try is large, and these gatherings were
held in many widely-separated places,
The Fifth Avenue Baptist church,
of New York, needed repair and en-
bellishment. DIR. Armitage told his
people of this need, and the conse-
quence was an immediate response by
solid men, who subscribed 500, 900. The
church will now be one of the most
beautiful in the city.
New churches are being organized on
the Western mission fields of the Bap-
tist home mission society at the rate OF
ONT for each week. In five years there
will be from $50 TO 800 churches added
to our force. These, in addition to the
750 houseless churches now in the West
will give at least 1000 churches requir-
ing attention from the society, either
TO build or to support pastors for a
time. ETdminer.
A religious paper in London speaks
Of the great annoyance which some min
isters suffer while preaching, from the
thoughtlessness of restless and fidgety
persons, who pull their watches fIom
their pockets or turn around to look at
the church clock. This paper says that
there ought to be law that whoever
takes out his watch or looks at the clock
during sermon should be condemned to
sit out the monotonous reading of one
of the longest sermons of one of the
dryest sixteenth century diYines.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-19
WISE WORDS.

Entertain charity, and seek peace with
all men,
Inclination and interest determine
the will,
Love, faith and patience-the three
essentials to happy life.
None are more hopelessly enslaved
than those who falsely believe they are
free.
A falsehood has no legs, and cannot
stand; but it has wings, and can fly far
and wide.
Man believes himself always greater
than he is, and is esteemed less than
he is worth.
Never show that you suspect, nor ac-
cuse till you have found that your sus-
picion was we'll founded.
Every person has two educations-one
which he receives from others, and
one more important which he gives
himself.
The nice arrangement and proper ap-
preparation of time is science almost as
valuable as any of the seven, and as i'm
portant to acquire.
A gentleman in Montreal who offered
the city $4,000 as a permanent bread
fund for the poor, without respect to
creedor nationality, had much difficulty
in getting his generous gift accepted,
some of the aldermen contending that
the city council is not appointed to ad-
minister fund for charitable purposes.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-19
Origin of the Word "Dun,o

The word "dun" is not entirely un-
familiar to the ordinary North American
ear. 1t is not word of sweet sound or
delightful associations. 1t generally
means that man is undone. The coarse
and persistent demand for filthy lUcre
at time when we have hunted through
every pocket We possess in the vain
hope of finding even the smallest coin
that was ever deposited in a contribu-
tion-box is not exactly like q refrain of
music. 1t may, however. be sadly in
teresting to know the origin of the
word. There is a momentary glow of
satisfaction in the sight of the makers
name on the saw with which the sur
geon amputates your leg. We do not
algue that it is satisfaction that lasts
very long, or that it is very profund in
its character, but still there is the
merest shadow of O shadow of interest,
not to put the matter in an exaggerated
way, in the knowledge that the afore-
mentioned saw is of good Sheffield
make, and not one of those cheap in
struments in which high civilization
sometimes deals. In the reign of Henry
VII. famous bailiff, named Joe Dun,
lived in the town of Lincoln. He was
extremely dexterous in extorting money
from unwilling pockets. When he was
invited to "call again" he always
accepted the cheerful invitation. In
deed, his habits were so prodigate and
he was so careless of the courtesies of
life that he was apt to call even when
no genial invitation had been extended.
He was never much farther away than a
creditors shadow, When a man refused
to pay bill, therefore, some one was
sure to ask: "Why don't you Dun
him?" Hence the awful word which
has followed the impecunious even unto
this day, and the associations of which
not even the lapse of time can mellow.
-Neso York Herald.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-19
tmDhihiOuS Venice.

Water is the Venetian's native ele-
ment. In the quaint gloom of twilight
the canals of Venice are alive with her
male population, men and boys, and
very many little maidens, too, in cloth
fig leaves, sporting in the waters like so
many dark skinned Polynesians. They
dive, they gambol, they shout, they
splash, they make the old walls and
Shiny waters merry with their cries and
laughter, while their nude, white bodies
come out against them in shiny, drip
ping relief, like so many figures of a
far-away primitive world, where inno-
cence still rules supreme. Mothers sit
knee-deep in water on their house steps,
either holding their six months old
babies, while they kick and splash and
coo delightedly on their own account at
finding themselves thus early in life in
their native element, or else they let the
older ones loose, with ropes around their
waists, securely fastened either to them
selves or the door-ring, to be hauled
quickly in in case of emergency. To
aid them still further in their nautical
exploits, these infants are supplied with
breast-boards on which to float until
they learn to swim, which feat is soon
accomplished, for they take as easily to
the water as othel children do to green
sward. Indeed, at this time of day it
requires some extra skill on the part of
the gondolier to pick his way through
the swimming, floating, plunging
population, as thick in spots as shoals
of mackerel in their season, screaming
and hustling one another in the brine as
vigorously as if sporting on shore.
Where there is SO much rollicking
nakedness about, stalwart models of
men as nude, saving their waist cloths,
as the classical gods, and little girls and
boys ragless, OF next to it, at first blush
on encountering them in these watery
streets of a large city in broad daylight,
the stranger is startled; but soon gets
accustomed to this novel phase of
Venetian life. Salt water is great
leveler.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-19
SnhStitntps for Kissing.

Some rude rces have strange sub
stitutes for kissing. OF Mongol father,
a traveller writes, "he smeiled from
time to time the head of his youngest
son, a mark Of paternal tenderness
usual among the Mongols instead of
embracing" In the Philippine islands,
we are told, "tlie sense of smell is de-
veloped to so great a degree that they
are able, by smelling at the pocket
handkerchiefs, to tell to which persons
they belong; and lovers, at parting, ex-
change pieces of linen they may be
wearing, and during their separation
inhale the odor of the beloved being"
Among the Citagong-hill people. again,
it is said, "the manner of kissing is pc
culiar. Instead of pressing lip to lip,
they place the nose and mouth upon the
cheek and inhale the breath strongly"
Their form of speech is not "Give me
kiss" but "Smell me-" In the same
way, according to another traveller,
i" the Burmese do not kiss each other
in the Western fashion, but apply the
lips and nose to the cheek and make
strong inhalation" Moreover, "the
Samoans salute by juxtaposition of
noses, accompanied not by a rub but
hearty smell" There is Scriptural pre-
cedent for such custolIs. When blind
Isaac was in doubt whether the son
who came to him was Jacob or not,
she smelled the smell of his raiment,
and blessed him."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-19
A Desnerao,s EscaDe.

A communicatin from Santa Fe,
New Mexico, says Full particulars of
the escape of William Bonney, alias
Chilly the Kid" FINN the Jail of Lincoln
county have reaced here. The Kid
was in charge of bb Alinger and J. w.
Bell, deputy sheiffs, cool and brave
men. 1t seems, bwever, that by docile
behavior the prisoer put them off their
guard. On the eening of the day in
question Alingerhad gone to supper,
leaving Bell to watch the prisoner
Bell was sitting IN the floor talking,
when the Kid, win was heavily shackled
and handcuffed, approached him pleas
antly and suddenb jumped at him with
the swiftness of awildcat, hitting him
on the head and fracturing his skull.
He then snatchedBelPs pistol and shot
him in the breas. Bell ran down the
steps and fell at tie foot corpse. The
Kid kicked open the door, procured a
Ratchet and knocled off his shackles.
He also broke o)en the door of the
armory and tookpossession of several
1uns and pistols. Bob Alinger, hearing
the shot, left his supper and ran toward
the jail. When entering small gate
leading through te Jail fence, the Kid,
who was upstairs, shot him with a gun
loaded with buclshot, killing him in.
stantly. The town of Lincoln seemed
terror-stricke and nobody thought Of
opposing the KID. He stole q horse
and rode off, armed with four revolvers
and Winchester rifle. He has ex
pressed determination to kill Governor
Lew Wallace, who failed to pardon him
and who, by curious coincidence
signed the Kids death Warrant at oants
Fe on the same day that he escaped Al