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The X-ray picture showed the ex act location of the coin and enabled the delicate and dangerous opera tion kuown afi esophagotomy to be safely performed. PAPER Buffalo, N. Y., is now trying an automobile wagon for the collection of mail. The mail from forty box es, covering a territory six miles in length, was collected in less than half the time necessary to cover the same route with a horse and wag- ofl. The experiment will be contin ued, and if it continues to work satisfactorily it is believed that a number of automobiles will be placed in regular commission in connection with the postal service in that and other cities. E D IT IO N S . Paine’s Age o f R e a so n ...................................... Paine’s Common Sense...................................... Paine’s Rights o f M a n ....................................... Paine’s Crisis........................................................ Paine’s Religious & Theological "Works. Ills Paine’s Principal Political Works, n iu s..... Paine’s Life. Profusely illu stra ted ............... Volney’s Ruins o f Empires. Illustrated. .. Rousseau’s Vicar o f Savoy, and A Search for Truth, by Olive Schreiner.......................... Rousseau’s Social Contract............................... Meslier’s Superstition in all Ages. Portrait rDieOIier’d (Wlaitbe tilth Klrruim ft. Portrait Dickens’ Sunday Under Three Heads. Ulus. Bulwer’s History o f a False Religion. Ulus. Talleyrand’s Letter to the Pope. Portrait. Gibbon’s Birth and Character o f M ahom et.. Higfcins’ Horse Sabbaticse................................. H iggins’ Apology for Mahomet, the •Ulus. Reasons for Unbelief. By Louis Viardot Father Tom and the Pope at the V a tica n ...... CLOTH E D IT IO N S . 25 P A IN E ’ S C O M P L E T E W ORKS. 15 Paine's Political Works. 2 vol. Finest 25 Paine’s Theological Works 1 vol. Illustrated 25 Paine’s Miscellaneous Works. 1 vol. Edition, 60 Paine’s Life. By Clio Rickman Boxed. 60 and the editor o f The N ation 6 vol. f«5.00 50 al. Profusely illustrated. 1 v o l.. 60 Paine’s Age o f R eason........................- ..........- ........ - 50 Paine’s Rights o f Man...................................... ........... 60 25 Pjkinp*a Onsis 50 60 Paine’s Life, by ed National. Profusely Ulus. 76 60 Paine’s Complete Life, by Clio Rickman and 50 the editor o f the N ational.............................. 1 00 25 Paine’s Principal Political Works, (1 vol.)... 1 00 25 Paine’s Political W orks,Com plete. (2 vols.).. 2 00 25 Paine’s litig io u s and Theological Works. 1 00 25 Gibbon’s History o f Christianity. Illus....... 2 00 26 Gibbon’s Birth and Character of Mahomet. 50 25 25 25 *** An English inventor has built an experimental railway in Belgium over which he has run cars around sharp curves at a speed of 150 miles per hour. A practical commercial line is to be constructed between Liverpool and Manchester, Eng land, The roadway is A-shaped, with a single track, and the car is a “double decker, 60 feet long, and hangs one-half on each side of the A-shaped trestle. The motive pow er is electricity, and the car carries four motors weighing three tons each. The cost of construction is es timated at $50,000 to 8100,000 per mile, but the smaller cost of opera tion is expected to reduce the total cost below that of the steam rail way. I n v ita tio n s , B o o k s o r P a m p h le ts , Voltaire’s Romances. Illustrated............... 1 50 ------- Essays and Criticisms. ProAisely illus. 1 60 Voltaire’s Zadig, or F a te ; and The W hite Rousseau’s Vicar o f Savoy. Portrait Cloth 50 Bull, a Satirical R om ance............... 25 Rousseau’s Social Contract. Portrait............ 75 _____ The Sage and the A theist; also The Meslier’s Superstition in all Ages. Portrait. 1 00 Princess o f Babylon............................ 25 HHr4Her'# twlaube imh ¡Urrnuiift. Portrait 1 00 _____The Man o f Forty C row ns; and The Volney’s Ruins o f Empires. Illustrated...... 75 Huron, or, Pupil o f Nature............ 25 Volney’s New Researches in Ancient History 1 50 ------- Micromegas; The World as it Coes ; Reade’s (Winwood) Martyrdom o f Man....... 1 00 Plato’s Dream ; Jeannot & Colin, etc. 25 Hseckel’s Visit to Ceylon. Portrait............... 1 00 Voltaire’s Romances, containing the above 4 Dickens’ Sunday Under Three Heads. Illus. 50 books in one vol. Profusely illustrated..$1 00 H iggins’ Horse Sabbaticse................................ 80 _____ Letters on the Christian R eligion....... 25 H iggins’ Apology for Mahomet, the Illus. 50 --------Philosophy of H istory............................... 25 Buchner’s Force and Matter. Portrait........ 1 00 --------Ignorant Philosopher............................... 25 Buchner’s Man in Past, Present and Future. 1 00 --------Chinese C atechism ..........................■■■■■■■ 25 Rochefoucauld's Moral Maxims...................... 75 Voltaire’s Essays and Criticisms contains the Comte’s Positive Philosophy. Portrait......... 4 00 above 4 books, profusely illustrated........ 1 00 Goodloe’s Birth o f the Republic. P ortrait.. 1 00 Renan’s l if e o f Jesus. U l u s t r a t e d - - - - - - . 50 Saltus’ Anatomy o f N egation .................- ...... 75 Schopenhauer’s Wisdom o f Life. Portrait... 25 Saltus’ Philosophy o f D isenchantm ent........ 76 --------Counsels and M a x im s......................... 25 Fawcett’s A gnosticism ........................................ 75 --------R eligion: a Dialogue & Other Essays , 26 Bulwer’s History o f a False Religion .......... 60 --------The Art o f Literature....................... - ....... 25 Talleyrand’s Letter to the Pope. Portrait.. 50 --------Studies in Pessim ism ............................... 25 Reasons for Unbelief. By Louis Viardot...... 60 Gabrielle’s Life and Imm ortality o f M an.... 60 Father Tom and the Pope at the V atican...... 60 Davidson’s Canon o f the Bible........................ ™ Ingersoll’s Lectures, vol. I, cloth................... 3 60 Darwin’s Origin o f Species............................... 50 ---------------- “ voi. I, full sheep......... 5 00 Hypatia By Charles K ingsley........................ — ------------ “ vol. I, h alf m orocco.. 5 00 Bacon’s Paradoxes. Portrait ............ ........ JO (Second volume in preparation.) The Scientific Religion By Maniel Sands. 50 Ingersoll’s Prose Poems. Portrait...... ........ 2 60 26 ---------------- “ Ingersoll’s Controversy & « Christmas CUnsTmas Hermon nermon “ Cheaper Edition.. 1 60 —--------- Gods and other Lectures.................. 50 ----------------Gods and other Lectures.............. 1 00 50 ---------------- Ghosts and other Lectures.......... 1 00 • Ghosts and other Lectures. • Some Mistakes o f Moses................... 25 --------------Some Mistakes o f Moses............ -• 1 00 50 ■ Interviews on Talms Interviews on Talm age...........«... 1 00 ■ __________ Saved ?.. ■ What Must we do to __________ Field-Ingersoll Discussion........... 50 ____ i n f 25 Blasphemy Ingersoll-Gladstone Controversy 60 a ________ Man, Woman and Child. Portrait. -The Christian R elig io n ................ 5C 25 ------------- Shakespeare, a Lecture. Portrait. 50 Patriotic Addresses — 26 _____ -------------About the Holy Bible, a Lecture... 50 __________ Shakespeare, a Lecture. Portrait -------------Voltaire, a Lecture. P ortrait........ 25 ___________________ 75 Renan’s Life ol Jesus............................Cloth ________ Field-Ingersoll Discussion. 25 Davidson's Canon of the Bible......................... 1 00 25 Apocrvphal New Testam ent... ill-Gladstone Controversy • Ingersol I ................... 1 50 25 Morehouse’s Wilderness o f Worlds. The Christian Religion Illu s.... 1 00 25 ïith. Foundations o f Fai 25 Taber’s Faith or Fact.... ................... ................. 1 00 How to Reform Mankind K eeler’s Short History o f the Bible................. 75 Essays and C riticism s............. 25 Carlyle’s French Revolution............................. 75 The Truth, a L ecture............... 25 Spencer’s First P rin cip les................................. 75 Crimes Against Criminals-------....... 10 Spencer’s Data o f E thics.................................... 75 Abraham Lincoln, a Lecture Por. 25 l “ Education............................................. 75 Which Way? A Lecture.......... 25 Darwin’s Descent oi M a n .................................. 75 Myths and Miracles. A Lecture... 25 Darwin’s Origin o f Species.......................... .... 75 Patriotic Addresses.................... 25 Proctor’s Other Worlas than ours................... 75 Some Reasons W hy................... 25 K ingsley’s H ypatia.............................................. 75 25 Why I am an Agnostic.... Schopenhauer's Essays..... . - ..... - ........ . 75 V O'Meara’s Napoleon, 2 vol., Boxed. Illus. 2 60 Rome or Reason ? ............ 25 Las Casas Napoleon, 4 vols., Boxed Ulas.... 6 00 Superstition. A Lecture M Cobbett’s English Grammar............................. 1 00 On the Devil. “ M Macauley’s Lays o f Ancient Rome. 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Illustrated.. — 1 00 FOR SA LE BY FOR SALE BY The daily papers have of late E n v e lo p e s contained reports of death in vari Or an y o th e r P rin tin g , you will serve ous cities attributed to self-admin your own in te re s t and help su p p o rt istration of unknown remedies. The th e L iberal U n iv ersity by se n d other day a woman in Pittsburg ing your o rders to us. We died twenty minutes after swallow will ex ecu te th em p ro m p tly , tastefu lly . ing a powder for the relief of head ache. This is said to be the fifth death in that city alone recently set down to the same cause. Such ■ V instances teach the nostrum-loving E X -G O V . J O H N P . A L T G E L D . American people very slowly. The A B o o k for t h e P e o p l e report of the physicians who have C O N T A IN S ALL T H E F A M O U S S P E E C H E S . L E T T E R S , recently made an autopsy in the M E S S A G E S ANO E S S A Y S OF T H E A U T H O R . E V E R Y IS S U E O F N A T IO N A L IM P O R T A N C E A N D case of a lady in Detroit is said to P O P U L A R IN T E R E S T E A R N E S T L Y C O N S ID E R E D . show that death was hastened by T r u s t s , M o n o p o l ie s , G o v e r n m e n t O w n e r s h ip , C ivil S e r v ic e , T a x a t io n , the use of secret headache powders. M oney Q u e s t io n , T a r if f , E d u c a t io n , It would seem but right that the E l e c t io n F r a u d s , S t r ik e s , L abor O r g a n iz a t io n s , I m p e r ia l is m and a ingredients of all nostrums sold in H u n d r e d O t h e r T o p ic s D is c u s s e d . drugstores should appear upon the H A N D S O M E L IB R A R Y E D IT IO N . t.O O O P A G E S , package. This would protect in a S U B S T A N T IA L CLO TH, P O S T P A ID , $ 2 .5 0 THE TORCH OF REASON. THE TORCH OF REASON. 6E0. S. B ower & Sos, Uniti Bldg., ERIC*««), measure both the druggist and the "LIVE QUESTIONS" Agents wanted everywhere. 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