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A few’ days ago in Paterson, N.
J., says “Electricity”, the X-ray
was probably the means of saving
the life of a fifteen-months-old |
child who had swallowed a nickel
which had lodged in its throat.
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 .
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15 Paine's Political Works.
2 vol.
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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.
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al. Profusely illustrated.
1 v o l..
60 Paine’s Age o f R eason........................- ..........-
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Paine’s Rights o f Man......................................
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25 Pjkinp*a Onsis
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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
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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...............................
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voi. I, full sheep......... 5 00
Hypatia By Charles K ingsley........................
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Bacon’s Paradoxes. Portrait ............ ........ JO
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50 Ingersoll’s Prose Poems. Portrait...... ........ 2 60
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« Christmas
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“ Cheaper Edition.. 1 60
—--------- Gods and other Lectures..................
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50 ---------------- Ghosts and other Lectures.......... 1 00
• Ghosts and other Lectures.
• Some Mistakes o f Moses...................
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Interviews on Talm age...........«... 1 00
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________ Man, Woman and Child. Portrait.
-The Christian R elig io n ................
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------------- Shakespeare, a Lecture. Portrait.
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Patriotic Addresses —
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-------------About the Holy Bible, a Lecture...
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-------------Voltaire, a Lecture. P ortrait........
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75
Renan’s Life ol Jesus............................Cloth
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The Christian Religion
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Foundations o f Fai
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How to Reform Mankind
K eeler’s Short History o f the Bible.................
75
Essays and C riticism s.............
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Carlyle’s French Revolution.............................
75
The Truth, a L ecture...............
25
Spencer’s
First
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75
Crimes Against Criminals-------....... 10 Spencer’s Data o f E thics....................................
75
Abraham Lincoln, a Lecture Por. 25
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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
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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.
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M Macauley’s Lays o f Ancient Rome. Ulas..... 2 50
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T hankw iving Sermon
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As He Is............................. ,
- Vindication o f Thom as Paine......
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- Is Suicide a Sin ?....... .........................
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To the Clergy
ilio de form es, 2 vols.. .
25 Lazar if
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48 Etching»,
25 Asmodens, 1 voL.......................
Liberty in Literature........................
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aanfls’ Discourse About Imm ortality
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ache. This is said to be the fifth
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