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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. 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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. 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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? 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