AN AFRICAN CHIEF'S BADGE.
ItiiKtcIn riliiRi to n IJnm Trnkettla
Vlilrli Dr. Prtcrs finvo Illm.
Among tlio many wrecks of dark
continent royalty now drifting nbout
Germany is the Somali chief, Hussein
Fnrrar. Ho got a tasto of Teutonic
civilization whilo aiding tho German
Emin Pasha expedition, and could not
bo kept from hurrying off to the empire
of tho Hohenzollorns as soon as he got
the $130 allowed him for his services.
Before sailing he invested .$200 in two
cabs, two cabmen and a superintend
ent, whom he left in charge of his liv
ery business in Aden.
lie created u panic tho first day he
appeared in Unter den Linden, and the
police had to be summoned to provent
the crowd from stealing from him a
battered brass teakettle that he
clutched tightly with his right hand.
Every effort was made to dissuado him
from disturbing tho public peaco by
.swinging this kettle, wherever ho went,
but in vain.
Ho refused to explain his affection
for this rather curious adjunct of his
street costume, and not until Dr.
Peters, tho explorer, came to llerlin
was any satisfactory reason for his be
havior obtainable. The rival of Stan
ley, however, unraveled tho mystery.
When the liinin Pasha expedition was
in the Massai country, he said, Hussein
conducted himself with extraordinary
bravery. Peters wished to reward him,
but had nothing of value at hand to
give away.
Whilo rumaging about in camp for
sonic kind of present, he came upon an
old, leaky, brass kettle that was about
to be thrown away He had it pol
ished at once, called together tho na
tives, ami in their presence gave it to
Hussein, with the assuranco that such
jin article anions white men was the
customary reward for great deeds.
Since then Hussein has never let the
kettle out of his sight. When lighting
he wore it tied to .his waist; on ship
board he carried it in his arms, and in
Germany he always takes it to bed
with him. Chicago Times.
ndiiniitliin In Switzerland.
In Switzerland tho state's first busi
ness is the education of tho youth.
Teachers must, first of all. bo univer
sity graduates, or elso bo graduates ol
high, very high, class normals. They
aro employed for long terms, almost
for life, and are pensioned when grown
old in tho public service. Tho schools
stand at tho head of everything; oven
the armv costs les than their schools
do.
Their system contains six kinds or
grades of preparatory schools below
the university. There aro tho primary,
tho secondary, tho repeating, tho spe
cial, the Heal schools, and tlio gymna
sium, the last answering in rank to the
American college. Tho first two ol
these schools are cumpulsory and free,
but the pupil may chooo between at
tending tho secondary school and the
repeating school. This latter is intend
ed mostly for tho benefit of the very
poor, who cannot spare tho children
from labor after they have finished
with tho primary school. S. II. M.
Uycrs in Harper's.
test tlio (Jreut IJoniedy.
The medicine for th" heart, of all
other organs, is rest mental and bodi
ly. This does not mean doing nothing
nt all, but not overdoing; least of all,
not giving it anything in tho way of
physical ill being to overcome. This
must be provided -for at all points.
Food may be delieato and plentiful, air
nd sunshine generously admitted,
baths and massage do their utmost,
and chilly sleep for want of some extra
blankets or dull days with a poor fire
will so disorder tho circulation that the
other cares go for nothing ns far as
positive gain is concerned.
It takes an all round intelligence to
securo tho common health. Most peo
plo take tho onochanco of it that pours
out of a inedicino bottlo. Others add
to this care about food and baths, and
half care nbout puro air, whilo they
tako little rest and next to no sunshine
or any cheerful stimulus of pleasure
Of course, tho result is unsatisfactory.
Shirley Dare's Letter.
Ah to I'resrrlptlnns.
A correspondent of Tho Chicago Tri
"buno complains that he took n foreign
prescription to a druggist in Chicago
who declined to return the paper after
putting up tho medioine, Tho writer
claims that in England and Scotland
tho apothecaries return prescriptions,
retaining copies. A Chicago druggist
thinks that a good caso can bo made
out for both customs, although "under
ordinary circumstances in this city nny
druggist will givo a customer n copy of
tho prescription he brings in unless tho
physician's request is to tho contrary."
No Hunger.
Jamser What aro you doing nowa
days? Spacer I am writing tho lives of
great men for n biographical diction
ary that is being compiled.
Jamser Aren't you nlndd to under
tnko work of that sort?
Spacer. Oh, no! Tho men I am
writing about aro all dead. Puck.
Didn't Wimt Any lixtru Work.
"I'm trying to got up a good pen
nnmo. What do you feuggost?"
"Don't ask mo. I'vo as much ns I
can manage to mako u iiamo for my
eolf." Munsoy's Weekly.
A Stork I'hrutu Wittered.
Sho IIo talks liko n book, doesn't
he?
JIo-Yesj mi unpublished one,
Harper Jlaiar,
A FAR HAVEN.
HoI.it the Mil anil bir (way!
Of nn Island I l.ave heard.
Anchored In thr tnr sown deep,
Whither Lore 1 a pone Mtraj.
Long niro he lv-nnl I he roar
Of breakers railing on tiie Kind
Of Rome unknown Samarkand,
And with no reluctant word
Sailed nwny
In new meadows, by new sens.
Wo must seek him th the breex
Blowing from the eates of Mcep.
Ll-Utn we may hear him call
Where poldenrod o"ertojM the wall.
Or when the moon across the night
BeniU her steps
From that Island In tho sea
We nro told of dreamily
l!y seers of tho Orient
I hear him call:
What iovrers hare yo lent
To these poor oars.
Spirit of loe.
That In perianal banishment
Llvo my dark fears'
And oft i seem to rove.
When shadows fall.
Toward the Island, tlintfar Island of the sea.
Where l.ovo doth dwell:
And over the seti swell
Comes a clad vision to tho Inward sight
Of hat 1 heard. O Kappa, and told theo
Annio Fields in Harper's
How lie l'.ullt Ten Stories.
Capt. Ed II. Webster, of Kansas City,
said: The ten story building of the west
ern city is what somebody in the town
must erect. Tho somebody is ordinnrily
a wrecker. lie knows when he begins
the scheme that he will never live to en
joy tho income of the structure, or be a
victim of its collapse. IIo just wants to
have it said that he built tho ten story
i affair and ho is ready to quit. I know a
ten story affair that was built on the fol
lowing pattern:
The man had $5, 000 cash. He leased
a corner in a block and put in his foun
dation. Then he mortgaged it for
000. That was to cover the foundation
and three stories. Then ho put on a sec
ond mortgage of $2..000. and with that
the structure was run up three stories
higher Then he placed a third mort
gage on the building, which put it un
der roof, fie finished it off and rented
every ofiice, and every tenant found
himself confronted with a garnishee by
the mechanics who had liens.
These mechanics collected tho rents of
that building until a rich woman camo
along and bought the whole edifice, in
cluding the lease. Hut the ambitious
fellow who had run up the sky scraper
had his name on a stone over the en
trance, and he seemed to be happy.
There is a good deal of that sort of thing
going on in tho country. Chicago Trib
une. Electric Lights on Street Cars.
Some interesting experiments were
made recently in Bradford, England, on
the lighting of street cars by electricity
A car was illuminated by threo incan
descent lamps of five candle power each.
They were fed from three storago bat
teries pluced beneath the seats, capable
of supplying current continuously for
six hours, The light obtained is de
scribed as being about equivalent to that
given under the best conditions by the
oil lamps at present in use, with, of
course, tho additional advantages of ab
sence of smell and necessity for trim
ming. New York Telegram.
Foreigners Who Kecelvo Pensions.
Ireland has 2.i0 pensioners on the rolls,
who draw an average of $12 a month,
and a single county in England Lancas
ter lias fifty pensioners Thousands of
miles away in Australia are enough pen
sioners to draw nearly $2,000 a year
Tho Dark Continent has a round dozen
pensioners, living principally in Cape
Town, South Africa, wnilo Liberia is
represented by one lone widow whose
husband was freed by the emancipation
proclamation, and who died of tho inju
ries he received in fighting the battles of
"Massa Liukum "Youth's Companion,
In Stork.
Stranger (at great music box and or
chestrion emporium)! am a dentist,
and it has occurred to me that a music
box or orchestrion would be a pleasant
addition to my parlors, to amuse my pa
tients, do you know, and
Dealer 1 see. You want something
to keep the waiting patients interested
and sort o' help er drown any noises
in the operating room.
Stranger That's tho idea.
Dealer Step right this way, sir, to
tho steam calliope dopartmentl Good
News.
rroitil or Ills Work.
There is a story told of a French poet
who inquired of a friend and flatterer
what he thought of his last work. "I
have arrived at the fifteenth canto," he
replied with enthusiasm, and think
there is nothing more beautiful and har
monious in the language." 'Pardon
me, there is one thing." said tho poet.
"Ah, perhaps you mean Chateaubriand's
Atala?" "Certainly not. 1 mean my
sixteenth canto." San Francisco Argo
naut. CIiIiickh I'lajH.
No manuscript is written of tho plays
produced at the Chinese theatre. A
synopsis of incident is prepared, and the
stage manager stands at the entrance
and instructs tho actors as they go upon
tho stage in regard to what they aro to
J do, but leaves the entire dialogue for
them to extemporize. Boston Tran
script. An AliHolutn NtceHlty.
Mrs. Motherleigh Dora, my love, was
I it necessary to spend fifteen minutes in
bidding Harry good-night?
I Dora (furtively rearranging a rumpled
I collar) Yos, mother, it was a clear casn
I of mussed. Pittsburg Bulletin.
In the year 1200 chimneys wore scarce
ly known in England. Only one was
allowed iu u religious house, one in a
manor house and one iu the great hall
of a castle or lord's house, hut in other
houses the fcmoke found its way out as
it could.
Fleet street journalism has increased
by Iwips and bounds in recent years. In
lfrlO there were thirty-five newspapers
and periodicals published in Fleet street,
three of them dailies; in 1600 thero were
more than 000, uml cloven of them did-liea.
READING GAS METERS.
Rome Hiirvnnl Students Help I'ny Their
Uxpenes In Tills Manner.
Ono of the plea?antest and best pay
ing occupations in which a good in: y
collego men engage is rending meters for
tho Boston Gas Light Company. This
company employs about twenty-five stu
dents in that department. Tho work is
quite simple, each man being given a
district in which it is his duty once a
month to visit every gas meter and note
down the figures ns indicated on the
dials. The districts nre so divided up
that it takes each one fivo or six days to
complete his work. For this the stu
dents aro paid $2 per day; consequently
they are able to earn about $12 per month
from reading meters alone.
Where a student is practicing the most
rigid and severe economy this sf;5 per
week proves quite a welcoino assistance
and goes a long way toward paying for
their simple necessities. The work is
steady the year round, and a college
man in the employ of tho Boston Gas
Light Company can of a certainty count
upon an income of at least $2.50 to $!5
per week. Tho work is considered so
desirable by collegians that thero are al
ways on hand a number of applications,
so that when one drops out thero aro
plenty eager to take his place.
The young men thus employed come
from all the surrounding colleges. Har
vard, Tufts, Boston university, Institute
of Technology, and tho Medical School
furnishing about equal numbers. As a
rule they aro of New England birth and
come from good families. An illustra
tion of how somo young men put them
selves through college is found in tho
case of a native of the Granito State
who is attending tho Boston university
His means being very limited ho se
cured work from tho Boston Gas Light
company, tho pioeoeds from which he
used in defraying all his college ex
penses, such as room rent, books, cloth
ing, etc.
He at first got his board freo by serv
ing noons as a waiter in a restaurant,
and later by acting as commissary for a
boarding club. In this way ho obtained
all his board, room rent, clothing, books
and all the other things necessary to a
collego course by his own individual ef
forts. Another young man pays his
way through the same collego with the
money received from working for the
gas company, added to tho profits of u
largo newspaper route ' which ho goes
over every afternoon, and it is said that
ho earns from that source even more
than from reading meters. Boston Rec
ord. Avoiding ii Illockuilo.
One wagon was loaded with about six
tons of plate or sheet iron. Tho other
was held down by several thousand
bricks. One traction car was going up
tho avenue and another was crossing it.
Behind that was a horse car. .J ust then
a baker's wagon cut in on ono bide, and
a yeast nondescript camo from tho other
comer, when the big "off" nnilo in the
iron wagon wagged his left ear and
btopped. The brick cart stopped. So
do did tho up car and tho cross car, with
tho horse car bumping up behind it. It
was as pretty a bit of confusion, as you
have seen on Broadway, with tho differ
ence that in cases of emergency thero
seems to be about sixteen policemen to
tho square inch in Broadway, while
hero thero is about an inch of policeman
to twenty perches.
Somebody that knew character a big
red bearded man that had doubtless
sworn army mules into a paroxysm ;
energy tickled the muL's car with the
point of his umbrella; the mulo pranced,
tho red bearded man walloped it with
his umbrella twice and tho procession
began to move. Tho blockade was
lifted in ten seconds almost before it
was made. Pittsburg Bulletin.
A Curious Oiicriitlon,
Did you ever too n spider change his
skin? It is an intern ting sight, one
that will rep:iy any one for tho time lost
in waiting for tho novel event to take
place. When preparing for tho change
tho spider htops eating for several days,
and makes his preliminary arrangements
by fastening himself with a short thread
of web to ono of tho main lines of his
snare, this to hold him firmly whilo ho
proceeds to imdress. First tho 6kin
cracks all around tho thorax, being held
only by the fore part.
Next tho abdomen is uncovered, and
then comes the struggle to freo tho legs.
Ho works and kicks vigorously, seeming
to have a very hard time of it. Fifteen
minutes of continued perseverance, how
over, brings him out of his old dress,
tho struggle causing him to appear limp
and lifeless for some tnno after it is fin
ished. Gradually ho comes back to life,
brighter and more beautiful than befont
tho trying ordeal was begun, St. Louia
Republic.
A Deaf Mali's Hearing.
"Now just watch that man," remarked
a policeman as he stood on the steps of
the city hall. He pointed as ho spoke ton
man who was endeavoring in various
ways to attract tho attention of a deaf
and dumb man near by. "It's a funnv
thing," ho continued, "that you can i
shout in a mute's ear and he will bo utter
ly oblivious. to the fact that you aro any
whero in his neighborhood, while if you
whistlo ho will turn in an instant. You
don't believe it? Well, try it boniu time
and see." New Haven Union.
Iiiiuglnalivo Hubert.
ne is a bright infant, is Robert, and
imaginative. When he saw tho sun die
appear behind a cloud at sunset om
night, ho said, "The sun hasn't gone t 1
bed, but 1 guess he's undressing him ,
self." At nuaber lime ho said to hie '
father, "I have got iu toMiiy kistes lm
you us there are pine needle on the pirn-1
trees und flowers iu the woods!" Boston
Transcript.
A I'ulr Devotee.
Do Broker- Your vnf is very religion.
U sho not?
Do Bunker 1 tthould say she was.
Not a mouth goon by that 1 don't have
to pay out two or thnw hundred dollar
for Blinds droeSM ami things. Goal
New.
"A llrrn of Aiitletniii."
At the terribly hard-foinrht battle of
Shurpsburg (Antietam) Paul Conrad was
desperately wounded, receiving n canister j
shot in the left shoulder, which scraped !
every rib in his tiody. The ball entered
just above the point of the shoulder
blade, and passed perpendicularly down
the back to the waist, where it wasfoitnd
and cut out by thesurgeons, but not until
eighteen hours hud passed after the
wound was received. Though the ball
weighed not more than ten ounces, Mr.
Conrad said that after several hours had
passed he felt as if he had a ten-xiund
ball, a cannon and carriage in his buck,
so great was the shock to his svtom.
IT pun his recovery from his wound he
rejoined his battalion, ami served gd
lantly to the end of the war, partk-ipat
ing in all the great battles with t lie
Army of Northern Virginia. ,
Born in New Orleans in the year 1S10,
he entered tho Confederate ar.nv soon
after attaining to manhood, and his rec
ord as a soldier was as enviable and gal
lant as that of any of Louisiana's sons
who More the gray, lie served with dis
tinction to the en'd of the war. lie was
a member of Captain Henry St. Paul'
ChiiseourH a Pied, a part of the Army of j
Northern Virginia, and is one of but a i
few of the survivors of that famous com- j
maud. The company left New Orleans '
April 22, 1801, for f'ommcola. Thence
tliey went t,o lrginia, and other compa
nies being attached, St. Paul's Battalion
was formed. Their first big light was at
Seven Pines, where more than half the
command were killed or wounded
among tho former being young Bourges,
Conrad's first cousin.
lie is, and always has been, strictly
speaking, a man "of the people. Of ii
genial and pleasant disposition and pos
sessing rare business qualifications, he
is eminently fitted to fill the responsible
position to which he has been elected,
lie is an honest, upright and faithful
business man, whose word is as good as
his Ixjiid.
The Board of Directors of the Umisi
ana State Lottery Company have elected
Mr. Paul Conrad President, vice Dr. M.
A. Dauphin, deceased.
Mr. Conrad has practically managed
the affairs of this great corporation for
the past five or six years, lie has been
an attache of the company iu various
capacities since 1870, and has earned the
good will, confidence and respect f all
with whom he has come in contact.
Mobile RfijiMer.
No Tool Keiiiedlot for 1 1 1 m.
Brown 1 can tell you wimt will cure that
roM, Huntley You take a big drink of hot
Ihixsood ten to-niglit ul 9 o'clock nnd go
to Ih.hL
Diimley Noasotivo. I'm on my way to eeo
a doctor now When I uin sick 1 don't tnko
any fool remedies.
Dumley llator. to pliysicinn) Doctor, I'vo
got a sovero cold.
Physician igravelyi Um. tind, very bad,
particularly ut this season of tho year. Had
it long'
Utliuley About a week.
Pliysicuin Dm. in tlio head or on tlio
chestf
Duiuley It'" got me both ways, doctor.
Physician Uin. let um try your lungs.
(Doctor eoi.ee Duinlcy with wimt is known in
Graft) Koiunii wrestling parlance astliogniu
hun quick nnd chuck hhii-over-yonr-hend-mid
Uill-tmn hold, and listens intently tor u'"
tuiiiiltes.i Um. appetite good!
Dumley Kainsli.
Physician U in. sloop wollJ
Dttmley Ilnveu't slept a wink for two
nights, neither lias my wife.
Physician Um. wife, troubled with n cold,
tool
Dumley Yes. troubled with mino.
Physician Um, let mo feel of jour tonguo
er 1 should say see your tonguo ami feel
of your pulso. Um. yes, pulso feeblo and
tonguo coated. Where did you get this cold?
Duiuloy 1 was over in Pennsylvania lust
nook, and I think I got it them
Physician U in. yes, people can't l too
careful ubout going to Pennsylvania. Throat
sorol
Dumley It's getting sore, doctor.
Physician U m. taken uny thing yet?
Dumley No
Physician Um, well, Mr. Dumley, ti?
night at U o'clock you tnko a big drink of
hot lluxsccd tea and goto bed. In tho morn
ing 1 think you will bo nil right.
Duinloy ratclullyi Thanks, doctor; how
much
Physician 'Two dollars, pleaso. Now
York Sun.
Ho Cot There.
"I passed you on tho street yesterday and
you did not even bow to mo," he said as tlioy
shoolcs hands in I rout of the Moffat block.
"I was very busy yesterday and you must
oxcuso mo."
"I wondered nt your cool treatment."
"Couldn't help it. you know."
"What lind I doner
"Oh, nothing I was contracting to supply
n hotel with two ton of ice dally all summer.
Hnd to keep cool, you see."
When they hnd eepanitixl the nrnti who
had asked for an explanation turned tou
friend who cinne up and snU
"Say, I don t quite twig Ah! yes, I do.
IIul hal Very tunny I lie treated inu coolly
tiecauso he ho" 1
"llo what'"
'IJoeuueo he was making n bargain with a
hotel mail. Ilel he In I may lie a littlo slow,
but 1 get thero ull tho same." Detroit Freo
Prefa.
AlfrwJ-l wonder wlioihnt frowsy old ruin
in ttiu grcon dits U. bho IjuIjuvhI in u most
vulgar iimniitr t kuiur und uxuiru to bo
out of bor olwmont,
Allco Do you mean tlio tall, thin old tud)
Willi diamond, in Imr knirf
Alfrul-YM; looUliku a lainp tout. Do
you know hurl
Altux-Oii, yi. I kuuw Iiit (julUi tlL
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out liCUIaa work tt bocomiulted overy day with roRanltotho varltma perplexing; queMlona thatconatantlr
(ii I ho Li wrttltiK and conversation, by tbo rarnu-r and hnui-owlfu In their dally dutlei aud pureultB, aud for con
Unuous reading no work 1b more eutertaluiuu or Instructive.
My spec In I urraiiKoniunt with Iho publlHhor of tho .Mammoth ('Yri.oiMiniA we nr
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Inrtdy incn-ano tun ( irctilaiion, 1'Iuuhm toll all your frlcndH 'hul tli can ct th
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ono year from date of expiration. Tho Mammoth Oyci.oimjdia will alho he glv
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DAVID COPPERFIELD,
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the iiHiial liigh cirnt of tho bookx provmitine; pooplo in mcMloruto circumnlanccM liom enjoying
lliix luxury itut now, owing to tho lino of inodorn improved prliiUng, fnldlni; and HUtchioi;
macliluory, tho oxtromoly low prico of whilo jiaper, and thu grout competition iu tlio book
trade, vo are enabhid o oiler to our wiibHori hern and roaduru a not of DickoiiH' worl.s ut n
pru-e which all can HtTord to pay, Uvory homo in thu laud may now bo supplied with a not
of Hie grout iinthor'it workn.
Our Great Offer to Subscribers to the SCOUT.
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A Great and Wonderful Work,
CONTUSING
2,176 Pages
ANll
620 Bcanlifnl Illustrations !
Tub Mammoth CTCiniMir-u Iias bMti jmb
UMie t uioer the want ut the tnAMrn for
uiiktiTnalcuinpfnahim of knowUtlc, practical,
netful, nt'nt.rtcaiHl cfiiotat The work M pub
luliert complct 1 in lour larir nm liandnoinn
oiuinf5, comr-ri'ltiit a total ol 2,Krt rf". nt
Ik profu-eiv lMutratelwlthCJflieatit,liili'ni:rT
Ihk". Thouant'of ili.llar bnvo l.ron expend!
to ti aVo this tho mnt cmpltt Tahiabto ami
URcfiil work for theiuafeefer publiMipd. It U
n work for evfryhotly man, woinun ami hlld.
In etery occupation or walk Iti life. The aub
Mitncoand practical utility ot twenty ordinary
Volume art comprint In then four, nnd
reph'to I tho work with knowledge of etery
kind, en Mlled M It with metul hlmnnml helpful
FUftKtntloti that wo fully bollovo that hi erry
homo to which It fdmtl And It way It will noon
como to te retarded nn north Hnwelshtln itold.
Kor want of ipnc wecati only hrlefly eummar
Izo a tun alt portion of thocontentaof this graat
work, afol Ions
rhlnnf. Jjujmicdf, the pcop' t India, A Me, Miltietr,
raiMin- IrtUml. Hornfo, Hurmfch, th .Ntudwlfli IiUnd,
haflrftrls, TurUrj, Canlimere nn t Tun!, Ihe Artbi,
Turin, Heilram, South AtiifMcum, Atnffkftti Inlliu Kityp
tlio, MiniM. At'TM'ttUnt, NomritUui, 8rnln1, 8vIm,
lUtUnt, lrrk, ttuUu, Plberlan, Afrfhun, Pcralut,
lolem, Auitrattfttm, Hutfiitlo, Sicilian, eio , tic,
.M ANITAt'TUHl. In tlU itrfM ark I alto dMerltwd
Mi-t tliuitratel tlia r(i nl prorrMrior printing, iterrotf ping,
iH.iiVMmllnff, vpo.I iicratltK. lUliPurm Uy, photonTaphv, calle-
ttnliti(. plim making, tnaVt&r. rrr nuking, the
lu&nufnoiute cf ilk. Iron, iffl clt. chtii, rrfumfrj, Map,
Ifftihrr, trcti, nail paper, turptnilne, potl cnM, pniict
utiipa, eiKdopM. na penclla, iiffJlrt, ant many other
thliitt. all f willed illl9 fouui jfcullarlj IntmtllDf au.l
lntructlre.
roitr.KIN I'ltonrCTS. TntertlnelfrlrHon, itTn
IrateJ, rfth ettltuie and preparation for ntitkvtof ta,raffte,
chocolate, cotton, (lax, hrmp, mar, tic, tiutmrgt, tflottr
ftlnjtpr, cinnamon, allspice pepper, conoauul, plnrapplta, ban
anai, piunri, (Intra, taltlna, ftc, olhea, liHarulUr, (ulia
prrcha, coik, cini bor, cm tor oil, tapioca, f tc, cto.
NA'ITUWt JIIftTOltV. !nttrfltlnc art 1 Inatrueilt
ilixcrlpUoin, aecMiipanle.l lr l)luttallAna, of mi me torn Watt,
Mrtla, llatie and luitctt, nlilitiiucb Oiirtoul luttaruallou itaid
Idr their Ufa tud tiabiti. .
I.W. T Mammoth ("rcierMpul a1o a cftmplttt taw
book, trlHnu etery tnati how i majr bo Id tmit U)r, act
containing dill and cnele explanation of the central lava
and tho lawa of (tie aeveralfMatea upon all itialtera which at
autject tt litigation, with mimaroua forma of If al docuuicult.
JIININtJ. Plrtlna and llluitrallom of Ihe mining t
gold.ather, dlatuouda, coal, aalt, cop peri leaJ, tloc, Haul
ipjlcksllver.
WONIIKUH OP Tlir. SKA. Herein are dencrlhed and
llluil rated the tnauy wonderful and beautlfn) !htni found aliha
boltoti of the ocean, the plant, (lower, ibclti, Qtbtt, eta., Uka
wlae peail dlrlnf , coral flahlnff cto., eto
NTATIHTICAI. A NO MIMU'.I.LANnorS. Herela
lajthcnaat amount of uieful and Inlereattni Information,
Come of which lathe population of American elite, area and
poput tlnnc theeonttnenta, of the Plate and Territories, and
of f'c 'n'lndnal eountrle of the weild, length of the principal
rlv 'r..' IJeatle' vote for ilitr jeara, Preil.tenttal alatlitlce
are . atir depth of eea, lakea and ocean, height of mountain,
locomotion off anlmala and Telocity of bodies, height of monu
merit, tow 1 1 anO trueturi, dlaiancea from Waihlngton, alta
from N'wY rL, to Important point, chronological Iditory ofdla
eotcrjr anu progren, iopu1ar eobriiueta of American Btate
cltlc, etc., common grammatical error, rules for pilling, pro
nunctfttloii qm'ui of capital, WallBlreetphraie, eomtntrca
of tho world, cur lout fact In natural ldtory,Iougerlly ol
antmale, origin of the name of Stale, and of countries, or greet
works, popular fables, familiar quotations, of genius and at
plants, dying word of famous persons, rate or the ApoaUea,
statlatloaof the (tote, leading gorerumtoti f tlia world, etc-,
etc. ,
OF THE
In Twelve Large Volumes,
Which wo Offor with a Yoar'a Subscription
to this rapor for a Triflo Moro than
Our Regular Subscription Frioo.
W'ililMB to lri?oly IncrcnHO tlia rircnlitlfnii of IhU
yn.-v iliirini; lli next nx niontliM, wo Imvn nmilo
arrnnuciiii'iitu ltli 11 N'w Ymlc puliliHliliit; huiino
wlimoliv wo mo I'lialilcd In oflcr uh ii i t ii i 11111 In nnr
BllbBCrllml'M ii "r I'" Woi Kmif Cliurhw lllrk-
ciik, Hi THi'ivn iiii(; nun iiaiiiixiiiirv
ViiIiiiik'h, with ii yciu'rt HiiliHciiption tn IIiIm
)iiicr. lor. n triflo moro tliiui mtr rcnliir unli
H('riitl(iuiri(;ti. Oiirurratoirni' lnHiiliHcrlhcri
CL'liiiHi'H any liver lniclofmi iiimli-, Clmtlm
Dit'Iil'IIH WUH tllll KITIltC'Ht IKIVOliNt wllll 'VIT
lived. No unllior lie fold or hiiiuo IiIh titno linn
x vuii Um funio Unit Im lu-liiovcd, anil IiIh uorKu
a it mi moro nopiuur to-day tiimi iinrin
IiIh lifutimo. Tliuy abound in wit. humor,
putlioH, iniiHtcrly dcliiiciition of ciniruuti'r,
vivid doHcrilitioiiH ol iiici'h und incidcnlH,
tlnillliiK anil HlillU'iilly wrniiKlit nlolH, Kncii
book 1h iiitciiHcly inli'ri'HtiiiK, No IioinoHlioiilit
bo without u not of tliitio rtuit ami itunaiU
ublo norkH. Not to huvu rend them in to bo
fur behind tho ago in which wo livo. Thu
not or JUcUciih woikm wiiioii wo oiior nn n
BARNABY RUDCE AND CHRISTMAS
STORIES,
OLIVER TWIST AND CREAT EXPEC
TATIONS, THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP AND
THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELER,
A TALE OF TWO CITIES, HARD
TIMES AND THE MYSTERY OF
EDWIN DROOD. m