The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-05-26
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the titles OF more than fifty papers mostly
illustrate d., by writer's OF the highest merit.
Under the head Of
"Foreien Travel.'
We have "a Winter on the Nile" by Gen.
Mcclellan "saunterings About Constants.
nople," by Charles Dudley Warner "Uut
of Ny Window at Moscow by Eugene
schuyler: "An American in Turkislan,"
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Nicholas Minturn."
By DR.. Holland. the Editor.
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1pubE ui.h Nup hhS bC'u kVu w n
wuman's apron striDg-," but who, by the
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| q fortune, but wit out purpOse.
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OF ~ nat L-ss ~ Lowrie's," by Mrs. Hodg.
ron Burnett MIS- BuInelt's story, begun
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Mr. Birnard's articles on various indus
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"-Ome Experiments IN Cooperation" "a
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viii have prominent place. whilst the
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