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TNHE CHIIDREN'S CIRCUS
AND
MENAGERIE PICTURE BOOK

MENAGERIE PICTURE BOOK
Is gorgeous mass or color subject is very
dear 10 the Juvenile heart The n depicted
from the grand entry final hppodrOme The
are ten inches by thirteen and Of the plates double
page The clowns lady the trick mules the trained
dogs the team Of Ostices lion and tiger tanners the per-
forming elephants Zulu his rhnocerOs, the young
woman shot from cannon lofty rope walkers the
with the bears Judy the Mstons the intelligent
goats the racing hounds the tasze performers the
BAN men, and Chinese giant All here in stronger
array than can any OF greatest shows earth
child will tempted tear up this book to hnd the
sawdust large pictures vigorously executed repro
duce a nrstrass circus and mistake. There some
descriptive rhymes but they hardly necdedThe Gin
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IOTTERINGS IN PLEASANT PATHS.
pv Marion uariand. l vol, Emo ST. 10.

UPPER EGYPT: ITS PEOPLE AND ITO
PRODUCTS.
ADescrptve Account Of the Manners customs supe'su
tons and Occupations The People o. the MIC Vaney INC
nser m the Red Sea Coast With Sketches OF the Natural
History and Geology BY c. b. Klunlingsr ~ d. WIN
prefaory notice by George schweinfurh "ltl IuS'ra
tons frcm original sketches. vol. crown oVo' 70
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sCHuYLER's TURKISTAN.

Notes Of Journey in 1873 In the Russian Province Oh
Turkistan the Of Khokan and BoShaa ana tne
Province OF Ruldja BY Eugene schuyler, Ph d. so''
syo with three and numerous Illustrations coth 30
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ON and after her 1857

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night
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Returning ans leave Broad street station, Philadelphia
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ueErt u&s %. $40 and GA Broadway. Asor House,
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FROM THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY 10 HE
GOLDEN HORN
By Henry NJ. Field d. D. vol, l9mo ST.
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Gteambonts dn0 Railroads.

CENTRAL RAILROAD OF .NEW-JERSEY.
cS%Yanc tIo ocTo6ep @ leave New York
GAS m@FGr PENNINGTON EsslSa Wind Gap Manch
3 a m.-FoT Bennington High Bridge Branch. schooey's
Mountain Budds Lake Lake ILopacoag Easton Allentown
Reading, liarisbnrg Manch hunk, Wamsport Tamaqua
!, p m For Pennington, Esson Allentown Reading Har
Eas'S2 Wod GAP Ma9 chank Tamaqua'
Mo@aiain sadds Lake. Take Hoaacons Eastoa '''''
55S Fo5 EastSn Allentown hsadlns. Harrisburg
and ?&sE 5i :S 4 3 ~ M FL G Pound @5SSs
Harrisburg and tho West. . ,o,,
59i HS4si 49, ic$ ri e. ~ &
Fol trains points limo tables at stations
F9i se~aren and Perth Am5oy G. olo. Has M.
70 for Pfe en- Ia at r. sl5, IIa3a a9nm
NEW JERSEY SOUTHERN RAILWAY,
SIEAMF F6d fNA AEcTo ft 81, 3 N r.
For Highlands seaD1ght Monmouth Beach and Long
Si roT Atlantic nj iC' Highlands p.m.
1aF SaxS 1i Toms bagf Re- '0
LAB p. IN. Tor Atlantic CITY vneland BrdgetOn &c
70 5r p s at Gs i 70 5snav y h ssiorSn
NEW-YORK AND PHILADELPHIA.
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From Tienton, 2j 600 6u3, 0O6 lUoS, ll:3i a. M
425, q 81 2 Sunday. l:2j, 9:lS a. m, b:lJ p m
PULLMAN PARLOR CARS are attached to day trains,
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W. W. STEARNS Gen. Supt
NEW YORK AND LONG BRANCH H. X.
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STAT ons in Now.York} ST.. and Desbrosses-st.
(tentral H. X. OF y. j., loot Liberty ST.
LEAVE NEW.NOIK, commencing oct = 1872.
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TO, Red Bank Long Branch Ocean Grove Asbury PARK
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SUNDAYS mot stopping At Ocean Grove or Astuy Park,
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ERIE RAILWAY now known as the NEW !!


room Coaches to Buffalo snspenson Bridge -,
D. m tDaiy)-Fast Louis irving ut Buffalo
at a. m connecting with fast trains the West aud south
west. Pumans best Drawing room Sleeping OOaehoS 10
IN M (Dallyl-Pacifc Express for the West Sleeping
Coaches odgh to Buffalo Niagara Falls, Cincinnati and
chicago without onsn5 ,,an 1n tDe West "
rutherford aud Passdc, d, 40, 800 $50 IoZO M,
II Midnight Sundays, u. $50, lO;2O a. m, lao W p M
u midnight a., 81
500 Gi0 B. b:I $50 Go $50 7l5, !, 1890 M aud IL
midnight sundays u. $50. lO-O a. H., i45' $50 IL mid
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n M and II midnight sundays. q, $50, 1923 a. H..
40 ESQ D. m. and II midnight.
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Milo eown O. 100 ., lO2D a. NJ. 300. 4i3O l. 7lo D. m
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NOR rHERN RAILROAD OF NEW JERSEY
~ Trains eave Tor nglowood Closte PenOnt aud Nyack
4 800 10 4. III a. 4:o0 80 Ga. $50 p H.; II mid
Manuel sprns Valley aud Aonsey' T. lOa m 400 H.
SUNNY 80. r. ABBOTT, GenI Pass'r Agent New.York.
TOR BRIDGEPORT and all points on HUU-
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Pillar SHORE LINE.

i FOR PROVIDENCE, BOSTON AND THE EAST
ALL RAIL FROM GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT.
Three Express trains daily SUNDAYS excepted to Boston at
a m d. M tpa!l attached, and l. D. M with palace
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limited TICKETS TO BOSTON, ALL RAIL, So.
Tkets and padr seats secured a. Filth and
winner untc nc .et offices aud entral epOt
l.. W. FILkINS,
PA Ayen
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TO PHILADELPHIA.

THE OLD. ESTABLISHED ROUTE AND SHORT LINZ
90 TRAINo EACH WAY WEEKDAYS AND0ON 81 n
DAY. D STATIONS IN PHILADELPHIA 2 IN
NEWYOhK
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THE almost ncre ble good fortune ola romance by
Nathaniel Hawthorne. springfield Republican.
Shows all the qualities OF Hawthornes infinitely OBJ
ser want mind IN eS- ork Herald.
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NORWICH LINE


CITY OF WORCESTER,
without the eegan boat on the SOUND
the layolits IlIY OF \ EM.IOkK,
leaves Pier No 40 North River loot OF W.ttsst net
above Ferry daiy except sundays atf ''p
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DOUBLE TRACK, the MOST IMPROVED EQUIP.
AkNT, AND THE FASTEST TIME CONSIsPENr
WIN AHaOLurE sAFETY.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07
Monopoly Power m Politics.

Some of the phases of the recent
freight-handlers' strike illustrate the
power and influence which the rail-
roads have attained i'll the commu-
nifty through their use of money in
politics. 1t is a shame that public
corporations, performing a dele
gated function of the state-the fur
nishiDg OF public highways-should,
in order TO save themselves a few
dollars, be permitted to impose upon
the community loss which it is safe
to say is thousand times as great,
and it illustrates their power in
politics when public officers are so
tender of the railroad interest and
SO regardless of that of the public.
We hope TO see the time when the
attorney general of this state, iu-
stead of waiting for shippers to ask
him to protect the public interest,
will voluntarily institute proceed
ings the moment that it becomes
apparent that corporations are neg
lecting their duties.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07
An incubus Removed.

Grass Valley Union.1
The Sierra tribune is making en-
ergetic protest against the employ
ment of Chinese laborers by the
mining companies of that county.
The Tribune has only to stick to its
text to succeed. A few years ago
there were hundreds of Chinese
employed by the mining companies
of Nevada county, but under the
influence of public opinion, stimula-
ted by the efforts of the local press,
the services of these laborers have
been dispensed with, until now
none of the large companies employ
Chinese, and scarcely any are to be
found working in claims owned by
white men. There are several min
ing camps in the county where the
Cinnamon outnumbered the white
miners, and the latter were the ones
who had to- "go;" but since the
tables have been turned and the
Chinese have "gone". these camps
have taken on renewed life, and
have become the happy homes of
white men, their wives and children,
and where once there was blight
there Is renewed life and pros
perity.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07
Agricultural Progress of the
GnHlh.

Additional, although indirect, evil
dence of increasing agricultural in
dustry in the South is afforded by
the sales or settlements of public
lands. The total area of Che United
States is 2,306, ,297 600 acres. The
area of those states and territories
where government lands yet unsold
exist, is 1,S14,7S8,9 1922 acres. OF this
last enormous sum, 784, ,906, $50 had
been surveyed up to June 80, 1881
leaving more than q thousand mill
lion acres not yet surveyed. Of gov
ernment land the total amount sold
for cash. taken up by homestead
entries or serips or locations
of the several legal varieties,
during the year ended June 80, 1881,
was 10,128,175 acres, while the total
for the year ended June 80, 1882, has
attained the unparalleled magnitude
of IL, ,599, ,84S acres. 1t is impossible
to find fault with the government on
the score of want of liberality; for
the aggregate sum realized by the
government for that magnificent
share in its domain was only So, ,351 =
091, or an average of less than fifty
three cents per acre. The greater
part of the cash came from cash sales
of S,699, ,899 acres OF agricultural lands
for $6,877,271. The homestead en-
tries, 6,347,729 acres, bought only
S614, JAG cash in commissions and
fees.
1t is these homestead entries
which mark agricultural progress.
In most cases a homestead entry
means new farm, another farmer,
and another thrifty family in the
neighborhood. The sales of agricul-
tural lands for cash are less valua-
BILE indication, because they may
cover a mere design to strip wooded
land of its forest-which Is a serious
and almost irremediable injury
may be entered in large tracts, rep
resenting speculation and not settle
ment. Still, some of the cash sales
are bona fide purchases, and the
| figures are Interesting. During the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1882, the
SIX southern states which contain
government land have the following
shares in the homestead entries and
cash sales of agricultural lands:
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07
Facinated by an Alligator.
Tfnnronfn Mail

An eyewitness of the following
incident writes: 81 was at the Zoo
yesterday and saw something which
is worthy of being mentioned. One
of the gulls entered the pond where
the alligator was lazily propelliug
himself about, and proceeded to en-
Joy itself in its native element. But
the eye of the scaly monster was
upon it, and mesmeric influence OF
its glance was soon felt. 1t was i'm
possible for the gull to resist the
baleful glitter of the saurian inch
by inch it was attracted to the ALI
gator, powerless to resist the fasci-
nation, until it came close enough
for the reptile to open it's mammoth
jaws and gulp down the luckless
bird. After having devoured Its
prey the alligator sank to the bottom
to digest its meal"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A resolution was adopted by the
San Francisco chamber of commerce
rendering an invitation to the con-
gressional tariff commission to visit
California, and while there hold ses-
sions where citizens may appear in
advocacy of their respective indus
tries.
The Rochdale plan of cooperative
stores, which divides the profits
among the purchasers instead OF
shareholders, is successful in Eng
land. These establishments divided
last year nearly 10 per cent on the
gross amount of their sales. This is
equal to 60 per cent on the share
capital.
The Hotel de Vile, the new mu-
nicipal bnilding of Paris, which has
just been dedicated, covers an area
of 10000 square yards, and contains
1868 separate apartments. If the es-
Inmates are not at fault it will cost
about So, 100000. The interior deco
ratioDs will probably not be CON-
pleted for several years. The ex.
terror is a tolerably faithful copy OF
the famous edifice, which, after an
existence of nearly four centuries,
was destroyed by the communists on
May "a, 1871.