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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-29

About so per cent. were tnose ol Small
traders whose capital was less than
1000. In the principal trades they were
as follows: General stores, 50; grocers,
Al: clothing, OF; dry goods, 10; hardware
and agricultural implements, 10; Jewelry,
10: liquors, 10; shoes, IL; manufacturers,
10: millinery, 8; produce and provisions,
I; mems furnishing goods, 6; books,
paper, printing, ETC., 8; tobacco and
cigars. 8; hotels and restaurants, .;
bakers and confectiOners, s; banks and
bankers. 5: furniture, 8; drugs, A; har-
ness. 4: lumber and material, 4; carriages,
3; grain, 2; fancy goods, 2; butchers, 2.
ALABAMA.
ODelika.-Tucker & Daniels, saloon, as
Sei@a.-E. A. Scott - Coz, clothing, as
TauGdega.-P. G. stringer Il Co., general
store, closed by Sheriff.
GEORGIA.
AtIanta.-A. o. NJ. Gay, clothing. assigned.
Liabilities $23,0O0; nominal assets $S0,OOO. IL.
II. Head. grocer. failed and sold out to credl-
tors. to whom he owed $500. Liabilities about
$1,000.
Observation-Disclosures Brothers q Co., dry
goods. failed. Liabilities estimated at $lS,oOO;
actual assets $4,000.
TaL5OttOn.-S. W. Thornton, general store,
Henry Persons appointed receiver; liabilities
about 900, nominal assets $22,OOO IN STOCK,
mortgaged for $1,000.
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wood, Coal and Blocks

Lyons Silk Umbrellas, at So so each, al
Belsinger's, "a Whitaker street.--AdU.
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At reduced rates, by the Five Pound Box,
at Furber's.-AdU.
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The finest line in the city, at Mitchelps
Sign of the Golden Arm.-AdU.
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He says that any article of Clothing
purchased of him may be returned if it
does not prove as represented.-AdU
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Headauarters

If yo1 want a fine Unlaundried Shirt at
70 cents, call on A. Falk & SOn.-AdU.
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The leaders in Fashionable Clothing at
reasonable prices, 1s9, 191 and 1913 Con-
gress street.-AdU.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-29

A full barrel Of fine candy for 81 at
Furber's.-AdU.
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Sc 9@AH = So
Hear /! ihfi&' - angels say

The church was far from being filled.
ONLY the pews on the main aisle were 0c-
eupied BY the school, the remaining peWs
being left to the congregation, which was
not large. The rector, Rev. Charles ID.
Strong. conducted the exercises, assisted
bv Rev. /. b. kennard. Alter
the Lords prayer and the
reading Of the collects the carol, . lis
the Merry Christmas MOrn," was sung.
The lesson was read by Rev. Mr.. Ken
nard, after which the creed was chanted,
and the infant class, numbering about
twenty little boys and girls, very sweetly
caroled:
silent night. Peaceful night!
All things sleep, shepherds keep
Watch on Bethlehem's silent hill.
The rector. 7fter catechising the infant
class, addressed the entire school, ques-
tioning the various classes upon the
church catechism and the lessons they
had been taught during the year. This
exercise was an extremely interesting
one. At the close the carols in the
Christmas service were sung, the bene-
dicti0n was pronounced. and the school
marched out OF the church singing the
occasional:
/ know. I know where the green leaves grow,
When the woods without are bare,
Where the branches nod Of trees OF cod
And the Wild vines flourish fair.
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SpPrtal Nntirra.
SpeeiaI Notice.
SpeciaI Notice.

There will be no steamer for Baltimore on
MONDAY, Dec. 90.
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An Interesting Festival Service at 81
Johns Church.
An interesting festival service was held
in st. Johns Church yesterday afternoon
The day was the feast of the Holy limo
cents. intended TO commemorate the
massacre of the children ''fr0m two years
old and upward at Bethlehem. The
festival is Of great antiquity1 The
service at st. Johns was not
Altogether in cOmmemoTatiOn Of the day,
but was a Christmas festival and cate
cbislng Of the sunday school. The chill
dren assembled in the school room, and
at the hour for beginning the service
marched into the church and through the
aisles. singing
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Clara Norris and her company left yes
terday Tor Jacksonville, where they viii
annaar fn.niQhf
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DOOtNTi
Consisting of Silk HandkeTchiets and
Scarfs, from so cents up, at A. Falk &
Sons A6p
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For sale by R. B. Cassels, corner Tay-
lor and East Broad streets-telephone
M II
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Prince Albert Suits and 4button Cuta-
way Suits, the finest in the city, at
Mitchell's, Sign Of the Golden Arm.- ado.
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Headquarters
For OvercOats, B. Fl. Levy & Bros, 189,
81 and 1913 Congress street.-Adv.
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FIrst-class Business Suits, large line
to select from, at Mitchelps.-AGu.
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In sizes from ~ years upwards. Prices
from 81 UPWARDS, at B. H. Levy & Bros
Adj.
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For Ordinary.
For Ordinary.
For Ordinary.

To the Voters Of Chatham COUNTY: respect
fully announce to you that am candidate
support. ALFRED B. SMITH.
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Lyons Silk Umbrella, opens with a
spring, at Belsinger's, "a Whitaker street.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17
pNEuMoNrA PREVENTED.

OYSTER BAY, NY, April II, 1885,
believe I have been saved from terri.
BILE illness by ALLCoCK's Porous PLAsTERs
About month ago / was attacked with
a violent pain in my chest, accompanied
by fever and great difficulty in breath.
ing. Unprecedented pneumonia, which is
SO prevalent at present; went to bed and
applied one Allcock's Plaster between my
shoulder blades and two on my chest. In
an hour my breathing was much easier, in
two hours the pain had eftme, and the next
morning awoke perfectly free from fever.
went abezat my business as usual, and at
the end Of y week took the plasters of.
For the last ten years Allcock's Plasters
have been used by my family with the best
effect in colds, coughs, and pain in the side
ana back. E. B. SHERWOOD.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17
KairWall Dwellings.

The architectural disposition Of near
~ all the houses in Kairwan is the
same: square block, in the middle of
which is q square court. The door il
low, strengthened by nails, and fur
nished with large bolts; it only opens
halfway with terrible grating. The
rooms are arranged around the court.
which, as well as the terraced roofs,
slants in order to facilitate the running
OF the water into a cistern They drink
only rain water; the water of the wells
contains much magnesia, but serves for.
all household purposes.
The liVing-room of the family serves
at once for reception, dining and bed
room; it is the only one decently fur.
nished and clean. is in the shape of
a Latin cross, taking away the foot, and
forms, in fact, three distinct compart-
ments separated by curtains. To the
right and left are the beds; in front, low
.divans furnished with cushions; the
walls are hung with variegated carpets,
or ornamented with encaustic faience to
the height of a man. The ceiling is
made of young olive trunks placed
transVersely upon the walls, which ex-
plains the narrowness of the rooms and
the absence of large square ones. In
the dwellings of the rich the paved floor
is covered with mating and carpetine,
the ceiling is covered with panellinp
of wood decorated with arabesaues.
and little shelves are hung
here and there. Sometimes fan.
tastle animals, painted in red
with hieratical rigidity and barbarism,
relieve the baroness of the Whitewashed |
walls. During the hot hours of the siesta
The door, carefully shut preserves in the
interior an agreeable freshness. a little |
window furnished with glass gives a
discreet light, which leaves all the OBJ
ects in shadow-like obscurity propi-
iious to nonchalant reyerie. There are
10 cellars, but in the pavement of the
IGOR of the court and rooms one notices
arge square flag-stones, the situation
# the silos IA kind of great hole, with
areful mason-Work, where the provis-
on OF grain is kept for the whole year.
These houses, veritable gynec@a,
heiter the women, whose husbands are
rbitrary and jealous masters, and Sc
Jude them from all contact with the
utter world. To enter here is an es-
ecial favor reserved for the physician
nd the marabout. Fortunately for me,
had brought traVeling-case of med
line, and the very first days / had to
tend several neignbors. / had regu-
If patients, and my reputation extend
/ itself little by little. This char acter
physician. the best passport in Ara
ian countries, allowed me to see and
1serve closely many things which,
ithout it, fanaticism would have hid
N inexorably from Christian eyes, Z
z. Jacassy. IN Harper's Magazine.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

Mr.. w. R. Robinson, Davisboro, Ca,
writes, under date Jan. 8, 1884: g am get
ting on finely, the ulcer is gradually heal
ing. I feel that Swift's Specific will cure
the horrible cancer which has been feeding
on me for over twenty years"
Mr.; O.G. Barron, Of Banning, Ga, writes,
dated March 8, 1884: The soreness has ali
gone out of the Cancer, and my health has
greatly improved. have taken six bot
ties of SwIFT's SPECIFIC, for Skin Cancer,
which have had for years."
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free. The SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.,
Drawer 8, Atlanta, Ga.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

A rather fresh fellow, who came to
work in the reporters room the other
day, brought in lunch to eat at mid
night. 1t happened at that hour, he
was all alone in the room and was
munohlng away at his provender
when th5 city editor came in. sTak-
ing q feed?'' asked the city editor.
~ es," said the reporter, sand I've
borrowed your pepper box, which
you'd left on your desk. Mighty
queer one it is!'' and he held it up.
"Great snakesn' yelled the city editor,
that's a bug-gun filled with insect
powder: Chicago Herald.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17
Personal AND LITERARY.

Several young ladies in Detroit. win
start school of journalism. -Detroit,
Post.
Julius Proven, nine years cid. is
startling Vienna by his aptitude in
music. He is said to be as wonderful
as Blind Tom.
Colonel Robert Beatty, aged eighty
four years, of Union County, South
Carolina, has held the Office of Sheriff
in that county since 1886.
At recent distinguished dinner
party in London, every lady present
was an American, including the hostess
of the occasion, Mrs. George Bentick,
and among the guests were such Ameri-
can representatives as Ladies Mande-
vile and Churchill, Mrs. Ronalds, and
OF course, Miss Chamberlain.
Great as was Charles Reade's Iitera-
ny success, he had one grief. It was
that he had been denied membership in
a certain club. Il was proposed byCol-
Inns and seconded by Dickens, but they
wouldn't have me, he often said. When
asked why he SO lamented the fact. the
hale old man replied: Because there
wasn't gas-light in the house. [ do
like to read by good sperm CANDLE
Peter DeCorcey. aged ninety-eight;
has been in the Otter Tail Poor-house
in Minnesota, his descendants having
turned him out, except a grandson, who
became too poor to care for him. The
old man was soldier in 1912, and has
now received a land warrant for 1850
acres OF land and Sc, 200 back pension.
How the family throng about him! But
he puts them aside as they put him, ex-
cept the grandson, to whom he has
given the land warrant and half the
money Chicago Ne0H.
The oldest Government employe at
Washington is colored man named
Lindley Muse, who stands at the door
of the Office of the Secretary of the Navy
and takes in the cards of the callers to
Secretary Chandler. He has filed that
position for fifty-six years, having been
first appointed by Samuel Southland,
who was Secretary of the Navy under
the Administration of John Quincy
Adams. Mr.. Muse has forgotten when |
he was born, but thinks he is about |
eighty years of age Washington Star
"A Washington letter-writer thinks
that the popularity of Mrs. McElroy,
the Presidents sister, q comes NOT |
only from her natural tact and won.
anly graces, but from the fact that
she has recognized and cultivated
Che wives and daughters of resident
more than the mistress of the
White House has ever done. AS the
sister of the President, claiming no Off
a;al rank, she has been free to come and
go, to accept or decline social defer
ence as she pleased, and she has dis
armed professional critics by going
everywhere she was invited, and man
aging to have a good time Chicago
Tribune.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

Kind words and q gentle patting
on the head will go much further in
tanning timid heifer than score Of
milk-stools.
The. Rural Nea0 Yorker says sum
flower seed is not good for horses or
cattle, but it can be fed in small
quantities to poultry.
Tomatoes raised on poor, light
soil will have less growth than those
raised on rich soil, but they will ripen
week or ten days sooner Chicago
journal.
Caution is necessary in using COM
mercial fertilizers in the garden, that it
is not brought in direct contact with
the seed. Thorough mixing with the
soil is the only absolute safety at all
times. = Cleveland Leader.
A Western paper advises adding
salicylic acid to cider to prevent fer
mentation. Any drug that will arrest
lamentations will as effectlally pre-
vent digestion, and should be Stunned
by all who have regard to their health,
believes the Rural NetO Yorker.
Fireplace Curtains: Fireplace cur
tains can be hung upon invisible wires.
or if preferred upon visible brass rods
beneath the mantelpiece, and made to
draw before the CRATE. If it is desir-
able to hide the mantelpiece, they will
serve this purpose also, as they may be
drawn aside just enough to reveal the
fire. = Boston Post
Very handsome wall pockets to
hold papers are made of plush. Two
boards are required for this. The one
intended for the back must be size
larger than for the front. Gilt-head
nails may be put in at the sides, or
rings of brass, and the boards be held
together by ribbons laced back and
forth.
To one ever so little handy with
pencil it is comfort and saving of
time to measure the garden plot and
plan the planting of everything before
hand on paper. A page or two of a
blank book will hold the business, and
the record gives history and furnishes
an increasing basis for garden science
from year to year.-M 7 Post.
A Canadian correspondent of Tlck's |
Monthly grows excellent radishes in this |
way: He selects a piece of ground in
the corner of his garden and keeps it
for this purpose. Ha covers
the surface with about two inches of |
leached wood ashes every spring, and
spades in thoroughly. His soil is sandy.
His radishes are not troubled with |
worms, and are smooth and brittle.
The american Cultivator reminds |
Us that it is not economy to make a
garden too many years in one place.
The soil becomes exhausted for one
Kind Of growing, and insects be-
come abundant. We have known farm
ers to spend twice the time fighting in
'ects that their more enterprising Beigh-
oors did, and because they persisted in
,eeping the garden in the same old
'lace. The same is true in regard to
weeds.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

In hundreds of instances where Hot
Springs and other treatment failed to cure
scrofula and syphilitic disorders, the suf-
ferer has sought and found a cure in DIR.
Guysott's Yellow Dock and -Sarsaparilla.
1t enriches the blood, strengthens the uri.
nary and digestive organs, and quickly re-
moves all indications of ill health and blood
disease, from pimple to running sore,
from headache to a rheumatic pain. It's
superiority over all other blood purifiers
and strengthening medicines is admitted
by all who test its curative effect and in
duence.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17
HUMOROUS.

The Shoe and Leather Reporter has
made the painful discovery that very
4 few brass bands can play as many airs
& as q drum major puts on.
Y When clothing shop gets on fire
some of the clerks spring over coats
4 and some fall over coats, and nearly
every one pants when he gets out
"A Pittsburgh chemist has found
/ opium in cigarettes. The same drug
has also been discovered in soothing
Il syrup. The dude has hard time of it.
Pittsburgh Post.
4 Yes" sighed old Mrs. Gumbo,
''that accident was horrible. When
read about it, it exaggerated me so that
couldn' t decompose myself for several
hours. IN Z Mail.
"A boy writes to paper that his
father has "hit upon an important sub
\ iect and hit hard. !" From this it is in
ferred that the old gentleman has been
resorting to corporal punishment.
Pomp: 'sCuff, can you tell me the
difference between an accident and a
misfortuneP' Cuff: seGives it up.
gPomp. Can youp'' Pomp: IF YOU
should fall into the ribber, that would
be an accident; if somebody should pull
you out, that would be misfortune.
Mime. Darcy ''Why do you weep,
my son has just been hung" Mime.
BD' Arcy- Happy mother!' Weeping
woman Happy! " Nine. Darcy :.
Eyes. My son is alive, but he isa dude. I"
FatiLGdelphiG Call!
"A Wizard
Twas famous East Indian wizard
He could change cow to q lizard,
a fish to a squirrel,
Or just by twirl
Make gold from black hens gizzard.
This clever East Indian wizard
Fell in with Kansas blizzard;
They had set-to,
And when they got through
He didn't know -" from lizard
Vide Aacdke.
"A boy who had been sent to carry |
q silver card baskett to a young lady as |
a bridal present was asked upon his re-
turn to the Office if he found the right
place. ''Oh, yes ..See the girl her
selfP' eyes. ..Did She seem e sur
prisedP" s'Very much So ssSay
anythingp' '.Why, yes; she told her
mother she presumed it was plated, but
would be good enough for her aunt out
u the country. "-Dstrott Free Press.
Mr.. Billings" said an Arkansas
ooarding-house mistress, addressing q
who had just taken his seat
It the table, you make the thirteenth
Vt dinner. | hope you won't consider
ne superstitious, but I wish that you
would leave, why, my dear mad
I'M, replied Billings, 'shaYe no fears
whatever. This thirteenth-at-the-tab
business is q fraud. y Eyes, / know
continued the lady, s.hut, as you owe
ne for two weeks board, I'd rather YOU {
vVouldn't eat. I quite agree with YOU
ne thirteenth is fraud. ~. arl.GasasB
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17
l92 BRoApwAY. ROOM No. ID. !

NEW Ohh, JAN 20, 1oo3s J
l first saw what very fneremedy ALL
COCKS Porous PLAsTERs were when they
cured my wife of asthma, and when was
attacked with pneumonia, some three
months ago, first thought of ALLcocK's
PLAsTERs. By the advice of my physician
placed two under each shoulder blade
and two on my chest; in a few hours
breathed easier, the congestion of the
lungs was much less, the icy feeling down
my spine and in my back vanished; the
plasters soon arnade me SO warm that 1
broke out in profuse perspiration, and in
three days was well and attending to my
affairs, ought to say that took two
ERANDEETH's PILLS every nightfor over a
week, which Think helped me a good deal.
WILLIAM PERsCH
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

DR.. NJ. H. H1NsDALE, Kenawee, ILL.,, says:
!" A neighbours wife was attacked with vio-
lent lung disease, and pronounced beyond
help from Quick Consumption. The family
was persuaded to try DR.. VIM. HALLS BAL
SAM FOR TIE LUNGS. By the time she had
used one-half dozen bottles she was about
the house doing her own work"
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

Connecticut has nine-vear-old
coy peddler, who goes all over the State
selling feather busters and numerous
household knickknacks. He carries a
revolver, he says, to encourage mis-
chieTious boys to mind their own bust
ness. Hartford Posi-.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

9-Keep This in Mind. In the Diamond
Dyes more coloring is given than in any
known dyes, and they give faster and more
brilliant colors. 10c. at all druggists.
Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington. VT.
Sample Card, 80 coloTs, and book of tlirec.
tions for &c. stamp.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

No EFFORT has ever been made to adver.
tise Lydia E. Pinkharn's Vegetable Com
pound outside our own America; yet FREE
qnent calls from other parts of the world
show that good news will spread. Pack
ages of this medicine have even been sent
from Lynn, Mass, to China.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17
A Popular Fa11acy.

Many people think that Rheumatism can
not be cured. It is caused by bad state
of the blood which deposits poisonous mat
ter in the joints and muscles causing lame
ness, stiffness and swelling of the joints
and excruciating pains. Kidney w oft will
certainly effect cure. It acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels, stimulating them
to a healthy action, purifes and enriches
the blood and eliminates the poison from
the system. Go to the nearest druggist,
buy Kidney w ort and be cured.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

Browns BRONCHIAL TRocHEs for Coughs
and Colds: 81 think them the best and
most convenient relief extant. Rec. @.
n. Humphrey, Crate, Ry. % cts. box.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

JOHN Darts, ESQ.,, of Woodburn, ILL.,, writes;
:" Samaritan NeTUt1te cured my son of fits"
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

s'HIGH, fat crowns are most in favor"
An American girl will take almost any
kind of crown and not complain. IN. 7.
Graphic.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

CYCLONES are becoming SO plenty out
West that almost every poor family can
afford to have one.-B0St0n Post.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

A HORRIBLE but humorous Photographer
suggests that the Boston crematory is only
a new way of baking beings.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

A SLEEPY head is often possessed of a
nod idea.-N. Y Journal.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

AN adjustable finger ring is new.
The size is regulated by Sliding the
band in or out OF the setting to the
stone.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

Ha1e's Honey of Horehound and Tar
Stops your throat hurting. Why don'tyou
use it? Pixies toothache drops cure in one
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

Be sure to obtain tsAllcock's'' Porous
Plaster, as all others are worthless inaita-,
tions.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

The Chinese may have TO go, bat the
Kelly motor never.-Peck'S San.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

The short, hacking cough, which leads to
Consumption is cured by Piso's Cure.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

IT is hard 80 run a newspaper unless it
can stand alone Whitehall Times.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

II afficted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaao
Thompson's Eye WCter. Druggists sell it. 25os
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

A SUPREME COURT decision: 'sYes, dear;
but of course you must speak to pa."-OH
City Derrick.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

WHEN a rich man dies nowadays he
leaves his will to his heirs and his money
to their lawyers.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

FooT and mouth disease-Gout and tooth.
ache.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

4 DARWIN says there is living principle
in fruit We suppose he refers to the
worms. Indianapolis Scissors.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

LITERALLY carried out of the system" Dis
ease when attacked by Samaritan NerUtne.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17
Cancer for Twenty Years.

TIE wages of the paraerapher-his ink
Herald.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-03-29

Individual Instructions given in the
English branches, book keeping, com
mercial arithmetic, penmanship and
letter writing. Pupils can commence
At any time. Hours, I:,D to 10 O'Clock.
Terms. - per month. in advance.
Special attention given Ia those whose
early education had been neglected. and
90 foreigners desiring to learn the Eng
iish language. SoUNa 4 HoIMKs.
Room &. over San ranclsco Store l., II