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The Coming Monster Exhibition
s. IL. Barrett * Co.'s New Uni
ted Monster Railroad Shows.

Johnson City, April 18th, is the date
announced for this great amusement
enterprise, which has been received
with so much marked favor and de-
cided approval wherever its mightiest
of canvasses have been erected. A
contemporary tells us that from the
entrance OF its vast geological garden
to the exit of its Rome-eclipsing arena
everything challenges attention and
admiration, while the elegance and
decorum with which every depart
ment of the great confederation is
conducted secures the patronage and
approval of the most refined, and at
tracts numbers who are not in the habit
of attending public entertainments Of
any description.
The comprehensiveness and infinite
variety and rarity of its grand zoolog-
ical collection will delight the natural
list, and amaze, amuse, and instruct all.
1t is creation-rehecting display of the
mightiest and fiercest beasts of the
tropics and iungles; the curious and
beautiful birds of thousand forests
and isles, and even the mysterious
depths of the ocean and the marshy
beds of tropical rivers have been ex-
plored to secure gigantic amphibia
and reptilian monsters.
In the superb circus a colossal COM
pany of the most eminent bareback
riders, gymnasts, athletes, speciality
notables, famous fouls and astonish-
ingly educated animals present novel
and brilliant succession OF wonderful
feats and limitations, from the double
somersaults over the towering ele-
plants to the arenic antics of the
brute performers, while the great
Electric Light is whole show alone,
as indeed is each of dozen other ex-
traordinary features named in the ad-
yertisements
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The New York sum for 1854.

About sixty million copies of The SUN have
gone out of our establishment during the past
twelve months.
II you were to paste end to end all the col
umns of all THE SUNS printed and sold last wear
you would get continuous strip of interesting
information, common sense wisdom, sound doc
trine and sane wit long enough to reach from
Printing House square to the top of Mount Co
pernicus in the moon, then back to Printing
House square, ana then three-quarteres Of the
way back to the moon again.
But THE Sun is written for the inhabitants of
the earth; this same strip Of intelligence would
g1rdie the globe twenty-seven or twenty eight
times. HAS
II every buyer of a copy of THE SUN during
the past year has spent only one hour over It.
and If his wife or his grandfather has spent
another hour, this newspaper in 1888 has afford
ed the human race thirteen thousand years of
steady reading, night and day.
1t is only by little calculations like these that
you can form any idea of the circulation of the
most popular of American newspapers or of its
influence on the opinions and actions of Ameri.
can men and women. a
| The SUN is, and will continue to be, a news
paper which tells the truth without fear of con-
| sequences, which gets at the facts no matter
how much the process costs, which presents the
| news of 9 4 the world without waste OF words
and in TIL most readable shape, which is work
| ing with Nj its heart for the cause OF honest
| government, and which therefore believes that
the Repnb. lean party must CO. and must go in
this coming year of our Lord, 1884 7
II you know THE Sun, you like 1t already and
you will read 1t with accustomed diligence and
profit during what Is sure to be the most inter.
esting year in its history If you do not vet
know The SUN, II is high time TO get into the
| sunshine. s.
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Ehe Daily World Ready for the
Great Fight of 1854.

It is now time that the careful merchant, the
prudent farmer and the honest mechanic should
be looking around seeking for a reliable news
paper that, rain or shine, hard times or plenty,
Will make its daily visit, freightod with news
from every quarter of the habitable globe; relia-
Die information necessary to the well being of
their business interest, and comfort to the fam
lily circle. To them the
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only grizzly bar clum into our eend
o the hole, and we had to come out
through the Conrstock shaft and give
ourselves up"
Gle told me about that. We'll this
same Swaybaek allowed as the mule
had eat the cartridges, he'd got to do
the blastin', so he tied some stones up
in the oats and fed 'em into the mule.
His idee was that when the digestion
OF the mule, bein' filled with stones,
ketehed onto the fulminatin' eend O
them cartridges, there would be
hosting O dirt. So he tied the mule
over whore we was workin' and We went
off bit to see things commence"
Every clever" NODDED the Californi-
an approvingly. "Swayback had
head. | remember onct when he was
goin across Dead Mans Desert, in
Arizona, he filled himself up with tim
othy seed, and then put in carrots,
and turnips, and Strawberries, and let
tuce, and raddishes. The timothy
crowd and the rest O. the seeds took
root in it, so all he had to do was to
walk along and digest fresh vegetables.
He was the only man that ever walk
ed across that desert alive"
Gle told me about it," continued
the Montana man, little dazed.
"Well, we watched for a couple O hours
and then the proceedin's opened
Why, sir, that dirt few thousand feet
in the air. Every time a cartridge
went off the mule would git in his
work, and for seven days we wal
dodgin' powders and tryin' to git him
out. At the eend O that time he
must ha' been a mile under ground
cause he struck water, and the water
poured up higher'n we could see"
~"That so?" said the Californian
with an expression of pain.
"You bet, but it spilled the mine
Swayback and me never seen no vel
low outen that hole"
, didn't, eh Lost money!"
"Made money. Never made a
, much money before nor since. W,
sold it to tenderfoot bank Presiden
for year, and got out before the null
: died. ] never heard what the tender
: foot did with it."
. Stranger" whispered the Califor
} MAN confdentially, "did Swayback ge
, any of the purchase money"
) "Got it ALL" whispered the Montan
man, with his hand to his mouth.
chats Swayback. Same mar
Stranger, let's liquor"
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man has a bid q putbetween his teeth

man has q bit TO put between his teeth
tonight"
under the full skirt OF her little girls
dress and Janet departed full OF her
mission. She took her little brother
with her, and she went down to the
mill, but the soldiers were about every@
where, and shescould findno opportu-
nifty to disohargesher cargo, nor was IL
till late in the afternoon that she man
aged to elude their notice, But that
night the little maid slept soundiy,
happy i'll the conviction that her faith
er'S safety was cared for; and day by
day, with steady perseverance and a
tact beyond her years, little Janet
contrived to fill her fathers larder, yet
to excite no suspicion in any oneof the
soldiers, though they had nothing to
do but to watch, and were very keen
to better their fortunes by the arrest of
traitor.
For whole month tho little maid
daily performed this duty, and she
grew 80 familiar with the danger that
she was never thrown off her guard by
unforeseen accident, and never failed
between sunrise and sunset to get un-
observed to the appointed place.
Meanwhile Major Whiteford had
been exerting himself to the utmost to
procure d pardon for his friend, and
had at length the great pleasure of tax
ing free pardon to Invernahyle, Of
dismissing the Dragons, and seeing
Alexander Stewart once more under
his own roof-tree.
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A Sunshimy Husband.

The New Hampshire Companion
says: "a sunshiny husband makes
merry, beautiful home worth having,
worth working in and for. If the
man is breezy, cherry, considerate and
sympathetic, his wife sings in her
heart over her buildings and her
mending basket, and renews her
youth in the security she feels Of his
appreciation and admiration. You
may think it weak or childish, if you
please, but it is the admired wife, the
wife who hears words of praise and re-
ceived smiles of commentator, who is
capable, discrete and executive. /
have seen % timid, meek, self-distrust-
ing little body, fairly bloom into self
reliant womanhood under the tonic
and cordial of companionship of a
husband who really went out Of his
way to find occasion for showing her
how fully he trusted her Judgment,
and how fully deferred to her opinion.
In home life there should beno jar, no
striving for place, no insisting on pre-
negatives, on division OF interests,
The husband and wife are each the
complement OF each other, 1t is as
much his duty to be cheerful as it is
hers to be patient, his right to bring
JOY into the house, as it is hers TO
sweep and garnish the interior. A
family where the daily walk of the
father makes life a festival, is filled
with something like a heavenly bene-
diction,"
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The Philadelphia Times, 1854.

The Times will enter upon the new year strong
CT and moro prosperous than ever before in its
hlstory-more widely read and quoted, more
heartily commended, and more Hereby criti-
cized, with more complete organization, and
an ADLER stall OF cOntrlbutorS-and with the same
independence and fearlessness that has made 1t
successful and pow erful in the past.
The Times has no party to follow, no candi-
dates TO advance, but will meet every issue, as IL
has ever done, with consistent devotion 10 the
right, TO honest government and the public well
fare. And, while maintaining its position as the
leading journal Of Philadelphia, it will aim to
be continually in the advance in all that can add
value to newspaper.
The value OF a newspaper is not in its size or
display, but In the intelligence and care the con-
ciseness and freshness with which il is edited.
The Times spends layishly for news from all
parts OF the world, but all its dispatches are
carefully edited and condensed in order to give
the complete news OF the day. in the most CON
else and attractive shape, and with 1t a large
variety OF entertaining and instructive reading.
The best writers at home and abroad are EN-
ployed to enrich its columns, and to make 1t a
Journal adapted both to the busy man and to
the leisure of the home circle, welcome Wis
itor to intelligent and honest citizens of every
political, religious, and social taste.
THE WEEKLY TINES is altogether different
from the weekly newspaper of twenty years ago.
The day OF those papers is gone by The tcle-
graph and better local newspapers eyerywhere.
especially in the thriving centers of rural pop
ulation, have made the old weekly metr0poli-
tan newspaper unsatisfying. Those that cling
to their anciant usages have lost their hold ON
our forward moving people; they are but
shadows OF their former greatness, and they
have but shadow of their former power.
Those papers have had their usefulness, but il
Is gene, and, with 1t, they are going too 1t was
not the fault of the papers; it was the improue-
ment OF the country that brought about the
change. Men and woman, wherever they live,
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THE WEEKLY TIMES gathers off the tyses of
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est to people at large, and sets 1t before them in
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Twas hut breath M M
And set tie idiF, good name was wilted, ss
And friends once fond grew cold and stilte9
Aud life was worse than death,
One venomed word,
That struck its coward, poisoned blow,
In craven whispers, hHsiiod and low
Ana yet the vide world beard
Twas but one whlsper-oue,
That muttcrcd low, for very shame
The thing the SANDER dare not name
And yet It's work was done.
A hint 40 slight,
And yet so mighty in it's power
4 human soul in one short hour
Lies crushed beneath Its blight!
~ --PhiIadetphfd Times
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paper that rain or shine, hard times or plenty
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XIII a mans family and he may brook 1t,
But keep your hands out of his breeches pocket
Byron.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-01-30
CHAPTER vi.

ANGELAs REASONS, FOR AND AGAINST.
When July comes to an end the col
leges and schools of Irkford break up
for their holidays, and there ensues q
regular stampede of teachers and pupils
and parents to the lakes or the seaside,
continent or country anywhere, any
where out of the town'-away from its
dust, its smoke, its close and sitting
heat, from its rolling carts and omni-
buses, its dingy streets, out into the
fields II possible, or to the fair seashore,
or amidst the cool and mighty lakes
and mountains.
When August has fairly set in Irkford
Is wont to look empty; the squares are
deserted, the shops little troubled by
customers, whilst the young women be-
hind the counters droop and look limp
and white and bleached like every other
living thing in the unwholesome heat
of a town.
Z It was the bcginningof August in this
particular year of which / am writing.
The day was Monday. and It was q
bank holiday. The heat in the town
was sitting; not cloud was TO be seen
In the dull blue sky. save the dun-col-
ored shroud of smoke which encircled
Irlxford, and through which the sun
glared unwinkingly like ball Of mol
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-01-30
4hI'it' 9fjrtip''.
ENSNARED.

Deep In vast primeval wood
My half-decaying cabin stood.
It's walls were messy, and its floor
WITH stain and mold was darkened o'er.
Therein dwelt aloof from care
Alone with fancies sweet and rare.
Long after dawn I1ay In bed
And heard the woodpecker overhead
Beat on the roof his rafting call,
And heard the wind-waves rise and fall
Whilst from aiar, worn keen and thin,
Faint memories of the world came in.
At noon, the wood was strangely still:
No fiuttering wing no tapping bill;
Shadow and sunshine side by side
Drowsed In slim aisos and vistas wide;
Even the brooks voice, rich and full,
Seemed slowly lapsing to lull.
When night came on. the owl came, too:
" Hoo hoo, hoo-hoo. hoo-hoo-Oo-oov
And sly, faint footballs, here and there,
betrayed the hesltating hare:
Whilst In the tree-tops dark and deep,
The wind sighed us child asleep.
Daytime. or nighttime. all was we'll;
With light or dew Gods blessings fell.
tor ooafser dreams had no room,
My henrt was like u lily bloom,
And every song sang was sweet
AS the blue violets ut my feet.
But ut the last, all unaware,
Unlucky bird touched the snare,
And Din the city's meshes wound)
MY cabin never more | found,
NOR that sweet solitude where naught,
save Nature, helped me when i wrought.
Mdurice Thompson, IN HdrDeTs Magazine.