The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-08-04

Tow anu WOOueu Whits tODdCCu5s Sik@tos ~
l propose to sell Rood goods and at small
profits, and to endeavor to merit a share OF
the public patronage. Give me a call. Re-
member the place, Adam TOePpe's old stand,
Franklin avenue, between Eleventh and
Twelfth. Herbert Gassen. febl6tf
Parties contemplating attending the w. NJ.
A. school, aud wanting their suits here at the
beginning of the session. will please call be-
fore August l1th to have their measures
taken. Philip Keller. Il
Read the new and corrected Mo. p. X. X.
time tables on the outside this week.
The presidents OF the different school In
our city all report the pros poets good for a
full attendance this fall.
The improvements at ,WentwOrth Male
Academy are about complete /, and the entire
premises will soon he In read ness for the fall
term OF school.
Boiled potatoes are recomm uded as a sub
sti,ut for soap for laundry purposes. 1t il
a clean, cheap and healLbiul SUI slitute and il
well worth the trial to see VII ether IL Is u
success or not.
Scientists tell us that the moor Is nothing
more IMAM u ClluNis "chS "hh IN
where il Was this week We Gun Lave u good
deal Of sympathy with the mo IN, Ior We
know how II Is ourselves.
The second annual fair of the La gsOn Dis
trict Fair Association will be hell August
81, -, ~ and "a. Their track is now per
feet. They have good buildings an stables
Have offered liberal premiums. Tie prem
iums for racing aggregate u 600.
A Russian physician, DIR. Portugal off, has
discovered an absolute cure for the II ppelit'
for drink. Tie dissOlyes one grain OF 'trych-
nine In two hundred drops Of watcr ant
makes subcutaneOus injections OF i've drop
every twenty-four hours. The craving fol
drink Is tHrned in one day into Il positive
aversion. but the treatment b continue | TO
ten days TO iDsure Il complete cure.
BY virtue OF An appropriation by the las
legislature and by the location OF the Unite'
States Experiment station Us a department
oil the Missouri Agriculture College, this 10
partment IL now abundantly equipped 10
teaching the art and science OF agriculture
II has q farm Of $40 acres with model far Il
buildings, with the best modern IMPROVE
ments. 1t comprises forty acres In hOrticu
ture with ten thousand varieties Of small an
large fruits and various plants and ornamen
tai trees. These grounds have a large greer
house and glass for propagating vegetables
Il has u rarely well equipped veterinary lab
oratory. IL has II good library Of agriculture
books, a large agricultural museum. con
tanning objects for Illustrating the teaching u
its faculty. TIT students will be brOugh
into intimate relations with the farm and hoI
ticultural operations. The course OF .nstruc
ton OF i've years Is confined strictly to thost
sciences that bear on the pursuit OF farming
While its students are on the increase, recen
improvements 1t is believed mark the opening
OF q new future for the college. For cata
Iogue apply TO J. II. DrummOnd, Proctor. o
for further information TO j. W.. Sanborn
Dean.
On Monday las: Mr.. and Mrs. James &
McGrew left Lexington TO spend Il few
weeks amidst the cold Icebergs of Alaska
They went by way Of Kansas City, thence t.
ST. Paul, passing one day at MinnetOnka
Thence by the Northern Pacific Railway
crossing the great Red River Of the north Il
Fargo, and the upper Missouri at Bismark
pacota, stopping ut Livingston, Montana
and running down to the great Nationa
Yellowstone Park in Wyoming, where the.
will spend I've days taking Ia the beauty AM
grandeur OF the scenery III that world re
nown0d natural parh. Thence westward
again by the Northern Pacific. to Helena
Montana. and on to Portland, Oregon, stop
ing only a day at each Of these places. From
..o tbau taEa "a atpan.hOaf avpnrsinn nnu
the Columbia river to Astoria on the Pacif
coast, where they will battle in the placIt
waters of the Pacific ocean, aud return agaiI
10 Portland, and pass up north by rail t.
Tacoma, in Washington territory, on tn
waters Of the slraights OF San Juan lie Fuca
where they will step one day and call upOl
our late citizens, Thomas b. and Hugh G
Wallace, and their mother, aunt and sister
aud pass on TO Seattle by rail where they will
.neud one day. From thence they sail OF
The steamer George W. Elder. one OF thosl
grand water palaces that float upon tn
uiscid waters OF the Pacific ocean. up through
puget's sound, around Vancouver Islam,
and out on the Pacific ocean to Sltka. Alaska
npd about The Goth of August will pas
among the ice bergs and glaciers OF that colt
northern region, and see cut from the t1nlIni
mountains Of ice the supplies Of that artic'
needed for the steamer. After spending
f.w DAYS at Sltka, and as far into the interio
of hat region new TO US, ~ they may thin
Assirable 10 90, hey return by same steame
IN SEATTLE, aud start homeward by the Cana
dian Pacific railway, throu h the Births
nosssssiOns, to Winnipeg In Manitoba, ant
after passing through that world reno"ne'
wheat region will land again In st. PAN
Mimi, and from thence by rail back agail
IN their dear hOIne-Lexington. Mo-, wher
thew were born and married. May a kinr
providence protect them in their journey
togs. and bring them safely home again. Tn
trim will take abe ut five weeks, and the dis
a6ce travelled over seven thousand miles. W
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