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, 1896-03-06

X EN- CITY LODGE NO. IS, G. |. A. to the
VI h. OF l.. E.-Meets first and third
Thursday afternoons in each month in G.. A.
K. hall. Mrs. W. X. COR President.
Mrs. J. b. SIMPSON. Secretary.
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EMMANUEL COMMANpERY NO q Is T.
L Meets on the second Tuesday evening IN
each month in Masonic hall.
IT. lIoLLIDAY, f, G.
J. +. GATES. Recorder.
, 1896-03-06

DOCKY MOUNTAIN DIVISION NO. 1902
IL b. OF l.. E.-Mcets every Saturday even
Ing in G. A. K. hall.
WIN. NorTAGE. Chief Engineer.
GEORGE DEFoREsT. First Assistant.
, 1896-03-06

For monuments or tombstones see
203tf ELMER T. BELTz.
, 1896-03-06

THORNBURGH CAMP NO. ., $. of V
! Meets second and fourth Friday even
ings In zach month in l.. Q o. +. hall.
VICTOR COKErAIR, Captain.
E. T. BELTZ. First Sergeant.
, 1896-03-06

place them within the reach Of all. No man or woma
books no home should be without them. Each boob
double-column pages. nicely printed and bound in
somely illustrated
No hes. How 10 Train Animals. This
to ~ teach SSTsss dogs' es,s, mules '. roats' h soG and MO o,her
anlmal. also birds, to PERFORM the most remarkable tricks
NJ. h32. Every Roy His Own ~Toy-Maker.
Photographic Camera, Windmill, Microscope, Electrical
Magic Lantern, Boats, Rites, Balloons, and many other
NJ. 100. The Practical Guide to E1oricn1-
fure, u compete prictlcll guide TO Inc CnIiurc OF
flowers and plants, by Ehen 7. R~cyford, one of the leading
authorities upon all matters pertaining to Horticulture.
No. h25. Home imuscnucnfs, a splendid col
lection OF Games Puzzles Tricks, diversions rastimes,
ing Charades and rToyer6s for social Gatherings, public
30. hSS. Modern Etianertc for ali Occa-
siOns. An excellent WORK upon tins subject. con.
,atnins he rules Of dcrortment f"r al occasions both for
No. h3l. The Ready Reference MAMMAL of
m 1.a,n, &c fis nnt and Statistics. a s"Ilsn,tom o" {
valuable Information Tor the uSe Of every man woman
No. ~. The Practical Poultry Keeper.
An entirely new book book on poultry keeping Just published
embracing all the latest Ideas on the subject.
No. no. u Practical Horse and Cattle
Doctor. TINS %valunnlc n9ok describes The symp-
toms Of every disease with which horses and cattle are
Piain and explicit y it Affections t%iT $ for STt iRc H1i tTaainrs2 Ge'"' WI"
No. o.! n Handy C~ycl"pmdia Of Every
information, hlIei with practical receipts. hints, helps and
70. 10. The Family Doctor BOOK, Contain.
Ing pain and simple directions for the treatment of every
known disease or nimcut Of the human frame, and sug.
ge-tinE simple homo remedies which usually effect a cure
without the necessity OF employing a ply sician.
NJ. h2. The National Handy Dictionary,
a complete pocket dictionary OF the English language. con
'aininE alnO words with their orthography, definition and
pronunciation, and 237 illustrations.
No. hs: The Ladies' Model Fancy work
Manual. An entirely new book cmbOhNIng all the
latest idens In neeilewurk, crochet. knitting and cinbroid:
cry. II contains many new lace and crochet patterns, and
directions for making many articles OF wearing apparel
and for decorative purposes.
No. Ia The american Family Cook Book.
\ complete cook book. compiled by an experienced house.
keeFer. and containing more than seven hundred Of the
choicest recipes, classified Tor ready reference.
No. he's. The Widdcr EOOdIc's Love flair,
AND orIIEg STORIES, by JOSIAH ALLEYS WIFE. This book
contains Nileen complete stories. descriptive of the laugh
able dniugs OF the Jonesyille folks, by that incompatible
humurist, Josiah Anrn's Wife.
NJ h35. The Ladies' Guide to beauty.
This book contains minute and practical instructions, ac.
companiei by many valuable recipes, for securing a hand
, 1896-03-06

Mining deeds At this once.
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The Nations Capital.


Senator Dubois introduced a bill to
make the Indians subject to the game
laws of the several states.
Chairman Carter has issued the call
for the Republican national conven-
ton.
n. G. Gallagher Of Michigan has
been APPOINTED assistant librarian or
the house ut Il salary of $4,000 per an
mum.
In Il special message to congress
President Cleveland says the Monroe
doctrine will be enforced. He recon-
mends IN investigation of the NeneZ
uelan boundary dispute by a commls-
sion. q
United States Consul-General Pen
field at Cairo, Egypt, has informed
the state department that Il new anti
slavery law will soon como Into
operation in Egypt, supplantins the
one of 1877, which was found TO ne
defective Il year ago, inasmuch as 1t
provided no penalty for the purchaser
of n slave. but for the seller only.
The wal department has issued in,
structions to officers in III OF
HEADQUARTERS in the large cities II a
magazines and periodicals sent to en-
listed men at the various forts and
posts, which have been contributed
by certain societies. clubs. ETC., Tor tne
benefit of soldiers, cannot be SEN un-
less regular postage is paid upon THIS
matter.
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From Eoreixn Shores.

Fifteen Americans have been i'm
prisoned by Russian authorities for
fishing in Siberian waters.
1t is asserted that President Pierola
q f Peru has offered to repurchase the
Tacna and africa territory from Chile
for 10,O0O,00O piasters.
Mrs. 1nez Aguiral de Marc, wife OF
the late ex-president Of Costa RIGA, Is
dead. President Marc was regarded
by many Costa Ricans as the best
president that country ever had.
1t is believed that the Newfound-
land schooner Argonaut has been lost
with all on board. She left st. Johns,
N. f., twenty-seven days ago for Hall
fax, and since then nothing has been
seen or heard Of her.
A correspondent in Rio Janeiro,
Brazil, sends word that a message has
been received from Paris saying that
France intends making a naval DEM
onstration in Brazilian waters unless
the question arising from the disputed
territory in Amapa is speedily settled.
Japan seems to be. the ideal land in
which to purchase bicycles, If the in
formation Of Senator Stewart of Ne
vada be correct. Good wheels are
made over there. he says. and sold at
wholesale at So each. He attributes
it all to cheap labor and japanese
cleSerness of imitation. =
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credit, was sentenced to five years in
the p~enitcntiary.

credit, was sentenced to five years in
the ~penitcntiary.
United States District Attorney Bir-
ney has dismissed the indictment for
alleged embczzlement against G. f..
Kincaid, formerly Of Washington.
Mrs. Annie Craig. Wife Of John
Craig, a Chicago politician, is dead,
from injuries said to have been in
f1icted by her husband.
Felice De Long was stabbed to
death at Wilkesbarre, Pa, by Giovan-
nj Destachio, in q fight for a girl with
whom they we're in love.
Noah Caney aud George st. Clair
escaped from the penitentiary ut La
porte, Ind, by scaling the walls. In
the evening they were captured in a
disreputable house nea that city.
Oscar Hennigan, colored, was exc
sassination of Martha Bradley, four
Of marriage.
Burglars blew open the safe in Par
man Bros grain warehouse at Frank
lin, Tenn, early this morning, and the
explosion, it is thought. knocked down
a coal stove. which fired the building.
Loss, $4,000.
Henry Classen, local agent at An
derson, Ind, of the Cook Brewing
company Of Chicago, was found not
guilty of the embeZZlement of $11S, as
charged by the corporation. BY ac-
quittal he also wins Miss Gerlack Of
Minneapolis as a bride.
The board of pardons Of Pennsyl-
yania. after carefully considering the
application for a pardon for John
Bardsley. ex-city treasurer Of Phila-
delphia. decided tonight to refuse the
application and Baldsley will there
fore have to serve out his term.
Miss Mollic Jackson. the 19-year-old
daughter of Co. w. II. Jackson of Clay
vile. Harrison county. Ky, committed
suicide by shooting herself through
the heart with her fathers pistol. She
was respondent over the death Of T.
T. Salee. to whom she was engaged
to be married Christmas.
Baroness Mary D. Lagerfelt, daugh-
ter Of a wealthy iron man Of Steuben-
vile, Ohio. was granted a divorce on
the grounds of wilfull absence from
Baron Israel Frederick Lagerfelt who,
while acting as Swedish consul at
Pittsburg, committed forgeries sever
al years ago.
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M.ARKET
Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live Stock ccntcrS,


Chicago. Dec. 31.-Wheat - Decem.
Der. - 77-Sc; May. IS 5-Sc; July. - LA
50 use. Corn December, % 1-2c;
May. 2Sc. Oats-Deccmber. 1G 7-Sc;
May. is 7-Sc. Pork-December. S7.62;
January. SS.52; May. $S.S7. Lard
December. S5.17; January. S5.25: May,
$5.47. Ribs-Deccmbcr, S4.225: Jan
uary. $4.25: May. $3.50.
Minneapolis. Dec. H.-Wheat De-
ccmher closed at 533-4c: May opened
at = 1-2c and closed ait II a:'-Sc. On
track-No. ] hard. I5c: No. 1 North
crn. o33-4c: No. > Northern. ) 23-4c.
Milwaukee, Dec. 31.-Flour dull and
unchanged. Wheat tirmer: No. =
spring, sic; No. I Northern. SIC; May,
IS BIC. Corn steady; No. 3, PC. Oats
firm; No. 2 white. Is Lie: No. ; white,
17a1Sc. Barley steady; No. =. ::32c;
sample, .2tl3Oc. Rye steady; No. /,
30 1-2c. Provisions steady.
Chicago. Dec. 31.-Hogs-Market ac-
tive; best stronger. others weak; light,
$$3.4Oa3.62 IL; mixed. S3.4Oa:3.G5
heavy. $33.+Oa3.G5; rough. S33.4oa3.45 :.
Cattlc-Market quiet and nominally
unchanged: beevcs. S3.1 Oa4.GO; cows
and heifers. $1.1Oa3. 20: Texas steers.
-. 77Oa3.oO; StOckcrs and feeders. So. IN
a3.5O.
st. Paul. Dec. 3I.--Iogs firm and
active: quality better than yesterday;
not enough hogs to supply the de.
mand; sales at SS3'.:sOa3.4O. Cattle firm:
good demand and very little cattle
here; sales ut S2.1:m2.7O
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Otlerwlse,

Obed w. Wallis, wholesale jeweler
of Chicago, assigned to H. D.. Galpin.
Assets, SIS, 1000; liabilities, $4,000.
The president of a Richmond (Va.)
bank has failed with $1,0O0,OO Ia
bilities.
The Pacific Mail & Panama compa-
ma have closed their contract for CO.
operation.
Heavy rains, general over Kansas,
have put the wheat crop in splendid
condition.
Francis Rarbier, for q third of a CEN
fury a resident Of Saginaw, Mich,
and one time prominent in lumber
circles, is dead, aged sixty-seven.
Henry A. d. Ward, a lineal descend
ant of Gen. Artcmus Ward, and q
graduate of Yale, is dead at Middle
town, Conn.,, aged s~eventy-four.
President c. p. Huntington. on be-
half of the Pacific Mail Steamship
company, has signed the contract with
the Panama railroad company.
The Usage Coal Mining company's
mine ut Larabs, Ind. T., shut down,
100 miners striking for a raise Of 70
cents per ton.
Judge Jenkins, in Milwaukee, has
/ ordered the Northern Pacific to meet
the first mortgage interest with sink
ing fund charges.
At Columbus, the Ohio coal operat-
ors and miners decided to refer the
company store question to John Little
of Xenia as arbitrator.
Robert s. Green was appointed re-
ceiver for the Gore Bros. & Hooper
company. Ne1 York, manufacturers
and dealers in hats.
George d. Burton, manager Of the
Burton Stock Car company of Boston,
has filed Il petition in insolvency. His
liabilities are $4,000.
The state salt inspector Of Michigan
reports that 3,G75,751 barrels were pro-
duced during the year, a gain Of $780,
a3223 barrels v e 1894.
Mrs. Leonard Rice is suing her ia
tller-in-law, 2. Ii. Rice. for $4,000
damages for alternating the affections
of her husband.
The sheriff at Youngstown. Ohio,
closed the London and Liverpool
clothing house.. Charles b. Rumph,
proprietor, at the instance Of Pitts
turg creditors.
Special Examiner Jacob NJ. Claudy,
aged tifty-five, Of Steubenville, o.,
while taking testimony at Baltimore
while taking testimony at Bellaire, o.,
in Il pension case, suddenly fell OF
his chair and expired before a doctor
could be called, the result Of heart
failure. His home was In Oswego,
n. Y.
The board Of directors Of the Mer.
chants exchange Of st. Louis has
adopted resolutions asking congress to
reduce letter postage from 2 cents to
1 cent. and increase the rate on mail
carried to / cent per pound; also, to
grant belligerent rights to the people
Of Cuba. :.
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Cnsaalties

Casaalties
The steamer India was badly dam
aged by a collision.
George Merr of Sharon Center,
Iowa, was found overcome by gas in
his room in Reuters hotel, New York.
| His recovery is improbable.
The Atlantic & Pacific express on
the Southern Pacific was wrecked
near Towels, Cal, injuring several
passengers. but none fatally.
Rosa Carrier Of Salina, Kas.. eleven
| years old, was burned to death by the
! explosion Of Il lamp which she had
tipped over.
While prodding along to frighten out
a squirrel. Henry Rogers of Anderson.
| Ind. discharged his rife, tearing out
| his heart. His brother met a similar
| fate in the same locality a year ago.
The fish house of Trask & Co., in
| st. Louis, was practically destroyed.
It is estimated that the total damage
to stock and building will exceed $780,
600. Well insured.
In an Illinois Central freight train
| collision at Jackson, Tenn, Fireman
| Moses Hill. colored. was killed. ard
| Engineer Jack Kennedy was severely
scalded.
The mail steamer from te Northern
| coast arrived at St. Johns. N. F., add
reported frightful ravages by recent
gales. The schooner Victoria and her
crew of t%wenty-four have been lost.
Four other vessels are missing.
While feeding a patent corn husker
near Idaville, Ind, Levi Benney raised
the lid. when the rapidly revolving
cylinder teeth caught his sleeve. jerk
ing Benney head foremost in the hus-
ker and crushed him to death.
Joseph Koehler of Salem, Ohio, load
ed a shotgun and placed it on a table.
His four-year-old child. while playing.
knocked it off. and Mr.. Koehler re-
ceived the entire contents in his
ankles. A%mputation may be neces-
sary.
Bclated ships are arriving at Phila-
delphia, Pa, bearing evidences of the
terrible gale of the past week along
the Atlantic coast. 4. great number
Of vessels are vet unaccounted for,
and there is a general belief that
many have fountlcrld.
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One OF the most remarkable things
about the late Judge Thurman was his
persistent cheerfuluess in his latter
days, when his work was done and he
was simply waiting for 'the pale mes
sengcr with thu inverted torch" He
had no fear Of death and NO melan-
choly feelings as to his approaching
departure from the scenes and associ-
ations of this life. "An old duffer like
me is not much good, and my time
has about come" he said, with a
smile. only a few days before he died,
and he passed away like q child fall
ing asleep.
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People In Print.

A monument to the late Bishop
| Wayman, colored, will be erected IN
| Baltimore.
Mr.. Cleveland will lack fourteen
| days Of being sixty years old when ne
| retires from the presidency.
Congressman William A. Smith OF
| Michigan began his career as q news
boy and street popcorn seller.
Charles Mayne. a pioneer capitalist
| and millionaire banker Of San Fran
| cisco is dead.
Ian MacLaren says that every man
who will not work should be COM
| pelled to do 80 at the point OF the
bayonet.
In the new home of the new duchess
/ Of Marlborough there are said to 90
twenty staircases leading from the
main floor to the second.
John S. Wheeler, aged forty years, a
| retired merchant of Warrensburg, Mo-,
dropped dead in the Methodist Epis-
| copal church during services.
Cardinal Paul Melchers is dead in
Rome. He was q German, born IN
| 1913, and was created a cardinal IN
1885.
! Mrs. Della S. Parnell, the mother OF
| the late Charles Stuart Parnell. is still
in Trinity hospital. New York city.
| She is improving daily. and expects to
| sail for ireland before New Years.
Mrs. p. w. X. Schimer Ct Mount
| Carroll, ILL.,, has signified her intention
of turning over to the University OF
| Chicago and the Mount Carroll semi
nary property valued at 100000.
A section of Thomas Paine's brain
is on exhibition in London. The Pail
Mall Gazette says that it is quite
black and clocks like a chunk of iron
.pyrites."
Critic Edmund Clarence Stedman
has declined the Billings chair OF
English literature at Yale on the
ground that sit is best to put young
blood in the place."
Lorenzo Turner. who left his home
in Brazil. Ind, at the close of the war
to make his fortune in the West. has
Just returned to his old home. He is
now a very wealthy cattle dealer Of
South Dakota.
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The official returns of the state
election in Massachusetts show that
out Of the $4,000 women entitled to
register and vote on the question Of
equal suffrage, only 23.O6S went to
the polls; that in f~orty-seven towns
not a woman voted, and in 1873 towns
their votes averaged only fifteen; and
that, in not a single county or district
was a majority given for the PROPOSE
ton. 1t is quite evident that the wo-
men of the state most noted for their
education and intelligence are willing
to remain "enslaved," go far as polit-
icai power 10 concerned.
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It has been found by the Philadel-
pfaia Society for the Prevention Of
Tubercoiis that the hospitals Of that
city provide room for only about 125
consumptive patients, the policy being
to refuse admission to all except this
limited number. The society asserts
positively that without contagion con-
sumption would disappear from the
list of diseases, and it asks for the e.
tablishment Of a hospital large enough
to accommodate all sufferers from the
malady. They point to the fact that
since the idea that consumption 10
contagious became prevalent In Phila-
delphia the mortality there from that
disease has Decreased - Per cent.
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There is a tremendous sensation In
Shaker circles over the elopement of
Elder Evans. manager Of the Shaker
female bookkceper known as Sister
Mabel Franklin. The elder Is fifty
FIVE years old and the pretty sister is
twenty-five. He has been in the COM
munity for thirty years, but she only
for two years. The Shakers, no doubt,
mean well. but when q community at
tempts to wrestle with human nature
1t is apt to get the worst Of it in the
long run.
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slew Her

: Newcastle. Neb.. Dec. 31.-Thc wife
of Louis Bokoskie shot and instantly
killed her husband this morning. The
tragedy occurred on Il farm four miles
from Newcastle. The cause of the
shooting is NOT known. Mrs. Bokoskie
who is very wealthy. Bokoskie had
four children.
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Dunraven Goe. Home

New York. Dec. H.-Lord Dunraven
who came to America to testify be-
fore the yacht club committee regard
ing the charges against Defender. has
sailed for home. 1t is reported that
the investigation ended in a very alb
rupt manner and that Dunraven is eX-
trelnely angry. The facts cannot he
obtained.
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The revenue cutter service has for
years been trying to place itself on a
plane with the navy a. to honors and
emoluments. 1t seems to be getting
there for it has been ordered that
vessels Of the service shall be painted
the same as ships of the navy. and
that the ceremonials Of "colors" and
bells shall be observed, with music,
solids.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-01-04

A tablet made Of Nile mud, recently
found in the British museum. contains
in cuniform characters tho marriage
proposal of Pharaoh for the daughter
Of the King Of Babylon. 1t was writ
ten about $500 years ago.
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The longest time during which q
note has remained outside the Bank
of England is Ill years. 1t was for
f25, and it is computed that the COM
pound interest during that time
amounted to no less than $4,000.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-01-04

The postpaid official In the British
service is the lord lieutenant Of Ire
land. who receives 100000 a year.
The governor-general of India would
receive about f24. 600 a year is the ru-
pee had not deprecated In value SO
much.
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y Swiss scientist has been testing
the presence Of bacteria in mountain
air. and finds t.at NOT a single microbe
exists beyond an altitude Of 1000 feet
above the level Of the sea.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-01-04

Fishing by means Of an electric light
has been successfully tried in Newha-
ven. A lamp lowered into the sea
brilliantly illuminating the water over
a circular area twenty yards in diane
ter.
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A medical journal declares that the
common habit among Of biting
off the thread with which they are
sewing is prolific Of sore throat and
blood poisoning.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-01-04

A remarkably beautiful diamond,
weighing G55 carats, according to a
Cape Town dispatch, has been found
at the Jagersfontein mine, in the Or
ange Free State.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-01-04

The university Of Leipsic has Just
suffered a great loss by the death Of
DIR. ]. Overlook. the learned professor
of classical archaeology, and nephew
Friedrich Overlook.
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At the Police COur
An Additional Appellation.

An Additional Appellation.
Mrs. Woolberton Gmpatiently)-Get
outen dis house yo' good TO- muffin
lazy niggah! Yo' oughter be 'shamed
oh .yo'self, sittin' dar all de day long
watchin' yo' wife make de libbin' TO-
de fambily.
Mr.. Woolberton with a whine)-Yo'
didn't ulster talk to me dat way afo we
was dun married. Yo' ulster call me
Sugar den.
NJ rs. Woolberton-Yes: an l calls yo'
sugah now-loaf-sugah. OATS what yo'
is-loaf-sugah!-Puck.
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The citizens OF Amesbury, where
John G. Whittier made his home dur
ing the latter years Of his life, are
planning to make the house where lie
spent many years a public library.
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Enticing Dakota DunLor..

Grand Junction. Colo, Dec. l1,-A r
rnngements have been completed with
the Dunkard communities scattered
over Iowa. Dakota, Nebraska and
Kansas to. settle in 81 body in thu
Grand river valley, near this city. dur
Ing the coming spring. Over q hun.
dretl families. all well-to-do, will ON
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-01-04
A RuAller.

A Rusher.
Ethel Knox-If you dare to kiss me
again I'll call mamma.
Van Pelt-Don't bother; ! kissed her
ms l came in,-New York World.
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Cnusntiyc,

Roofe-Why do they speak of a song
or dance in a variety performance as
a "turnY 49,
Gardin-Because it gives the audi
ence one.-NeW York Recorder.
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PITH OF THE NEWS.
EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK IN A
CONDENSED FORM.

A General resume of the Most Inn
pOrtnnt News of the Week, From
all Parts of the Globe, Boiled
Down and Arranged In Con-
venicnt Form for Rnpid fer-
usnl by Busy People.
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Not n Farmer

Not n Farmer.
"Did l understand you to say Mr..
Thompson was a farmer"
Good gracious. no! l said he made
his money in wheat. You never heard
Of Il farmer doing that, did your
Beatrice Democrat.