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FOR SALE OR RENT.
T1OR SALE Or EXCHANGE.

A party having accepted an offer in the
West instruc ted me to sail or exchange for
city property, the following well equipped
up to.date farm
$50 ACkES OF GOOD LAND 21a miles
from Wirt's wharf on the Potomac river, i'm.
proved with well built FRAME DWELL.
ING, large barn, stables, crIiage house.
chicken houses, SEQ young bearing spple
trees and number of peach pear and other
small fruits and splendid garden. This
property is situated near Oak Grove post
office and Wirtland and is known as most
d. sirab!e place. If sold now it can be bought
at BARGAIN. Well improved desirable
property with an actual equity of So, 500 will
be accepted in EXCHANGE. apply at
once TO
ROBERT ELLIOTT
Real Estate Agent,
523 King Street, Alexandria, Va.
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Paris Medicine Go. Pans, Tonn.:
Dear sir5 :-Sbipus as soon as possible gross
Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic. My customers
want GROVES Tasteless Chill tonic and will
not have any other. In our experience OF
over 20 years in the drug business We have
never sold any medicine which gave such
universal satisfaction. Yours respectfully,
J. S. BROWNE & Co
For salo by CHARLES q. LENNON.
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RAILROADS
UyASHINGTON. ALEXANDRA
w MOUNT VERNON RAILROAD
In Elect November IA 1897.

XXTASHlNGTON, ALEXANDER AHI
w MOUNT VERNON RAlLRO ,n
In Elect November II, 1887
FOR wAsHINGToN.
Leave Alexandria, corner King and Royal
streets. also stops at King and Wash gou
King and Payne streets, week dsls t' D b
& %, %. ! 20 Iexpres-l, + 40 express
8 90 3 20 express : 80 express $780,
o 30, 1000. / 04 and ! A. g. m ez-
press) and II 70, 90 ,exWes. lo-
2 90. , 40. , 90 (express), , 30 4 io. 3 'j
express, . 90, : 30 express. 3 10. q lo
exprcssj, 6 20, 90. Is ,expres, -.
9 Is, 10 / 5 and II 10 p IN
Sundays 90, 90 9 OO. . "a. lo 80.
II 10 a M. , o. noon, II -, go. . H..
3 90, 3 40. 4 30. > is, 8 90, q -. 30,
5 10, 9 10, 10 Is and II ! p. ID.
FOR ALEXANDRIA.
Leave Washington, from the corner Of
Pennsylvania avenue and 1875 street week
days, 6 30, ! %, : % leXpia,s, ODD
5 30. S 80, 9 81. 10 - (exprc,-J 100
and II 40 II. N. u % lcXprc-s ~ 2o
10, / 40, 05 (express) . 40. 3 -, b"
(expressl, 4 IS (expressl. 1 30. D u5 -u
(expressl, ) 40, % IS 81. ! o6 Nol
. 90, 10 90, II 20 and | 59p. r'.
sundays is, 5 40, 9 -. 1890 II 10
a. ID II OO noon, and II 10. 30 ID.
3 90, :}45. o > Ia. 6ru. oi'.
e 30, S15. 8 90. 10 90 aud / 20 I'm.
FOR MOUNT VERNON
Leave AlcXandria for Mount Vernon week
DAYS. at 7 %, s 30. 10 b. ] - ~ m.
and y 81, Al. = 81 1 i5 and iop 3d..
Sundays 20 and 10 ~ q. H. 20.
- IN pE .ud : III n IN
Leave Mount Vernon. week day. so Nv
. IA and il IA a. m. and - 40 80.
, 40, 10, 5 80 and ; 20 p. N.
cave Mount Vernon, sunday a ou
and Il % a. m and l 40 3 %, ~ and
3 90 p IN.
Leave Arlington Junction for Arlington
and Rosslyn hourly.
Baggage checked free at King and I.oya'
streets, Alexandria, and 1915 and ieni.S 70
vania Avenue, Washington. for ucrons I'li.
ing first class tickets. Bicycles - an's cam.
Parcel express.
Communication tickets are sold ai the Offices
of the Mt. Vernon Railroad. Royal ai' h.0-
STREETS at the following rates:
Fare, Alexandria to Washington I' cents
round.trip % cents. Commua'io a.'si
tickets, $12.66; monthly ue-r'
81 90; school tickets. 50 10; family wy
tickets, $6.25; package tickets, 20 cents AT
tel 90 p IN. to Riverside 10 cents f'.'-
trip
q. E. ABBOT. GEO. Z. PHLLW-
General Manager. Genera Pas,cn-er AZ.
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To Cure n Cold i'm One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund the money if it fails to
cure % cents Sold by CHARLES G. LENNON
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ARNOLD's BROMO-CELERY. Try this
unrivaled remedy for Headaches, Neuralgia
SleepleSanesa 10 cent?
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BOOKS, STATIONERY, &c.
FRENCH's BOOKSTORE,
DUB BICYCLE AND SPORTING GOOD
BUSINESS THIS SEASON
AT s. 419 ENG STREET.

DUB BICYCLE AND SPORTING GODS
BUSINESS THIS SEASON
will he on the most comprehensive scale
Not one point has been overlooked 10 make
opIs the most interesting Bicycle and Sport
ing Goods Department in this State Our
prices mean b saving for you. We have
no* ready for your inspection the ''9S"
MODELS of the IMP RIAL WHEELS"
the-go lightly, kind. Price $50. The New
Thomas Bicycle, price $50, aud the arabian
Wheels, price $40, known the world over as
the An erican beauties The high grade, the
great popularity. the excellent reput .ton of
these three leading makes are unqnestioned.
We invite comparison with other wheels ad.
vertised at much higher prices If you fail
to inpect The Imperial, " The Thomas and
The Arabian" before purchasing, don't
blame your bad luck on US.
BICYCLE SUNDRIES.
A large assortment of standard brands at
very lowest prices.
BICYCLES FOR HIRE
by the hour day, week or month. No rattle
traps.
DOPEpT Wy NCH
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STEAM EHS.

SIE:A vi EsSS.
VETASHINGTON STEAMBOAT COM
w PANY (LIMITED1
CHEAP AND PLEASANT EXCUR,iOA7
Round Trip, Is Cents.
On and after September 18th, 1897. and anu
further notice the following ferry schedule
will be in force:
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E'ARFIELD & HALL,
DRUGGISTS
,GRK EB PRINCE AND FAIRFAX sTs
iatt

HJtN EB PEINCE AND EAlKfA A BIB
Prescriptions Specialty.
English, French, Gerinsa and Domestic
Toilet Soaps; Genuine Farina Cologne; Mag.
nolia, Hedyosimia, Geranium and Florida
Water; Genuine Lubin's Extracts; spongc1,
dair Brushes and Combs best English Tooth
Brushes; full assortment Of Patent Mcdi.
20 Coxe's Gelatine, Corn Starch, Sea MUsa
sarine, Spices OF all kinds, and a select stoch
Of all articles sold by druggists at prices as low
az the same uuality can be obtained elsewhere
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Leave Washington

N. b. Same schedule Sundays c9r4c
8 80 g. m. az
POTOMAC RIVER Landings
ER WAKEFIELD leaves WISH
days at 7 90 a. m, and Aleztad
R. M, for landings AS far as Non -'..
Wednesdays and Saturdays Al same Ao-'-
st. Clements Bay and LeOnarnto@h.
C.W RIDLEY, Genera A-oFSs-
JOHN B. PADGETT AguEt
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For salo by CHARLES G. LENNON.
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IN. I Leave Alexauif
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The elephant has no fewer than 40,-
900 muscles in his trunk alone, while a
man has only SRI in his entire body.
Air in its pure state is composed
thus: Nitrogen, II per cent; oxygen,
21 per cent; other compounds, two per
cent.
1t is noteworthy fact that sheep
thrive best in pasture infested with
moles This is because of the better
drainage of the land.
A London specialist says the most
expensive drug in physostigmine, an
ounce of which would cost nearly ST.
100000. 1t is prepared from the Gala
bar bean, and is used in diseases of the
eye.
Glass bricks are gradually coming
into use, and it is said that glass will
soon be used for making statues for
public squares, as it resists the corrod
ing effect of the weather much better
than marble or granite.
The so-called silver" or pyloric caeca
of the common starfish, has been found
by Miss Ellen Stone to be closely re-
lated in function to the pancreas of the
vertebrates. The work was done in
the laboratory of Brown university un-
der the direction of Mr.. r. w. Tower.
The largest stock yards in the world
are in Chicago. The combined plants
represent an inves tment of over $1O,-
100000. The yards contain 20 miles
of streets, 20 miles of water troughs, so
miles of feeding troughs and IS miles
OF water and drainage troughs. The
yards are capable of receiving and ac-
commodating daily 10000 cattle, 2O,-
900 sheep and 10000 hogs.
Drops of Air.-It is not an uncom-
mon sight in laboratory where ex-
periments with liquefed air are being
conductah to see drops of air falling
on a lecture table and running about
exactly like drops of water on hot
stove. In fact, the table may be called
as "red hot" in comparison with the
temperature of the liquefied oxygen
and nitrogen, of which the drops con-
sist.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
Home. Of the Anthracite Miners.

Each little house, with the boxes,
cubby-holes, and fences about it, has
been built by the man who lives in it..
And he is laborer, struggler for
mere existence, not deft in the use Of
tools, nor with an eye for the sym
metrical, nor with an appreciation for
anything beyond the most primal facts
of living. The roofs of the buildings
slant at all angles, with no two sides Of
the same length or DETECTION. One por-
tion will have caves, while its compan-
ion will scorn the luxury. The same
incongruity prevails everywhere. Some
Of the small openings used for windows
are high, while others are low. One
door will open in, and another out.
The hinges have evidently come from
the company scrap-pile, and the staples
and latches and locks from the same
source. Some of the roofs have shin
giles, others weather-boards, while
others are formed of great pieces of
rusty sheet-iron.-Jay Hambridge, in
Century.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
EMERGENCY RATION.
provided for the Enlisted Men Of the Amer.
ican Army)

ican Army)
oyster crackers, one pound to q box.
For five days man would carry nVe
boxes of the size shown,
Small cotton bags are issued in which
to carry the roasted and ground coffee
and the salt. The bags shown are half the
actual size, as are all the drawings. A
small brown paper box, like pill box,
contains the pepper, while the ten sac
charine tablets extra strong) are car
ried in another small pill box. Each
tablet contains two grains, the box hold
ing ten, two for each day. These tab
lets are 20 strong that small piece
will sweeten large cup OF coffee or tea.
Each man carries in his haversack a
folding meat can, with a handle that
admits of it's use as kind of sauce pan.
With this and the bacon and pea meal
fairly good soup can be made, coffee or
tea being made in the tin cup. 1t may
seem strange to many in reading the
components of this important ration to
find tobacco embraced In it. Those
habituated to its use suffer acutely
when deprived of it, and as it is the OBJ
ject of the emergency ration to keep the
powers of the individual at their max
imum for the time being on the small
est amount of food to be carried, it was
argued that half an ounce of tobacco
would conduce more to comfort while
on short rations than would the addi-
ton of half an ounce Of bread or bacon.
Hence the tobacco was added. The man
who does not use tobacco would find no
trouble in Swapping off" his tobacco
to some other man who did use it for ar
equal amount OF something to eat. Dur.
ing the past summer several practice
marches were made by regular troop.
throughout the country. on which
marches the command lived for five day.
on this ration, and, while the men woult
not choose this form of food, by choice
experience proved that men can stand 3
great deal Of hard work living on it.
This ration must not be confused, as
it frequently is, with the regular field
ration. When company goes into the
field each man is allowed his share of
beef, bacon, -four, beans, potatoes.
onions, coffee, sugar, candles, soap, salt,
pepper and baking powder, but each
man does not carry his share. 1t is is
sued in bulk to the company, and car
ried in the wagons and cooked by the
company's cooks, each man getting his
share at meal times. The weight of the
field ration for five days would be over
10 pounds, little too much to add to
the weight already placed on man
carrying his clothing, equipments and
ammunition. s.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
EMERGENCY RATION.
Supplies Carried by Each Soldier Of
the Regular Army.
Five Days Food Weighs Bat Ten
Pounds and Takes Up Only . Small
Amount of space-What 1t
IL COnposed OF.

About two years ago board OF army
officers was ordered to convene in
Washington and get up an emergency
ration" for the army. After many
months of hard work the present ration
was adopted. The first point the board
had to decide was what constituted the
"emergency,' and it was decided that
an emergency was such an occasion
as required.the troops to subsist on
food carried ON their persons. After
many experiments the following foods
were decided upon: Hard bread, cof-
fee or tea, bacon, pea meal, pepper, sac
charine, salt and tobacco. After many
trials and many disappointments the
foods decided upon were put up in such
shape as to be palatable and at the
same time retain their nourishing quail
tiles.
The ration for one day consists Of ten
ounces of bacon, 16 6ounces of hard bread,
four ounces of pea meal, four ounces Of
coffee or one-half ounce of tea, four
grains of saccharine, 64-100 ounces of
salt, 4-1oo ounces of pepper and one-half
ounce of tobacco. The total of the
weight for five days is little over ten
pounds. This ration is never used fer
over five days, the board having de-
cided that such time was the minimum
time for which men could live on the
ration, still keep up their physical
strength and be in good fighting condi-
ton. This ration is kept in the com
missary storehouse at all military
posts ready for immediate use. The il
lustration given shows how it is put up
in small packages. The bacon, cut into
a piece weighing so ounces, would be
wrapped up in paper prepared for the
purpose and kept in stock. The pea
meal comes wrapped as shown, and re-
sembles thick, short Roman candle.
A man would carry five, one for each
DAYS ration. The hard bread is not
the proverbial "hard tack" of olden
times It comes in the shape of small
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
THE MAN IN THE TRUNK.
A New Way the Thieves -. Paris Have
of Getting the Burglar
Into the House.

Two well-dressed men from Paris
drove up to the best hotel in country
town in the department of the Eure, re-
lates Paris correspondent, and en-
gagged double-bedded room. They de-
posted very heavy trunk in corner,
and then went out to see the town, tell
ing the landlady, a widow, that they
would return at night. But night came
and the two men did not come back at
the time specified. The landlady wait
ed, much surprised, and kept her estab-
lishment open after the usual hour for
closing. This was soon observed by
the local gendarmes on duty, who en-
tered the hotel and reminded the pro-
prietess of the place that the curfew, or
it's modern substitute, had tolled the
kneH of parting day, and that it was
full time to extinguish lights in all inns
and cafes. The widow said she was
waiting for two men who had left big
trunk behind them. This caused the
gendarmes to reflect little. One of
them, well versed in criminal annals,
suddenly remembered the Gouffe case.
He also thought of the young stamp col
lecteor who was murdered in Paris
few years since, and whose body was
thrust into trunk. Anxious to secure
all the credit of discovery which might
lead to promotion and glory, the gen
darme learned in criminal lore asked
the widow to let him see the trunk, and
told his companion to wait for him at
the bar or buvette of the hotel. The
landlady accordingly led the man to
the room, and he began to gauge the
weight of the big box, when suddenly
the lid flew up and out jumped wiry
little man, who brandished big revolv-
er in his right hand. The widow
screamed and the gendarme was tenn
porarily thrown off his guard, but he
soon pulled himself together and grap-
pied with the person who had been act
ing iack-in-the-b box. The other gen.
darme, hearing the landlady's shrieks
and the scuffling overhead, was soon on
the scene of action and helped his col
league to manacle the mysterious per-
son who had jumped out of the trunk
and to take him to the lookup. There
the fellow refused to give his name or
to say anything about his companions,
who are supposed to have returned to
Paris, leaving him to plunder the inn
when the owner and her servants were
asleep.-St. Louis Republic.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
h. Meant the BirS.

Some time ago a worthy man got a
curious present from sea captain. 1t
was fine specimen of the bird which
the sailors call the Laughing jackass,' -
and he was not little proud of it. AS
he was carrying it home he met a
brawny Irish navy, who stopped and
asked him: e
"Phwat kind of a burrd is that, sorr?"
That's laughing jackass," ex-
planned my friend, genially.
The Trishman, thinking he was being
made fun of, was equal to1the occasion,
and responded, with a twinkle of the
eye:
Its not yerself, it's the burrd Oh
name, sorr."-Tit-Bits.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
Improved G.n.ery.

The wonderful strides made in the
science of gunnery since 1910 are shown
by the fact that at that period 6s-
pound projectile fired with charge Of
1S pounds of powder gave muzzle ve-
locity of between 1000 and 1,1o0 feet a
second, while at the present day 100
pound shell, fired with 14A pounds Of
cordite, gives muzzle velocity of $3.50
feet second.-Boston Budget.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
new south wales Pests.

New South Wales has a choice lot of
noxious animal pests for whose destruc-
tion the colony paid out $lsO0oO in
bounties last Among them are bandi-
coots, pademelons, wombats, wallabies,
kangaroos, emus, native dogs. flying
foxes, kangaroo rats, crows and hares.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
How She Guessed.

Maud-Don't you think these new
pictures of me are lovely?
Marie-They are, indeed. Who took
them-De Camera?
Maud-Yes. What made you think he
took them?
Marie see he is advertising that he
has the most skiIlful retoucher in
town-Chicago Daily News.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
why IA Objected.

She-Papa says you must not call on
me any more.
He-Does he know that 1 love you?
"Well, told him, but he read in the
paper somewhere that people that are
much together grow to look alike. y
Ionkers Statesman.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
The Difference,

you have called me liar" shouted
the angry citizen to the offensive citizen,
''and you will live to regret that speech,
sir"
'That jest shows the difference in
fellers," remarked Cowboy Bill, who
happened to be present. when a man
calls rse liar he don't live to regret it. :"
Pick Up.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
UNCLE Allen in Misery.

"There's Oh. crop that never fails, :"
said Uncle Allen Sparks, as he limped
erumblingly along. "If you plant o
foot in tight shoe you'll raise corn
every time."-Chicago Tribune.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
Hopeless case.

why do you allow your wife to rule
you as if you were baby?'' indignant
ly asked Mr.. Meeker's brother. You
ought to have voice once in awhile in
sert your independence"
Independence" echoed Mr.. Neeker,
bitterly. "She won't even grant me au-
tonomy!"-Chicago Tribune.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
The Only Way.

"Oh, will you read my hand?" she
said, with curiosity.
He said: "This hand, to be we'll read,
I must take home with me."-DetToit
Free Press.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
Dismissed.

Doctor-A careful diagnosis of your
case, colonel, convinees me that you
have water on the brain.
Col. Rumly-I shall no longeh reqm'
you sehvices, suh.-Detroit Free Press.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
A Poor Opinien,

Fosdick-Tompkins isn't much of a
fellow, is he?
keexlick-No, he isn't. Tompkins Is
small pingrees and few in the hill.--
Judge.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
A Gentle Insinuation.

The Maid-Miss Ethel is not in, sir,
but I'll tell her you called.
Algy-Aw-thanks. Tell her right
away. please, 80 you won't forget it,
Judge
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
Fatal.

"Who is the belle Tonight" asked she,
AS they stood on the ballroom floor.
He looked around the room to see
And she speaks to him no more.
Harlem Life.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
What They Do,

"Womcn wear dotted wells and ruin
their eyes"
"Well, men wear plaid golf stockingr
and ruin other peoples eyes."-Chicago
Record.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
She wouldn't BE So Foolish.

He-A fellow does not walrt TO throw
mud in politics unless he is sure his own
skirts are clean.
She-The idea! If / had anything
like that to do. would wear the worst
clothes / had.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
Same Old Color,

Miss Charcoal tells yo', Mis- John
sing, desc heah patent medicines am
no Tablet b.
Mrs. Johnsing-Has yo' tried 'em?
Miss Charcoal-Yessum! Use used
Lily Balm Face Bleach goin' on yeah
now, an il hain't done me a bit er good.
N. Y. Journal.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
Not In Htn Claaa,

John, dear urged his wan wife
won't you try and put the baby to
sleep?'
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
A Member of the Force.

81 say, Bridget, is your beau gold or
silver man?' asked the head of the
house.
''Shure, he's neyther," answered the
cook, who was in love with police
man; 'he's what you call copper man,
sur."-Yonkers Statesman.
Daily camera., 1898-08-11
The pugilist awoke with a start and

Shuddered.
"No," he answered. "Let him first get
a reputatiou."-N y. Journal.
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Opening and Closing of the Mails.

Northern mails, week days, close al SO
and II As 8. n. and l Is, 2 so, 6 so and
8 sol n. Open az s 90 8. M, u 90 N
and 90 2. N. On Sundays Northern msi.s
close st L IA 3. N. and 20 p. u.
Southern msis Wis Charlottesville, clo.l
st 7 so and 10 90 S. N. and , Is arc
8 80 p. m Open st s 90 s. N. snd 81
and 4:30 p. m.
Southern mails, via Richmond, close >
10 40 g. M and 10 and s so p. u.
Manassas Division mails close at 7 so f -
and 45 p. N. Open st l p. II.
Alexandra sud Round Hill mails ciose III
8 40 s. N. and 90 . n. Open at ca \. N.
md 8 30p.m.
Chesapeake and Ohio nails close ~ Il;
?. N. and s 80 p. N. Opea oG q. N. and
Z so p. m.
Washington mails close st 50 and II a;
a IA, and l I5, 2 20, 3 so and s so p. u
0Den AZ s 90 p. M, u 90 N. and 8 90 snc
ohoe EOuu-opsn at 90 a. m. Close
Sunday BOur-oEan at 900 a. N. Clos.
as 8 so g. N.
CARRIER Standardization made o,
esside routes-6 80 and 10 90 8. m. ant
8 20 and 3Op.m. Full route-6 80 g.
ard 80 p N. Sunday collection 90 p.
Carriers window open Sunday 90 g. n
nd close 8 80 8. IA.
Deliveries made 8 90 8. H.. ID 90 n, an
COP N.
All mail uhould be in Office ten minute
before hour indicated for closing.