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FROM the New hork sun.
European mails sent out from New
York on Wednesday were the largest
that ever left this port on any one day.
and yesterdays dispatch OF mails, 2.0I
sacks. has been equaled only on two or
three previous occasions. The money or
der mail yesterday was exceptionally
large. amounting TO S6.37S orders OF the to-
tai value Of Sf9. s52. ~. OF this So. III. @
goes 10 Germany. S26.ss to Great Britain
and 81, l25.ei TO Sweden.
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Mr.. Sanford Rob
inson, Adrian, Mich,
writes : II was taken
sick with 10
grippe last winter. I
a sit up only q
few moments every
day. I could eat
n othing. I got .
bottle OF Pe-ru-na
and began to tskeit.
T b o Improvement
was prompt. In ten
days was able to be
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f2-Pompton. N. j.: Eleven men kill
ed by a powder mill explosion.
13-Racine, Wis: The Malleabie and
Wrought Iron company's works
burn: 10 lives lost.
1S-Gleinwitz. Prussian Silesia: Twen-
ty-four people killed in a colliery
cage accident.
2-villa Nadia, Spain: Forty people
drowned by a water spout.
10-Philippine Islands: Three trans
ports. containing 900 Spanish SOL
diers, lost.
12-Hawkins county. Tenn: Thirty
two lives destroyed by a cloud
21-Hoad. Hungary: Eighty soldiers
drowned by the collapse of a pom
toon bridge.
SEPTEMBER.
5-Cohoes. N. Y: A locomotive cuts
a trolley car in twain. killing 10
people.
6-Hogansburg. Ont: An unfinished
bridge collapses. drowning 30 men.
ia hurricane In the West Indies de-
stroys 300 lives: the first great
storm forecastsd by the new Unit
ed States West indian weather ser
vice.
11-New Westminster, b. c.: A large
section Of the city burns; loss. So
500. 900.
2o-Toledo: Twelve lives lost In the
burning of Paddock. Hodge & Co.'S
grain elevator.
22-Baltic Sea: A coast storm causes
the drowning Of 40 fishermen.
OCTOBER.
2-Hankow. China: A square mile of
hnildinRG hurnad. 4 000 iph hfto xts
perish.
3NCharleston. s. c.: A hurricane
wrecks many small vessels and
submerges a number of islands;
many negroes lost.
14-Lzard. England: The steamer
Michigan runs ashore and founders:
143 people drown.
21-Vienna: Bubonic plague breaks
out In the meteorological Institute.
where experiments with disease
germs were being conducted.
21-Chicago: Gales on the lake cause
wrecks In which % lives are lost.
NOVEMBER.
5-Detroit: The unfinished Wonder
land theater ~collapses, killing Is
6-Washington: The supreme court
in the national capital wreck
ed by a gas explosion.
Livingston, Ont: Twelve people
killed in a Grand Trunk railroad
collision.
1sSersey City: Eleven track labor
ers killed by a Pennsylvania train.
23-San Francisco: Baldwin hotel
burns; four lives and 81. 500. 900 lost.
IA great storm on the New England
coast wrecks many vessels. includ-
ing the steamer Portland; more
than 200 lives lost.
DECEMBER.
bay of Biscay: The British steam
err Clan Drummonds wrecked: 81
people drowned.
New York: Rogers. Peet e. Co.'S
clothing house. Postal Telegraph
and HON Insurance buildings
burn: loss 81, 900. 900.
19ITerre Haute, Ind: A large part
of the business section burns: loss
nearly 81. 000. 900. Hangkow. China:
A powder mill explosion kills about
5000 soldiers.
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Mrs. ]. b. Allen, Pc
oskey Mich, writes:
~Both my husband and
myself were seriously
i'll with Ia grippe. FL
nally 1 took TO my bed,
but my husband would
not give up. One day
/ saw an advertisement
OF Pe-ru-na in q paper
and asked him to get
me q bottle. He had
no faith in Ii, but got
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nt DtEtthc Va
st. Francis Of
st. Vincent's
Orphan Asy-
lum, East Main
street, corner Of
Rose Ave., Col
umbus, Ohio, In
a letter dated
June 2, 1S9e to
DIR. s. b. Hart
man say:"Some
v Q ars ago Q
friend of our in
s~titution recon-
m m AA m ma
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Mrs. Anna Har-
m Q q, M aso
Mamie, Dane county,
Wis.,, writes: 81 can
not praise your rem
edy too highly. Last
winter 1 had L.
grippe, and hemor-
rhage Of the lungs
folio wed. All the
doctors around here
told me 1 had die
of cons mption.
Than fhnnDhf n
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DR.. Hartman's Pe-ru-na as an excellent
remedy for influenza, Of which we then
had several cases which threatened to
be of n serious character. We began to
use IL and experienced such wonderful
results that since then Pe-ru-na has be-
come our favorite medicine for infiu-
enza, cstarrh, coughs, colds and bronch-
ttSav
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Mr.. Aug. Trylo6,
Mt. Clemens, Mich,
writes: Il will let
you know what 1
think Of Pe-ru-na.
Two years ago I had
In grippe, and IL left
me with q dreadful
cough. The physi-
clans could not cure
me. I tried other
medicine before I
took Pe-ru-nA, but it
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21-San Francisco: Matty Matthews
gets the decision over Tommy Ry-
an In the 18th round
SS-Gardner knocks out Kelly in the
18th round President Young's Ma
tional Baseball League averages
make La Chance of Brooklyn the
champion fielder and thinner of
Cleveland the champion catcher.
e1-Louisviile: Hogan beats Bezenah
en- points.
NoveMseR.
1-Manchester. England: Latham OF
England. worlds court tennis cham
pion. defeats Petit of Boston aft
err conceding points.
Cincinnati: Fred Gilbert OF Iowa
wins the live bird shooting cham
pionship OF America. New York:
Cans awarded the decision over
Kid Mcfarland In a 25-round bout.
s-Philadelphia: The worlds 10-shot
pistol record broken by c. H. Tay-
lor OF Massachusetts,. who makes
the limit score Of 100.
0-New York: Dixon given the decis-
ion over Dave Sullivan in the 10th
round.
i4~-Bridgeport. Conn.,: Mysterious Bill
ly Smith out-pointed by Tommy
West in a 20-round draw. Philn-
delphia: Major Taylor breaks the
one-third mile bicycle record.
As-ANCW 4AaNCus Vile tiC
university championship over Yale.
21-Chicago: Carter defeats Schaeffer
in q three-cushion carom game of
billiards. so to IS.
22-New York: Sharkey gets the de-
cision over Corbett on a foul COM
mitted by The latters second, Nc
Vey, in the ninth round.
e5-San Francisco: Lavigne gets the
decision over Tracy In a 20-round
fight. Newcastle, England: Craig
defeats Crisp in IS rounds.
29-New York: Dixon beats Gardner
on points In a 25-round contest.
DECEMBER.
6-New York: Mysterious Billy Smith
awarded the decision over Joe VOL
colt in a 2o-round bout.
9-Philadelphia: Maher bests Dunk
horst in a eix-round bout.
10-New York: Miller wins the six
day bicycle race 2.007 miles and
laps. h A. A. u. billiard cham
pionship won by Peggenburg over
Muller.
i3-syracuse. N. Y: De Orc wins the
United States pool championship
16-Philadelphia: Goddard disqualified
by the referee and the decision
given to Mccoy in the fifth round.
New York: Stark of New York
wins the amateur billiard cham
pionship class b by defeating Tay-
lor of Chicago.
19-Davenport, Ia: Pillsbury plays "a
simultaneous games of chess. win
ming 22 and losing one. New York:
Dial Hawkins knocks out Kid Nc
Partland in three n
20-The National League managers de-
cid to reduce the number of clubs
to eight.
22-Youngstown, o.: Delaney secures
the decision over Dime in a 20
round bout.
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no purpose. We tried Pe-ru-na and his
hemorrhages stopped, and he soon got
has had no more NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
q. II. Harden, Evansville, Wis.
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helps me greatly. Ihave influenced sew
eral others afflicted with chronic cstarrh
TO take Pe-ru-na in this locality and
they are all improving
Mrs. T. v. Rogers, Flushing, Mich,0
years Of age, Was three years ago taken
with pneumonia, and while recovering
she caught In grippe. She had two No
lapses and was given mp by two physi-
clans. A friend persuaded her TO try
Pe-ru-ns, and, after taking three bottles,
she was able to do her own work. She
a completaIv cured
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out Of doors. II only required q bot
mend them to the people, who all speak
we'll Of them. i am rs years old
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Mrs. Elisa Guest,
Kesrney, Buffalo
county, Neb, says:
II tool your Peru
M for some time for
cstarrh and am hap
pyto state that1am
entirely cured OF it.
I took both Peru
M and Man-&lin. I
am still taking Pc
ru-ns for L. grippe
and And that AZ
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SOCIOLOGY AND PROGRESS
JANUARY.

Pope Leo XIII. celebrates the Goth
. anniversary of his fret mass.
4-Hummel's system OF picture tel
egraphy successfully tested be-
tween Camden and New York. DIR.
Schenck OF Vienna the
discovery of a method for regulat-
ing the ratio of sexes at birth. Ger
lach's south polar expedition sails
from Punta Arenas.
5-Rev. George NJ. Searle of New
York promoted to be director Of
the vatican observatory.
7-Conferences of NJ. T.. churches.
North n South. held in New York
to discuss reunion.
10-Thomas A. Edison that
he has discovered a method for
toughening iron.
15-General Booth Of the Salvation
Army lands in New York.
PA total eclipse of the sun success
fully observed in India by Ameri-
can astronomers.
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nounces the discovery Of the chem
ical element krypton.
July.
31-The Society of the Army OF SAN
tiago de Cuba organized at sun
;iago.
AUGUST.
10-The United States West Indian
weather service i-naugurated.
15-Dr. Bruesselbach OF Germany an
nounces the discovery la Paientine
of the manuscripts of Moses
ian expedition to explore Eastern
Greenland sails from Copenhagen.
27-The worlds record for high kite
flying broken at Blue Hill. Mass,
by Clayton and Ferguson: highest
OF the tandem reaches an altitude
OF 1924 feet above sea level.
SEPTEMBER.
5cEuropean astronomers discover a
planet who's orbit overlaps that Of
Mars.
13-Lorenzo Snow elected president of
the Church OF Jesus Christ OF Lat
ter Day ain CMormon).
22-Greek-Phoenician fire. invented by
a Berlin engineer. successfully
tested.
OCTOBER.
4-The battleship Illinois launched.
1.-THE %triennial Episcopal council. In
revising the church constitution.
takes a stey toward church unity.
26-Nikola Tesla. in the Electrical Re
view. describes his invention for
transmitting electricity without
wires.
NOVEMBER.
1~-Emperor william presents to Ger
man Catholics the Jerusalem
church site which the sultan had
given him.
5-The Society of the Service of the
Men of the Spanish War organized
at Lexington. Ky.
S-First report of the Princeton sci
entific expedition to Patagonia
made public.
17-Timothy Dwight resigns the presi-
dency of Yale university.
26-The battleship Wisconsin launched.
27-Dr. Lyman Abbott resigns the pas
to.ate of Plymouth church, Brook
Ign.
DECEMBER.
THE United States survey steamer
Pathfinder launched.
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Being advised -
try Pe-ru-na for II
grippe and asthma,
/ did % with good
results. I had beco
feeling very unwel
for . long time. and
had ssthm quite
bad till I came
West, when l got
better OF the asth-
ma, but was NOT
well. I tried . great
many remedies for
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rant executed.
10-New York: Mrs. Mack sentenced
to Sing Sing prison for life for
her share in the G~uldensuppe muir
der.
22-Algiers: Hebrew shops looted ard
destroyed by a mob.
FEBRUARY.
2-Franklin county. Ark: Sol F.
Aubrey arrested for the murder of
nine members of his family.
9-Chicago: Luetgert convicted Of
wife murder and punishment fixed
at life imprisonment. San Jose,
Guatemala: President Barrios as
sassinated.
15-London: Lord Nevi sentenced TO
penal servitude for five years for
fraud.
22-Lake City. S. c.: Frazer b. Baker.
colored postmaster. killed, several
of his family wounded and his
house burned by a mob.
26-Athens: King Georges life at
tempted.
6-Rome: Sig. C~avalotti, Italian poet.
mortally in a duel with
Sig. Macola. deputy.
9-Wilkesbarre. Pa: Sheriff Martin
and deputies. participants as peace
officers in the Lattimer riot. acquit-
ted of murder.
19-Nickerson. Kan: A bank robbed
by five men.
23-Philadelphia: Councilman Steven
son confesses to having been bride
and duplicates. Ave others.
25-New York: Nine ex-oficials OF
Bro Brooklyn Siy indicted for defraudins
~27-Houston. Tex: A street car strike
rio results in calling out the mil
itia.
2S-Philadelphia: Richard +. Lopez,
whose operations wrecked the Peo-
pies bank. arrested on a conspir-
acy charge.
2s-Philadelphia: Cashier Steele Of
h failed Chestnut Street bank,
arrested charged with falsifying re-
ports.
APRIL
1-Waco, Tex: Editor Brann and
Politician Davis fight a street duel
and both MORALLY wounded.
Francisco: City Treasurer
Widber arrested charged with en-
bezzling $3.50. 900.
23-New Bedford. Conn: Lemuel L..
Terry. cashier of the Merchants
National bank. after embezzling
s125. 900. commits suicide.
2e-Williamson, w. Va: Cap Hat
Htiu. the Nenutttd Cnle1, surren0efS.
Leone, Africa: American
missionaries mastered.
MAY.
27-Omaha: Ex-Auditor Bechel and
his chief clerk Scarborough. of the
Pacific Express company, arrested
charged with embezzling $50, 900.
JUNE.
3-Dayline. La: William Street. re-
gro. burned at the stake by a mob.
'Charleston, w. Va: Mrs. Akin
son. wife of the governor. indict-
ed on a charge Of forgery.
6-Belfast. Irela nd: Orangemen mob
officers during a nationalist DEM
onStration.
14-Paris: Count Castellane wounds
Editor Henri Turoi in a duel.
17-Wetumpka. Ala: Five negro muir
derers lynched.
JULY.
l3-Paris: Count Esterhazy. connect
ed with the Dreyfus scandal, again
arreSfaH
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did me no good. I then took some Pc
ru-na-about Eve or six bottles. II did
more good than all the rest put To-
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DISASTERS.
JANUARY.

1.-The Klondike steamer Clara Ne
vada wrecked by a boiler explosion
of the Alaskan coast; SO lives
lost.
3-London, Ont: The floor of the city
hall collapses during a political
meeting: 20 people killed.
6-Amboyna, Molucca islands: Fifty
people killed by an earthquake.
11-Fort Smith. Ark: Part of the city
destroyed by a tornado; 80 lives
lost.
17-Hamme. Prussia: An explosion in
a colliery kills nearly 100 men.
FEBRUARY.
1-Thirty-six lives lost in a snow and
wind storm on the Massachusetts,
coast.
s-~Pittsburg: A storage warehouse
fire ends in the loss of 1850, 900 in
property and Is lives.
lO-Crodno, Poland: The collapse Of a
synagogue gallery kills 20 people.
1s-Canary stands: The French steam
err Flachet wrecked; 81 people
drowned.
22-Nantucket. r. l.: The British
ship Asia wrecked: is people
drowned.
2~s-Kalamazoo. Mich: The Hall
Chemical works burn; 10 lives lost.
MARcH.
O-lOh1O. Jdpdns IL ilptitdt GIl-
versity inc $500 other buildings
13-New York: The Bowery Mission
lodging house burns: IL lives lost.
1s-Chicago: Fifteen lives lost in the
burning of a business block.
1s-Bolnez, Spain: A mine explosion
destroys about 100 lives.
19-Point Bonita. Cal: The bark Hell
en- w. Almy, bound for Alaska,
founders: 40 people drowned.
21-Butte. Mont: Four lives lost in the
burning Of the Hale house.
23-Bay de Verde. N. F.: Forty-eight
seal hunters perish on an ice foe.
APRIL
3-Shawneetown. ILL.,: The town in
undated by the bursting of the
levee; % people drowned. Chill
koot Trail. Alaska: An avalanche
buries alive more n 100 gold
seekers.
19-Leicestershire. England: A coll
liery fire results in the loss of Al
2o-Spurgeon's tabernacle burns.
2s-Santa Cruz. Cal: Powder mills
blow up. killing 10 men.
30-Northwestern Iowa and Southeast
ern South Dakota visited by wind
storms; many lives lost.
MAY.
16-Marioka, Japan: Two hundred
small boats wrecked by a storm
and 1.500 lives lost.
1s-Tornadoes in Western Illinois,
Eastern Iowa and Southern Wis
consin wipe out about As lives.
s2-Dortmund. Prussia: Fire breaks
out in the Zollern mine; As lives
lost. Cape Flattery: A Klondike
schooner founders; "a lives lost.
24-Calcutta: The British Indian
steamers Macca and Lindula col
Tide, sinking the former; SO drown
ed.
1-Peshawur, India: Four thousand
houses burn: loss $40. 000. 900.
19-Park City. Utah: The entire bust
ness section Of the town burns;
loss. 81. 00o.0 900.
2~l-Blackwall. England: Forty people
drowned by displacement OF water
caused by launching of the battle
ship Albion.
4-Beverly. Mass: The steamer Surf
City sunk by a squall; % people
drowned. on Cape Sable; The
steamer La B~ourgogne sunk In coll
lision with the Cromartyshire; $50
lives lost.
7-Steelville. No.: A cloudburst near
~ wipes out the town,
10 inhabitants.
u-Siboney. Cuba: Yellow fever breaks
out In the American camp. CT eve
land: A gas explosion in the water
works tunnel kills II men.
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CRIME.
JANUARY.

"a counterfeit 800 silver certificate
discovered: all silver certificates CT
that denomination and. series call
ed in.
San Quentin. Cal: Murderer Dur
rant executed.
10-New York: Mrs. Mack sentenced
to Sing Sing prison for life for
her share in the G~uldensuppe muir
der.
22-Algiers: Hebrew shops looted ard
destroyed by a mob.
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81 took your Pe-ru-ns for
deafness and consider my
self entirely cured. I can
hear now as well as i ever
could, and shall always feel
very thankful to you for
your kindly advice. Nv
father was greatly benefited
in . severe attack Of Ia
grippe by the use Of Pc
ru-na-. = Miss Esther Lui
linsville, n. G.
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IFE

5-The government relief expedition
sails from Portland. Ore. for Dyea,
Alaska, but afterward abandoned.
9-'Queen Lavina l." crowned in New
York by the Society of Holland
Danes.
12-The American National Flag asso-
citation organized in New York.
19-The Hargrave faction secedes from
the American T~heosophical society.
24-Holland's submarine torpedo boat
successfully tested. travelling be-
low the surface of the water for Is
miles.
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JUNE.

1.-The Trans-Mississippi and Interna-
tional exposition at Omaha opens
1i-Professor C~oddington. at Lick OBJ
s~ervatory. discovers a comet.
I5-ProfessoT Ramsey Of London an
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1s-Oakland. Cal: The California tue
works blown up by a Chinese muir
derer. killing himself and six dep
uty shcriffs.
found. So
2s-Eufala. /. T.: A gang OF cattle
thieves wiped out in two fights
with deputy marshals.
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l3-Paris: Count Esterhazy. connect
ed with the Dreyfus scandal, again
arrested.
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27-The Presbyterian general assem-
bly, passes a resolution asking Pro-
fessor McGiffert To either reconsid-
er his published views or to leave
the Presbyterian communion.
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Special Pennsylvania pava.

Philadelphia. Oct. 3.-Oct. 20 has
been set apart az Schuylkill Valley day
at the Philadelphia exposition. On
that occasion the commercial interests
In Reading. Pottsvillo, Pottstown, Nor
ristown. Conshohocken and other towns
In the busy Schuylkill region will be
represented at the exposition by
throngs of persons. In several OF these
towns the public schools will be closed
on Schuylkill Valley day.
Another occasion OF more than usual
interest for eastern Pennsylvania will
be Lehigh Valley day-Oct. 81. Many
OF the mines and factories at Allen
town, Easton, the two Bethlehems and
other places In thrifty Lehigh and
Northampton counties will suspend op-
erations on Lehigh Valley day to en-
able their employees to attend the ex-
position. which is interesting and in
structive alike for employer and en-
ploye. Visitors on Schuylkill Valley
and Lehigh Valley days will have the
opportunity Of hearing Damrosch's
world famed orchestra in the great ex-
position Auditorium afternoon and
evening. These concerts are free to
aii patrons of the exposition.
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MARY LAND AT THE EXPOSITION.
The First of the State Days Will Be a
Memorable Occasion.

Philadelphia Oct. 3.-Maryland leads
tho way among the states as the first
TO appoint day at the National Ex-
port exposition upon which, in an Of
fetal way. she will display her inter
est in the enterprise. Maryland Day"
will be that of Oct. 10. which has been
agreed upon by the commercial organ
izations of the metropolis of the state
and endorsed by the leading state of.
ficials. A concerted effort upon the
part of the commercial bodies of Bal
timore and of other Maryland cities
and towns and the city and state Of
ficials will be made to lend Importance
and eclat to the occasion.
One of the features Of tho occasion
Will be mass meeting. which will be
held In the Auditorium at noon, when
the numbers of splendid musical pro-
gram and addresses by some of the
most distinguished orators of Mary
land and Pennsylvania will be heard.
Governor Lowndes of Maryland and
Mayor Master of Baltimore will be
present, and the governor will probably
preside at the mass meeting. If Car
dinal Gibbons can arrange matters he
Will accompany the Baltimore party,
and Bishop William Paret will be q
guest, and each will participate in the
Auditorium exercises. Invitations have
been extended to Governor Stone and
Mayor Ashbridge, of Philadelphia, both
OF whom will share the honors of the
day and make brief addresses
The orator of the day will he one of
the most eloquent of the public men
Of Maryland. The musical attractions
of Maryland day will consist of special
concerts by Damroschs orchestra and
concert by band from MARYLAND
which will accompany the official
party to the exposition. The promot-
ers OF Maryland day expect to have
10000 enthusiastic Marylauders present
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A HORSE THAT TALKS.
Beautiful Jim Key, From Kentucky, at the
Philadelphia Exposition.

Philadelphia. Oct. "A horse that
knows more than was ever dreamed of
In horse philosophy Is exhibited on
tho Philadelphia exposition Midway. in
an attractive building especially erect
ed for the purpose. This horse ia Jim
Key. Jim is beautiful equine won
der, the most intelligent and learned
horse In the world. He gives recep-
lions daily to large audiences, and is
doing more toward strengthening the
position of horses in the esteem and
respect of mankind than all the hui
manitarians in the universe.
Jim Koy reads and writes. solves
arithmetic problems. operates cash
register and rings any number OF fares
desired on street car register. He
can manipulate telephone, and by
movements Of his lips appear to be
talking through 1t to the man or horse
at the other end OF the line. and do
innumerable other things requiring a
degree OF intelligence one would never
suspect horses brain capable of de-
veloping.
Jim Key was bred In old Kentucky of
pure Arabian dam, Lauretta, brought
from Arabia by the late lamented Bar
mum. The mare was known as the
Arabian Queen. and was originally the
property OF Shiek Ahmeid. Jim Keys
sire was the Hamiltonian Volunteer.
known as the king Of Hamiltonians.