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The Morris County chronicle., 1909-03-23

the dutiable ct cents per pound. Cocoa
butter, from 31a cents to cents per
pound Dandelon root and other articles
used as a substitute for coffee, ~ cents
to cents per pound.
Spices, which are now largely on the
free list are assessed an average duty Of
30 per cent ad valorem.
Among articles on which duties are In
creased are split peas. from 40 cents to 45
cents per bushel; figs, from cents to 21S
cents per pound; lemons, from cent to
~ cents per pound; pineapples, from 81
to $8 pes thousand.
Joseph G. Cannon was elected to
succeed himself as speaker of the
house, receiving 204 out of PIT Repub-
lican votes as against 166 Democratic
votes for Champ Clark.
A combination of insurgent Republic
ans and Democrats brought about a
change of rules in the house by which
a calendar for unanimous consents
was established and the minority was
given preference in making motion
to commit consideration of new bill
with or without instructions.
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HUMoR OF THE HOUR
A Born Finsneier.

Sonny" began the book agent,
would this be good time to see the
bossY'
Got yer life insured?p queried the
office boy.
Now, look here, old man." contin--
ued the fellow in confidential tones,
''you and must fix this little matter
up. Your business is to keep us fell
lows out of the Office, isn't it?"
"Dat's right
AT the same time you need little
extra coin for balls and parties and
Delmonico dinners?'
ITO say nuttin' of grand OPERA
"Of course. Now, old pal, I'll tell
you what Wen do. You get an inter
view for me with the head of the firm
and I'll hand you half dollar before l
leave. Why. I've got book PROPOSE
tion here that he'll jump at"
"Nuttin doin'," replied the boy after
few moments thought
But why not?"
'Becus a guy as smooth as you
would sell our easy boss so many books
Ac u ue DIOhe lor InOutHS, an u lose
dollar week in tips he hands me.
It's your move, Algernon."
And the book agent sighed and
moved on.-A. B. Lewis in Judge.
Real Mean.
Pearl-And he stole kiss?
Ruby (pouting)-He did, and 1 shall
never forgive him.
Pearl Do you really feel so bad
about it as all that?
Ruby--I should say so! He said it
was petty larceny, while any other
young man would have said it was
grand.-Detroit Tribune
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FACTS IN FEW LINES

There are more than 100000 goats
in Europe. y
Half the zinc of the world comes
from Prussia
Over 100000 exiles have been
transported to Siberia since 1910.
There is a woman's prison in Rou-
mania that has only women officials.
In Korea the rooms of a wife or
mother are the sanctuary of any man
who breaks the law.
The beggar chief of Suchow, who is
king of the Chinese beggars, has an
income estimated at $4,000 annually.
Recent discoveries in Mesopotamia
show that people who inhabited the
Euphrates valley 5000 years ago knew
how TO work metals.
Horns with adjustable bells, which
control the volume of sound and throw
1t in any desired direction, are nov
city in the musical instrument line.
Oysters are sometimes regarded as
dangerous, but they are not usually
considered. savage A Queensland
judge, however, has decided that they
are wild beasts.
Alfred G. Laline of Worcester, Mass,
has in his possession drum used in
the Revolution. Though it saw serv-
Ice at Bunker Hill. it is still in fine
state of preservation.
Police dogs seem a novelty, and yet
Columbus and his Spaniards brought
with them to the new world trained
fighting dogs that helped them to win
many an engagement.
George Palmer and wife walked from
Ashcroft, B. c., north $50 miles into a
wild country to take up land for farm
ing purposes, wheeling all the way in
a gocart their one-year-old son.
Late cancer research has shown that
the disease exists among all races of
men, as well as in domestic and wild
animals, and that liability to it is
greatest in the last third of the life
span.
Pope Plus y. has presented to his
sister a country house situated near
Rome The building, which is of one
story only, but has beautiful garden,
was bought by the pope from a con-
gregation of nuns.
A Judge in Washington the other
day held that man who calls another
liar must expect something in re-
turn and imposed only nominal fine
on a man who had been accused of as
sault in such a case.
Ireland has now only 100000 acres,
or 11a per cent, in forest, although
climate and soil are favorable. The
crown commissions report has urged
the necessity of the immediate plant
ing of at least 100000 acres of forest
trees.
It's expensive in Fall River, Mass,
to sell liquor to man whose wife
says he mustn't drink. The district
court recently fined a club 5000 for
selling two drinks to a member whose
wife had warned the organization not
to let him have a drop.
A New York retail merchant who
has been in business for quarter Of
SSntuAy says lhdt AVS one SA6n Vue
of hundred In shop window that
tells of bankruptcy, fire sales, closing
out prices, moving bargains and such
like information tells the truth.
| At New York rehearsal an actress
tore up roll Of real bills which had
been given her by mistake for stage
money. Thereupon the rehearsal was
called on. and the entire company
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Green Alfalfa For Hoas.

1t is never profitable to turn animals
out on alfalfa pasture, expecting them
to get their sole living for any consid-
cradle period from the pasture. Ma
ture hogs or brood sows would be
maintained and have made some slight
gains under these conditions, but the
young, growing hogs win yield far
more profitable results to have pound
or so Of corn daily In connection with
their green alfalfa.-G. Q. Wheeler,
Kansas Experiment Station.
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went to work pasting together the
fragments of the torn greenbacks.

fragments of the torn greenbacks.
The breakfast coffee cup of Rossini.
the great composer, has just been pre-
sented to the museum of the Paris
Opera by NJ Charles Lecocq. 1t is of
white porcelain, decorated with a
laurel wreath, and on each leaf there
is written in gold the name Of one of
Rossinis operas.
OF the inhabitants of Christiania,
Norway. who are over fifteen years old
Go, 800 are males and 91,19S females
There are more female wage earners
than male, and of the female workers
81. 1S per cent are unmarried. TO ev-
cry 100 unmarried males there are 1853
unmarried females
Learning that the howitzer battery
of Aldenburg, England, possessed only
one horse, a lady resident of the town
provided them with another explain
ing that she felt sorry for the unfor
tunate animal that had to undergo
during drill course of grooming by
six men, one after the other.
Some Japanese experts believe iron
will yet prove to be Korea's chief min
eral resource. Cinnabar occurs, but no
deposits worth mining have yet been
located. The same applies to mica.
Korea is highly mineralized country.
possessing an excellent climate and an
abundant supply of good and cheap
labor.
A vapor blanket thirty feet thick is
found by Professor Frank II. Bigelow
to cover the reservoir at Reno, New
Assuming that a like invisible shield
that this body may lose by evapora-
tion not more than four or FIVE feet
| yearly instead of the eight feet hither-
| to expected.
One of the sights of Potsdam are
the kaiser's Kennels where his majes-
! tvs pet dogs are kept. His favorites
are four brown dachshunds-H Hexe,
Dachs, Bella and Liesel They are
always trotting about the emperor's
heels in his moments of relaxation and
not infrequently accompany him when
| travelling
!
Quoted balloting contest to select the
ten biggest Canadians" Nominated
for the roll of honor were 100 leading
men. OF these the following We're de
clared the winners: Sir Wilfrid Lau
rier, Lord Strathcona, Sir William Van
Horne, Goodwin Smith. William Mac
kenzie. Sir Charles Tupper the Hon. S
49,
Sanford Fleming and Il. l.. Borden.
Lancashire England) medical Off
GERS are calling attention to the dan
| ger of weavers in the cotton mills
contracting infectious diseases from
( the practice known as shuttle kiss
| ing'-sucking the weft through the
eye of the shuttle. Diphtheria, con-
sumption and many other diseases are
spread by this custom
Gold was discovered in the Klondike
placer gold districts a little over a
| decade ago, since which time this field
with an area of 25 by 80 miles square
has produced gold to the value OF
about $125,000,OOO. Nearly all Of this
has been mined by the primitive proc,
ess Of pick and shovel and washed by
the pan. the rocker and the sluice box
Professor W. H. Pickering of Har
yard university has completed calcula'
tions which not only prove the exist
ance OF an unknown planet In the solar
system, but describe its orbit, beyond
Neptune. The discovery is much like
that made by Leverrier In 1912. when
Neptune was discovered through calcu
! latiOns OF the eccentric motions OF
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Painfully ExplIcit.

'These jewels are worth a mon
arch's ransom" said the woman OF
wealth.
ITO what monarch do you referT'
asked Miss Cayenne. "Some countries
are trying so hard to lose their mon
archs that doubt II they would pay
eor their recovery. - Washington Star.
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Stocks = Bonds* Cereals
CLOSE IRREGULAR GRAIN WAS STRONG
Wheat Had a Slight Slump at Mid,
day But Strength of Corn Up
held All Grains.

Chicago, Jan. 27.-WHEAT, Re.
newed talk Of possible war in the Bal
kans seemed to have considerable in.
huence and was partly responsible for
the active covering by the leading
shorts and resulted in Il strong tone
tie greater part of the day The mar
ket, however, was bulisly affected by
The failure of European grain markets
to reflect the weakness here yeste,-
Gay and by the activity and strength
in the corn market There was a
slump Of prices at midday following
the break at Minneapolis, but the
tinued strong the balance of the SEES
sion. The close was x to / higher
No, red 107B61OSA No. 3 red 1865
D107; No. hard l0418M10G; No, !
hard f02Mf05 May opened l0G3sGa
1oCh highest l07A 1107$s; loves.
loGA@10GA; closing 107h. July
S7as. /.
CORN, - Additional purchases Of
nearly 100000 bushels OF corn by a
local housewhich supported the mar
Fet yesterday caused decidedly
strong tone the entire session There
was also an active general demand,
and the volume Of trade was larger
than that of any day for some time,
The smallnass Of receipts and the
a,ral,pninu of tho aNpDrt demand were
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FOR SALE.
Ants That Protect Trees.

The ant has always been IN object
OF interest to man. ever since the days
the slugEard was referred TO it. Tiny
as ants are tEey display so many I'M
usual and apparently intelligent move.
ments that they might be accused OF
thinking a good deal. If il wasn't foI
the danger OF nature taking. There is
a tree in South America. a beautiful.
tropical growth with a Latin name,
which Is protected by kind of ant
which seems to have been placed rs
n garrison OF defense by some wise
provision of nature Some OF these
ants may always be found doing sen
try duty around the large leaves Of the
trees. and they serve to protect the
leaves from the lcaf-eutting ant. an
other species which is disastrous TO
vegetation. At the approach Of these
leaf-cutting ants. The ants which guard
the tree appear in great numbers and
clean up the invaders.
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ILLINOIS CENTRAL R. R.
CENTRAL ROUTE TO
FL0R| DA
VIA BIRMINGHAM

Columbus, Albany and waycross, In con-
nection with the Central OF Georgia ny. and
the Atlantic Coast Line On and after Oct
ober 18th from Chicago,
TIA ROUGH SLEEPING OAR
will be run from
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Beside the Gate Of preams.

An idle youth one Summer daST
Went wandering aiield-
Nor east or west on any quest
That eve or thought revealed.
But on and on through bloom and shine
And down by shady streams,
Through lane and wood, until he stood
Beside the Gate of Dreams.
What saw he there? Nay rather ask
What saw lie not and heard
Hath mind perceived? Hath heart re-
ccNcd"
Hath soul been deeply stirred
BY radiant things, BY whisperngs
From better lands? II seems
All these he saw and heard in awe
Beside the Cate of Dreams
What brought him back that summer day
From wandering aiield?
NauEht he can show or tell, | know,
OF things ON earth revealed,
But more than gold, u million fold
And all the world esteems
He holds the day he Strayed away
Reside the CATE 81 breams
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Prices of Stocks Lifted in Several
Quarters and Languid in
Other Issues.

New York jan 27.-Prices of
tors Of the list today without much
difficulty. Dealings We're not active
at any time, but the demand was un,
settled by various reports of railroad
deals and supply Offering for sale
was 50 inconsiderable that light
buying sufficel to maze an impress
sion on prices. The state Of the
money market has relieved holders
Of stocks from any pressure fer Sc
curing financial resources and, III
fact, holder of stocks who sells out
it confronted with difficulty in find
Ing other employment for his funds.
All signs confirm the plethoric cen
dition of the money market and in,
terest rates are declining. Trust
company deposits have risen well
over bioiln dollars and the diff
Guilty OF placing their resources has
given rise to the discussion Of re-
auction Of the rate of interest paid
on deposits from per cent now Of
rcred. The call upon the United
States treasury for current redemr-
ton of bank notes is so great and
the drain upon gold holdings so Sc
we're as to give the department Off
cals much concern. This rush of
notes to current redemption is not a
symptom Of distIust CT bank notes,
but only of lack OF demand for them
in circulation.
Yesterdays sale CT Chesapeake
and Ohio to the HawIey interests
gave fresh vitality to the stories of
zeal rumors and the election Of r.
Il. Hartman to the New York Cen
trail directorate met an expectation
long held in the financial district
The influence of these two incidents
was traceab lethrough most Of the
price movements which occurred
drring the day The Gould group
was conspicuous and New YORK Cen
tral also made response The mar
ket was sluggish and languid outside
the currents of these special influ
ences. There was another reduction
in quotations for copper at the New
York Metal exchange ana the United
States Steel quarterly report was
not liked for the successive declines
in the monthly earnings for the quar-
.er Realizing usual in a narrow
or .icnaI market modified the
ja-a extreme charges and made the
iCsmA irregular
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is largely cunuOneu by une nervous
system of the telephone girls. The
majority OF these girls live alone and
neglect their proper meals, and in con
sequence subscribers suffer from the
telephone girls nerves more than Is
necessary. The telephone officials, t.
remedy this condition of affairs, have
organized cantccns TO provide their
girls with luncheon and dinner at Il
cents and Il cents meal, consisting
Of roast beef and mutton, and plenty
OF sweets The authorities have
drawn the line at caramels. which.
saws the official circular, tend 10 dis
organize the service Subscribers
complaints. it Is stated. have dimin
ished 20 per cent. since the iunoya
ton.
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Apple Pie Too Good.

The superintendent of the dining
car service on one of our great rail-
road systems is protesting hotly
against the quality OF apple pie served
by the baker who supplies this luxury.
1T is too blamed good, he ex.
claimed We don't want it so good
II Is pie, pie. pie, apple pie all the
time at every call for dinner, and with
each Slice Of apple pie every passen-
ger demands half Il pint of cream, II
the pie wasn't so good our cream bill
would be about one-tenth of what 1t is.
It's ten cents worth of pie and quar-
ter's worth of cream"
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OF the culprits hailed before a police
magistrate in New YORK one MONDAY
morning there was one-an lrishmau
who had caused no end of trouble TO
the police the Saturday nigat proceed
ing
The magistrate REGARDED tfle prison
~ with mingled curiosity and indigna-
lion. SO you're the man that gave
lie officers so much trouble?" his
h,mor asked. Il understand that il
took seven policemen 10 l0ck you up"
-Yis. your homer" responded the
Celt. with a broad grin. but it. would
take only van 10 let me out '-Har-
Fer's Weekly.
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cHANCERY NOTICE.

State of Illinois, Alexander County
ss.-In the Alexander County Circuit
Court, February term, A. D. 1909.
In Chancery Sitting.
Miles G. Axley, Complainant VS..
Savannah Axley, Defendant.-Biil In
Chancery for Divorce.
The above named defendant Is
hereby notified that said complain
ant has this day filed in said Court a
certain bill in Chancery for Divorce
against her and that Summons has
issued thereon returnable on the first
day of the next term of said Court to
be holden at the court house in Cairo
Illinois, on the Sth day of February
next
Cairo. Illinois Jan. Sth, A. D. 1909
ALFRED BROWN, Clerk.
NJ. J. O'SHEA.
Compliments Solicitor.
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pigeon feeding in Madison square
will soon become as famous as at s.
Marks i'm Venice IL things keep up at
this rate observed a New Yorker
who was near Twenty street
and Madison avenue the other morn
ing when the pigeons that make their
home IN the garden tower were being
fed BY a man from a neighboring
stable. & few years ago there weren't
enough pigeons here to be noticed.
but now they swarm around anybody
who appears with measure Of oats
or a newspaper package Of crumbs.
The other morning saw a man prac-
ticauv COVERED with pigeons which
we're eating grain from his shoulders.
the brim Of his bat and out Of both
hands This pigeon feeding is getting
20 be one Of the free sights Of the
CIV I sun
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History OF ShG,is.

Ships of note, have their biographies,
In many cases as interesting as those
OF men. Romance, adventure and
pathos abound. Jay Goulds yacht At.
Atlanta, for which he paid $4,000 has
just been sold for $3.50 AS the gun.
boat Presidente OF Santo Domingo 1t
had been plundered and abandoned In
a southern harbOr, ---Washingto
Times.
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PROVISIONS.

BUTTER Fancy steaIer, other
Grades slow and unchanged
CHEESE Firm and unchanged
COFFEE options closed steady
at net advance 501O points Sales
800 bags, March G6G05; spot
steady; No 7 Rio 71a; mild steady;
"ordcya 9A G12l5.
SUGAR easy; fair refining
315; centrifugal 90 test 500; molas-
ses sugar 292; refined steady.
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NEW YORK GRAIN.

New York. Jan. 27-WHEAT-Rr
ccipts $4,000; exports 10000. Spot
fam: No. red 1854 n 1924 elevator
and 11oll fob. a1oat. Options closed
y to "a net rise. May l1Oa
CORN-Receipts 10000: exports
90 coo. Spot firm; No. > 20 elevator
and C7A fob. aloat; No. white
nominal and No. yellow G7A fob
afoaL Options closed q to y net
J igher May G97s.
OATS Receipts 30 600: exports
coo. spot steady: mixed 5in j7is :
clipped white jGA ace.
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CURRENT VERSE.
The Seminal Scot.

daurna druop my weary cen,
Though dark the nicht and SLOW
Gin l watch weel, the Scottish Queen
Sleeps ~eel in Fontalnebeau.
Wha wudna guard a lassie wee,
over fond o play and dance.
Borne frae her mthcr over the sea
To wed the Heir o France.
ABBOTT her doors my watch keep
Frae mony foes aroon',
AS Mons Meg frae It's rocky steep
Guards Ednboro' toon.
II watches over the Canonsate
And over the High street there.
And keeps the toon TIL, soon or late
The Queen comes hame aimee MAR
Rest lasse. safe frae mony plots,
A Scotsman guards ye-so
Shall Mary Stuart, queen O. Scots,
Sleep weel in tontainhleau
Robert Gilbert Welsh, in Applcton's.
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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

Chicago, Jan 27.-CATTLE-Rc-
ceipts 1900 Generally 10 to 90
higher steers iGOn7OO; cows ami
Eeifers SOON575; bulls 34Od39O
calves 350G 500; stockers and feeders
250n54o.
HOGS Receipts $1,000. Five to 10
tower: choice heavy shipping G40d
csc: packing Go0dG35; pigs asa 500
Receipts $1,000. Steady;
sheep I25d 575; lambs 525m775;
Noarlings 5OOMGSl.
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way 70 Make the Most Of lie.

A well-regulated mind. a digniied
Independence Of the world. and a wise
preparation 10 possess ones soul in
patience whatever circumstances may
exist Is in the power Of every man.
and is greater wealth than that Of the
Indies. and greater honor than Caesar
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MISS,
nOT SPRINGS. ARK.

The only line running daily sleep
ing car through without change
Chicago To Hot Springs. n mn.
Car service. Send for illustrated
fielder describing Hot Springs.
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a Youna Artist.

Two gentlemen meeting one day on
the street stood idly talking when one
said to the other. Say. Ed wish
you could see that little hreyear-oid
girl Of mine draw. Say. she drew a
hen this morning and II vas So nstur-
al thar when she threw ID in The waste
basket. il laid there. Judge
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Hurt by wins Conditions.

To Bertha Schultz, young dress
maker in Hamburg, Germany. 10000
was bequeathed on condition that she
never married man engaged In an
intellectual occupation, She Is al.
ready engaged to an accountant, and
she and her fiance are now endeayor-
ing TO persuade The law that the work
Is purely mechanical
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NEW YORK MONEY.

New York, Jan. 27.-Money on
2all easy 11561% per cent; closing
5ia ~ Time loans easy; sixty DAYS
3G2is per cent; ninety days 2la per
'ent; ST Xmonths per cent Mer-
camille paper 3ia14 per cent Elk.
hauge steady. demand 1875; sixty
lays iSi9oNlS5. Bar silver 5l3s.
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Dog taxes were due Jan. 1 and all
persons owning dogs are requested to
call at my office. I'LL Commercial
avenue and pay up. The tax on all
logs is $500
JOHN SHEEHAN,
Street Supervisor
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lie that has never knoVn adversely
is but half acquainted with himself
or with others. Constant success shows
US but one SID OF life There Is a
merit which We may win by our mis-
takes --Thoruld
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Pc careful shat So say. son" can
toned the Plunkville Pol8nius.
Yes. pop"
-Rememher. that you amt p-omi
nem eroagh 90 claim that you was
instructed r-Puck.
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Thinks Churches Should Be Taxed.

Rev. A. A. Nellis, pastor of the Sec.
ond Baptist church, Auburn, in re-
cent sermon on the obligation OF the
church to the community, said that one
obligation that should not be shirked
was to pay taxes, There is no good
reason for church exemption, he be-
lieves, and the church should not be q
tax dodger
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coNERNMENr BONDS.
One Ohiecfior

7 wouldn't objeck to de man dat
KEEPS taTkin' al de time. said Uncle
Eben. If he didn' insis' on th'owin' IN
a question every ten minutes OF so dat
VOWS got 20 answer 10 show yo1's
xe-rin- aEake~
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ST. LOUIS CATTLE.

St. Louis. Jan. 27.-CATTLE-Re-
Ccipts $1,000. Steady Beef steers $50
n eco; stockors and feeders 365M310;
cows ami hclfers 35o0G25; Texas
steers 3e0HG25.
HOGS Receipts 10000. Five to 10
lower: ranged i25T ESQ.
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MINNEAPOLIS WHEAT.

Minneapolis, Jan. 27.-WHEAT-
May 1879; July los.
CASINO. 1 northern 1891 1914 f;
No. . northern 1006100A.
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SMITH BROTHERS
THE BIG STORE

SS00-9 WASHINGTON AVENUE
Dealers In Everything that Il sssd =
Eat, Use and Wear. Exclusive Agents
fsr BLANkE's Celebrated Ceres. ~~s
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VAN osTEN,s ORCHESTRA.

Available for dances. receptions
private parties. etc Onice 19i
Eighth ST. Residence 53es Sycamore
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