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9t. jipattfot} gmomt. i. W. JACKSON. Publisher. OPKLOUSAS. LOUISIANA A CHINESE STORY. Two young, near-sighted fellows, Chang and Ching, Over their chopsticks idly chattering Fell to disputing which could see the best; At last, they planted to put it to the test. Said Chang: "À marble tablet, so I hear, I» placed upon the Bo-hee temple near, With an. inscription on It. Let us go Anil read it (since you vaunt your optics so), StJwding together at a certain place In front, where we the letters just may trac«; Then he who quickest reads the inscription there, The pa'.m for keenest eyes henceforth shall bear." •Agreed," said Ching, "but let us try it soon: Suppose we say to-morrow afternoon." •'Nay, not so soon," said Chang; "I'm bound to go To-morrow a day s ride from Hoang»Ho, And shan't be ready till the following day: At ten a. m., on Thursday, let us say." So 'twas arranged* but Ching Was wide-awake: Time by the forelock he resolted to take; And to t,he temple went &t onoe, and read Upon the tablet: "To the iilustrous dead, The chief of maßd&rins, the great Goh-bang." Scarce had he gone when stealthily came Chang, Who r&e,d the same: but, peering closer, he Sple<t in a corner, what Ching had failed to see, The words : "This tablet is erected here By those to whom the great Goh-Bang was dear." So on the appointed day—both innocent As babes, of course—these honest fellows went, And took their distant station; and Ching said« "I can read, plainly, To the illustrious dead, The chief of mandarins, the great Goh-Bang.' '* •'And is that all that you can spell?" said Chang. •'I see what you have read, but furthermore, In smaller letters, toward the temple door, Quite plain: 'This tablet is erected here By those to whom the great Goh-Bang was dear.' " "My sharp eyed friend, they are not there," said Ching. "They are," said Chang, "if I see any thing; And clear as d aylight." "Patent eyes, indeed, You have 1" cried Ching. "Do you think I can't read?" "Not at this distance as I can," Chang said, "If what you say you saw is all you read." In fine, they quarreled, and their wrath in creased. Till Chang said: "Let, us leave it to the priest; XiOl here he comes to meet us." "It is well," Said honest Ching, "no falsehood will he tell." The good man heard their artless story through, And said: "I think, dear sirs, there must be few Blessed with such wondrous eyes as i'nose you wear. There is no tablet with inscription there ' There was one, it is true; 'tVas moved away. And yon plain tablet "placed there yesterday.'* «/. Bahmer, in St. Nicholas. MONSTROSITIES. Marvelous Productions of Nature and Art. Largest Of Every Thing:—An Interesting and Instructive Compendium of facts Gleaned From All Quarters. The highest mountain range is the Himalayas, the mean elevation being estimated at 18,000 feet. The loftiest mountain is Mount Ever est, or Guarisauker, of the Himalaya, range, having an elevation of S5,tX)2 feet above the sea level. The largest city in, t^ e world is Lon don. Its populq,t^on numbers 4,021,875 souls. New York, with a population of 1,550,000,comes fifth in the list of great citiçf». The largest theater is the new opera house in Paris. It covers nearly three acres of ground. Its cubic mass, 4, 287,000 foefc. It cost 63,000,000 francs. The loftiest active volcano is Popt> catapetl (smoking mountain), thirty five miles southwest of Pueblo, Mex. It is 17,784 feet above the sea level, and has a crater three miles in circumfer ence and one thousand feet deep. The largest island in the world— ■which is also regarded as a continent is Australia It is twenty-five hundred telles in length from eaat to west, and measures 1,920 miles from iiorth tè south. Its area is 2,294,287 sqüäre miles. The largest spa* p* w i re i n the world Is used for a telegraph in India over the riveç Sistuah, between Bezoräh and &»ttauagrum. It is more than silt thousand feet long, and is stitched be tween two hills, each of which is twelve hundred feet high. The larjspoat, ship in the world is the Great Eastern. She is 680 feet long, 83 fbet broad and 60 feet deep, being 32,927 tons builder's,%8,915 gross and 13,344 net register. Snwas built at Mill wall, on tha was launched January 31, The largest univeq England, in the cit; fifty-five miles fro; eiste of twenty-oni halls. Oxford was early as the time f essor. tJniversii have been foundei The largest the globe is Lake long, 160 miles at, and having an miles. Its mi and its greatest surface is about of the sea. The most ex in the environ mark. The acres, and is The largest United States,^ the world, is phia, which The largest' In EdmoncL&otf is near Gr«a( Cave City, an from Bowlin, eiste of a su< hers, some of on different levels. el ave, It from ght miles cave con lar cham arge, situated me of these are traversed by navigable branches of the subterranean Echo River. Blind fish are found in its waters. The longest tunnel in the world is that of St. Gothard, on the line of rail road between Lucerne and Milan. The eummit of the tunnel is 990 feet below the surface at Andermatt and 6,600 feet beneath the peak of Kastelhorn of the St. Gothard group. The tunnel is twenty-six and one-half feet wide and nineteen feet ten inches from the floor to the crown of the arched roof. It is nine and a half miles long—a little over a miie longer than the Mount Cenis Tunnel The biggest trees in the world are the ipamcooth trees of California. One of a to '* grove in Tularé County, according to the measurement made by members of the State Geological Survey, was shown to be 276 feet high, 106 feet in circum ference at base and 76 feet at a point twelve feet above the ground. Some of the trees are 380 feet high and -35 feet in diameter. Some of the largest that have been felled Indicate an age of from 2,000 to 2,500 years. The largest inland sea is the Caspian, lying between Europe and Asia. Its greatest length is 760 miles, its greatest breadth 270 miles, and its area 180,000 square miles. The Great Salt Lake, in Utah, which may be properly termed an inland sea, is about 90 miles long, and has a varying breadth of from 20 to 25 Uliles. Its surface is 4,200 feet above the sea, whereas the surface of the Caspian is 84 feet below the level of the ocean. The largest emp!i*j ih the world is that of Great Britain, comprising 8,007, 6*58 square miles—more than a sixth part of the land of the globe, and em* bracing under its rule ueariy a eixih part of the population of the world. In | territorial extent the United States ranks third, containing 3,581,243 square miles, including Alaska. In population it ranks fourth, with its 60,000,000 of people. Russia ranks second, having 8,352,940 square miles. I he highest monolith is the obelisk at Karuak, in Egypt. Karuak is on the east bank of the Nile, near L uxoin a" à occupies a part of the «ite of ancient Thebes. The cbeiisk is ascribed to Hatasu, sister of Pharaoh Thothin»* III., who reigned about S. (J. Its whole length i* !?0 ieet, and it weighs 400 tons, its height without pedestal 108 feet 10 inches. The height of the obelisk in Central Park, New York City, without pedestal, i- 68 feet li inches, its weight about 169 tons. The largest bell is the gwsit bell of Moscow, at the fool of the Krennlin, Its circumference at the bottom ir, nearly sixty-eight feet <u;d ils height a little more than twenty-one feet. In its stoutest part it i$ twenty-three inches thick, and its weight has been com puted to be 443,772 pounds. It has never been hung, and was probably cast On the spot where it now stan'V A piece of the bell 4.* broken off. The fracture is supposed to have been occa sioned by water having been thrown upon it when healed by the building erected over it being on fire. The greatest wall in the world i& the Chinese Wall, built by the first Emper or of Tain dynasty, about 221 B. C.. as a protection against TartafS. it tra verses the northeril boundary of China and is carried over the highest hills, through the deepest valleys, across rivers and every other natural ob stacle. Its length is 1,250 miles. In cluding a parapet of five feet, the total height of the wall is twenty feet; thick ness at the base, twenty-five feet; and at the top fifteen feet: ToWfers or bastions occut - at intervals of about ony hundred y^rds. the largest statue in the world is Bartholfli's Statue of Liberty. This Colossal statue was given by the people of the Republic of France to the people of the Republic of the United States as a monument of nueieiit friendship and as an èxprée»io'n of sympathy of France in the Centennial of American independ ence. It has been placed upon Bedloe's Island, in the harbor of New York ( ttnd in the face of the great cities of New York, Brooklyn, «Jersey City and Ho boken. The Government has ^roinisted to maintain it in pterpötüity as a light house and beacon. The statute is one hundred and fifty feet in height, and cost 1250,000. Among the most remarkable natural echoes are that of Eagle's Nest on the banks of Killarney, in Ireland, which repeats a bugle call tmUl it seems to be sounded fantti ä hundred instruments, and that on the banks of the Naba, be tween Bingen and Coblentz, which re peats a sound seventeen tiffies. The most remnrkâblë Artificial echo knowö is that in the castle of Simonetta, aböüt tw|o miles from Milan. It is oc casioned by the existence of two paral lel walls of considerable length. It re peats the report of a pistol sixty times. The most remarkable whirlpool is the maelstrom off the northwest coast of Norway and southwest coast of Mos kenasol, the most southerly of the La foden Isles. It was once supposed to be unfathomable, but the depth has been shown not to exceed twenty fathoms. The whirlpool is navigable under ordi nary circumstances, but when the wind is northwest it often attains great fury and becomes extremely dangerous. Un der strong gales the maelstrom has been shown by official statistics to run at the rate of twenty-six miles an hour. The largest library is the Biblio thique National in Paris, founded by Louis XIV. It contains 1,400, 000 volumes, 300,000 pamphlets, 175,000 manuscripts, 300,000 maps and charts and 150,000 coins and medals. The collection of engrav ings exceeds 1,300,000, contained in some 10,000 volumes. The portraits number about 100,000. The building which contains these treasures is situ ated on the Rue Richelieu. Its length is 540 feet; its breadth 130 feet. The largest library in New York in respect as of on E no is is is tho is if cro a ing It and Lan was the est 793 is to separate works isAhe Astor; about 195,000 volumes are o^its shelves. The largest desert is that of Sahara, a vast region of Northern Africa, ex tending from the Atlantic ocean on the west to the valley of the east. The length from east about 3,000 miles, its average about 900 miles, its area 2,000! square miles. Rain falls in torrents the Sahara at intervals of five, ten and' twenty years. In summer the heat during the day is excessive, but the nights are often cold. In winter the temperature is sometimes below freez ing point The most remarkable natural bridge is probably the Ji6rel Hagar, which spans a gorge not far from the ruins of the Temple of Adonis, in the province of the Lebanon in Syria. It is a flat piece of limestone rock, from ten to fif teen feet thick, perfectly arched on the under side. The gorge is about 150 feet across, and the bridge is about one hundred feet from the bed of the tor rent below. The bridge is so broad and level that a good carriage road might be made over it This bridge is surpassed m height by the natural to of point of feet that from Its in an and 25 the the is em* In | of the à to Its of li of ir, a In A as is im bridge in Rockbridge County, Va., abou 125 miles west of Richmond, and about two miles from the James river. It extends over Cedar Creek. The h ■sight of the arch is two hundred feet, and the upper surface of the bridge is 240 feet above the stream. The largest suspension '»ridge in the world is the New York and Brooklyn Bridge. It was commenced under the direction of J. Roebling in 1870, and completed in about thirteen years. The highest tower in ihe world will be the Eiffel Tower when completed. The iron tower which the engineer Eiffel proposes to erect on the bkliks 01 the Seino; opposite the Trocadero Pal ace, as a feature of the Paris Exposi tion of 1889, will, if completed, dwarf all other structures ytat hiut'ed by hu man ho.rids. Its height is to be nomi nally one thousand feet—actually about 950 feet. The largest church in the world Is the basilica of St. Peter's in Itome Its dirowisior? öiv. as follows: Length bt Ulterior, 613 feet; breadth of nave and aisles, 197 3-4 feet; height of the nave, 152 feet, length of the transepts, 446 1-2 feet; diameter of the dome, in cluding the walls, 195 feet, or npavly two feet more that! iiiat of the Pan theon; diameter of the interior, 1,39 feet; height from thé pavement to the base of the lantern. 4i'/> fopt; t'j the summit: nf thö cross outside, 448 feet. *1 he whole of St. Paul's Cathedral in London might stand within the shell of St. Peter's, with room lo spare. The ♦'•'.'.Cis of the Cologne Cathedral, when completed, will be the highest church towers in the world—511 feet—which is the length of the Cathedral. The breadth of this edifice is 2Hi feet. The greatest fortress, from a strategi cal point of view, is the famous strong hold of Gibraltar, belonging to Great Britain, situated upon the most so'.HhGi'îi point Of land v.pöii ine coast of South western Spain. It occupies a rocky peninsula, jutting out into the sea about three miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide. One central rock rises to a height of 1439 feet above the sea level. Its northern face is almost perpendic ular, while its enst side is fttll c-f ire Wehlîous precipices. On the south it terminates in what is called Europe Point. The west side is less steep than the east, and between its base and the sea is a narrow, almost level span, on which the town of Gibraltar is built. Tho fortress is considered itîipr^gH&bld to military assault; The regular garri son ih lime of peace numbers about seven thousand men. The greatest river of the world is the Amazon. It rises' in the Peruvian An des, about sixty miles from the Pacific Ocean, and flows, including ils Dind ings-, ft distante bf 4,000 miles to thé Atlantic; which it , enters under the equator in Brazil'. The average veloc ity of the enrrciit is three miles an hour. It is navigable for large ships 2j200 miles from its mouth. The area drained by the Amazon and its tribu taries is estimated at 2,000,000 square miles. The Amazon enters the sea through an estuary about 150 roilps wide : ,80 p-re^t Èttfë the voiume and im petus of the river that its fresh water is carried, unmixed, into the sea about 300 miles. If the Missouri and Lower Mississippi were considered one river, as many geographers claim they should be, it would exceed the iehgth of the Amazon about 300 miles. The length of the Mississippi from Itaska Lake to the Gulf of Mexico i6 estimated ät 3,160 miles. The greatest cataract in the world is that of Niagara. The Horseshoe fall, on the Canadian side, has a perpendicu lar descent of 158 feet. The height of the American fall is 167 feet The Horseshoe fall, which carries a larger Voiume of water than the American fall, is about 600 yards wide, and ex tends from the Canadian shore to Goat Island. Geologists are agreed that the cataract was once six miles nearer Lake Ontario than at present. Although E iagara is the largest cataract, it is by no means the highest. The Yosemite fall, in California, surpasses all other cataracts on the globe in height. This is formed by the Yosemite creek, which is ftn affluent of the Merced river. The average width of the stream in summer is about twenty feet, and its depth about two feet. From the edge of the cliffs from which the water plunges, to tho bottom of the valley the vertical distance is about 2,550 feet, but the fall is not in one perpendicular sheet. The biggest diamond in the world— if indeed it be a diamond—is the Bra ganza, which forms part of the Portuguse cro wn jewels. It weighs one thousand eight hundred and eighty carats. How ever, not a little doubt exists of its being a diamond, as the Government has never allowed it to be tested. It was found in Brazil in 1741. The largest tested but unout diamond is the Mattam, belong ing to the Rajah of Mattam, in Borneo. It ia of pure water, weighs 367 carats, and is of pear shape, indented at the thick end. It was found about 1700 at Lan dak, in Bornea. It has been the cause of a sanguinary war. Before it was cut the Kohinoor, which is one of the English crown jewels, was the larg est tested diamond. It then weighed 793 carats. When in the possession of Emperor Aurengebe it was reduced by unskillful cutting to 186 carats. Dur ing 1 he Sikh mutiny it was captured by British troops and presented to Queen Victoria. It was reçut, and now weighs 106 K^fcparats. eatest active volcano in respect ive force is probably Hecla, on thwestern cost of Iceland, though ius, on the east side of the Bay of s, may be said to dispute the palm with i t Hecla rises to a height of 5,110 feet aîtove the sea, and is surrounded by many much higher mountains. It has three peaks, and along its sides numer ous craters, the seats of former erup tions. The crater of its principal peak is a little over 100 feet in depth. Since A. D. 900 forty three of its eruptions have been recorded, five of which were simultaneous, or nearly so, with those of Vesuvius, and four with those of Etna, and one with those of both. Vesuvius rises 3,948 feet above the sea level. Its crater is 1,500 feet in diarceter and 500 feet deep. The craters of both these famous volcanoes are far exceeded in dimensions by that of the "mountain of fire" of Sicily, whose crater has been estimated to be four miles in circumfer ence and 800 feet in depth. to the to an of The greatest pyramid is that ol Cheops, one of the three pyramids form ing the Memphis group, situated on a plateau about 187 feet above the level of the highest rise in the Nile. Its dimen sions have been reduced by the removal cf ihe outer portions to furnish stone for the city of Cairo. Its masonry con sisted originally of 89,028,000 cubic feet, and still amounts to 82,111,000 feet. The present vertical height is 450 feet, flgrtin3i 479 feet Originally, and the present length of the sides is 746 feet against 764 feet originally. The total weight of the stone is estimated at 6,316,000 tons.— Hau Francisco V/irun icle. STICKLER'S CLOSE CALL. He.Joked About Finding; a Bear and Found One In Earnest. A Philadelphian named Stickler spends several weeks each year in the Catskill mountains: He had an exciting adventure the other Hay: Stickler left his retreat, which nesties among tail pines in a picturesque valley, early in the morning. He took with him a double barreled gun, and a small Scotch ter rier dog followed at his heels. Fol lotritig iiidiiiilain pii'liis hë SöüH eUkfe in sight of the Hotel KaaterskiU, where he stopped a short time ana chatted with friends. Who bantered him about shuoiing a bear. Stickier look ihe jt'st good naturedly, and remarked that he would return with a bear. Bidding his friends good-by, he sallied forth on what he anticipated would be an en joyable day's sport. Stickler soon came to the brew of the hill which overlooks a deep valley south of the hotel; The hunter descended the mountain side into the valley, which he crossed, and then he tramped on for a mile or two. Stickler kept a sharp lookout for game. His little dog kept several yards ahead of him. Suddenly he heard it bark, and it ran back to him. It acted as if it were badly frightened. Advancing cautiously, Stickler saw something that filled him with pleasure and his pulse quickened with excite ment. Between four tall trees, which formed a space of about twenty feet, were two chb bears at play. Their an tics amused him and it was some time before lie awakened to his senses that what he had started out for was right before him. Raising his gun, he took aim at the largest of the cubs and fired, the little tui im id wits badly wbtmded, and it set up a crying that could be heard a long distance. The plaintive sounds were heard by the old mother bear, which had been feeding on ber ries. It went tearing through the bushes to its young, licked the wounds öi its offspring, and looked ärOuhd for the hunter. The old bear caught sight Of Stickler, and with growls that .sent cold shivers running up and down his spinal column, it made for him. Between the place where Stickler was standing and the spot where the cubs were there was stretched a huge trunk of a tree which had been denuded of its branches. The log rested in such position that a small animal could crawl under. This proved a fortunate circumstance for Stickler, for his life was saved by it. Bruin was rapidly approaching, and the hunter raised the gun to his shoulder and took careful aim, as it was the only charge he had. In the excitement that followed the shooting of the cub he had forgotten to reload the other barrel. The charge hit the bear near the shoulder and in flicted a terrible but Hot fatal wound. This only served to enrage the shaggy brute still more, and it reached the log and had its fore paws on top of it when the little terrier, which had stood trem bling with fear behind its master, dart ed linder the log and caught the beast by one of its hind legs. The bear turned its attention tb the dog; which flipped back under the log. The new turn of affairs encouraged Stickler, who did not let the chance slip by. Grasping his weapon by the bar rel he advanced and struck the brute on the head. Bruin did not seem to mind the blow, and it again mounted the log and the little dog again repeated its performance. Stickler began to re load one barrel of his gun, but so nerv ous and excited was he that he spilled half his powder on the ground. He managed however, to get a charge in just as the bear was on top of the log for the third time. He fired and the terrier at the same instant went for the bear's hind quarters. This time Bruin did not turn back, and Stickler, realiz ing it was life or death with him, again rushed toward to club the animal. He had the weapon elevated when the bear raised its fore paws and struck him a terrible blow in the breast, and he fell unconscious to the ground. When he opened his eyes he saw the bear lying by his side. It was dead. It had struck the hunter in its last death struggle. Stickler found that the last shot had entered the bear's mouth, which, he re membered, as it came across the log. was wide open. The brute's tongue was cut off at the roots and was filled with shot.— Kingston (N. Y. J Free man. Red Tap in Russia. How easy it is in Russia to get a high official's signature to any sort of a document may be illustrated by an an ecdote that I have every reason to be lieve is absolutely true. A "stoia nachalnik," or head of a bureau, in the provincial administration of Tobolsk, while boasting one day about his power to shape and direct governmental action, made a wager with another chinovnik that he could get the Gov ernor of the province—the late Gov ernor Lissogorski—to sign a manuscript copy of the Lord's Prayer. He wrote the prayer out in the form of an official document on a sheet of stamped paper, numbered it, attached the proper seal to it and handed it to the Governor with a pile of other papers which re quired signature. He won his wager. The Governor duly signed the Lord's Prayer, and it was probably as harmless an official document as ever came out of his office.— Oeorge Kennan, in Century. —A Philadelphia barber makes the statement that there are fewer bald heads among the people of wealth and fashion in Philadelphia than among tho ô&aae class of apy other A®Qi'i<gyi city. —Rosa Wiss, a young girl of Marl" dian, Miss., had five cant* given her In a joke as a birthday present. She bought a yard of calico with it, and ! ^ ade a sun-bonnet, which she sold for forty cents: This she invested ia more calico, made it up, sold the garments and reinvested the capital until she had ten dollars. With this she bought potatoes, planted them, paid for the cultivation of her crop, for gathering H,nd carting to town, and sold it for forty doilars clear profit. 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Common Sense Cure FOR CATARRH, HAY FEVER, Colds, Asthma. Bronchitis, and all diseases of the Head .Throat and Lungs. Continuous cur rent of ozonized air penetrat ing. pnrifyinjz and healing. It cures where all other remedies fail. Bud Xleadaehv Cured In Five Minute». Kent on SO «AYS' TRIAL. Yoa can be cured while sleeping, reudingor performlngany kind of labor. Illustrated book showing origin of and how to cure all diseases of the Head, Throat and Langs sent FREE upon receipt of Ä cent stamp. COMMON SENSE CUUE CO., 66 State St., Chicago. NAME THIS PAPER t»«ry um« J ou «rit«. 'L : - r HAUE STtDY. Book-keeping,Penmanship,Arl th. I1U RI g» metie, Shorthand, etc., thorough]- taught QUwsla» tree. sniiHrBCOULKI. Buftlu.M.ï. CAUTION Beware of Fraud, as my nam® and the price are stamped on the bottom or all my advertised ?ho^s before leaving the factory, whign protect tho wear ersagalnsthifih price» and Inferior goods, if a deaf er offers W. Ja, Douglas shoes at it reduced price or says ne has them without my name and uric« stamped on the bottom, put him down aa ftlraucL rfmum L $3 SHOE, DOUGLAS FOR GENTLEMEN. The only calf ssseami . kks SW »month in juie K ota CHS or V, A v j, ;s , v u U hnA "îf e«»y nshand-sen-e.i and Will NOT KIS*. W,I,.lM)ri,i,AS K4 «IOK, the original ami cV, 1 ina" Hn< 3" saW f C<1 "ï 1 . 1 /' : h,>e - Uqualä custom-made shoes costing from *«> to f.». w. I,. 1WKSI,AS «iC.KO POLICE SHOE. Railroad Men am! l.etter Carriers, all war theii smpstb inside as a Hand-Sewed Shoe. No Tacks or Wax to hurt the feet. A* . L. LOI, I w I j AS ' ü .."?<> v" ■:> 1* is unexcelled for heavy wear. Bes-t Calf Shoe for >iv i>riee „ w. j,. noTOiAs »a.as wo»Kiso. s SHOE the L'e.st in the wo. Id lor rou"ii wear; or.« pair ought to wea r a man a v ar. W. L. »»OK FOÏS BOÏS 1, the best School S?'«e in the world. W. !.. I)OC«HÂ9 SI.Î5 ÏOETHS School Shoe gives the <S£na:l Boys a chance lo w. ar the bysit alioes in the w Q rM. 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Frotfi ftrst close symptoms rui.1«ly disappear, ana ill at least two-thirds of ail >.v m o torn ^ tire reni.'W». feuuio may cry humbug without iu.'r»winsc any tiiiu# ?U»out »*• lte" member it costs you notiiirr«.to realize th« merit or our treatment for yourself. Vv'c«?e constantly curing: cases of long standing —ca^ea tlifU {wve been tapped a number of times and the patient d^lared unabieto liven week. Givefuil history of case, £U*m«,agjs, sex r -iow long afflicted, etc. Send for free paJftphlet, con taining testimonials. Ten days' treatmenP^rmaneu free by mail. If you order trial, 70U inus?return thi?Rdvertisemcnt to us with 10 cent« in Staigs 10 pay postage. Epilepsr (Fits) positively curea. H. H. CRESN & SONS. M. Ds.. Atlnnri. C. N . D WEBSTER 1 K8S7zr$r* ONMRWQft. DICTIOKAi} ITSELF 3000 more Words and nearly QOOO Tnore Illus trations than any other American Dictionary An (nvaluab'o Companion in e vorv School and at every Fireside. Sold by all Booksellers. 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