ined and elastic; superior workmanship, especially shown by the
careful grinding which leaves the pens free from defects. The tempering
is excellent and the action of the finished pens perfect."

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{ JOHN BOYD THACHER, _Chairman Exec. Com. on Awards_.

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=B. & O.= Telegraph Stamps (Forbes & Co.), full set, used, 60c.; they
catalogue at $9.00. Full set Hoen & Co., 5c.; catalogued at 15c. =E. T.
PARKER=, Bethlehem, Pa.

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The Eight Numbers of the Franklin Square Song Collection contain

1600

of the Choicest Old and New Songs and Hymns in the Wide World.

Fifty Cents per Number in paper; Sixty Cents in substantial Board
binding; One Dollar in Cloth. The Eight Numbers also bound in two
volumes at $3.00 each. Address Harper & Brothers, New York.

A Jamaica Sky Meeting.

I shall try and tell you about a Jamaica sky meeting, given by the
Garrison Gymkhana Club, I went to about a week ago. The drive down
there is eight miles, and is very pretty. The hard white road
winds along, some of the way, beside a deep, lovely, tropical
valley with a narrow musical little river leaping and tumbling
among big gray rocks, half the time hidden by the dense green
foliage, and then springing out in a silver waterfall. On the
other side of the road the tall brown mountains rise up almost
straight, with jagged rocks sticking out of them. A little beyond
this are broad fields, some planted in sugar-cane, and of a
brilliant green, others with tall golden-brown grass sweeping to
the foot of the mountains.

As we swing around corners we come upon occasional squads of negro
women peasants with the customary baskets of miscellaneous
products, fruit and vegetable, on their heads, and some driving
donkeys similarly loaded in panniers. They scatter in all
directions as our coachman cracks his whip without deigning to
slow up. At last we reached our destination and took our places on
the grand