e as follows: A man walks
three miles an hour; a horse trots seven; steamboats run eighteen;
sailing vessels make ten; slow rivers flow four; rapid rivers flow
seven; storms move thirty-six; hurricanes, eighty; a rifle ball, one
thousand miles a minute; sound, eleven hundred and forty-three; light,
one hundred and ninety thousand; electricity, two hundred and eighty
thousand.

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A GOOD CHILD

is usually healthy, and both conditions are developed by use of proper
food. The Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk is the best infant's
food; so easily prepared that improper feeding is inexcusable and
unnecessary.--[_Adv._]

ADVERTISEMENTS.

Arnold

Constable & Co.

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SPECIAL.

Manufacturer's Sample Pieces

Fine Swiss, Nainsook, and Cambric

EMBROIDERIES

33-1/3% Under Regular Prices.

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Broadway & 19th st.

NEW YORK.

Walter Baker & Co. Limited.

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The Largest Manufacturers of

PURE, HIGH GRADE

COCOAS and CHOCOLATES

On this Continent, have received

HIGHEST AWARDS

from the great

Industrial and Food

EXPOSITIONS

IN EUROPE AND AMERICA.

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=Caution:= In view of the many imitations of the labels and wrappers on
our goods, consumers should make sure that our place of manufacture,
namely, =Dorchester, Mass.=, is printed on each package.

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SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE.

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WALTER BAKER & CO. LTD. DORCHESTER, MASS.

COLUMBIA

QUALITY

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always maintained. Far more Columbia bicycles than ever this year. Far
more care that no imperfect Columbias go out.

=$100 for a Columbia means $200 of pleasure and satisfaction.=

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Pope Manufacturing Co.

General Offices and Factories, Hartford, Conn.

BRANCH STORES: Boston, New York, Chicago, Providence, Philadelphia,
Buffalo, Brooklyn, Baltimore, Washington, San Francisco.

Postage Stamps, &c.

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100 all dif. Venezuela, Costa Rica, etc., only 10c.; 200 all dif. Hayti,
Hawaii, etc., only 50c. Ag'ts wanted at 50 per ct. com. List FREE!

=C. A. Stegmann=, 2722 Eads Av., St. Louis, Mo.

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=STAMPS!= =300= fine mixed Victoria, Cape of G. H., India, Japan, et