Robinson AURT RUTH'S TALEHTOE. an ordinary observer, and even a close THE ALLIGATOR. fast by the aide of the kitchen store, one, the ear of an alligator would not a shadow darkened the window, and $JLgWPP$ wWP "Dinah," saidAuntRnth," thee may Who I4TM and Idoa te the Lake* ana be discovered. By taking a knife and the little girl, looking np, exclaimed, T$W#WH MIVOM of Florida-A Creature with light the gas in the hall and see who is experimenting a little, the flesh will joyfully: CartoettT ana a Qalck BarHow Me at the door. I hear the bell again." be found to lift up on the point of the I Oh, there'sdmveDickl" ^Appointed to carry the Royal Belgian and IT. S. Mails, sailing between Vakon Has) Prey. Dina opme th door and bade him "'Deedr missus, if only another of knife at the place above mentioned, ANTWERP 1 them mizzable boys with their valentines, Ax alligator moves much easier in and one can see the ear, quite capacious, TRAVELER'S GUIDE. "Come 'long in," giving him a jerk to I 'spect! My legs is' broke now, straightline than any other if attacked of a beautiful pearly color, with facilitate his movements. He shambled and Fee got a dreadful misery in my by one St is a good plan, in case of a transparent membrane, very tough, Loreuo Station. bashfully in, and in a moment the back a-runnin* to the door with nothin' danger, to run in a circle this confuses stretched over a large tunnel leading JkTI9 child's arms were around his neck, and there but them no 'count pictures and delays the creature, and much increases directly to the brain. Their sense of PHILADELPHIA her face, almost pretty in its unwonted and chalk-marks on the steps!" the chances of escape. But Winona Saint Peter Railway. hearing is very acute. Alligators can cleanliness, nestled caressingly against RICHMOND IM AM Dinah sailed majesticaly from the few cases of injury to men or domestic be made to rise from a river's bottom his black cheek, while she pouredout a Eastern Div. Arrive, Depart. *oom. She opened thedoor cautiously animals by Florida alligators are on by slight noises, like the squeaking of torrent of eager exclamations of satisfaction Day Passenger *8,00 p.m. *5,25 a*m few inches and peered out into the record or known, so far as I could NEW YORK, a pig or a low whistle., The creatures at being a "wallentine." Night Pass'ger {9,00 a.m. *3,35 p.m snow-storm that was raging but seeing learn. Men, women and children have seem to have no little curiosity, and When she atlast released him,Dinah #3,25 p.m. *6,25 a.m no one proceeded to close it again with Freight Established in 1842. little or no fear of them, at least of take considerable risks to satisfy it, took him by his shoulders, and seated ALTERNATELY EVERY TWELVE DAYS. mu$tered invectives against all miz none except the largest. They are attacked Freight *1,45 a.m. *5,15 p.m though they are not conscious of the him firmly in a chair. The following New andStrictly First-Class IronSteamships sail in th sable white trash," when she saw-a and killed in every direction dangers they court. "Now," said she, "you's jest a goin' Western Div. Arrive. Depart. small boy, ten or twelve years of age, line, viz: and in all manners, usually being left a The alligator's mouth opens quite to set there till you 'splain the whole Express & Mail *3,30 p.m. *9,05 a.m black as ebony, scantily clad in a cotton prey to the buzzards and other feeders VADERLAND, NEDERLAND, RHYLAND SWITZERLAND, WESTER the whole length of his head both 'rangement to me and missus. An' shirt andragged pants, which were upon carrion. They do not decay LAND, BELGENLA^D. jaws move a bony arrangement at the you jest lay out to tell the trufe, the Minnesota Valley Railway. a world too large for him, and were rapidly, even in the hot sun, their The Steamers of this Line are of 3,5C0 tons burden, have been specially sides of the mouth limits the extent to whole trufe, an' noffln but the trufe all Arrive. Depart. drawn nearly to his shoulders, being thick skins repelling the beaks of buzzards which it can be opened. When opened, constructed for the tiade, with double bottoms and sides, and for the the wayisthroughthatyis onsartin!kin. if ye Redwood Accom. *5,15 a.m. *8,05 p.m mostly might held in place by suspenders of twine, at first, and their tough fibres there is much inside to excite curiosity. STRENGTH, SAFETY, SPEED and COMFORT are unsurpassed, and in theii Niggusr and turned up at the ankles, showing a E^* Except Sunday, Except Monday, fighting dissolution at every stage. In the first place, the tongue appointments and accommodations are not excelled by any Steamers afloat. When Aunt Ruth came down she pair of bare feet This small boy, surveying Except Saturday. Freight arriving I was much impressed with the alligator. is mainly adhesive to the lower part of Antwerp forms the shortest and most direct route to BELGIUM, SOUTHERN found her wallentine"-bringer, refreshed her a moment quite as coolly as He seemed to me an object here from the East at 1,45 a. the mouth the back part of the by a breakfast the like of which GERMANY, the NETHERLANDS,AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND and ITALY she surveyed him, at last deliberately worth study and observation. I had Agents, 307 Walnut str., Philadelphia tongue has a very marked and curious m. carries passengers from Kasota. he had never before enjoyed, sitting by Gen'1 PETER WRIGHT $ SONS, stepped into the lighted doorway mot happened to come across, in my semi-circular ridge, very well denned, the fire with the "wallentine" at his -and Freight going East at 5,15 p. m. carries W. E. LA WRENCE, Manager, 119 East Randolph str., Chicago, 111. dragging by the hand a shivering little reading of natural history, sufficiently that serves, with a slight muscular ReMhmr sideher two little hands tightly held passengers on Saturdays only. Tickets for all classes to and from all points in Europe, via the Sta girl almost hidden in the folds of a clear accounts of him, and, while in contraction, to completely close the entrance Ulm in one of his own, and supreme satisfaction American Line, may be had of JOHN A. WHITE, Agent. ragged coat This coat he now dexterously Florida, 1 lost no opportunity of gleaning to the gullet. An alligator can ^*w at the success of bis odd scheme We build and can furnish JOS. BOBLETER* jerked from her shoulders, say-' information from any source likely rush around in the water with his shiningin every feature of his honest 3t. Paul & Sioux City R. R. ing: to prove correct that would throw light PORTABLE ENGINES, mouth wide open and not swallow a face. Her eyes filled as she stood in FRE E "Here's a wallentine fur the lady Sioux City & St. Paul R. R. upon his structure or habits. The female drop. The teeth are of different sizes, the door a moment unnoticed by the A VALUABLE INVENTION. wot lives here!" builds her nest in the spring of large and small at intervals, those of Worthington & Sioux Falls R.R. children, but she was not given to any 2 to 25 Horse Power. Then turning, he ran rapidly down the year she makes it of mud and the upper jaw shutting outside the under, demonstrations and made no comment the steps without one look back into leaves, banking it up in some secluded and those below fitting in cavities And then Dick rose in his place still CUT OFF SAWS to attach to same. THE OLD RELIABLE THE WORLD RENOWNED the hall, wheie the bewildered Dinah space open to the sun, depositing her above the large, lower, forward teeth SIOUX CITY ROUTE holding both the little hands Stationary Engines, stood staring stupidly after him, and eggs in layers, leaving them to hatch WILSON SEWING MACHINE in very old alligators perforate the "I hain't got much to tell, ma'am. disappeared around the first corner into by the heat engendered by fermentation bones of the upper jaw on each side of I'm Dick the boot-black, an' this yer the snowy darkness. added to that of the sun. the nostrils, making holes that one can Steal Boilers, of any size little girl I found one night last week. The little*, smutty-faced, blue-c)ed The People's Favorite Line, push a finger through. The mouth of Eggs to the number of ISO have been Me an' Joe Raflerty had been to a place valentine," so unceremoniously delivered, an alligator is singularly clean, of a found in these nests their shells are in workmanship is equal to a Chronometer Watch, and where they had some picters and things Circular Saw mills, still stood motionless utitW the pearly pink color, and the teeth, when quite hard, in shape they are elongated as elegantly finished as a first-class Piano. It received the man called a pandorammer,' an' BETWEEN gas-light awaiting furtiier developments. they are new, are very beautiful, and somewhat in comparison with a hen's MINN ESOTA when we come out 'twas late an' we the highest awards at the Vienna and Centennial Expo- Dinah at last recovered speech have also a pinkish cast. egg, and both ends are more nearly was cold an' we run all the way to the Improved Head Blocks. sitions. IT SEWS ONE-FOURTH FASTER than other and action, and closed the door with a alike. In size they are usually above The average alligator is longer from box. The box is a big box down by NEBRASKA, COLORADO, machines. Its capacity is unlimited. There are more bang. those of a turkey. The young break the tip of his tail to a point on his Higley's warehouse, an' we sleep into "Missus, missus! for mussy sake the shell and emerge from their cozy WILSON MACHINES sold in the United States than STOP-OFF GOVERNORS, back between the juncture of the it. An' we found this little Bab %-curled CALIFORNIA, look-a-here!" birthplace to find a home in shallow the combined sales of all the others. The WILSON hind legs than he is from that point up into it asleep. Joe he was a-goin' As the lady obeyed the imperative Missouri, Kansas and Texas. water, where they are partially protected the best ever made, forward to his nose. His tail is his to bounce her, but when he seen how MENDING ATTACHMENT for doing all kinds of repairing. summons and stepped into the hall, and cared for by the female great engine of locomotion, and his little she was, he didn't He jest WITHOUT PATCHING, given FREE with each machine. Brag saws, saw Tallies, etc., etc. the little bundle of tatters and rags parent, until grown of a certain size, First-Class in all its AppointmentsElegant main reliance in offensive and defensive yanked off his coat an' put it over her 33SLI WILSON SEWING MACHINE CO. moved to her side and peered up into Sleeping Conches, Miller Platforms, Westinghonse when they are obliged to look out for war. I was told by one, long familiar an' some old carpet, too, an' we did Automatic Air Brakes, and all the approved appliances the placid face surrounded by the prim themselves, or their formerly fond with his habits, that, with a flirt cover her up elegant, an' she slep' for folds of a Quaker cap. Seeming to mother will make a meal of them. The of his tail, he struck h's prey toward beautiful till mornm'. In the mornin' SPEED, SAFETY, and COMFORT. 827 ft 829 Broadway, New York New Orleans, La.} recognize a friendly heart shining in male parent is always fond of young his mouth, which opens at the time she talked an' we reckoned to take care Cor1StateJt_Madison Sts., Chicago, Ills. and San Francisco, Cal. the serious eyes, she thrust into her alligator, and, if it were not for the and closes with a snap on whatever is of her our own selves after that. Joe tesVICTOR^ Ten Hours Time and Hundreds of hand a scrap of dirty, crumpled paper, ig mother'sprotection, thealligator census thrown into it. My informant went so an' me got her crackers an' milk an' saying: would be small indeed. Miles Distance Saved, by far as to say that the alligator sometimes things when we could, an' we made believe Dick writ it!" The little fellows are very lively, and taking this Route. in this way bit off the end of his she was our housekeeper. Joe Aunt Ruth took the queer-looking their heads have a queer resemblance own tail. Many are found with part swep' the crossins an' one day a runaway For Through Tickets, Time {Tables, or other information, document and, with a puzzled look at in expression to that of a bull-dog. of the tail gone these may be lost in team knocked him down an' killed apply to your Local Agent, 01 to the Threshing the bearer, proceeded to decipher the They are about six inches long on their General Ticket Agent St Paul mutual fights, or perhaps by the nip of him all of a sadden. This here Bab, queer hieroglyphics. It had evidently Trains pass Kasota Station as follows first arrival, and are in color black, a shark, yetfrom what I have seen of she cried so, an' was so lonesome after Going East. been a laborious task for the grimy speckled with regular slashes of dirty the lightning-like lateral blows given Joe, that I allowed it was better to try St Paul Express 7:40 a St Paul accom 12 45 fingers that had traced them but at yellow. The regularity and rapidity by these reptiles with the tail, I am an' find her a home if I could. Machines, CiolMfr West. last she picked out the message embodied of their growth is difficult to ascertain. prepared to believe the story of their I seen folks a sendin' wallentines Omaha Express 7*07 St James a ccommodation in letters of all sizes and shapes. They can remain dormant for long 12 27 self-maiming.Cor. Boston Commercial for presents an' I thought some one ugntest The writer had evidently made it his periods, and can live without food an J. W. Bishop, J. P. Lincoln, Bulletin. oiter like a little girl better nor they sole aim to represent the facts in the incredible length of time. At the Gen. Manager, Supt. would a picter. 1 seen you on the of all sizes both for steam and Horse case, nobly regardless of the minor hibernating season they sometimes W. H. Dixon, General Ticket Agent. street, ma'am, when you give the lame The Newsboy's Mistake. considerations of orthography and swallow pine knots, or even stones, man some money, an' I follered along Power. punctuation: probably for the purpose of keeping THE that day to see where you lived, air A NKWSUOY leaned against a lamppost, their stomachs distended, and disgorge CLOVERS HULLERS, CHICAGO, Thia httnl earl Hain't got no folks nor no when you went up the steps you seen sniveling. The stump of a cigar on resuming a more active life. I have waxes to sta only a womman that betes bur oriul me, ma'am, an' smiled out of your smoldeml in his mouth, and a bundle HORSE POWERS, and me and a Box with straw into it to sleap in fftost seen alligators of all sizes, from six Milwaukee St. Paul eyes so good that I most knowed you'd of alternoon papers hung over his arm. mie. IV brans Hair to Bee yore wallentine. inches to at least fourteen feet in Sbea hunerv. DICK." be kind to a little girl that hadn't no CORN SHELLERS, His flat stomach was bursting with While the lady was laboring over length, with corresponding weight, but one but me. She's real cute, ma'am! emptiness. His prototype can be found Reiil'wa.y, the odd missive the little waif stood nothing is known whereby their age ALL SIZES 1 seen you once, too," added he to on any corner, or dodging behind almost looking soberly up into her face, and might be approximately determined. Dinah, who stood with dish-towel in any ash-barrel. He was deliberating Feed Mills, Endless Chain I S THE VERY BEAT LINE when she raised her eyes, full of pity The number or length of times when hand, gravely weighing his words. I over the chances of a galiervseat and compassion, the child said: fnown, FOR Powers, Equalizers, Lever rowth has been suspended being unrenders was a-blackin' a fellers boots on the in the Bowery, when a kindly old He told me he writ into it that 1 WINONA, LA CROSSE, SPARTA, the problem of age one market the day you boxed that chap's gentleman approached and bought a Jacks, Belting, Pulleys, wasn't nobody's girl only his'n, and OWATOtf NA, PRAIRIE DU of difficult solution. I believe they ears for dragging the dog over the paper. The kindlj old gentleman had that I'd be your wallentine! I don't Shafting, &c. &c &c. have a chance to grow as long as they stones in gutter. Didn't he run, CHIEN, MCGREGOR, nothing smaller than a hve-cent piece AVE 25 DOLLARS look like 'em, but I'll be it. I'd like MADISON, live, and that they live, if in favorable though, when you let him goP" and when he handed over the cash, the to. It's jolly warm here, only my MILWAUKEE, CHI'CABO, circumstances, and are let alone.'an newsboy, instead of dodging around 1'clar for't," said Dmah, "he's feet's cold," and she looked down at incredible number of years. Why the corner, deliberately ottered him the telhn' the trufe! 'Peaied like I felt he SPECIAL. DISCOUNTS FOR CASH the boy's boots she had on, ragged and should there be a natural period to their and more, by buying a machine that will last you a life time, and that has all the change. This act of honesty touched might be liable the minnit I sot eyes And all Intermediate Points in AND SHORT TIME S4f.ES. run over at the heel. They's Dick's. latest improvements existence? They shed their teeth every the old gentleman's heart, and, with on him." Minnesota, Wisconsin and Northern Iowa, He made me wear 'em when I cried!" 05*=* Send for Catalogue ind Pi ice List VICTOR SEWING MACHINE CO., year no matter how large the animal tearful eyes, he refused to take the Dick made no comment on Dinah's "Thee may take the child to the NTEW YORK, Addiess stating what you wisli to uy is, the same process is ever going change, and told the newsboy to call change of base," but looked earnestly [Liberal Terma to Agenti 199 AND 201 WABABH AVK., kitchen, Dmah, and give her something on, anew tooth is always coming forward upon him next day. Overlooking tne Send for Circular. Adama St, ChKigo. IM. into Aunt Ruth's face. As she said ROBINSON & CO. to eat. I will come presently, PHILADELPHIA, to supplant the old. Ihey cast fact that the kindly old gentleman's office nothing, he repeated timidly, with a and perhaps I can find out where she their outward skin, and are found was something more than two BALTIMORE, little quaver in his voice: belongs." sparkling in their brightness after the J. ESTEY & COMPANY, miles down Broadway, the newsboy "She ain't got no mother nor nobody WASHINGTON, Richmond, Ind. Dinah led her down the hall, the wet old skin is thrown, even when they are called next day, and was duly presented in the whole world only me, boots shuffling heavily over the carpet, New England, the Ganadas, and all of the very largest size. witheight dollars for his honesty." ma'am an' she's real cute!" and the bright blue eyes, shining out of EASTERN and SOUTHERN POINTS. The question of theater-tickets, cigars, No dead alligators are seen save "Dick," said Aunt Ruth, quietlv, TBS the smutty face like stars from a mudhole, cakes and knicknacks on the one side, those destroyed by violence there is I should think thee would rather find Wheeler & Wilson Dutes lifted apprehensively to the dark and a good warm coat on the other nothing that feeds upon them except in a home for thyself than to take all this face. side, was decided in favor of the coat, their infancy they go on, on, on, the trouble for a strange little girl." I do declar fer it," muttered theold and in lightning-express time the eight gristly scales of their youthful years Ma'am," said Dick, gravely, I AND woman, white trash and black trash dollars was transformed into a stylish turning in time to plates as hard as heard a preacher-man on the street DAILY TRAINS SILEHsTT is mostly alike in their no 'count ulster. Again the newsboy leaned ivory, their little teeth changing from one day, ma'am, tellin' about a good pranks, that'safact! Blest if this ain't against the lamp-post, but again no time to time until they are as large as fellow that wanted the little children Between the queerest piece of business I'se ever xro. a. plethoric philanthropist came to hu a man's thumb years come ana go, took care of and that he said into some St. Paul and Minneapolis and Chicago. seen at this house yit! A wallentine! rescue. A newsboy in an ulster was and, undoubtedly, centuries come and book or other (he had itthere an' read Missus Ruth's ways is so onexpected' fuc,kand too thin." His business was ruined. out of it), When you do it to them an'you still the alligator of superior The Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railway is Fll remember be Here, you poor, little, while beggar!'! an"1 The principal facts in this brief biography do it to me lives on, no man knows how long, the only Vorttiwestern Line connecting in same depot Dinah's crusty manner softened a in Chicago with any of the Great Kastern and were furnished to the Times by good to you some time for itP When every year becoming more hideous in Southern Railways, and is the most con\ eniently little as she watched the greediness the newsboy himself, and they are thus we found Bab a-curled up in the box, visage, and better calculated to impress located with reference to reaching any depot, Hotel with which the child devoured thte bie beyond contradiction and the story is lookin' so little an' so helpless, I or place of business in that City the ignorant with a superstitious awe. butler bu sh ant1 slice of bread Through Tickets and Through Baggage Checks to thought it meant for us to take care of a warning to all hard-working newsboys There is a feeling, difficult to describe, all Principal Cities melted outright when, as she finished her, an' we talked it over an' poor Joe not to be deluded into stylish that comes over one while near Steel Rail Track, thoroughly ballasted, free from her rare feast, the little white beggar" he reckoned so, too." ulsters by generous old capitalists, to dnst Westinghouse Improved Automatic Air a live alligator the intensity of his slid from her chair and caught and Brake, Miller's Safety Platform and Coupling on all the ruination of their business.N. T. gaze, if his eyes are open the sleepy "I think I'll keep my valentine, Passenger Cars kissed the big black hand, saving: Times. wise, the sleepy cunning of his expression, Dick," Aunt Ruth said, looking into The Finest Day Coaches and Palace Sleeping Cars "I likes you 'cause you look like This Road connects more BnsinessCentres,Health when his eyes are closedhe the fire with a smile. I never heard and Pleasure Resorts, and passes through a finer Dick. I likes good black folks!" seems to know who you are and what of sending back a valentine, I believe country, with grander scenery, than any other An Ancient Duel In France. When Aunt Ruth came down she you are thinking of he seems to be Northwestern Line And I think I'll send one myself, toe. tHo. 160.Front View. Wo. 160Iteck View. found her "wallentine" seated in CARPENTER, conscious of some secret power over want thee to carry a note for me to The recent grotesque duel between Gen. Pass and Ticket Ag't. Dinah's own rocking-chair before the you the state of deathly quiet he assumes Friend Bradley's office on Harlem S. S MERRILL, JNO CAULT, Gambetta and Fourtou has brought to fire, while Dinah herself, down on the BRATTLEBORO. VT. General Manager Asa't Gen'IM'ger has a strange fascinationthis, street, Dick." mind other queer duels fought by floor, hat! the almost frozen feet in her when he is upon land, stretched before Frenchmen, some of which are rehearsed The note was written in a fair, up lap, rubbing them and giving vent to ?'he. in the Paris journals. One of right hand, in a few concise words: ou In the water he is more alert, some very unorthodox expressions of CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN the queerest was fought in 1790, be hunter moving in his boat upon "Priend Bradley. I send thee a Valentine, opinion as to the orderings of Providence. tween Cazales and Barnave. In the the glassy waters will see, just raised Our new Organ, expressly designed for Sunday Schools, rhce will find tbe lines beloneins to it in the Assembly the former, in an eloquent RAILWAY above the surface, the bright eye and twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew, fortieth verse. Chapels, etc., is proving a 606 Americas Exhibitors Becetod Prises Sakes alive! don't know's it's so, speech, called the Left "brigands." the extreme tip of the black nose of the RCTH HABMON but the Lo'd seems to pay a mighty AT THB Ihe latter replied that he couldtake no It is a year since Aunt Ruth received \i alligator these make two well-defined OH.3ES.A.T SUOOBSS. IS THE sight of 'tention to some folks and GREAT PARIS EXPOSITION Ef notice of a collective insult, but if it and sent a valentine. And th oints, the eye being much the largest, Oldest, sure to send for full descriptive Catalogue before forgit all about the rest. 'Pears like were personally applied he would feel 14th of February, 1879, when it comes, alligators are plenty, the hunter or purchasing any other. Best Constructed, chillun ought to be looked after anyhow. m*!^ bound to notice it Of course Cazales will find the sun shining on no happier fisherman sees these points far and OF 1878. They ain't, though, half on 'em! THE LARGEST WORKS (OF THE KIND) ON THE GLOBE child than little "Drat-you-Bab:" no gratified Barnave but the matter was Most Progressive, These Prizes were in the order of their \alue near, around him. If he approaches nd importance as follows: Things queer in this world if 'tis the prouder boy than "Valentine Dick," arranged by common friends. The one of these curious amphibious sentinels, Best Equipped, Grand Prizes Lo'd's world!" who occupies the responsible post of next morning, however, Cazales called no Parisian gallant can make a Gold Medals 108 errand boy in Friend Bradley's office "Well, child," said Aunt Ruth, with Saint Simon upon Barnave, saying: Illustrated Catalogue sent free. more graceful, retiring bow than is Silver Medals 1Q1 HENCE THE no more peaceful heart than Aunt I am very sorry, but the ladies "now thattheeis warm and fedwill thee given the occupant of the boat. The Jlronze Medals 194 Ruth's and certainly he would fail to tell thy name and where thee belongs?" are unwilling we should be at peace." Ayer's alligator inclines his head with an ineffable Honorable Mentions 128 NO PATENT NO FIT. spy out, with his strongest beams, a She shook her head. I had expected as much," was the Railway Corporation of the entire grace, sinks without the slightest The Grand Prizes were awarded as follows: more dignified, undismayed, constitutional laconic reply. "When, where and Don't belong nowheres. Father always ripple, and seenis to say, Farewell! 1-WHEELEB A WILSON MAKFG. CO., WEST AND NORTH-WEST grumbler than poor old Dinah, honP" At the Bois, in an hour, with called me Drat-you-Bab!' of Bridgeport. Conn.. STRAIGHT M^KIXLE Cherry Pectoral sweet friend, adieu! but come and by its accelerated growth hasextended its various obtained for Invetoi 8, in the United States, Can who pets or scolds the two children as SEWING MACHINES. pistols." Cazales insisted that his antagonist Aunt Ruth sighed over this dolorous again!" lines and branches to such proportions and by da, and Enrope, at reduced ntes W ith our pnncl inclination and opportunity dictate, 2Thomas A Edison, Mcnlo Park, N J., Phono should fire first. Barnave refused, compound cognomen. Has thee no its extreme liberality has acquired that Coveted pal Office located in Washington, directly opposite And so it will be with all those dots graph. Telephone, Electric Pen and who sums up the whole matter n Popularity that makes it really what it claims to United States Patent Office, we are able to attend to because the provocation mentioned mother.?" 3-Ehsha Gray, Chicago, 111. Mnltlple Acoustic upon the water, if visited in their turn. be, the LeadlnffKatlway of the West these words: lal Patent Business with greater promptness and Telegraph, Musical Telegraph, ptc by Cazales had not been intentional. "Once. She called me Here-you- and North"west Embracing under one The boatman will find himself surrounded Uispatcl* and less cost, than other patent attorneys, "Sometimes children is a comfort, 4-Tiffany & Co, New York City, Artwork in Management 2.158 Mile* Roat and They threw dice, at which Bab!' Father struck her with a bottle who are at a distance from Washington, and who by alligators in a moment silver and other metals and sometimes they is an aggravation. forming the following Trunk Lines: have, therefore, to employ "associate attorneys Cazales said he had no luck. Barnave Tor SiieuM of and she'd gone dead in the morning 5American Society of CivM Engineers, Models they aie gone he waits, or he whistles We make preliminary examinations and furnish Them twothem twowallentinesis awcarin' Chicago, Council Bluff* fc California Line, Plans, and Photographs won, fired at thirteen paces, and missed. And one day the perlice took father up come the heads again, and if he opinions as to patentability, free of charge, and all 6C. H. McCormick Chicago, 111, Mowing, Chicago, Sionx CityfcYankton Line, the life out of my bones, poor Twice Cazales' pistol missed fire. away, and old Bet told me to go 'long, who are interested in new in ntions and Patents Binding, and Reaping Machines. wishes to shoot he has to decide quickly, Chicago, Clinton, Dubuque fc La Crosse Line, Throat and Ion**, orphanless things! But Missus Ruth are invited to send for a copy of our "Guide for obaining Pardon me for keeping you waiting," 7Jerome Wheelock, oi costcr Bfass Steam too, and I went 'long fer as I could. 1 Chicago, Freeport fc Dubuque Line, select his game, aim at the eye, and Patents," which is sent free to any address, is so sot in her ways that I've got to Engine, with improved valuable Cut oft Chicago, La Crosse, Winona Minnesota Line, he said, and his adversary rejoined, hadn't nowheres to stop, and I crawled and contains complete instructions how to obtain pull trigger. If the ball does not 8Memphis Cotton izchange, Bale of Ten have 'em round under foot to the end Chicago, St Paulfc Minneapolis Line, I am here to wait." When he had into Dick's box, and he put straw over Patents, and other valuable mitter 'We refer to ncsee Cotton such Coughs, Oolda, Chicago, MilwaukeefcLake Superior Line, {igator,, dance but strikes to the brain, the alwith of time, if the Lo'd spares us!"Mrs. the German-American National Bank, Washington, 9-Bergher & Engle, Philadelphia, Lager Beer missed his man the third time, his secend, me and fixed me a jolly nice place, and Chicago, Green Bay A Lake Superior Line. the Eojal Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish a whirl, throws himself Lucy M. Bhnn, in Wide-Awahe. in casks. The advantages of these Lines are Charles de Lambeth, wanted the ev'ry day he took care of me He made Legations, at Washington, Hon Joseph Casey, lite It will be seen that, of the OOfl pn?cs which on his back and sinks at once, mayhap 1. If the passenger is going to or from any point affair stopped, bnt Saint Simon was unwilling. Whooping Coagh. were awarded, Chief Justice S Court of Claims to the Officials me this" and here poor, little Dratjou-Bab" in the entire West and North.West, he can buy bis never to r|se again, but if he comes up of the S Patent Office, and to Senators and Meanwhile the combatants stooped and drew from one tickets via some one of this Company's lines and ONLY O WEBE &BAHD PHIZES, Members of Congress from every State he is uncertain in his movements, and be sure of reaching his destination by it or its con. were walking about arm-in-arm, talking of her capacious boots a doll, whittled "Say It." and that one of those was received by fhe heelei nectiona. the hunter is more apt to lose than to Address LOUIS BAGGER &. Co., Solid, Bronchitis, **frnft, pleasantly together. I should be Irom a stick and artistically hnished & Wilson Mfg. Co This too over 80 compttiDg 2 The greater part of its lines are laid with Steel ors of Patents and Attorneys at Liw Le Droit get him. Thousands killed in this way sewing machine companies very sorry to kill you," remarked Rails, the road bed is perfect. No road has abetter with coal as to hair, eyes and mouth The Duke of Wellington often remarked Building, WASHINGTON, rot at the bottoms of the lakes and rivers Some of the gentlemen of tne Sewing Machine or smoother track. 3. It is the short line between Cazales but you are greatly in my She looked at it admiringly for a moment that those gentlemen who had Committee were residents of Europe, others of and Consumption. all important points. 4 Its trains are all equipped of Florida. There was a time when way in the Assembly. Let me disable America, and they were all select*d on account of rearranged the drapery of old with the Westinghonse AirBrake, Miller's Platform been trained inthebusiness correspond their skins were in demand for leather, their peculiar fitness to perform the task imposed The reputation it has attained, in consequence of and Couplers and the latest improvements for com. you from debating for the present" Erint, which was somewhat disturbe ence of the East India Company made upon them Thcj spent over six ceks in examining which was made into boots and for*, safety and convenience 5 It is the only Road tbe marvellous cures it has produced during tat You are more generous than I am," its journey in the boot, and then restored sewing machines and the sis applied were i the best diplomatic writers in the English In the West running the Pullman Palace Sleeping traveling-bags, but this leather is not most thorough and exhaustive responded Barnave, in wishing to let last half century, is a sufficient assurance to th* Cars either way between] it to its resting-place. SEWINGJ1ACHINES service. They wrote clearly and now so fashionable, and the alligators The result of this trial shows that the 1 nm that Chicago and St. Paul, me off easily. You are the mam supEardlyffeel public that it will continue to realize the happiest Aunt Ruth sighed again. precisely what needed to be said, and the No 8 possesses many points of superiority over are disturbed less than formerly. It is Chicago and Green Bay, any other machine was fully endorsed by the committee results that can he desired. In almost every Give her a warm bath, Dinah, and nothing more. not an easy task to skin one, and to tan ort your party my party would Chicago and Freeport, then thee may make her a bed on the section of country there are persons, publicly Dr. Nicholas'Murray, famous twenty The No. 8 is not the old sty'e Wheeler & Wilson the hide so as to preserve the characteristics my loss." Again Barnave NEW MODEL Chicago and La Crosse, lounge in my room. I will find thee Sewing Machine improved or changed, but is years ago for his pithy and effective known,whohave been restored from alarming- and! H* and color is, I believe, almost won the toss, and his adversary fell, Chicago and Winona, something that will serve her as a An Entirely New Invention. style, used to tell with great glee how even desperate diseases of the lungs, by its usa. impossible. I would have been glad of shot in the forohead, with the words, PM8int Dubuque,the dong shores of Chicago and -IIAS- night-dress." he acquired it. When he was a student a skin tanned in this manner, but found The No. 6 and No. 7 "This is what I came here for." His All whohave tried it.acknowledge its superiority Chicagoo and McGregor, ra And then poor, little, wondering ATTTOMATIC TENSIONS, in Williams College, he thought he the attempt would be expensive, with cocked-hat had, however, broken the and where its virtues areknown,no one hesitate* STRAIGHT Needle Manufacturing Vachmes arc Chicago and Milwaukee. on "Drat-you-Bab" was soon wrapped in could write well, and took a composition a probability of an unsatisfactory result. especially recommended for bUOEMAKElfS' and force of the bullet the surgeon soon as to what medicine to employ to relieve the distress *L Hi? i ELECANT WOODWORK, TAILORS' use a warm shawl and curled down on the to Dr. Griffin, the President, expecting Lake Michigan between Chicago andMilwankee. pronounced the wound not serious, and suffering peculiar to pulmonary alee. For descriptive catalogue, information as to nnoccupled 8. The only road running Four Express Trains a packedanalligator1a leg in salt, and lounge in Aunt Ruth's pleasant roam: commendation foritseloquence. AJID RUNS LIKE A TOP. which Cazales corroborated, adding: I territory, wholesale prices, etc, address day via its lines between Chicago and points in tions. CHEBBY PECTOBAL always affords Instant too much excited by the noveltv of her President Griffin glanced through thf Minnesota. 9 No road offers eqnal facilities In And lo, the ass opened hismouth and after a weekor so took it out, intending WHEELER WILSON MFG. CO., relief, and performs rapid cures of Um position to sleep, too thoroughly com number of through trains, equipped with Pullman NO CAMS, NO GEARS, NO SPRINGS, first sentence, and said, Murray, what spake." He went home in Lambeth's to repack it it looked as fresh to the Palace Sleeping Cars. 10. It runs Two Express mildervarieties of bronchial disorder, as well as fortable to do anything but hug her do you mean by this sentence?" carriage, proffered as more comfortable Trains Dally each way on all its lines and four AND NO NOISE. eye as when first put away, but a slight 155 State St., Chicago. wooden treasure and stare, first at the the more formidable diseases of the lungs. He answered modestly, "I mean so trains each way between Chicago and Milwaukee. than Saint Simon's, and in a few weeks handling removed the outer skin, the. 11. It makes connections with all lines crossing at pretty surroundings, then at the benevolent and so, sir." This BEST Machine CHAS. WAGNER, Agent, the combatants dined together, and As a safeguard to children,amid the distress* only thing I cared to preserve, and left Intermediate points face at the fireside. Suddenly Then say so, Murray and across The popularity of these lines is steadily increaslog spoke of their duel as a delightful little teg diseases which beset the Throat and Chest of the leg with a soft, beautiful skin, like New Ulm, jfin she raised herself on her elbow. and passengers should consult their Interest by line after line went the broad pen, Can be sold at Hard Times Prices. recreation.N. T. Times. a baby's, which retained all the markings Childhood, it is invaluable, for, by its timely use, purchasing tickets via this line. Dick said he hearn there was nangels erasing what Murray thought the most For information, Folders, Maps, *e., not obtain, of the outside covering. An aliifator's multitudes are rescued and restored to health. that lived somew'eres an' took eloquent passages. Passing to other able at Home Ticket Office, address any agent of INSIST UPON SEEING I head bears a strong resemlance Farmers Attention! Henry Wentworth* once one of the the Company or This medicine gains friendi at every trial, as care of folks. BeyouoneP'V sentences, "Murray, what doyou mean in shape to an4rdinar roundtoed most celebrated trapeze performers in W. H. STENNETT, MARVIN HUGHITT, the cures it is constantly producing are too remarkable areolars and Price-Lists on application to by this?" again asked the merciless "No, no, child," said Aunt Ruth, shoe without the heel. This re- the world perhaps, is now a policeman i 6en. Pass-Ag't, Chicago. Gen. Mang'r, Chicago WEE S. it Co., to be forgotten. Nofiunily should ha critic. gently, I am only Aunt Ruth. Go to sembft*is4*.very^arked in alligators CHICAGO II I The undersigned offers for sale, seed at East Saginaw, Mich., with a salary weep." without it, and those who have one* used it With a trembling voice the answer of medium sisev^nVeyes corn, the most PROLIFIC EVER GROWN. of fifty dollars a month. His last appearance oloa came," Doctor, I mean so and so." I FOR SALE BY f"Te'm. But I do wish Dickwae a neverwilL J: ^3^ 100 bu. per acre can be grown with or* getheronwhat corresponds to the instep was at San Francisco, in iP wallentine, too! It's worry cold into Please just to say so," wasthe quick ^jw throughout tbe country ^f^ H, S- ID. Peterson, PnT dinary care. Why will farmers grow of the shoe, while the nostrils are f^^* 1.868, when he and bis partner in the DAVIS & DODGE, PBOPRIETOBS. his box." reply. prescribe it,and Clergymen often reeosssaeadJi at the extreme end and top of what oats at the rate of 1600 lbs. per acre double trapeze act, the Spanish, female New Via, Miti. Aunt Ruth and Dinah sat info the when the reading was ended, the. Comfortable.,Rigs, Speedy Horses, ^^^ramwledgoofitseffeeu. _. might be called the toe. The eyes are athlete Aldemado, fell to the ground, a when thej can grow* over 6000 lbs. of night nastily fashioning warm garments beautiful manuscript was spoiled, and ..and.. Sfe1' of a blackish gray, with a longitudinal distance of thirty-five feet The girl corn? Ripens in 90 days. Makes choice Pt but they considered ^themselves Ffarms, the erased portions nearly equalled slit for the pupils, and are very peculiar Prompt Attnttoa. was killed, and Wentworth had one meal for bread. 25 cents per package. OR SALEFour or five improved well repaid by the delight with which what was left unmarked. Dr. Murray 'U\, Travlers carried to any point at RBABOWABLS in their expression. leg, one arm and his collar-bone and 9 packages 2.00. Discount for clubs. in this and Nicollet oounty Dr. J. C. XYER & C0.f they were donned in the morning. always maintained that those simple Lowell, Ma^ KATsa. Give as a call. Stable on Main St., West The ears are iust back of the eyes, Address E, D. PEAKS, Jamestown For particulars inquire of While happy little "Drat-you-Bab" words, Bay so," made him a writer. i Revere House, SLKKPY KYZ, MINN. and area marvel in some respects. To FractkwJ aad Analytical ClMenJata. Grant Co., Wis. &ing -kr bouttifuL^Jbiaak- Trao. CaONE.3, --Youth's Companion. JS -4M$f'"""" OLD BY ALL DRUGGIST* EVPLVWB^i 1