RANDOM NOTES ON NATURAL HISTORY. 



FOR DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL EXHAUSTION, 

 NERVOUSNESS, DIMINISHED VITALITY, ETC., 



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Indigestion and Constipation, In Seasickness and Sick Headache, 



In Inebriety, Despondency, and Cases of Impaired Nerve 



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BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. 



The New Orleans Exhibition. 



Probably all of our readers are aware 

 that the United States Congress appropri- 

 ated $1,000,000 for the purpose of assisting 

 the State of Louisiana to inaugurate and 

 cany on for six months a grand exposition 

 of the manufactures and natural products 

 of the world, to be called the " World's In- 

 dustrial and Cotton Centennial P^xposition," 

 to be opened in December, 1884, at New 

 Orleans. A most fitting celebration in 

 honor of the increased production of cotton 

 in America during the past decade. In 1 784 

 America exported six bags of cotton, and 

 now we find reported a supply- of 3,405,000, 

 000, or 85 per cent, of the production of 

 the world. 



We have been for the past two months in 

 constant receipt of varying reports regard- 

 ing the financial condition and success of 

 the fair, the insufficient accommodations^ 

 bad management in some departments, bad 

 weather, deep mud, etc. Many of the exhibi- 

 tors were late in applj-ing for space, and it 



seems also possible that the managers of the 

 affair did not at first realize the magnitude 

 of their undertaking ; but in spite of all 

 drawbacks a most notable exposition is well 

 under wa}'. 



Having accepted the office of Commis- 

 sioner of Rhode Island, Mr. Arnold B. Chace 

 proceeded promptly to develop the resources 

 of our little state, and her exhibit was in a 

 very complete condition on the opening day. 

 About the middle of July Mr. Chace dele- 

 gated to our firm the arrangement of the 

 Zoology and Mineralogy of the state. The 

 time was short and much of the material 

 scattered abroad and to be collected. With 

 considerable misgivings we set about it, and 

 on the fifteenth of November we shipped to 

 New Orleans twenty-five large cases of goods 

 in charge of Mr. Hermon C. Bumpus, of 

 Brown University, and to his energ}' we are 

 indebted for the fact that our exhibit is re- 

 ported as having been the first one that was 

 absolutely in order in the Government and 

 State Building. 



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