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FOREST AND STREAM. 



Starting a Boy.— A lonesome-looking 

 boy was yesterday banging around a wood- 

 yard in' the northern part of the city, when 

 the owner of the yard, having both charity 

 and philanthropy for boys with tears in their 

 eyes, asked the lad why he didn't peddle 

 apples or do something to earn a few shillings. 

 The boy replied that he had no capital, and 

 the wood-yard man took out a nickel and 

 said : 



"Now, my boy, I'm going to start you in 

 life. Take this nickle and go and make a 

 purchase of something or other. I'll buy it 

 of you for ten cents, no matter what it is. 

 Come, now, let's see what sort of a business 

 head you have on you." 



The boy took the nickel and went off, but 

 m ten minutes was back with a gallon jug 

 *vbich he had purchased with the nickel. 



"Well, you are a keener," replied the 

 wan. "I never saw one of those sold for 

 Jess than fifteen cents to any one. I want 

 such a jug, and here's its fair price. Go now 

 and lay out your fifteen cents in apples and 

 I'll buy half your stock." 



The boy did not return. Perhaps he fell 

 into a sewer somewhere ; but you can't make 

 the wood-yard man believe so. When he 

 lifted the jug frohl under the tab:e where the 

 boy had carefully placed it he found a hole 

 in the bottom large enough to let in a black 

 and tan t'ar'WT.- Detroit Free Press. 



A Valt.ey Desolation. — A spot almost as 

 terrible as the prophet's valley of dry hones 

 lies just north of the old Mormon road to 

 California, a region thirty-six miles long, by 

 thirty broad, and surrounded, except at two 

 points, by inaccessible mountains. It ie to- 

 tally devoid of water and vegetation, and the 

 shadow oE bird or wild beast never darkens 

 its white glaring sands. The Kansas Pacific 

 railroad engineers discovered it, and also 

 some papers which sho <v the fate of the lost 

 Montgomery train, which came south from 

 Salt Lake in 1850, guided by a Mormon. 

 When near Death's Valley, they came to the 

 conclusion that the Mormons knew nothing 

 about the country, eo they appointed one of 

 their number a leader, and broke off from the 

 party. The leader turned due west ; so with 

 the people and wagons and flocks he traveled 

 threk days and then descended into the broad 

 valley, whose treacherous mirage promised 

 water. They reached the centre, but only 

 the white sands, bounded by scorching peaks 

 met their gaze. Around the valley they 

 wandered, and one by one the men died, and 

 the panting flocks stretched themselves in 

 death under the hot sun. The children, cry- 

 ing for water, died at their mother's breasts, 

 and with swollen tongues and burning vitals 

 the mothers followed. Wagon after wagon 

 was abandoned, strong men tottered and 

 raved and died. After a month's wandering, 

 a dozen survivors found some water, in a hol- 

 low of a rock in the mountain. It lasted but 

 a short time, when all perished but two, who 

 escaped out of the valley and followed the 

 trail of their former companions. Eighty 

 seven families with hundreds of animals, per- 

 ished there, and now, alter twenty-seven 

 years, the wagons still stand complete and 

 the iron works and tires are bright and the 

 shriveled skeletons lie side by side. 



Tiffany & Co., 



UNION SQUARE, 

 NEW YORK. 



Send on request designs, esti- 

 mates and particular informa- 

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 are organized with reference 

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 having a distinctive character, 

 and persons wishing to have 

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 mines in which they are inter- 

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THE LAST AUCTION SALE THIS SEA- 

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Ail business promptly attended to. Novs 



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GUNS, PISTOLS, SPORTING GOODS, 



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Rifle, Sporting and Blasting 



Powder. 



THE MOST POPULAR POWDER IN USE 



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Nos. 1 (fine) co 6 (coarse). In 1 lb. canisters am. 

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 guns. 



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^IFfi, FFG. and " Sea Shooting " FG, in hogs M S8, 

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at our office 



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