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RECREA TION. 



1899 Calendar. 



A handsome 1899 Calendar, in colors, is being issued 

 by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry. This calendar 

 has thirteen printings and is made by the patent transparency 

 process, producing a beautiful color effect, especially when 

 hung in the light. 



Design embraces a government mail pouch suspended 

 from a mail crane, finished with a pleasing color sketch at 

 bottom of hanger. Size of calendar, 14x20 inches. 



Sent to any address on receipt of eight cents in postage. 

 Ready for distribution December 15th. To insure getting a 

 copy send in your order now to 



A. J. SMITH, Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, Cleveland, O. 



HAVE YOU VISITED 



THE ADIRONDACK^ 



IN WINTER? 



If you need a bracing, dry air, filled With 

 the healthful odor of the balsam and the fir, 

 you will find it at Saranac Lake — only twelve 

 hours from New York or Buffalo, by the 



NEW YORK CENTRAL, 



"America's Greatest Railroad."" 



An illustrated descriptive book, containing a large 

 map of this region, will be sent to any address on receipt 

 of a two-cent stamp, or a folder for a one-cent stamp, 

 by George H. Daniels. General Passenger Agent, 

 Grand Central Station, Rew York. 



I gave the following mixture to my fine 

 English pointer, for bloody dysentery, and 

 it cured him in 48 hours: 



Salicylic acid (true wintergreen) . . 3 ss. 



Prepared chalk grs.xx. 



Zinc sulph. carb grs. v. 



Camph. tr. opium 3 ij- 



Cinnamon water (strong) q. s. ad. § ij. 



Shake well and give 1 teaspoonful in milk 

 2 or 3 times a day. Keep the dog abso- 

 lutely quiet. This will cure any form of 

 diarrhoea or dysentery. 



The dog had been sick 2 months and 

 various dopes had been given him but still 

 he grew worse until he became a skeleton 

 and virtually about dead. 



J. H. Lowrey, M.D. 



" Ten soldiers bit the dust," but that 

 Need cause you no surprise; 



The dust they bit they found within 

 Some armor plated pies. 



— Baltimore American. 



Teacher — Can you tell me the cause of the 

 daybreak? 



Smart Pupil — I fancy it's caused by the 

 night fall. 



Grandpapa — And why do you believe lit- 

 tle George Washington never told a story? 



Madge — 'Cos I'd be smacked if I didn't. — 

 Punch. 



