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We are alvvay.s glad to send sample 
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names of those likely to be interested. 
The fraud, ]i. M. Gibbs, of Kalamazoo, 
Mioh., has sold out (so he says), to C. H. 
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sendsout tlie same snide preparation, and 
defraud publishers, they too will soon 
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the expense of a postal note — use stamps 
and send them on at once. 
Col. Goss of Topeka, Kan., has recent- 
ly returned from jNlexico. lie dropped 
in upon us the other day and gave us th(> 
pleasure of shaking his hand. The ( Jol. 
is a highly interesting conversationalist 
and we ti'ust he will call again whenever 
the opportunity oflers. 
Ouii friend E. L. Brown, formerly of 
Durand, Wis., but now of W'ari-eii, 
Minn., has just retui-ned from a two 
months'' trip in the Kainy River country. 
1-le reports plenty of Taxidermal work, 
but thinks Snowy Owls scarce, having" 
obtained only four all winter. He says: 
"Have had a number of Great Grey and 
Hawk Owls, and Great Horned Owls till 
you can"t rest." 
He expects to make a canoe tri[) down 
the Rainy River next summer. 
We quote the following from Plain 
TaUc's Philately di'partnient conducted 
by Alvah Davison. We commend the 
item to the readers of The Naturalist: 
"Does every Teadei' of a paper always read 
the advertisements? This is a question 1 
liave often thonijht over, and I want to say 
right here tliat if yon don't read them, you 
miss one-half of the good In a paper. To ad- 
vertise costs money and plenty of it, and as 
muehit not more tiineis spent on the adver- 
tising- pasfi^s, than on the reading-. An ad- 
vertiser doesn't take spaee in a jiaper nuless 
lie knows he has something which the pnblic 
wants and each reader is a part of the public, 
so tln-y are inserted for your benefit, and if 
you will always look them over you will llnd 
innch in them to interest j-ou." " 
Froji a personal acquaintance with 
many of our younger readers, and being- 
interested in their welfare, we can not re- 
frain from publishing- the followingi 
from the Rew York Medical World. 
which we trust they will read and iict 
upon at once : 
"In an experimental observation on thirfv- 
eight boys of all classes of society, and of 
average health, who had been useing tobacco 
for pei-iods ranging- from two months to two 
\-ears, twenty-seven showed severe injury 
to the constitution and insutlicient growtti, 
thiny-t wo showed the e-xistance of irregu- 
bii ii y of 1 he heart's action, disordered stom- 
aclis, CDUglis, and a craving- for alcohol, thir- 
teen had intermitta ncy ot t lie Jjulse, and one 
had consumption. After they had abandon- 
ed the use of toliacco, within si-\ months 
one-hall were free from all Iheii- former 
symptoms, and the remainder had recovered 
by the end of the year." 
The Exposition. 
We have hearcl considerable about the 
Kansas City Exposition. jNIuch to its 
credit and, also, from a scientific stand- 
poinr, much to its shaine. This neigh- 
borhood is one of the ricliest fossil fields 
in the world. Manj' species are found 
here, as yet unknown to science and un- 
identilied. Among our 2(Mi,l)(.lO inhabit- 
ants are numerous valuable at]d exteii- 
si\-e collections, not only of fossils, bu^ 
birds' eggs and other naiural liistoi-y ob- 
jects. Local coliectors have, from time 
to time, been induced to make displays at 
the Exposition. This they have done at 
considerable labor and expense, and 
■■vhen awarded suitable premiums, have 
felt satisfied, believing llieir wovk ap- 
preciated, even though till' am't of the 
preniitun did not begin to eo\-er their in- 
dividual expense. Yet. when tin; man- 
agers ])ositively refused to pay these 
well earned premimiuns. tlieir feelings 
of satisfaction have turiuMl to disgust, 
with the result that last year there was 
no Zoological, 15(jtanical or Mineralogic- 
al dis|.ilay, and excepting the Journal's 
Economic. Sidney J. S.'uinh's fossil, and 
T. J. Tidswell's At eliicological s[ieei- 
mens, there was mithing to iiiterest 
naturalists or the hundreds and hunilreds 
of other people similiai l^- interested. 
y.o\\ this is not as it shoidd be. With 
a manager of ability, one ]>ossessed of 
liberal views, and faxuralily inclined to- 
wards the naturalist, Kansas City Expo- 
sition might, this fall, have a Natural 
History display of great credit to its- 
self and this city — one th it would at- 
tract scientists fi-om all parts of tlie 
j Union, and tliat would l)e ;i leading figure 
j in bringing lai-ge ci-owds on the iniuier- 
ous excursion trains tliat could be run 
here from the siH-iounding towns and 
cities. \Ve trust that the president of the 
boaril, Mr. James Goodin will see to it 
that no high salaried manager secures the 
appointment this year unless he can show 
his abilities from past i-e.-tdts, and is at, 
acknowledged friend of the naturalist. 
Eag-le Frozen Two Years. 
A Golden Eagle, freshly killed, was 
placed in the cold storage of the Mechan- 
ical Refrigerating Company two years 
ago. We took it out a few days since 
and mounted it. it had remtiined frozen 
solid during the time; upon thawing, the 
feet and head were found to be some- 
what dry, otherwise it a|)pe;ji-ed the 
same is if it had only been in a short time. 
— 0. & 0.. Boston. 
"Who ever heard a whale's hluhh^r^^ 
Did you ever see a cow-;aV?<;? Have 
you ever seen a hor^Q-fly ? 
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Ave should thiidc, he at a loss to deciele 
1 as to the inspirationallity. 
"We have not the space to speak of this 
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Spiritualism or not, read for them- 
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Growing and shipping oysters is be- 
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Jt has been calculated that not less 
than iO.OOU.OOO of meteors, each large 
enough to be visalde as a "shooting star" 
enter our atmosphere daily. 
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