JAN. 24 
©OSE’S 8UBAL NEW-YORKER. 
NEWS CONDENSES. 
— American cranberries are to grace Vic¬ 
toria's table. 
— Preparations are making to celebrate Mardl 
Gras at Chicago. 
— English railway travelers are forming a 
protection society. 
— Women are elected members of school 
boards in England. 
— It is proposed in England to construct an 
eighty ton rilled gun. 
— The President of the Swiss Republic re¬ 
ceives £1,0(10 a year salary . 
— New York State has83,000 of its citizens 
under sentence for felonies 
— Australia the largest island in the world, 
covers 8,000,000 square miles. 
— Seventy-eight American theaters have been 
burned in less than os many years. 
— One of the assistant clerks of the Illinois 
House of Representatives Is a woman. 
— There are said to be five living female poets 
in Rhode*Island, who are all unmarried. 
— The highest carriage-road In Europe Is 
Stelvio Pass, in the Alps—9.100 feet high. 
— The high price of coal In England has led 
to the active working of the Trish coal-fields. 
— Colored persons are excluded from the 
grange movement in Maryland and Virginia. 
— The ret iring Boston School Hoard last week 
abolished corporal punishment in the High 
Schools. 
— Germany is constructing a number of iron¬ 
clad gunboats, for the protection of the Rhine 
frontier. 
— The cost of the London Underground Rail¬ 
way, for building and equipment, was £1,000,000 
per mile. 
— China proper contains nearly one-third of 
the human race, and is the most densely-peopled 
region of t he world. 
— The Rowing Association of American Col¬ 
leges will hold its annual meeting at Hartford, 
Wed need ay, Jan. 21. 
— A funeral of 30,OOO^persons recently followed 
the remains of an Indian princess, in Cashmere, 
who died of smallpox. 
— It Is probable either Saratoga or Troy will 
be chosen as the scene of the inter-collegiate 
boat-race next summer. 
— A street boy in New York City found dia¬ 
monds worth $3,500, restored them to the owner, 
and got the reward of $5Qu. 
— In the California Legislature a Hill has 
been introduced for the abolition of the death 
penalty for murder and treason. 
— The Northern Pacific Railroad Company 
claim 2,178,000 acres of land in Washington and 
Oregon, and 5,129,000 in Dakota. 
— There are 2,050 school districts in Pennsyl¬ 
vania with 10.305 schools, 19.089 teachers, and an 
average attendance of 511,418 pupils. 
— The Pennsylvania Senate has passed unani¬ 
mously a resolution that all legislation shall be 
in accordance with the new constitution. 
In Illinois and Indiana the Jury in criminal 
cases declares what the penalty shall be- 
wliether hanging or imprisonment for life. 
-The Danlelsonville, Conn., temperanco or¬ 
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— Resolutions have been adopted by t he Vir¬ 
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Amendment and protesting against the Civil 
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— A recent writer mi Persia represents the 
people as much more energetic than those of 
Turkey, and more ripe for Improvement and 
civilization. 
A petition of prominent colored citizens of 
Richmond, Va., asking that colored men be 
put on juries when colored criminals are to be 
triend, was denied by Judge Gulgon. 
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To the Boys and Girls 
of America! 
I have the pleasure to inform you that 
seeing how much you all admire Jack 
Harkaway and his adventurous career, I 
have, ab a very great outlay, induced the 
Author of that capital story to take up his 
residence m America, and write exclusively 
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Weekly, 
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only in my publications. 
You will read with delight, I am sure, 
the following from the pen of this favorite 
Author, 
“Jack Harkaway." 
To the Boys and Girls 
of America! 
M1 ” YO J ’ NG Ell LENDS ; 
For fiown turn' past T have been 
fortunate enough. to write, stories 
whfc'h bare, met your approval. 
In hi a usual spirited fnama r, Mr. 
FRANK L ESLIF has made ar¬ 
range meats with me to continue 
“Jack Harkaway,” “ The Scape- 
grace of the Schoolf etc., and f shall 
mar hare the pleasure of in.traducing 
your favorites to your notice, in A mer- 
ica, ! confidently hope you will like 
them as well on, the free soil of Vid 
United States as yon have done in 
t/u Old Gauntry, 
/ shall render their adventures in 
the great He,public, thrilling, interest 
hay and laughable, duel .Harkaway 
under the Stars and Stripes will be (la 
sana lamest , straightforward , rollick¬ 
ing hero that you hare, qven at school , 
at sea, at the Fniversity of Oxford , 
and among the desperate brigands of 
Italy j but / guess that in America 
la wilt fairly surpass all that he has 
done before, and you will say that 
“Jack Harkaway in America ” 
is the boy for your money, and that, 
no one can beat him for frolic and 
adventure. 
At the same time, the story which 
commences in No. 87!) of FRANK 
LESLIE'S HOYS' & GIRLS' 
WEEKLY will point a moral for 
all readers to follow, as it is my pur¬ 
pose to instruct US well as amuse those 
of my young friends who give me 
their support ; and f ask you all to 
look out for the grand new story of 
“Jack Harkawa^in America,” 
which will positively appear ONLY in 
Frank Leslie’s Boys’ & Girl’s’ 
Weekly. 
Your sincere, friend, 
Bracebridge Hemyng. 
(Jack Harkaway.) 
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American Practical Cookery. 1 7f, 
American Rose Guitarist. !(j 
American 81 ,audard of Bxcollsnoe In Poultry.. [.0 
American Wheat rntturist (Todd). ? no 
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Atwood’a Country and Suburban Houses. 1 fu 
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Bement’s Rabbit Fancier. 30 
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Bummer's Method of Making Manures. 25 
Breck s Book of Flowers (new). 1 75 
Hrldgeman's Gardener 1 * Ambulant. 2 50 
Bulsr.’a Fatally Kitchen unrdener. 1 00 
Do. Flower Garden. 1 50 
Carpentry Mudu Easy (new). 5 00 
Chemistry of the Farm iNlohols). 1 $ 
Charlton’* Grape Grower’s Guide. 7;. 
cider Maker's Manual.. 1 jjj 
Clater’s New III. Cattlo Doctor,colored plates,,. 0 00 
Oobbett a American Hardener. 75 
Cole’s American Fruit Book . .. 75 
Cole’s American Veterinarian. 75 
Cotton Culture (Lymans,).!.!. l fin 
Crunk Bhnt (Barber).1 75 
Cranberry Culture (J. J. WliWe). 1 25 
Dadd’s American Cuttle Doctor.. 1 50 
Do Modem Horne Doctor...... 150 
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Darwin’* VurUtl.ins uf Animals and Plants'.'.!...' it no 
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Drainage for Profit, and Health. 1 50 
Dyer und Color Maker's Companion .. 1 25 
Eastwood'*Cranberry Culture.. 75 
Elliot's Lawn and Fhadi: Trees.. 1 fib 
Everybody’s Lawyer... 2 (XI 
Every Wdmun Her Own K'lower Gardener (now). 
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Farm Drainage HI. F. Flench)..1 MJ 
Farm Implements and Machinery (J. J. Thomn*) 1 no 
Field’s Pear Culture .. 1 : ;s 
Fishing In American Waters (fieotti. 3 Id 
Flint on Grasses . .. 2 50 
Do. Milnh Cows and Dairy harming..!!.. 2 m 
Forest Tree* (Bryant). 1 ,,j 
Frank Forrester's Field Sports 12 vols.). fl id 
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Fuller'* Illustrated Sttiiwburry Cultnrlst. 
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Do. Binull Fruits (Illustrated).,.. ; 
Fulton’s Peach Uultum. A Hand-Book a;.,) 
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Gardening lor Profit (F, Henderson).' i ul 
Gardening Tor the eolith (White's);. 2 GO 
Grape Clilturlst (A. 8. Fuller)...., . 1 kj 
Gray's Manualor Botany and Lessons... ,1 ifl 
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Do. Introduction to Structural and 8y*tematio 
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Guenon on Milch Cows. 75 
Gun, Rod anil Saddle.. 1 513 
Harney's Burns, Outbuildings and Fences,. 10 id 
Harris on Insects... .. 4 qq 
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Hatfield’s American tloune Carpenter. H Wj 
Hints to Horse Keeper* (Herbert's). 1 75 
High Farming without Manure... 3, 
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Holly’s Carpenter'll Hand Book (new). 7n 
Hooper’s Dog and Gull. ; 
Heopes' Book of Evergreens. 3 1,11 
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Husmann's Grapes and Wine.. j 50 
Indian Corn ; liu Value. Culture and Dues. 1 WJ 
Jennings on Cattle and their Diseases. 1 70 
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Johnston's Agricultural f lienilsbrv. 1 , 
Do. Elements Agricultural Chemistry. ] 
Kemp’s Landscapo Gardening... ;> 
Ijiingstruth on the Hive and Honey Bee.’ 2 (;( 
Lewis’ American fiportsmau. 2 ,5 
Lightning Rods, and Hew to Ct nktriict Them, 
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Manual on Flax and Homp Culture.. 2 j 
Manual of Tobacco (11 Inim.. . 25 
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Mayhew’s Illustrated Horse Management. 3 00 
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Median ic’d Companion (Nicholson). 3 00 
Mechanics fur Millwrights, MacUinUts and others 1 50 
Miles on Home s Foot (cloth).. 76 
Modern Cookery (by Miss Aotou and Mrs. ft. J. 
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McClure's Diseases of Horse, Cattle and Sheep. 2 UO 
Money 111 the Garden, by P. T, . 1 fin 
Norrl*’ Fish Culture.... . .j 75 
Norton’s Elements Boluntiaa Agriculture. 75 
Onion Culture . .. 20 
Our F’ann of Four Acron ..| 30 
Pardee on hirawberry Culture. % 
Parsons on the Rose . ' 1 35 
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Practical Poultry Keeper (L. Wright). 2 W) 
Practical Shepherd Hlundail). 20c 
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Ouiucy on Soiling Cattle. 1 26 
Randall's Finn Wool Bheett Husbandry. 1 WJ 
no. Sheep Husbandry in the South...,. 1 jo 
UloburdsoD on the Di g... ,50 
Saunders' Domestic Poultry. tfl 
Kchcnck’s GardcncrH’ Text-Book. 75 
Korlbner’s Produce Tables. wj 
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Tegetmeior s Pigeon Book (colored plates). 5 00 
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Trout Culture idetii Green). . 11*1 
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Wiring's Elements of Agriculture." 1 no 
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Wax Flowers, and How tu Make Them.' 2 DO 
Western Fruit Grow ers’ Guide (KWlott). 1 68 
Wheeler’s Homes for the People..,.. 3 00 
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Window Gardening (H. T. Williams).. ICO 
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