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Queen Victoria’s New Year’s gifts to the 
poor of Windsor included a thousand prime 
joints of beef and a hundred tons of coal. 
CONGRESSMAN S. S. Cox (Sunset), of New 
York, is dangerously ill, caused by sleeping in 
a damp room. Reports this morning favor¬ 
able. 
General W, R, EIazen, Chief Signal Offi¬ 
cer, IT. S. A., died in Washington, Sunday, 
after a brief illness. Born in West Hartford, 
Vt., in 1830, aud was educated at West Point. 
He rendered valuable service in Indian cam¬ 
paigns in the war of the rebellion, aud 
was appointed Chief Signal Officer in 188ft. 
Prof. Ferdinand V. Hayden, an eminent 
geologist of the United States Geological Sur¬ 
vey, has resigned, owing, he says, to contin¬ 
ued ill-health, with no prospect of permanent 
recovery. Prof, Hayden is the founder of the 
United States Geological Survey of the Terri¬ 
tories. 
The American, Sproule, who was bunged 
for murder in British Columbia last Septem¬ 
ber, has now been proven innocent beyond a 
doubt, and an action has been entered by his 
administrator against the Province for $50,- 
000. Our Government interceded in vain for 
a commutation of Ins sentence. 
Thomas Jefferson Cluvkkiuk, a dccen- 
dant from President Tyler, was hauged at 
Richmond, Va., Friday, for the murder, in 
1885, of Miss Lilian Madison, a direct descend¬ 
ant of President Madison. Since his condem¬ 
nation hereeulean efforts were made to secure 
another trial or u commutation of sentence. 
The German Emperor now obeys the direc¬ 
tions ot his physicians more than over liefore. 
For tin* first time since childhood he has taken 
to sleeping in a warm room, and he takes 
food, generally beef tea, eggs and wine or 
coffee and isinglass, every two hours during 
the day. He has almost entirely given up the 
dishes lie used to be so fond of, such as lob¬ 
ster, crawfish, veal stewed with cloves and 
cinnamon and Sponge cake soaked in rum. 
Henry M. Stanley, of the “Dark Conti¬ 
nent,’’is about to start at the head of an ex¬ 
pedition of t,00l) men—eight whites, the rest 
black**—to rescue Emir Bey. u brave German 
soldier, whom the heroic Gordon appoint.^! 
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NAL AND PRACTICAL HOUSEKEEPER , Expi'essly for the Subscribers of that, paper. 
-r.- '•Mu I "' .; ! ts> We are well aware that this outfit contains a 
m yc ’ X-X-'X'- nrl] A l ~ less number of patterns than those described in flash 
Sl X 11 IM lr' 0)1/*' -1 ,» advertisements, hut our aim has been to produce an 
-X mill ( I outfit evert pattern of which will be ttabful, in- 
V^ -' _ ■ — _ ■ t 1. atcad or havingauimmense immfier of worthless bugs 
an< ^ butterflies, so crowded together on a single sheet 
to '• impossible to use tliem. 
- The outfit contains patterns for every branch of 
-vt —— - “xSv S' needlework and flower painting, and every pattern 
~j - —- — • w w/,Y, V» r ‘ is the fi ll work i no size. The several Flannel 
?=sLr-ih- a.) GDiiiD b I '—"9=^-1 Skirt, patterns arc each long enough to stump a 
'-OESN-X- - J breadth of flaunel at once with,mi removing the pat- 
|A L X lii*t ,i |T ite'[mil II | i|| 111' I,: ' iff c(t- - J tern, and t he .scallops have the eornei - turned. 
i \Y\C ilSlSllllH ii'iJ I 111 II ilf XaljJ fr The outfit contains (new) a hentlful Spray of Roses 
a Vll V jJ ’■ ■ j I'iy.l I ttXrr^ 1 ^ ' ------ . fft wide enough for theenil-tif a Table-cover, ah entirely 
I 'I m/ X?; X;r:I new design for Tinsel work, several bouquets. each 
’ v ( X “ long enough for the corner of nTablc-spreau or a Tidy, 
" *-~- ami the alphabet is large enough for Towels, Napkins, 
™ Handkercutefis *>r Sat-Tmnds. ~ - 
mpanied by directions for doing stampinu nr Parker’s new patent method wittioot taint or powder. This outfit 
lias no tidy or silk or such things. The value is in tiie patterns, which Mrs. Knapp has designed expressly for this out- 
rom no other source. The outfit is worth for actual use. double any 41.00 outfi r In re to fore offered bv anv one in the 
a contract for 50,000 of these outfits to be delivered during this season, and shall GIVE THEM AWAY RIGHT AND LEFT 
order will not last us long, as every one of the fifteen or twenty million ladies in the country will want one. 
Iiousmids upon thousands . f requests we have had for better patterns, than contained in the cheap outfits offered in flash ad- 
n* Indies of this country have had enough of them. In order to meet this long-felt want. Mrs. Louisa Knapp, editor of the L. 
Itfit of original patterns, every one of which is large enough for practical Use. .Sin* has discarded the tidy, silk, and all the 
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