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LIFE, HEALTH AND OUR MILK SUPPLY —The leading article is 
of vital importance to all. 
THE REVOLUTIONIZING TROLLEY Opens your eyes to the 
growth of the steamroad s wonderful rival. 
THE MEXICAN WAR —The battle of Buena Vista and Wool s campaign. 
“THERE SHE BLOWS P-A narrative of present-day whaling. 
JOHN BULL’S BREAD BASKET. Other great articles and stories by 
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THE CALL OF ANOTHER WORLD-Wh ich will astonish every one 
who has asked himself if Mars is inhabited. 
Another article on THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORTATION 
will consider recent inventions in motive power. The Brennan mono-rail 
system will be discussed at length. 
There will he a great medical article which will make you think, if you 
have ever employed a physician. The continuation of THE MEXICAN 
WAR will take up the conquest of New Mexico and California. There will 
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of work, estimates that $3,000 worth of 
timber for ties can be raised on'one acre. 
I he red gum will be planted, as this, 
as well as the sugar and iron bark varie¬ 
ties of eucalyptus, has been shown by 
experiments in Australia to last more 
than twenty-five years under ground, 
while the blue gum will not last more 
than three years under ground. The 
seeding will be done during the winter, 
and the seedlings for the first year’s 
planting are now in preparation. About 
3,000 boxes of small seedlings are 
required .—The Railroad Gazette. 
BOGUS ANTIQUES MADE BY PRISON 
LABOR 
r T A HE royal British antiquarian and 
A archaeological societies have 
lodged a petition with Lord Salisbury 
protesting against the peculiar form of 
prison labor in Egypt since the Khedive’s 
penitentiaries and jails have been under 
English management. It seems that the 
convicts, of whom there are twelve 
hundred in the Jourah Prison alone, 
are employed in manufacturing bogus 
antiques, for which there is reported to 
be a large market, especially in America. 
The petitioners declare that the for¬ 
geries are so clever as to be scarcely dis¬ 
tinguishable from the real article. As 
yet only antiques of relatively small 
dimensions have been produced, but the 
prison authorities express the hope of 
being able in course of time to turn out 
full-fledged mummies and sarcophagi. 
The scientific societies in England point 
out with some degree of justice that while 
this form of prison labor may have com¬ 
mercial advantages it practically renders 
the British Government a party to fraud. 
-N. T. Tribune. 
“STATUARY” AS DEFINED BY THE 
PRESENT TARIFF 
/ T V HE attention of officers of the cus- 
toms has been called to the fact 
that under the new tariff act the term 
statuary” includes only such statuary 
as is cut, carved, or otherwise wrought 
by hand from a solid block or mass of 
marble, stone, or alabaster, or from 
metal, and is the professional produc¬ 
tion of a statuary or sculptor only. 
Under this provision bronze statues or 
statuary is dutiable at the rate of forty- 
five per cent ad valorem under the section 
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