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VOL. XI.] WINNSBORO, S. C.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1876. IN(. 4, THE 1F A 111 1 Ei D~ 11S R lif LI) I n P UOtf i s itll w1 KK F .Y f y WVI L LIAM S&OA V1IS. ?,;rms.-The //RRA /t/) is piublished Week y in the Town of' Winnsboro, at $3.00 n ariabluy in advance. q y- All iriunient a4vertlisnseent to be 1'.41 ) IN .4 / V.- A'CA. O('iiaary Noiloos and Tributes $1.00 per 1 quare. WhoInvontod the Cotton Gin. T he Angusta Cosiuinls of Wedocnesdaly conta~ins some interes~t ing statements concorning the first invention of the cotton gin, fortified by a let ter from Col. Janies 11. Aiken, 'of 'Winntsboro, in this state. Whit oiey has' the credit of the invention, and the citizens of New Haven, Connecticut, his native place, have long sinco erected a nonuncnt to his memory. He was iL school teacher in the neigihborhood of Au .gusta, and of evenings, while board ing around among his scholars, no ticed the slow process of soparating the lint from the seeds by the mein 'bersof the families where he chanced to be. It was the custom in those days to pick the cotton sed out with thie fingers, and each person had his little pile warming before the fire, to make it easier to pick. Whit ney undertook sene experiments to quicken this work and do it by m.,l (hinery, which are thus described in1 our AIgus4tL contemporary His first efo'rt was to perforate the bottom of an old tin coffee-pot wlith a nail, nad14 twirling it atrou nd, 'discovered that the "raggedl edges" .eizod lhold and pulled the lint from the sed5, and right hore tho princi - pie WIas developed which has worked s4yh IL powerful indlenu.e in the history of civilization of the present century. A ftier fitrtherexperiments, lto made a gin, which contsistel of a cylinder of wood, in which were c driven iL aii mmber of spitcit. filed to 1 a point an d slightly crooked at the end--and atfter boxin. it was t worked by a enk or hand plowe.e I &eng that it was a success, hie made still f1urther improvements, and put i up the first gin in 173, at whiout isne Joowvn Phinizy'sPndabu on mile below this city. f Col Aiken noticing that Mr. W. I Herring, of Augutita. hadl advertised I for ant original "-Whitney cotton gin," in order to exlhiiit it, nt bIho Centennial, ,sent himl the curious let ter which we copy below. Witt it wts enclosed an aneient doctunent signed by George Wiishingtoi Pres ident of the United States : Timothy.; JPickering, Secretary of State, and Charles Lee. Attorney General, granting to Hogden Holmes. a citi - zen of Augusta, letters patent for 1 a "machine for ginning cotton" for fourteen y'ear's fr'om the 19th April 1791. printed on paI'ehiment and dated 12th May, 1796. Mir. Aiken gives the history of that paper as follows : Hogdeu Holmes, a native of Saot Jand, but a citizen of your own city ill 177'5, waIs the or'igina~l iniventor', and his miac'hine wasJ locd up in HabugS. C., when Whimtiey,I though the influence of a negro, got a diaa of it. It was then known as a "patent for taking burrs out of wool.' On this infringement Whit ney got a) patent, anid called it a miachine "'for' ginning cotton." This created a law suit in Georgia. In I the meanj1)timeC Hlohnies expended som11 $8,000 aui: died ins~olvenit. His suit waLs conltinueld to the United States, Court, and Whbitney sold4 his claim I to the State of South Carolina for 420,000. Hlolmies left b~ut 0110 heir and the| catse wats abandonedl. That lheir was my wife's mother, (the wife of Dr'. Wmt. C. Cloud, of Edgelield C. H.) Noone being left to prosecute the caso and 110 one able1( to c~ontenld *,against a state, a patent was taken inl 1795, and Col. Wim McCreight, of 2 Winnsbor'o, bought the exclusive right for twenty years, and did make Sand 9el11all the cotton gins furnished for the entire SotenStates upto the year 1818: I marriea the oldest d ~aughter of D~r. Cloud in 1837, and among the final oirocts of Hogdlen iolmues, whlich .had nlot b~een dis ~turbed10( for forty-two year's, I found 4'the parchmenlt (the letters patent) with a sp)read1-eaglo seal of beeswax '.on it, about four' inches in diameter, h''v i has long since crumbled inito 1 4ust. 'I might also add it is genuine inl vcry partIticlluar as compare~l'd with ~he CJongreuionalitJecordI in the United 'States Patont Otlligo (in d.4)by myself. T1hered is aL boo0k publiNhoed givinlg fulil historical record of' the inven - ion, jl and the law suit, (not very cr1editablhe to Whitney,) but the title ~-of which I now forget. It is thirty *~sears since I saw it iln the .librar'y of the South Carolina College. Your's truly, Jnma~ 1?. Amnt. .1. S.-Hlolmnes died albouit 1796, b~ut recoived the paltenlt before his death. After Holmes' death, 0only a few ginls wro' ma~nufaictud for sale in Augusta. J. R. A. It would be interesting to know hw much 'Whitney was indebted to Holmes, and to discover which was the first to conceive and carry out the idlea of machinery for ginning cotton. Accordin to the statement before us, the palim is duo rather to Holmii, who Was chiselled out of the olmnlunents and fame which he seems to have merited.- Columbia Rec'gisteA Wruptlon Of Vesuvius. Tiei raciat eritption of Vesuvius is doscrlhid citr nomething thrilling to behold. Aftoi' imanv false alarms and partial out l)reaks, the ancient mountain began to pour forth i stream of lavai, while an ilnelifo column taf milk-white vapor roitC high into the air, illumined magli. cently. it is said, by the fires which Were raging inl the crater beneati Quantities of stones, Cinledors, and sc(iiim were at the samo111 time ejoet ed during the next twenty-four hours, as though the subtaurranean furnaces that underlie the brim of the lovely Bay of Naples Wore being stoked by the fire-gnomes for a real ly grand outburst. The warning to the inhabitants Was given several weeks before, when a denso and rol ling volume of smoke arose from the volcano. Even then the ioln tain was trembling with the ilnor shocks aind noises which mostly pre, cede an outbreak, and near its top Fire could be seen luridly shining in the night fl om the mnally crivices, Emt of which exuded the mephitic mell of sulphurous gases. Yet, iotwithstanding all these tokens of :listlurbance inside the volcano, the synptoums appeared to have sub tided, and Vesuvius was thought to l ) settling down From time to ime after that there wore only dight relapses ; end the prosent )Lroxysl appears to have come on vith something like abruptness, vhich is one of the worst possible ;igns of its intentions which the olCiano ever gives. The terrible mitbreak of A. D. 70, which over whemClmed1 Pomp1eii, andl cost thme life )f the elder Pliny, began in the amue fashion, with a great cloud of white vapor suddenly ejected to ia ast height, lighted up by the fires )f the opening crater, and full of lack fragments and showers of corite. From his watch-tower near .he summit Professor Palmieri keeps n eye perpetually fixed upon the nountain, surronnded by cunning nstruiiments of all sorts, which en ble him to feel the pulse of Vesu 'ins, and generally to foretell a fever it in the capricious volcano. Its hangeful moods, however, frequent y deceive even this wuitehful seiti o1 of sciecaie. REMn:DY FoR SLEEI'L.FSNESS.-Many >ersons, from nervousness, fatigue, r mental excitement, are unable to leep. Mr. Frank Backland, an Cnglish naturalist, prescribes a very imple remedy for insomnia, or ;leephessness. The fact that. ol)iates, n any form, leave traces of their in hience the next morning, induced lim, he says, to prescribe for him ;elf, as he has also frequently pro ;eribed for others -- onions ; simply ommiloll raw onions. The well mon'wn taste of onions is (ue to a )eeuliar essential oil contained in lhew, and this oil has highly sopori lic p)owers, which, in his own case. %Ir. Biu.khau 1 avers, never fail ; if amehl pressed with work, and feeling in inability to sleep, his practice is to eat two or three small onions, 11ho effect of which is magical in prod1ucing the desired repose. Such t remedy has a great advantage over Lthe stupefying drugs commnonly re sorted1 to for this l1purpose A boy was asked which was the greattest evil, hurting an other's feel ings or his hinger. "Th'le feelings, he0 said. "Rlight, my dear child,' said the gratified priest: "aund w"hy is it worse to hinrt thei feeling's? "Because you c-ant tio a rag roundl them," exclaimed the child. J. B. Phillips, of Orwell, Ohio, is making a cheese which wvill not be cotmpleted u~ntil the twentieth of May, when it is expected to weigh 20),000) poundis. It is perhatps need less to say that it is destined( to as tonish the natives as well as the foreigners at the Ceniten nial "And this is the very room" said a country cousin, on b~eing' taken into Fancuil Hlall the other day, "ini which our forefathers met to unite against tyranny." "That sounds( weldl," said her city relative, rathier bored with sight seeing, "but thme fact is, this hall was built in 1808." There Were 7,740 failures in the Uniite'd Sttes in 1875, of which the gross liabilities wero $201,00,4563. Th'Iis is nearly triple the number of failures in 1871, and 2,000) more A young man at, Nashville killed himself because ho could not got anothor' man's wvife. Itis terrible to love somebody and see her washing windowsa for another man. "Science," says Dr'. Holmes, "is a good picce of furniture for a man to have in an upper chamber, provided lie bas c~itommo sense oni the girouind floor." The sum of $250,000 in fifty cent notes has b~eon forwarded by the Treasury tat Washingt<m to thme Fidelity Safe Deposit Company :of Philadelphia, on account of the Ceni tennial Board of Fhiance. Tbo Inotes are to be used as tickets of ad. mission to the Centennial grounds. Ing THE MONEY VALUE OF W1VFE. A Chinese Mandario's 31 ' h1 the n1 s Spouse of an Americanl M ti1tit at Puan Shanghai. hi From the Greeuwich .JelwTin' Some years since, whi-l tarryviig at Shanghai and Hong leotg, the c writer became acquainted with Mr. to King, hoed of the highly respectable firm of Messrs King & Co., doing to bulsitess ut Shanghai. Al Mr. King had recently returned nii fron a visit to the Jnitod $tates, where he had formed an alliance with a blooming young lady, daugh tor of a Presbyterian clergyman residing near Boston, who,' after h the nuptial ceremony had been per formed, aecompnuiied her lord to a- the Celestial eupire. On thoir way they stopped for a few days nt IC Hong Kong. After settling them-! elves in comfortable quarters, the couple were visited by a rich man darin. 'rhe latter regarded the el- lady very attentively, and seemed m- to dwell with delight upon her 31 imovemntts. g' When Mrs. King at length left e, the apartment he said to her hus to. band im broken English (worse than it. broken China): "What you give for t1 that wifey-wife of yours ?" "Oh," replied the husband, laughing at the singular error of his visitor, "ten 'l, t.iusand dollars." This the merchan t thought would appear* to the China man a high figure, but he was mistaken. "Well," said the mar darin, taking out his book with an air of businnss, "s'pose you give her to me ? I give you $15,000." It is diflicult to say whether King was m fore amazodi.~t than amuised ; but the . very grave and solemnti air of the Chinaman c'oivinced hii that he was in earnest, and was compelled, S therefore, to refuse the offer with u as much placidity as he could as sine. The nandarin, however, (e )cntinued to press the bargain, "I 've von twenty thousand dollars," n1 sa d "Von take 'ema T" Mr. King, who had no previous notion or thought of the Commerl eial value of the commodity which ho had taken with him on his busi ntess tour, was Compelled at length to inform his visitor that Americans were not in the habit of selling their wives after they had come in pos., csession of them, an assertion whicht the Chinnan was slow to believe. I It was Mr. King's custom, as s as of evriy ot -;- ave the clerks dine with them daily, after leaving their Chinese wives ein ejmd. Soon) .after' miy ariva':l at 41 Shanghai I was invited to dine ) with Mr. Ring. There were a few gentlemen and 73 of his clerks n seated at the t:ble. They were tll d well-dressed and genteel appearing young men ; tage wol imalginle thiemi to be gentlemen. dWhile seated at the dinner-table. Mr. King related the following niar -rative with great glee, laughing at his young and pretty wife, saying he had recently discovered her full s value, as he had l.'t offered $20,1000 for her, t very high figure, as wives were selling at that time, for the aiveratge price paid by the clerks for tin ordtinarly Chinese shop] s keeper's daulghiter was abiout $150, Litile pice beinig tagreed upon01 with tile parilents beCfore tile young peo1) pLe seeC each othet'. When initro rb dhuiced, if pleased(3( with each11 other, thle bairgaiin was a~t on(ce coniSmnt miated. It the wotani should p~rovet tanscendecntly beauitifuil the parents mih reev 5 more~ as5 enshmna or 15As soonl as he comes im possession of his wife 11e purnhallses or renits a hous, whichi, with aI liberal $nlh)y of i'cs ntand aiil few ar'ticles for enilinary purlposRes, sufliceis for a residence, whlich is kept tall neat and c lean as ai hound's tooth, the wife 'jdoing, h owever, her' own housework, washinig and1( ironling hier lord's as5 clothes, which are kep)t in perfect order. She~ is very dlomestic, seldom or' never seen upon the street ; and1 more trute and faithful iiwives niever e3xisted ; in fact they daiie niot b'e othlerwise, for thir par~ ents wold( chastise themti severely. he'i husband fteldomi takes a meal at tbhonme, te wife subsisting chiefly upon ie, tand the cost of her ward robe will not exceeed $20 per year. Mrs. King, being a conseientious and1( energetic lady. resolved to use every elort in her powver to br-enk up~l thle infamous trailie ini Chinese women ;h but beig ignornt of tho (lihit attant country, andi having isno baclkers,--h~er huisbaniid feeling an indliflrent,-failed in acconmplishinig of Iher meritorious object. As a laist .. resor't, she issued1 an1 ed(ict r'eqiinig 11d every~ one of her hiusbanid's clerks to abandon forthwith and turn off their Chinese wives or they wouldI of not lhe Suileredl to dine at the same of talble with her. Trho result cani us. Ieasily be imagined,, for on the fol melowing day not one of the clerks ng mado his ftppearance at thme allotted ,nd plc of business, which placed Mr. ov- King in an awkward position, is Ibloclung the wheels of his immense san business. The indiscretion of his wife came innear causing him munch trouble amid in nneessry xpeseand, strange is as it may appear, the clerks had the mr' sympathy of the whole community 'eaw ei Shanghai ; and, however huuih nating it mlighlt b)0 to Mrs. King. she A Cot1i1ion on Ship-uoard With Sail Diroollons. Allot Fanny writes to Applete Journul : Many years ago I I sailing over the broad Ocean on 1 Fourth of July. To please Ameican passengers, the captaiu a warms-hearted Seotoiian-drsi the ship with flags from stem litern. It was a magitificcnt da3 there Was not a broath of wind lift the semi transparent, gold, stained hracz inl the atmiosphere--t so the boatswail '"piiod all liant for a holiday frolic. The passengers piped thLemselv 'ild rushed ill ia body to see the of ca'rs act nn original play, in whi disguised as olophants, donkeys a other animals. they didl inconcei bly funnuy things. Then they gi a Concert a la negro minstrels, wi a world of natigal and char turistic huinor. And in what festi jolly spirits we got, to be sure 1 O of us, a bright, charming young f low, invited the whole ship-pass< gers, oflitors, crew, cook ands powd mionkey-to ia ball in the evenit ending in ia slupper at his Oxpes on condition that we would danco the tigures as lie called them of We were reiady at that loinont promise to dance on otr1 heads anything, aind looked on at a d tance with delightful anticipatic whilo he gave some mlysterious i structions toan old salt, which inelu ed some writing on his part and uir giggling on the part of the tar, wI walked ofl presently, loo king tickled as a little boy with a m kit(e. After tea the deck was cleared f wthion. The full moon "rode tlhrou; the heUaveLnsI without saddle or b l1e," ats Ia "horsy" passenger I n:rked. The capltain's "finely ch: "led eye winked serenely at the s pervision of law and order," ats 1 mateu r sculptor observed. T1 little, st11111py, old sailor, who oww : dilapidatod fiddle and was to c Lito music, broughlt out his Cremoi which whined and squealed to p fection as lie tried his hand at ti good old tume of "Monig Musl "Life Let Us Cherish," and - "Ti Dashing white Sergeant," and so Lter dancing began. But the figures ! Instead < 'right and left," etc., which fign: Aomlefnces a cotillion, our hor taught-by the old tar, yelled out th tiutical palal)hrasO: u d i e)gur~eige~tlpahs I h Lear up and get your head upon ti ather tack ; regain your herth < the port tack ; back aned fill wit your partner: box haul, and wei trould1 twice aginilst the sin in coI paly with the opposite craft, th< rour own, afterwari box haul m bring her rouindl to place." As we duncedC with the sailoi they kept us "to our hea'iigs." at we waited, mid shouts of laughte for the next figure, which everybot knows in the vernacular as "forwm two." "Shoot iheadl about two fathor antil you no:rly conic stein on wil the other draft under way, th< make stern board to your bortl side out for aL bend, first to starb'oar then to port ; maike sail and paI thme opplosite cralft, and get ye head rounid on the othier t .ek; other side out to starboar'd and poi Sien make all1 sail to regain yo berth ; wear round, bac~k and Ii a~nd b~ox-baul your partneri !" After this caOIUL "right armI aeromi whilch the ol talr translaited in "hleav'e ahead andIL pass the adv'ersa yardi arm1 to yard-arm," giving t whmole figure ieh droll dlirecti() that we were achlin~g with lLught< ending withm, "Regain your ber'th the best mneans possiblo, and let tihe anchor." The rest of the cotillion, giv wit~h sailing ordlers, was so riot 1l' funny that tho jig which emided was1i danLIced aIccord(ing to every on w~him, although the paraphrase w as good as it could be-coirmmenei with "Wear r'ound( to starbon~i p)assing under your partner's bov and1( sight the~ ca~theadsht of all I: crafts ;" and ending with "hox hi the whole squadron in the circul order of sailing" If to laugh is to grow fat, our in v'idual tonntage, that jolly Fom of July in the middle of Ihe occi ought to have been prodigion increased. T1hie sa~ilors grooetedl ev ligurio w'hith upr)1oaritmaK choers and "Yo-heav'e oh !" while we laugh till we could only gasp. ANDIRnmi,'s SOIIAP .lloOi~i.-.'I latecstestimiate of Vanderbilt's weaL places it atL $100,000,000, and it increasing every (day3. Thme old Im hals aL large library, whichi consiste scr'ap hooks pasted1 full of gove mont and1( other bonds. Hie cot buy out half of tihe crowned heL" of Europe. Nobody, not oven i self, known the exact figures his wealth. Ther'e is no danger his falling in tihe road so disastro lytrvee ioy Daniiel Drew, bCcl lhe is more careful about scattori his pr'omissory notes around, sticks rigidly to his library of g (ernmnent h)ond scrap books. He the richest man on thme Ameri conltinen3t. To b)0 at a party withi a cold your head, and no handkorchief, worse0 thlan sitting up with y< girl, and having the old lady pi quyt1W14 of' Childretn. "''Collier. have ej i got, any chuil (t'1t ?"' m'wkf(l nn urchlint of eigh1t IIt in mto (11' hea( .-e arisellH .1 iciil in thie 11ildo to (ld' abhout Lilltie A1144 '(as rr'intg l ii 1l 4rd ifl I ('titl ((Hoest U nl, ((Iiifcsi~o I to Jt'Qlhi ; re('C1i ved It Slapi fr'om ('lIc Of he'' Platy fICIJ) Wi-i ktI~l s;I iith1 I Ia e ret iIlled it," iiiiwiscliy f321id the fore,' sao~l rh o little gui. * !;4'* it( tli titonligltt Ivy hris si::te', Ilgef( sin. lainid to her, "'ls t (lt] at '(~ (1 manu . 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Ill /'U/1, l. t everywhere tne '10 ) ti1( Ic (14'111(1 aliitius tets IIP"l, I iftl) ! i; ! \'V ili(ter f um of ha l Hi) b.'oard f ti loii:i'(U1'1 \ciii]iitll l11t(1'(i1 cis lflit Ivr ll. dJo t11i(4t was obliged't'o reiscind lr edi t and when tVhe writer left 'lhagraiii the wheels of busines- were agaii in' motion, and everything went; 01 swimmingly. WASHINGTON ITEMS. The presideimt has vetoai ti hill recently p~assed rerteiigf( hik salary fre n $50,000 to a25,(i)0 The veto has been refitrred to t.he senate coltiittie on civil srvie. It seemTs to have been a decidea Rirlprise. In the court of impea(chmTein1t. as sembled for the trial of Ildkniiap. the late s'cretary of war, areply of the accused was r ead, sett.ig forth that at, the time of the com mission of the ants cons.itting the grounds of impeachment, he lal already censed to be an ofticer f the governient. After tPfme11 dir cussion the senate as a court of impenchmIent adjourned till the 27th inst. The bill defining the tas on malt. liquors Wts aiended, piss(l and sent to the house for concurrence. The hill providing for the ('coult ing of the presidential v, ate (aused( a long and warm dis(e'itssion. 'Ihe vote by which the bill was passed was reconsidered. The commtllittee on1 elletions! h1.< heard the final arguinotit in the ctaQs of Iuiitta vs. Macekev, from Sith Cuarolina, ind referred the ii atter t , i sub committee. The issue' of silver coin in ex 'hiange for tie lresent tractitoinl -urrency has begun, aind there is a oniistant st.reaum of pcople giO ing tIo Ahe treasury. The naval and post ofliee ap)Jro >riationis have been reduced $8,000,). )OO. A resolution waso introdn('d, iaving in VieW restrictions lpon the reat influx of Chinese to this onstry. A resolutiol Wts adopted by the mouse, providiinglg for an in vest iga. ion of certailn charges maude ini t he bewspapers agains3t Secretary 3ristow. The senate has passed i resolu iiin aut horizing the issue of arms ,o the Washington Light Inftntry. If Chrleston, S. C., aiO the Clinch .iles, of Augusta, (ia. In the senate ai bill authorizing ,to secretary of the treasury to irOsent from the Kheodivo of Egypt, VaM passed unanimounsly. 'I'le ewols hadu been in the New York t-stoimi-house for two years, and .hey werc about to he sold for h1itiecs. Ex-Attorney General Williams mns been examined by the .hose omimIittec onl oxpenditiurel in the lepartmlienlt, of justice, aid idlits o have paid to ia formier Unit 'l 3tat.es comiissioerll, out of the cret service fintd, 830.000 for doection plmrposes. Umn beinmg )ressled, lie ackio uiwledged that the noney was paid by the (irec 1 otr >f tie president. Young, of Tennessee, has intro Lluceed a resolution reiting the unsettled state of iiL.irs in Mlexico, mld the marny outrages thereQ(' comi alnitted u pon th1 e person s anid (lie property of Aimerican witize1ms livin g )tu tile Mexican frontier, Tho resolution reqjuests tihe presi(ien t to) hve sent to the d~ilsbe l calitieos such forces as will give full pro-- i tee3tioni to Amteiconi cit izens, and t.> diret the general oif .te armyf to pr~ceed in per ion toi the scene( (of trouble, and take such mueasures as maly be necessaryLV1 to mahuintnLin lp'e iindt proItecit the honor and (igni ty o~f the national g oivernmuen. . Troaeuteor Cardota says he wvill be Ible to pay during this mon11thl twoi thirds of the school mioney due the portionmen~lt, made(1 by Siiuerint emi lint Jillsoni. Th'is is weomie neows to the hlundreds of un lpaid tienebeirs who throxng thec land, is not generally known tihat the old hd famlous Waito Hamuplonl, of Soulth Cairolina, wasLI [bo11n inl Stokles Cotunty, N. C., on the farmt now "'Ma," said( at yoiung Brooklynite, us he stoodl before the Jlookinlg glass wrestling with a shirt colhir, "I shall be twenty-four y'ears old to-morrow, and( when 1 refleet, that I never yet hiad a shirt to fit meo inl the nek, it seems as if may life had been a failure." TheII mewl (wrote a schtool boy) is a larger bird than the guise or turkey. It has two legs to walk with, and two more to kick with; and it wears its wings on the side( of its head. It is stubb~ornly bac1k wvard about going forward. The deeline of the Granger' move ment iln the Northwest is partially attested by its condlition .in Iowa, whore there are seventy-five fewer lodges thani there were ono year ago. An exchange says "it takes thirty men) a month to mal~ke 11 o ecamels' hair shawl." Yes, and it often takes Une man thirty months to pay for it. SAn Ohio editor weoighs 209 pounds. His opinions must 1)e entitled~ to Th'le exhiit ion of the Argentine Lt'puthlit! will 'ons~ist of :30,000 ar' 1' 4)111' ictured fr(Jfl tliti M ',il art gaillery wvill lhe sent to the exposi Thelic foreign edcilitor8s, ait gener al rnile, b)ring their OWti loe s with lUlv n. :1n rca of .5-58,400 feet. or' nearly fLiit tueIi ltIU'VH", iN cower1ed by tiuaehili t'v hall. A. e0oltxsal; N at ir of Pr'ine B3is 111;.4'(k w ill be (exlibited in. the Our Tlhe iigt m of the Net herila s Will v'liiluit, l,850 lht )kN publishied (111i1 i( thle 1("'Iettf V'ItiIs o11 UduicIL A let'sigr ein ebhronlo lithography, ilhtr~f in, the iYVriwtl 111141 histor)y 4' t4 i Aiii(Ticiil Ilt. w~ill dcorate Tir ty I liin fa m liilies, with their (ltlg1';, t '*t iJ)iiigiytil~l lwirflplirrialiii, vill eiieaiaj- oil the Cc -it(fliial gri itlli. l eitlt. i ldireetiun cof Pro. 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TI14 ie igii me is- eli ifl iii every~ pilr ( i'01:t' like thie, eiic1ui'ur oil staite 0'in' 7it his, I lic dii 'ss hiavill ;lieen uii.1(1' ly I lie tiiu'in iit ailor, t1114 I lie iiisigtit arc )i11 t-iii('t ctopies tof Oi. tui'i;;ii:Iii. ionl (ttu: of thisti are it niialy ~ (.Hurile cheiituts ieit AN:ClIENTi 'Oxi'fulyiiih itIi t 1hlea :+ 'iv tw ix I ds wi'i H)tii41 w' ith it u t hick :ill tii: 111ii111i41 fe. high, tit It 0tintlinlihcl brazenl gales, '.'hio 'tl; )c .I hiltl . l.'leti, lai . Iti iintl r4 111141iit feet iiit heht, t tul