Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

How easy it is to plan out a path to Dursue, and how hard it is follow i> when you start out on your journey. Ip you have a single friend on earth, o matter how humble or insignificant ie may be, strive to keep his confidence Don’t be tdo profuse in your thanks to the man who lets you have your own .vay. He may be doing it to cure you >1 a folly. A man was never so rich or powerful ;hat he had friends who would care for i.. 8 children,lif he should become suddenly poor.

ABOUT LIBRARIES. The Pomcma (Cal.) public library has iost but one book in three years. Of 6even hundred boys and girls who drew books from the library of the Col--ege Settlement in ltivington street, sew York, last year only two had American parents. Mbs. Isabel Poland Rankin, daughter of the late Luke P. Poland, has given to the town of Morristown, Vt, one thousand dollars toward a library which is being established there. The records of the. New Haven Public Library show that there were four thou-and less books drawn last year than the year previous, the decrease being almost wholly in the field of fiction. A SENSIBLE memorial will be that dedicated to Wilkie Collins. It will consist of a smwll library of choioe fletk.n, to be presented to the “People’s Palace" in London. Fifteen hundred dollars Las already been raised for this purpose. Some one has been interviewing a country book-seller in England with an extended business and learned from him that while the ladies are reading a more serious line of books, Arnold, Froude and Lang, the men are taking to hovel-reading with a vengeance.

French Funerals. There are nine classes or grades of funerals, the most expensive of which costs, nominally, 3,000 francs, and the ninth a few francs only. The seventh, which is usually chosen by the working people, can be had for about sls. The hearse is decorated with cotton fringe, and there Is no mourning carriage, though one can be had for 22 francs. The religious service costs in addition $4. Few persons avail themselves of the eighih and ninth grades, which cost almost nothing, preferring either the semi-gratuitous funeral or that entirely gratuitous, which present nearly the same external signs of luxury, and to the public eye are quite as creditable. — San Francisco Chronicle.

Down In Florida last week two alii gators engaged in a conflict on a rivw cank that lasted for nearly an hour If you would avoi.t sickness among the ch ldren, keep a bottle of Mfj.ol in yonr bouse .nd wueu your chi d shows symp toms of siokueßS, give a few doses »nd you w>il have no doctor bills to pay. For sale b.t druggists. Your children that aie in school will be ured of tb t distressing heauache which is so common m.oug »ciuol chilureu m warm weather, by be use of an occasional Jose of MtLOL. For sate by ul> druggists. Go to thj New York Millinery storp for your stylish hats anu lress making. M . <fe A. Meyr. The Monon route bus disco.: tn, ted the sale of ITinver c m. ,u < ion tickets, and in tliei s.ead have jlaced od sale excursion tickets good for live days from date oi ale, ltenss laer to t hie tgo a d Turn at the ratj of $2 dd. W. H. Beam. Agent. DR. HARLAN H. BALLARD, PRESIDENT OF HIE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION, IN POPULAR SCIENCE NEWS, ON TilE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA.

In connection wit the loregoing| eport of out OruiU)ologi'‘al Chapter, it !e only to call the attention of all lovers oi buds to the magniuee t work now being issued by the Natur .1 Science Absoo.atiou 01 America, unuentitle ‘iHEhinos oi North America.” Edition limited to 1,000. It is emphatically on orign.il work, origiunl iu design and execution, auti whether in letter press, iliust utious or price, it it» uonpproaohed by any. niuy of tee kiud n existence. It is recommended by the highest sc.eutifie. ecclesiastic and eduo tiom.l autuo.ity as beitiK t e niostattr,.oti.e, meritori ous, pure and ennobling expos.non oi our ornithology yet given to the public. Dr. Elliott t ones, author of Birds of the North \Nest,”sa>s; “It is n ready notable work.” Piol. U. J. Hayu ,rd, uutno. of the “Birds of E stern .\orth Ame.ica,” says: “ft contains the hes pictures of tlie species which I have ever stem Thomas If. Gentry, author of ‘Life tiistor.es of Birds,” ana “Nests and Eggs ol virus of the United tit tes,’’ says: "it t the cheapest ana best publication on ornithology in this country. The a drawiugs are Of a very high order, and rivals ?n beauty of design and finish the moie cost ij works published abroad or in tuis ( ount.y. It should be found in our tomes audio libraries generally.” And, Becoming to fi. Theodore Gi 1. a member o the ,\a tional Academy of Sciences, it is not only a meritorious volume, but is altogether so handsome as to make it u very appropriate presentation book or orn. ment for the famtly table *

It is an imperial quarto vo nine of eugraved figures of all our species, artisti caily reproduced, true in all hues of color to their natural plum.ige and botanical surroundings. It also iucludes a copious text description of their habits anti ch racteristics, and embracing in general the observations made by the most eminent writers on ormthtlogy, and a systematic table, arranged acooiding to the classification adopted by the American Ornitholc gists’ Union, inoludes all the additions •<ud corrections of our North American -peeies whici. have been made to date, with an in lex to page, plate and figure of

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