Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1874 — Page 7

PHUNNYGRAMS.

V 1 —ln view ofth,e prevalence of birds'on ladies’ hats this season, wouldn’t some milliner make a fortune by putting on the Ijriir of a hat a whole poultry yard, with a horse looking at it through a stable window? “We charge nothing • for the suggestion. —Boston Globe. —A verdant bridegroom in a city hotel, reports the New York Muil, called the waiter to him at dinner, put his finger to his lips, and made a noise between his teeth indicative of a profound silence, the blushing bride doing the same. "'The waiter stared. The bride and bridegroom repeated the noise in a louder manner than at first, and thus caused the other guests at the table to cease conversation and gaze inquiringly toward them. Here the head waiter came up, and to him the subordinate remarked that he evidently had a drunken or crazy man to wait upon. “ What do you want? What do you mean by making that noise?” asked the head waiter. “Thunder,” yelied the bridegroom, “ can’t you fellows understand? I want a bottle of champagne for me and Maria.” —A well-known metropolitan printer mentions that on one occasion an old woman from the country came into the printing office with an old Bible in her hand. “I want,” she said, “that you should print it over again. It’* gettin’ a little blurred, sort of, and my eyes is hot what they was. llow much would you ask to do it?” “Fifty cents.” “Can you have it ready in half an hour? Wish you would —want to be gettin’ home. I live out of town.” When the old lady went out he sent around to the offioe of the American Bible Society and purchased a copy for fifty cents. “Lor’s sakes a massy,” she exclaimed, when she came to look at it, “ how good you’ve fixed it. I never see nothin’ so curious as you printers is!” —A suseeptible, soft-sighing lover donned his best outfit Saturday evening, ornamented his person with a lavender neck-tie and a button-hole bouquet, and sallied forth to watch for the eclipse and expatiate upon its beauties for the delectation of the fair idol of his heart. Nowit so happened that the idol’s fond parent hadn’t been reading up much of late and wasn’t very well posted. So when he entered the parlor between eleven and twelve o’clock and made some remark about his gas bills being already very large, and the s. s.-s. lover tried to explain that they were waiting for the eclipse, there was trouble. “Eclipse!” siiidtheenraged parent;“Eclipse! Young man, I am too old to be trifled with!” and when he took the youth by the coat collar, conducted him to the door, and planted his pedals right under the points of his swallow-tail coat, the yofing man realized for the first time that the eclipse was indeed total. For the old gent wore number elevens. —Keokuk Gate City.

Big Spiders and Their Enemy.

Raising spiders in order.fio sell their nests. What does anybody want of a spider’s-nest; and who would liave thought a traffic could be created in such curious goods?.. Biit there is a Yankee—of course he is a Yankee —over in San Francisco who does raise spiders ami does sell their nests—at a handsome profit, it is to be hoped—and we have one before us which we shall describe. Outwardly it presents the appearance of a rough ball of red earth, about an inch and a half in diameter and an inch in height. On the flattened top a line describes a semi-circle in the center. Lifting up the ball, it is discovered to be a tube or a tunnel, open at the bottom. Gently thrusting the finger up through the hollow and pressing on the roof, a lid is raised, which is fastened by a straight hinge a half-inch long and describes a semi-circle with its free edge. The inner surface of the tube is smooth as satin; in fact, it is lined with satin, which extends over the straight line of the lid, forming a hinge, and Then expands into a lining for the lid itself. Thus the interior of this rough, irregular sphere of wood is as neat and clean and cosy a nest as the daintiest little housekeeper could wish to abide in. Now, fancy this red hall sunk in the ground with its lid on a level with the surface, and its tunnel prolonged to a depth of several inches, or even a foot or two, and you have a picture of the home of the “ Trapdoor Spider," a species of Mygale. The genus Mygale includes the large, hairy, formidable spiders called Tarantulas, several species of which burrow in the ground. The Mygale Hentzii exieuds from Missouri southward, and is"abundant in Texas. It is gratifying to know that this venomous spider, which goes about like a ravening wolf, frightening by its ugly look and poisoning with its bite both men and beast, has a deadly enemy in a creature of its own insect race, which repletes its numbers and keeps them within bounds. A large species of the Mud-Dauber group of wasps (Pompilus fonnosa), popularly called the Taran-tula-Killer, is the special foe appointed bj Nature to harass and destroy the Mygale Hentzii. Tiie Mud-Daubers build their cells of moist earth, and into each one introduce, along with a single egg, the insect which they have paralyzed with their sting. 'jYben the larva of the wasp has left the egg it feeds upon this insect which has been inclosed with fit in its cell, and which has undergone no decomposition, having been rendered helpless merely, and not lifeless, by the sting of the mother-wasp. Dr. G. Lincediim says of the wasp mentioned: . “ This large and conspicuous insect is everywhere. in Texas galled the Tarantu-la-Killer and is over two inches in length; the head, thorax and abdomen and long, spiry legs are all black, while the wings are sometimes of a bright brown, with black spots at the tips. It is armed with a formidable sting, which it invariably uses when taking its prey. The sting does not kill the Mygale, but paralyzes it—suspends afil animation—aud iu this state, in a dry place and at the proper temperature, it is in a condition to resist decomposition a long time. * * I have sometimes found under shelving rocks and other sheltered places Daubers’ nests that were doubtless several years old. i n some of- the cells where the eggs had proved abortive the spiders were there, still limber, with no signs of decomposition about them. They did not seem to be dead, but looked as if they could almost move their legs and were perhaps not unconscious of their deplorable condition.” What a horrible fate! Immured in a living tomb! We can almost forgive the Tarantula for being so ugly when we reflect upon this possible destiny that threatens every one of the species, In a further account of the TrarantulaKiller, Dr. Lincecum says: , “It occasionally happens, when one of them succeeds in capturing a Tarantula, that another one, or more, flying around in that vicinit** *nd smelling the odor that arises from “the Tarantula-Killer

when she uses her sting, which resembles the odor of the paper-making wasp ( Vespa), only much stronger, takes the scent like a dog, tracks ttye Tarantula, following it up closely, and making a violent effort to get possession of the paralyzed spider. A tight ensues which occasionally terminates in the death of both parties; at other times the contest lasts but a little while, as the stronger party drives oil’ the weaker, and takes possession of the prey. It is surprising to one who has been educated to believe that the faculty of reason belongs alone to man, to contemplate the consumate ingenuity which is displayed by these insects in their efforts to secure their eggs from the observation of their own thieving sisters, and to hide the food they have provided for their young during the period of its existence under ground.” The Mygale Aticularia, which inhabits the country bordering the Amazons, has a body nearly as large as that of a sparrow, and, with its legs extended, covers a space measuring, either way, from six to eight inches. It is called the BirdSpider, from its habit of entrapping birds and feeding upon the pieces. Mr. 11. W. Bates, a naturalists w ho spent eleven years in studying the fauna of the Amazons, once witnessed the capture of a couple of birds by this spider. In descrioing the scene lie writes: —“ Pn the course of our walk I tdianccd to verify a fact relating to the habits of a large spider, belonging to the genus Mygale, in a manner worth recording. The species was M. Avicularia , or one very closely allied to it. The individual was nearly'two inches in length of body, but the legs expanded eight inches, and the entire body and head w ere covered with coarse gray and reddish hairs. I was attracted by the movements of the monster on a tree-trunk; it was close beneath a deep crevice in the tree, across which was stretched a dense white web. The.lower part of the web was broken, and two small birds, finches, were entangled in the pieces. They were about the size of the English siskin, and I judged the two to be male and female. One of them was quite dead, a» 1 the other lay under the body of the spider, not quite dead, and was smeared with the filthy liquor, or saliva, exuded by the monster. I drove away the spider and took the birds, but the second one soon died.” The Mygale Blondii is distinguished by the yellow stripes running dow r n its legs. This is one of the deepest burrowers, its tunnel extending two feet into the ground. They are lined, like the one we have described, w r itk a silken coating. This is the nocturnal spider, and, when night comes on, takes its station at the mouth of its hole, where it watches, with the eyes of a ferret, the coming of its prdy. Let a footstep approach, it pops back into its den and remains hid until confident the danger is past. Some of the mygales live under stones and others dw r ell in the thatched roots of houses. Mr. Bates once saw a group of children playing with a colossal mygale, which they had harnessed with a string, and were leading about like a dog. A gruesome plaything for babies. The mygale sheds its hairs easily, and these, penetrating the skin, painfully irritate it as if with a poison. The Trapdoor Spider (Mygale nidulam) lias short, stout legs and tremendous fangs. It has something of the aspect of a crustacean and is called by the French the crab-spider. Should any unwelcome intruder attempt to lift the lid of its tunnel it will hook its hind-legs in the lining of the lid and its fore-legs in the lining of the tube and resist with all its might. It defends its home wfith the utmost bravery, but when removed from its burrow' it seems utterly bewildered and stupefied. A writer in a late number of Hardwicke's Science-Gossip gives an interesting account of a struggle he once witnessed between a Mygale and a lizard. The observer had thrown himself carelessly down to rest on the grass one fine day, wfith no thought of spiders in his mind, when, to borrow his words: “My eyes were suddenly arrested by the appearance of a large spider, which issued like a specter from the bosom of the earth. At first I saw a kind of lid, about the size of a small halfpenny, slowly raise itself above the surface of the soil; then some long, hairy legs stretched themselves out from a tube which the lid had previously covered w ith the utmost exactness. * * * The apparition was that of a Trapdoor Spider (Mygale cannentana), a species widely spread over the south of France, which exhibits in its name the wonderful instinct by wfiiich it is marked. * * * Squatting under the lid, wfiiich rested on her back as she lay half out of the tube, the spider eagerly watched every movement of a delicate lacewing fly which stalked lazily over the gilded petals of a trefoil. * * * The hairy spinner fairly trembled with excitement and impatience as the graceful fly moved slowly toward the den* dark and cold *as the grave, where the spider «Ijiy in ambush. In another momenj it walked into the very jaws of death, when I heard a slight crackling in the dry herbage, and then, wfith a suddenness wfiiich made me start, a bright green lizard dashed from a tuft of grass aud bounded toward the spider. Though quite taken by surprise the latter had just time to avoid the fatal stroke by drawing back with a rapidity at .least equal to that of her enemy, and violently closing the lid of her gallery. Bo near, however, Was the lizard to seizing his prey that tke.toes of the right fore foot were actually caught between the door- and the side of the tube, and vain were the reptile’s efforts to disengage itself, though it twisted its lithe body from side to side like one possessed. “ Had the spider been able to close tjie gate of the castle with stout bolt aud bar, never would our lizard have boasted of another victory over spider or insect ; it must have perished miserably of hunger and exhaustion! Meanwhile, it strove laird to raise the lid wiili its muzzle, and, failing in this after several attempts,fit managed in the course of its struggle to insert the end of its tail into the slight opening made by its foot. Then for the first time I could see the wretched spider doubled up against the w all of its den. and holding on with all its might, by means of its claws, to the inner face of the silken door, vyliich, however, was gradually yielding to the efforts of the enemy, i thought it right, therefore, to put h stop without delay to the unequal combat. No sooner thought than done. From the summit of the hillock on which my chin was resting I emitted a loud brrrr! In a second, as once with the great god, Jove, ■ Olympus trembled at my nod!’ x the frightened lizard, in the energy 6f despair, tore its foot ffem the trap, with the loss of two or three toes, and, bounding into the grass, disappeared from view. Mygale instantly closed her gate, without offering me a single expression of gratitude for the good ttirn I had done her.” —Chicago Tribune.

Little Brothers.

No doubt it is a beautiful thing, in the abstract, to have some little brothers, just as most theories are beautiful, but when we come right down to actual life little brothers are a pest—to grownup sisters, we mean. They always know everything, and they obey the Scripture recommendation and let their light shine instead of hiding it under a bushel. What knowk edge they possess the world is welcome to. If sister Amanda powders or touches up her palloi- now.and then with rouge, little brother is well informed on the subject, and some day, w r hen her favorite beau is making her a call, little brother will be sure to tell him about it. If she has a high temper, not always under control, little brother will speak about it while the young clergyman of the parish is making his monthly visit, and while Amanda, with downcast eyes and a very solemn physiognomy generally, is listening to his talk of heavenly things. Little brother’s careless hands investigate the sacred precincts of the family clock, and put a stop to time in that house until the clock-maker is sent ior. Little brother leaves the bobolink’s cagedoor open so that the cat can eat the bird, and then he howls himself sick over the catastrophe, and escapes thereby the punishment his indignant mother would have inflicted. Illness is, to the small criminal, the saving principle which insanity is to the criminal of mature years. - ——•- — —— Little brother trifles with the gold-fish, and takes them out to see if they can run on the table; and he snips ofl the rosebuds and squeezes the geranium leaves to make them, as he says, smell like a wasp —and he lets Towser play with Amanda’s new hair switch, and he tells his particular friend, Jimmy, about it, and advises him to try it on some time with his sister’s chignon—it is such fun to see the fur fly. If papa and mamma have a little tiff, as most married people do now and then, little brother finds out all about it, and looks knowing, and sets his head on one side, and sagely observes that “ he hopes lie sha’n’t quarrel with his wife when he gets to be a man!” And when some dear female friend calls and tells mamma that her eyes look red and swollen, and asks her tenderly if she is sick, and she pleads headache, little brother will make haste to inform the visitor that “ it is no such thing! She’s been a-crying because pa wouldn’t give her the money to btfy a new velvet cloak and a set of china like Mrs. Baggs!”

It is little brother who puts the chickens in the cistern to see if he cannot turn them into ducks, and he pulls out the rooster’s tail to make a plume for his “ training cap.” He litters the floor with marbles and tops, he whittles on the parlor carpet, he leaves “cords” of spruce gum and molasses candy on the sofas; he puts pepper in Aunt Sally’s snuff-box, sticks pins in the pillows, always has a dirty face and sticky fingers, sits down on his sister’s new hat without noiicing it is there, and hides under the sofa when Edward is there, just to find out how folks court! And then he tells Jimmy all about it next day, and how Amanda kept telling Edward she’d certainly leave the room if he didn’t stop squeezing her so—but she never went a step away! she didn’t! Little brothers always let out all your makeshifts to your company. Through them your guests learn that your chicken pie was made out of an old hen, killed because she had done laying! That there are ants in the sugar, and that the table, is set with the best crockery. And if it happens, as it often does in this imperfect world, that your company are not thoroughly welcome, little brother will manage to let them know it before they leave, and you cannot prevent him. Yes, littjfe brothers are an undoubted pest, but a house is desolate and dull without them. —Kate Thorn, N. T. Weekly.

Exterminating Woodchucks.

On many farms the crops and cultivated fields suffer seriously from the ravages of woodchucks. I often see inquiries in the agricultural papers how to get rid of them. I have been troubled very much with them; they even came near the buildings and made their places of abode without fear of danger. They did so much damage that I determined to make war upon them. I procured a dog, which proved a good one for the business, and was not long in disposing ot a large number. I also got some traps, and made a business of catching'tliem wherever found. I prefer the traps made with a C spring, which can be had at most hardware stores. They are cheap; the one which has caught the most cost only fifty cents. They are small ana can be set in small burrows, and are very effective in holdingthe woodchucks when caught. By pursuing this course for three years their numbers have decreased very much. If they did not come in from adjoining farms I-should be completely rid of them. I have found that they are migratory in their habits. Every burrow does not have an occupant. In exterminating them it is best to destroy their habitations by filling up with stones and earth. Empty tenements invite undesirable tenants, and unless destroyed they' will make use of them for sheltet aud safety in moving from place to place; and often stop when they would nor otherwise if they had to dig new holes. It is important to get those living in the pastures and wood!, as they will soon seek the fields. A good dog will visit the places where they live a number of times daily, and often surprise and capture them. They are not slow to leave a locality which abounds in dogs and traps, regarding such places as unhealthy. In the task of exterminating woodchucks nothing but well-directed efloriwill be Sticces-fill. Farmers spend much time in fighting enemies to their crops, and, should not rest until they have ex.tended the fight to the woodchuck. — Car. Country Gentleman.

The Lawrence (Mass.) Sentinel» ays, that a number of months since a Haverhill man desired s&me 'accommodation of the Boston & Maine Road, but wa3 refused. The action so provoked him that he determined to get square by some, qteans, and at length, noticing that there was no draw in the failroad bridge near the citvj' he determined to put the company to the expense of building one. -So he commenced building a schooner of about 200 tons at a point above the bridge, and now, as it, is nearly ready to launch, he will goon load it'with legitimate freight, sail down Jo the bridge and demand passage, which the railroad people must grant him whether or no. .

—There is a man living at the Carroll County (N. H.) ''farm who spent all his property in a law-suit where the sum involved was only SB, and he had two opportunities to settle the same for $5, when he knew he was in the wrong. The song which is sung in heaven must be learned on earth.

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■hum AGENTS BEAD THIS! J UIIN John Paul is one of the brightest of D A 111 70 our humorists, and it Is very safe to r AUL O predict that his book will be a remark- _ _ _ , - ably entertaining one.— Springfield ReBilrlK publican. uuulv ‘ The book has been demanded by a public clamor too general to be disregarded.—A’. }'. Tribune. Was It Shakspeare or Bacon who said of John Paul’s new book—" There's magic in the web of itr'—N. Y. Graphic. John Paul’s Book will be a clever one.fior its author touches nothing that lie does not adorn.— Brooklyn Argus. i It will be a pleasant, attractive volume.— Harper's Weekly. For an agency for this book, address COLUMBIAN BOOK CO., 116 Washington street. Chicago, 111.

FOR NEARLY THIRTY YEARS THE RICHMOND PRINTS Have been held In high esteem by those who use a Galico. They are produced hi all the novelties of chanting fashions, and in conservative styles suited to the wants of many persons. Among the latter are the “STANDARD GRAY STYLES,” Proper for the house or street—beautiful in designs and pleasing in coloring. Chocolate Standard Styles, ” In great variety, and widely known as most serviceable prints. Nothing better for dally wear. These goods bear tickets as quoted above. Your retailer shouldhave them,and yonr examination and approval will coincide. THE “ FAMILY FAVORITE.** SIMPLE. DURABLE. RELIABLE. Made of the best materials, parts Interchangeable and few in number, easily learned, doing a great variety of work without extraattachments. We emphatically deny thcßtatemcnts made by agents of other machines concerning onr goods and onr business standing. —.— nnjTfl Serine Machine Co., «» ll HU 153 State St., Chicago m. TECH Chicago [eE THE CHEAPEST AND BEST PAPER IN THE COUNTRY.

ANNUM Unexcelled by any Weekly Literary Publication, East or West. CANVASSERS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN IN THE UNITED STATES. Thb moat Liberal Premiums and Club Bates erer offered by any newspaper. Write for a Circular containing full information, etc. Specimen coplea famished on application. Address THE LEDGER COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. SOLDIERS,JJTEHTIOId UNITES STATES CLAIM AGENCY Authorized by U. S. Government. Pensionsand Bounties. Every soldier whowas disabled while in the service of the Republic, either by wounds, brnkVn limbs, cidental Injuries, hernia or rupture, loss of ej e.-ight or diseases! eyes; or was broken down in the servlet by exposure or hardships incident to camp life and tieltl duty, or where disease of the lungs has been contracted in the service, when the result and sequence of other diseases, such as pneumonia, retrocession or foiling back of the measles, or where the phthisis: /finmonalk is the direct result of the exposure of camp life, or diseases of the bowels, »nch as chronic diarvmva and the like. Every soldier who has thus been disabled is entitled to an IsvAiro pgjnmjsr. Even she Idas of a* finger entitles a soldier to a pension. All widows and children of soldiers dving in the service, or after they were discharged, on account of wounds received or disease contracted in. the service, are also entitled to a pension. Special Attention Given to Claims for Increase of Invalid Pensions. - J fore than half who are now drawing a pension are Justly entitled to an increase. My terms are: No Charges jlade For Advlee, And no fee ever asked unless successful in collecting your claims. - . . I also take up claims that have been rejected in the nandsof other attorneys,and prosecute to a successful Issue. A BOOK FOB EVERY SOLDIER. This book is devqted strictly to the welfare and interest of all soldiers and pensioners. Containing the regulations relating to Army and Navy Pensions, the new Pension Laws. It gives a complete list of all the latest Bounty and Pension laws, thns enabling each soldier to see at once the exact amount of bounty or pension he should receive. phxob as CGHirrs. Circulars free. Address all communications (with Stamp), B F. PRITCHARD, 77 E. Washington St,, Indianapolis, Ind.'

WI4AL PRAI f» worth of Pattern! VV 1 1 \J La k9#4mm Cl at Ibe marked price send »I 50 For $3 worth send $2-25- For $4 worth send *3 The person who sends $3 tor $4 worth of patterns, will be entitled to the Bazaar rot °ne year FREE, without premiums. SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR Smith's Illustrated Pattern Bazaar, Only One Dollar and Ten Cents a Year, And a splendid PREMIUM to each Subscriber FREE! &T Any TWO of the above patterns and Smith’s Instant Dress Elevator will be mailed FREE, as Premium, OR ONE Dollara’ worth of Patterns FREE, to be selected after you receive yonr Magazine; OR one of the following beautiful OIL C«ROMOS-“EASTER HOLIDAY,” QR “LITTLE “MARY AND HER PET LAMB, OR the “MATRON” QR “UNWELCOME VISITOR.’’ These Chromos are widely known, and SELL READILY for from $3 to $6 each, being considered the finest pictures in the chromo art. GVBT UP A OliUB!

JtlhUnJaaMMMisaL Dr. J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters are a purely Yegetabl* preparation, made chiefly from tbe native herbs found on tbe lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, the medicinal properties of which, are extracted therefrom without the use of Alcohol. Tho question is almost daily asked, “What is the cause of tlia unparalleled success of Vinegar Bitters!” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease , and the patient recovers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Benovator and Invigorate*of the system. Never before in the history of the world has a medicine been compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing the 6ick of every disease man is heir to. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases. _ . The properties of De. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters are Aperient. Diaphoretic, I Carminative, Nutritious,' Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Alterative. and Anti-Bilious. ~ R. H. MCDONALD & CO., Druggists and (Jen. Agts., San Francisco. California, and cor. of Washington and Chariton Sts.. X. Y Sold toy all Druggists and Dealers MASON & HAMLIN CABINET ORGANS. Winners of THREE HIGHEST MEDALS,, xirb DIPLOMA OF HONOR at VIENNA, 1373TPAKIS 18(77. and in AMERICA ALWAYS. Declared by MUSICIANS GENERALLY to be UNRIVALED and INCOMPARABLE. Sold at fixed uniform prices to all, which areprtnted and invariable. PURCHASERS OF ORGABTS ARE REMINDED that the temptation to Dealers and Peddlers is very strong to deal 1 n and recommend as best the organs of those makers who will pay them »eUl la, ® e,t commission* or discounts for **Th<f*MASOY & HAMLIN ORGAN COprinting as thej do their lowest prices, can afford to dealers only tile smallest commissions. This plan secures to every purchaser the lowest price, because tbe dealer cannot ask more than the Catalogue price: but It causes many dealers to do their best to sell other organs, simply because they get enormous discounts on them, gome organs are currently sold to dealers at seventy-five per cent, discount, or atonequarter tne prices printed ter them. As a rule, the poorer the oegan the higher its printed price and the greater the discount on it. Tne MASON &, HAMLIN ORGAN CO. are now offering new styles, with Important Improvements, and are selling not oniy for cash exclusively, but also on new plans of easy payments, running through one year or longer. They also rent new organs with privilege of purchase. Rent paid three years purchases the Organ. Send for the Illustrated Catalogues and Circulars, Which give very full information and are sent free. address: THE MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO.. , „ AT EITHER New York, Boston or Chicago,

Business Education T:, CHICAGO

Young Men desiring to fit themselves for bnslnew will be interested to know that H. B. Bryant’s Chicago Business College Is the largest institution of the kind in America. Three months'tuition, with Ml tbe advantages of this great business training-school, costs but $65; six months |6O, and one year %ICO. Mr. H. B. Bryant, the original founder of the chain of college*, has withdrawn as apartner from all the schools of the chain In order to give his whole time to building op la Chicago an inatitnt'on for in advance of any business school heretofore in existence in this country, and this purpose is being rapidly accomplished. The terms are pnt at alow ra-o, being based upon a large patrunSe. Circulars have been prepared giving the currlc* um of study, which will be sent on application to

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