Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1876 — A Good Paper. [ARTICLE]

A Good Paper.

Everybody knows The Independent, of New York, as the leading, most enterprising, and, all agree, most readable and instructive of our numerous religious papers. It Is not slow to recognize the fact that the popular passion for chromos has died out, and it makes the remarkable offer of any onevolumeof Dicken’s work’s, a handsomely illustrated and bound duodecimo, to anybody who will subscribe and send the regular three dollars subscription. This is equivalent to offering the paper for a dollar and a half. Everybody wants some volume of Dicken’s, and ev£i*ybody ought to want The Independent,

The publisher of “The Nursery” has issued a list of premiums for obtaining subscribers to his popular magnzlne. The list comprises articles useful and ornamental, including books, games, knives, skates, and toys of all kinds. Here is . a chance for boys and girls to obtain a nice holiday gift for themselves or a friend, by making a little healthful exertion. “The Nursery” enters upon its eleventh year in January, 1877, and is as full of life and animation as ever. The secret of ‘its success is found between it? covers every month. The price is $1.60 a year. It is published by John L. Shorey, 36 Broomfield St., Boston, who will tend a sample number with the premium list for ten cents. A dispatch to the London Times, from Argos, Greece, announces that Dr. Schliemann, while excavating at the supposed site of the tombs of Agamemnon and Cassandra, has discovered immense subterranean chambers or tombs containing a great amount of gold and silver plate and jewelry.