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. vt ''- "rM - rl CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1889 SB. t J'ii m:- .,' n W&f- Ik- Don't Fail to Look A big Cut in Prices throughout our Entire Stock ! Overcoats Cheaper than ever known. The prices on Suits sue way down. UNDERWEAR, big assortment and prices down. MEN'S ALL WOOL CHINCHILLA OVERCOATS at $7.50. Cannot be bought elsewhere for less than $10.00 to $12.00. We back up eery statement we make. Call and be convinced. Globe One-Piicc Clothiers, Cor. O and Tenth Sts. We Offer No Baits But Glvo Full Value for Evory Dollar. Our Sl.OO Ladies' Kid Shoe, like other houses clnlm they have minced from $1.50 have always been sold by us at Yrhnt they term a "discounted price." Our $1.50 Toadies' DonjTfola. We never sold thi shoe for $2.00 or $2.50 as other houses claim they have and then reduced them to $1.50. $&' That Is our UICGULAR PRICK. We arc satisfied with Reasonable Profits. Rents are cheaper in our locality, ex penses less and If you will investigate wc will show you that our every day price more than equal the "bait offers" made by other houses. J. Z. BRISCOE, Sole Agent for Gray Bros. Ladles' Shoes. 1329 0 STREET. Whitebreast Coal and Lime Co. Canon City Whitebreast Walnut Springs AND ANTHRACITE. Telephone 234. Lime Hair Plaster Cement Office, 109 South Eleventh St. In Temporary Quarters. Barfs Jewelry Store Removed To 1036 N St., bet. 10th and nth. A new and elegant line of Jewelry jiut opened Including WATCH ESi CLOCKS, DIAMONDS, ETC., FOR THE JE3LOTJIJDJ.?r TISL.XJE. In our present location rent Is very low and we are therefore enabled to sell all goods at a much lower price than other houses. Don't fail to call nnd sec us. For 1890 Consider Scriuner's Magazine when you are deciding upon your reading matter for next season. The subscripticn rate is low $3.00 a year. The standard of the Magazine is high, Its spirit progrcsklvc, The Illustrations are interesting and of the hot. There is not space here to give even a summary of the feat ures to appear next year, but among other things there will be a NEW DEPARTMENT and ADDITIONAL PAGES, and groups of illustrated articles will be devoted to the following subjects: African Exploration and Travel, Life on a Modern War Ship (3 articles), Homes In City, Suburb, and Country, Providing Homes through IJulldlng Associations, The Cltien Rights, Electricity In the Household, Erlcshohn, the Inventor, by his Authorised lilographer, Hunting, Humorous Artists, American and Foreign. There will be 3 serials. Robert Louis Stevenson will contribute in 1S90, Each subject, and there will be a great variety this year, will be treated by writers most competent to speak with authority and with interest. Readers who are interested are urged to send for a prospectus. 25 cents a number; $1.00 for .j months. Charles Scribner's Sons, 743 Broadway, New York. 0DD3 AND ENDS. John 0. Whitlior saya ho oxpecta to Hvo to tho ago of 100 years, though ho is not anxious to do so. Kight thousand pounds of load oro in one 'hunk were taken from tho Do Until' initio ul Zincito, Mo tho oilier day. If you havo u wife boas gentle and attentive to her as if sho was tho wife of some other man. A brother of tho Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, tho Nov. Kdwnrd Abbott, of Cambridge, Mas., has just been made Protestant Episcopal missionary bish on of Japan. nonuparto's bouse at Umgwood, St. Helena, is now a bant; the room in which bodied is astablo; and where tho imperial body lay in Male may be found a machine for grinding corn. Of I.filH marriages contracted in I'russia last year between blood rela tions. 1,4m were between cousins, 1 JO between uncles and nieces, and 1G bo tweon aunts and nephews Senator Kdmuuds, of Vermont, says bis daughter is about as skilled in tlio law its bo is. She acts as bis amanu ensis and advises with him when doubtful legal points arise Such a daughter is a jewel in the parental crown Said Lord Wcllesluy to Justice Plunkctt "Ono of my aides-de-camp has written a pei-sonaf narrative of his travels; pray, what is your definition of 'personalY' "Well, my lord," was l'lnnkott's reply, "wo lawyers always consider personal as opposed to real. A bust of tho German emperor, by Professor l'egus, is to be placed in tho grand corridor at Windsor castle It is a present to tho queen from tho em peror, who is i-enrcsonlod in tho uni form of the ga riles du corps, with his helmet on Tho origin of tho word "hurrah" has for some time been a discussion in tho press. A writer in an English journal expresses the conviction that it is nothing but an enlarged fonn of burr (signifying a rapid movement), and is of purely 'leu tonic origin. Also, that tho word "hurry" is its An glicized form. M. Naulct reached tho Paris exposi tion from Brussels, after a seven days' journey, in a phaeton drawn by a pair of dogs. IIo is a Immune man, and when bis dogs wcro tired ho went bo tween the shafts while they mounted tho box. To cut an appio into quarters pass a string by means of a netdle across the apple, which is divided by pulling the two ends of tho string, crossing under tho peel Operate in tlio Fame manner on tho opposito bido of the apple, so as to divide it into a second half, and it will be perfectly divided into quarters, although enveloped by the peel Since tho Palatine bridgo disaster, tho Cciilrul railroad authorities havo issued an order directing all signal tenders to stand on tho track for five minutes after each train has passed, with n red light or Hag, and after flvo minutes havo elapsed to stand live min utes longer displaying a green signal. No trains daro run by tlio red signal, uenco mo cnanccs or collision in caso of accident nro materially lessened by this nrrangeniont. Tlio boys of tho college for the blind, of Worcester, England, play a very fair gamo of cricket, tho ball used be ing inado of wicker, with n bell insido of it, which rings whon it is thrown. Tho wicket keeper claps his hands bo hind tho stumps to guide tlio bowler, and so expert are tho bowlers thatthoy can bit the wicket with thrco balls out of six. Tho now city of Johannesburg, in tho south African gold region, is at tracting attention, and thero are those who predict for it 11 phenomenal fu ture. They promise a million inhabi tants in flvo years, an output of gold which will gild the whole world, a commercial importance threatening tho established trado centers of tho Old World, and a political and social position second to no city in Africa, north or south. Tho Eifl'cl tower has already paid tUp ost of its construction. An offi cial itotico has been issued, informing tho shareholders of tho Eiffel Tower cmnpjny, that they can claim ropay aientbf tho last lifth of tho capital in vested by them in tho undertaking. Tho other four-fifths wcro paid pre viously on presentation of coupons Tho fortunate possessors of these se curities will, however, continue to re ceive dividends. Tho concession of tho tower is for twenty years, after which limo it becomes tho property of tho city of Paris. A Victim ii f tfrrrtl, James II. Riley captured a flvo pound bass in Saratoga lake in u some what novel way a few days since. IIo hod started out early in tho morning for fish, but his quest was unsuccess ful. Whilo rowing back to his place his attention was un-ested by a dis turbance of tho water near tlio shore and in a very shallow spot. Looking closely, ho saw that a large bass, with dorsal fin above tho surface, was tho cause of troubling tho water. IIo ap proached as near as ho thought safo uud was aboir, to shoot tho llsli, when ho discovered that it seemed somewhat disabled. Investigation showed, when tho game had been scooped in with n net, that tho greediness of tho bass was tho cause. In his mouth was found a siinflsh weighing almost a pound. Exchange. An GUI Iliilllmore Clipper. A lemarkablo vessol, a foro and aft schooner of about eighty tons register burden, called the Viinlimt U nmu and has been, regularly running from pania v-ruz 10 &i. 1 nomas and vico versa as a nnssenirer. friht mwl mnil packet for upward of fourteen years. Tho Vigilant, it is said, was built in uauiniore, (luring mo very lirst years Of OUr national illdi'IiniwliHirit mnl.-iiwr her upward of 100 years old. She was of tho Baltimore clipper" class, so famed many years forspued, and must havo been a wonder and a beauty when launched. lioltimoro American. t QUEEN OF THE NORTH" W A L T Z IS S . 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