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CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1889
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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.
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