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WIT AM) HUMOR. A patent-medicine advertisement speaks of "the liver failing to act.” We suspect the manager cut down its salary. When the iiver refuses to act, the drama of “Life” can’t go on very successfully. Norristown lie. raid. “Doctor,” said the grateful patient, seizing the physician's hand, “I shall never forget that to you I owe my life." “You exaggerate,” said the doctor, mildly, “you only owe me for llfleen visits; that is the point which I hope you will not fail to remember.” Telephones have been placed in the halls of the Idaho Legislature. It saves the necessity of sending out the sergeant-at-arms to bring in the absent mem tiers. They can now play poker in the committee rooms till the very moment of calling the yeas and nays. “What is economy?" asks the Phila delphia North American. We’ll tell you. It is paying 10 cents for a cigar, and compelling your wife to turn her last season’s dress to make it dofor an other winter. The country is fairly bulging with such economy. Norris town Herald. “Does the shining steel blade which 1 hold in my hand cause excruciating pain?” inquired an Oil City barber. “What?” "1 asked if the razor hurt you.” “is it a razor?” “Os course it is. Why?” “1 thought it was a saw, but if you are sure it is a razor go ahead.”— (HI City blizzard. They reproach an aged millionaire with his miserly practices. “Here you are, a wealthy man, ami yd you put out your ash-barrel every day with vour own hands, to save a few miser able sous!” “You are right; it is hard ly the thing for a man in my position to do. Hereafter I’ll make my wife do it. Carts Caper. They were talking over an aged millionaire who had on several occa sions given his heirs high hopes high hopes always dashed by his recovery, “furious how long the old man lasts!” says somebody, reflectively; “especially when you consider that for the last ten years he has had one foot in the grave.” “Yes; but then, you see, every now and then ho changes the foot! ’ French Wit. A slim youth, accompanied by a pug dog and chain attachment, met a young lady on Fifth avenue whom he knew. He walked by her sido until her resid ence was gained, when she invited him in. “Aw -thawuks awfully; much ploased, I’m suah,” he said; “bu -er the dog, y’ know—” “Oh, the dog won’t make the slightest difference. Dear little fellow! Mamma will bo glad to see you both.” New York bun. The lady of the house was a hand some woman of a mature order of beauty, and when she had completed her toilet she gazed fondly at herself in the glass, and remarked to her new maid: “You’d give a good deal to be as good looking as I am, wouldn’t you, now?” “Yes’in; almost as much as you would give to be as young as 1 am.” It is not believed that this epigrammatic young woman will bo chosen again at the expiration of her present term. — Paris Caper. “Look hero!" called a man, pressing his face against the grates of the city prison, and addressing a policeman who stood outside. “Well? ’ “What was 1 put in here for,anywayP"“ You’ll find out when the Police Court meets.” “Podner, I am a very sensitive man, and the thought that I have committed a crime haunts me. I just tell you what's a fact, 1 can’t stand it. \\ hat did 1 do?” “Well, if you must know, you got drunk and shot a man.” “Oh, is that all? 1 was afraid that I had in sulted some one. Much obliged.”— Arkansaw Traveler. How dear to my heart is a sack made of seal skin. A garment adapted to keep out the cold! "I'is not liko the jersey, that fits like an eelskiu; ’Tis loose, graceful, easy and fair to behold. How smooth and how glossy! Its beauty enchants me; what garment so lovely when worn by a belle Both waking and sleeping its poetry haunts me; The sack made of sealskin that tits me so well. The sack made of sealskin -of smooth, glossy sealskin. The beautiful sealskin that tits me so well. Cowell Courier. “What a incomprehensible Mirandy’s got to la' senoo she went to thur Vademy,” remarked Mrs. Homespun to her husband. “W’y, wot’s the gal boon doin’ now P" asked Daniel. “Doin’!” exclaimed Mrs. Homespun, “w’ll.she said she must go to her room to disrobe, as she wished to retire early." “Disrobe and retire?" mur mured Daniel, "wot's them, ma?” "1 dunno,” replied ma: “but she didn't do nothin’ o' the sort. She only undressed and went to lasl. Did ye ever hear o’ sieh p’evarication?” Creshylertitnban ner. “College boys are no respecters of persons," said a gentleman who lives at Princeton yesterday. “When Pres ident Arthur took his son Allan to Princeton the Chief Magistrate was called on by the laiys for a speech. He responded, and in conclusion remarked with a great deal of feeling that he was about to eoutide to their care what w as to him the dearest thing on earth. Tho words were scarcely out of his mouth when one of the youths rose and sung out in stentorian tones: ‘Three cheers for the thing.’” I'hilailelphia lYcss. "Now. Maria.” remarked Simpkins, as he pulled oft" his hoots last evening, "times is gittin’ durned hard, an’ we’ve got to economize. 1 guess you’d better try and git along without that new black dress you was talkin' about, and fix over your last winter's hat. I guess you can worry along that way all right. We’ve got to tix it some how or otner to cut down expenses, or l don't see how I'm to buy cigars, an’ as for whisky, why. 1 dou’t get more' n four or live drinks a day as it is. Kciucm ber, Maria, economy is wealth.”—l>»» CVy Blizzard. Senator Coggeshall, of Watertown, who has just returned from Florida, carries off the palm in the tish stories. “I went out fishing on Balder Creek.” he says, “the night after I arrived ii Florida. We put a big light on tho bow of the boat and paddled slowly down stream. You may hang me if the fish didn't crowd up to that light so thick that some of them had to jump out of water to find room in which to move. Knough jumped into the boat tu maku a cood breakfast.’’ Senator Lansing, who heard Ibis tale, said tho fish were probably like men who would believe the story—suckers. Gath. “Have you ever seen that train of white cars that makes the fast mail train from Chicago?' said the engineer, as he munched a sandwich at the rest ing place. “No? Well, it’s slicker than a square yard of lightning, and it goes full pitch out of Chicago every morning at .‘5 o’clock. In my opinion it's about the fastest thing in this coun try. Well, one of the mail clerks in vited his wife down to see the train •tart;tbe conductor shouted'all aboard,’ ami the clerk leaned over to kiss his wife, who was standing on the plat form, and bless me if he didn t kiss a cow out at Riverside. Now, that's what I call fast railroading.’’— New York bun. An amusing incident occurred recent ly in a church in the west of London. One of the church wardens was ob served to cast uneasy glances toward an individual wearing a sailor jacket and cap of a sea faring and jaunty appear ance, which latter surmounted a clean shaven face and closely cut hair. After a little while the church warden ap proached the sailor laddie, and whis pered audibly, “Can't you take off your hat? Is there any reason why you can’t take off your hat?” By the dis comfited look of the questioner as he returned to his seat, and the appear ance of the rest of the costume as the wearer of the hat walked out of tho church at the conclusion of the service, it was evident that the whispered reply was, “1 am a girl!”— Every Other Saturday. The* Fair of* l/.amal. On the Bth of December the festival of Our Lady of Izamal is celebrated with great pomp. A large fair is also held in the city during those days.in her honor. Even merchants from neighboring states flock there, if not to kneel at the shrine of the Virgin, to worship at the altar of Mercury. Dev otees on those occasions crowd the pri vate apartment of the doll, which is al so carried in solemn procession, deck ed in gorgeous array, and followed by a long train of worshipers. After church service is over, all leave in a hurry and rush to the bull-fight. Many of the Indians, who know abso lutely nothing about tauromachy, enter the ring to fight the bull, exposing themselves to be injured for life, or die a painful death. In this we see an an cient custom yet prevalent. The an cients sacrificed their lives to deities for any benefit received. To-day an Indian begs a favorite of his patron saint, and as a proof of his deep grati tude promises to fight a bull, keep drunk a certain number of days, or do some other rash thing. Bull-fighting in Yucatan is not like bull-lighting in Spain. The ring is a double palisade sustaining sheds cover ed with palm leaves, that are divided into boxes. Every one provides his own seat. The best and the worst, big and small all attend the bull-fight. Those who, on foot, merely play with the bull, only have a henequen sack to serve as shield. Others, also on foot, are provided with poles about three feet long, having a sharp iron head, like that of an arrow, called rejon. When the people are tired of seeing the bull played with, they call for the rejoneros. Those with the spears de scribed then come forward. Their bus iness is to strike the bull in the nape and kill it, but it is seldom done at once. The beast is chased by two or three men, blow after blow is dealt, the blood gushing afresh each time. The first pain makes the animal furious, but the loss of blood soon weakens it, and it becomes almost harmless. Then the horsemen are called on to lasso it and drag it away. While another bull is being fetched rockets are fired, the people applaud, the band plays,a clown meanwhile doing his best to amuse the spectators. If a bull is disinclined to light they gird his body with ropes in every possible way, fastening tire-crack ers about his head and tail. Aggra vated and tortured, the poor boast jumps about, and the crackers explode, to the great delight of all present, big and small. This renders it furious for n few minutes; but if it again refuses to light it is taken away as a coward not worth killing Aide l>. le liongeoy, in Harper's Magazine for Feb. Sweet Sixteen Out of Style. The reign of very young girls over the heart of man is ended. “Sweet sixteen" is insipid, "fascinating eight een" tame. At twenty-five the young lady of the present day may be said to be interesting, at thirty she is charm ing. and at thirty-three fascinating. Hut it is not until the woman gets well into the forties that she reaches tho an gelic period where temper no longer wields the mastery,and mature thought smooths out the rugged outlines of her mental life. If she understands the art of self-preservation she may also retain at this age the better part of her physi cal charms, and la* pretty in spite of her years. Ninon de L'Euelos was re garded as a belle and a beauty at sixty, and care and discretion are oulv neces sary to carry the beauty of youth far into mature life. Another custom is coming into vogue which must lend hope to many a spin ster and widow of uncertain age. and that is the fashion of women marrying men younger than themselves. Ver haps this can hardly be called a novel innovation, however, for it has been practiced in the older countries for many years, and in Ireland has long been the custom. Dr. Johnson married a woman old enough to be his mother; Disraeli was many years his wife’s jun ior, and Aaron Burr married a widow several years older than himself. The famous Mine, de Stael was forty-four w hen she picked up a young officer of twenty or so.and Kachel married Vern hagen von Ease when she was over for ty and he in the twenties. All of these were happy marriages, and Miss Thackeray, Mrs. t'raik and Margaret Fuller seemed to believe in such unions, for they each chose comparative young sters for matrimonial mates. Modern and ancient unions of this kind have proved lucky uuious. and, as some of the latter have given a sort of tone and fashion to the custom, we may look for a tide in that direction. If it be comes the fashion for women to choose husbands younger than themselves old fashioned folks may preach against it in vain. - London Echo. The Oecltne of the Oyster. The United States Commisssoner of Fish and Fisheries has in his recent re port called the attention of Congress to the decline of the oyster. Beds which formerly produced forty-one bushels to the acre now produce but twenty-five bushels. Around New York sludge acid, too, is doing deadly work among the bivalves, and what with reckless depletion of the beds, and corruption of the food supply, a gloomy prospect is held out. This is a serious question. At present we consume 5,- 600,000 oysters annually. There is no doubt about the number, for Professor Baird and Lieutenant Winslow have counted them: and the connection of this vast mass of succulent bivalves with the prosperity, the material and moral health and progress of the coun try can not be insisted upon too strong ly. How closely the oyster is inter twined with all our deepest and holiest feelings; how indispensible it is to the proper carrying on of our politics, our commerce, our church festivals and our love-making, perhaps will never l>e clearly perceived until we have lost this intimate and most dear friend; un til the face of the laud is darkened and the gayety of the Nation is eclipsed by the removal of the familiar and übiq uitous sign boards which to-day carry cheer to this heart of the gloomiest by their announcement of “Oysters ia Every Style.” For what would America be without the oyster? A shudder would pass from Maine to Florida, from the At lantic to the sun kissed shores of the Pacific, at this thought. Deprived of her favorite dainty, New York would be a “City of Dreadful Night.” Sixth avenue and Fourteenth street would echo no more with the shouts of the reveler. Tho burden of sustaining that region of nocturnal festivity would fall upon the clam, and he would sink un der it, and perish amid the scorn of those whose digestive organs he had insulted by the offer of so inadequate and inelastic a substitution. Nor have we to evolve these alarming con clusions from our imagination. The sad experience of a sister nation con firms but too strongly our darkest ap prehensions. A few years ago aDd the drum beat of England was as übiquit ous as the tin horn of New Year’s Day; her flag was upon every sea; her com merce was in every market; her pickles, pale ale and globe-trollers were thick as leaves in Vallombrosa; her diplom acy was successful; her colonies wero contented; her policy, at home and abroad, was admired and respected. But there came a day when her oys ter beds no longer yielded as before. First there was an oyster famine; then the oyster ceased to be accessible to the masses. And so the decadence of Eng land dated from that dreadful day. Since the disappearance of the oyster nothing has gone right. We have all marked the rapid decline of that great power. It is no wonder that the Brit ish press should have hailed the new year dejectedly. But while some as cribe the unhappy state of things to (iladstone, and some to free trade, and some to other causes, it is clear to tho unbiased observer that the oyster is at the bottom of all the trouble. And with this example and warning before us it behooves Congress to take prompt ami adequate measures for the rehabil itation of our noble bivalve, and to guard zealously against the threatened extinction, which must involve in its consummation the disappearance of all that makes life worth living.— New York Tribune. An Australian Intoxicant. Their own stimulant, kave, they con tinue to use in great quantities, ard many of the Europeans have contract ed a liking for it. All the Wairara pans have a taste for it. and marvel that any white than can acquire a pen chant for such stuff'. Its flavor resem bles soap suds more than anything else one can compare it with. The root used is botanically Known as that of toe piper methistieum ; it is hard and woody, hence the object of the chewing which liberates the juices of the root more freely than any otlxer process. Europeans grate the root and pound it but admit that the liquor is not equal to the chewed. In Samoa the preparation of the kava bowl is attend ed with great ceremony, only the young unmarried girls being allowed to chew it. The root is cut up into lino pieces, and the girls, who are diiected by the prettiest of them, first rinse their mouths, take up a piece, and when sufficiently masticated and form ed into a ball, spit it into x bowl. Th chief girl then calls for water, and a* ter washing her hands, directs one of her companions to pour on the wa*:r while she stirs the root with he- hand. When enough water is in, and the ball* are properly mixed with the- ingredi ents, she takes up a strainer mad. of fibers of the hibiscus, and passes it from side to side of the bowl. When the strainer is saturated she lifts it high above the bowl and squeezes the bails through the strainer in her hand. This is continued until the kava bowl i> ready. It is contended by some of tho Europeans who use chewed root that the mastication is perfectly dry and is a more crushing process, but of course an amount of saliva must get incorpo rated in the process. The medicinal property's of kava are tonic and ner vous sedative, and it is to these effects and uot to its flavor that the taste for the driuk arises.— Melbourne Leader. Church Manners. While we are upon this subject, we wish to call attention to two matters in which the majority of congregations might easily improve their manners and add to the impressiveness of the services. It is a common habit when the audience are to stand during the singing of a hymn, to wait until the first line is begun, and then ruin the verse by the confusion of the rising. Again, during the latter part of the last verse the clattering of Books into the pew-racks before the clo-e of the song is a serious interference with all devotional effect, and especially so when that opportunity is seized for the putting on of wraps, rubbers, etc. No one would do this during the closing sentences of a prayer; why should it be done during the ascription of praise to Cod? Hundreds, yea, thousands of Christian people thus thoughtlessly mar the soug worship in the sanctuary. —Musical Herald. A Scientific IJoy. Sir David Brewster was born at Jed burgh. Scotland. December 11, 1871. His father was rector of the grammar school. and a teacher of considerable reputation, whom neighborhood fame characterized as “the best Latin schola and the quickest temper in Scotia 1;” but he was kindly withal. It was intended that David should be come a minister, and he was sent to the University of Edinburgh, to be edu cated with a view to that profession, when only twelve years old. His tastes had, however, even before this time, turned into another direction. It is re corded of his earlier school-days that though he was never seen to pore over his books like the other boys, he al ways had his lessons, kept a prominent place in his classes, and was frequently applied to by his fellow-pupils for as sistance. And it was in the days of his childhood “that a dilapidated pane of glass in an upper window of his father's house produced the inquiring thoughts which led him afterward to search into the mysteries of refracted light.” He * had become acquainted with James Veitch. of Inehbonny, half a mile from Jedburgh, whom Sir Walter Scott has mentioned as a “self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathema tician.” Veitch was a plow-maker by trade, but was well versed in astro nomical calculations and observations, having been the first discoverer of the great comet of 1811, and was in his most congenial pursuit when he was making telescopes, a work to which he brought much mechanical skill and sci entific accuracy. His “scientific work shop,” on the Jedburgh turnpike, “be came a gathering-place for all the young men of intelligence in the neigh borhood, most of them being in train ing for the ministry, for medicine, and otfier liberal pursuits. They had les sons in mathematics and mechanics, but especially in the favorite science of astronomy. The telescopes were tested in the day-time by the eyes of the birds perching on the topmost branches of the ‘King of the \\ ood,’ a noble relic of the past forest days, about half a mile from Inehbonny. When the bright sparkle of the bird’s eye was distinctly visible by day, Veitch’s specula and lenses were con sidered fit to show the glories of the sky by night.” David “was the very youngest, ’ says his daughter, Mrs. Gordon, from whose book we borrow our anecdotes, "of the quaint aud va ried group. When he began his visits I do not know T , but we find that at the age of ten he finished the construction of a telescope at Inehbonny, which had engaged his attention at a very early period, and at which he worked inde fatigably, visiting the workshop daily, and often remaining until the dark hours of midnight to see the starry wonders and test the power of the telescopes they had been making.— From “Sketch of Sir David Brewster ,” in Popular Science Monthly for Feb ruary. I*anic-Btricken Troops at Shiloh. From General Grant’s illustrated ac count of the Battle of Shiloh in theFeb ruar Century we quote the following: “The nature of this battle was such that cavalry could not be used in front; I therefore formed ours into line, in rear, to stop stragglers, of whom there were many. When there would be enough of them to make a show, and after they had recovered from their fright, they would be sent to reenforce some part of the line which needed support, without regard to their companies, regiments, or brigade. “On one occasion during the day, I rode back as far as the river and met General Buell, who had just arrived; I do not remember the hour of the day, but at that time there probably were as many as four or five thousand strag flers lying under cover of the river luff, panic-stricken, most of whom would have been shot where they lay, without resistance, before they would have taken muskets and marched to the front to protect themselves. The meeting between General Buell and myself was on board the dispatch-boat used to run between the landing and Savanna. It was but brief, and related specially to his getting his troops over the river. As we left the boat togeth er, Buell’s attention was attracted by the men lying under cover of the river bank. I saw him berating them and trying to shame them into joining their regiments. He even threatened them with shells from the gun-boats near by. But it was all to no effect. Most of these men afterward proved themselves as gallant as any of those who saved the battle from which they had desert ed. I have no doubt that this sight impressed General Buell with the idea that a line of retreat would be a good thing just then. If he had come in by the front instead of through the strag glers in the rear, he would have thought and felt differently. Could he have come through the Confederate rear, he would have witnessed there a scene similar to that at our own. The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in, frout. In fact, later in the war, while occupying the country between the Tennessee and the Mississippi. I learned that the panic in the Confederate lines had not differed much from that within our own. Some of the- country people estimated the stragglers from John ston’s army as high as 20,000. Os course, this was an exaggeration.” Plantation Philosophy. De man whut ken ask de most ques tions ken answer de fewest. l)e pusson whut is de last ter laugh wider joy is de soonest ter groan wid er sorrow. Ter some pussons slander is naehul. De hog would rather waller in de mud den ter lie down in clean water. I doan b'lebe dar eber wuz er man whut didn't sorter dodge the truth at some time durin’ his life. Ez fur my se'f. I’se told many a tale whut I knowd wa'n't so. When I wuz er boy, er lie come so naehul dat when I got ter be a man. 1 couldn't altogether break off de habit. Yer’ll fin - many er man whut‘ll say dat he neber tole er lie, an' ver may say so at de same time, but bof o' yer knows dat ye air a couple o’ liars. Doan talk ter me 'bout dis heah human nature, fur I'se er chile o'de :a ne school mvse'f.— Opi« P. Bead. .Japanese Food. Lifting the little saucer-shaped lac quer cover from the soup, aud taking advantage of the concession to Euro pean prejudices the Commissioners have made in providing spoons, instead of obliging him to drink his soup like tea from the bowl, the adventurous diner-out will find that he has before him a savory compound called on the card misoshiru. This is made, as the root-word denotes, from miso, a fer mented mixture of soy, beans, wheat and salt. Having disposed of this, he will then, if his appetite is good and his taste gastronomically catholic, at tack with pleasurable surprise the manj' little plats on his tray. \\ ith these he will wisely play, turning for relief from the white sweetened haricot beans mixed with kawatake (a kind of mushroom grown in the shadows of rocky bowlders), and the delicious lob ster pudding or cold omelette and oth er trifles included under the head of kuchitori, to the hachimono, which may happen to be a piece of plump sole stewed in soy. Then for a change he may, with a pair of wooden chopsticks which are laid before him on a bamboo tray, divert himself with trying to pick out of a small china cup, made without a handle, the brown soy-colored beans and strips of kikurage, or ear-shaped mushrooms. Boiled rice is served in a separate bowl. Another substantial dish, wan mori, consists of meat or fish and vege tables, possibly, for instance, a piece of fresh salmon and a slice of vegetable marrow with pieces of a soaked fu, a kind of biscuit made from the gluti nous part of wheat flour. The gravy in which these pieces de resistance are floating is thickened with a transparent starchy substance, obtained from the root of a climbing plant (Pueraria Thunbergiana), called by the Japanese kuzii. For salad there are thin Slices of cucumber flavored with scraped shreds of dried bonito, a fish much in favor on the Pacific coasts; the cucumber being dressed with vinegar and sugar, but without oil. One other relish must be noticed, the sliced root of the burdock salted and preserved in miso. A sweet kind of sake, described as Japanese wine, is the proper beverage at the meal, which is prepared by cooks from Japan, and served just as it would bo in a restaurant in Tokio and without any addition of European dishes. The Secrets of Ventriloquism. An excellent ventriloquist is now per forming in our variety theaters, writes a New York correspondent of the Al bany Journal —a woman, and therefore without the mustache behind which most performers in that line conceal the slight movement of their lips. In nothing connected with the magical show is there more radical humbug than in ventriloquism. There is no such thing possible as “throwing tho voice,” and all the old stories of Wy man. or anybody else, doing astonish ing ventriloquial feats in the middle of a crowd are fiction. The auditor must be at a little distance or there can bo deception. This young woman uses manikins, curtains, a trunk, aud tho other usual aids; but her unshaded mouth is absolutely still while she is talking. Her lips are slightly parted, but they do not even quiver when she is singing in a very loud, strong voice. The whole art consists in speakingwith out stirring the mouth, and in a divert ing power of mimicry. As to the seem ing distance given to the voice, that is done by decreasing the volume and at the same time indicating, bypantomine or otherwise, the direction desired. I asked her how long she had been' ac quiring her skill. “I always had it,” she replied. “I used to be a mill-hand in Manchester, England. A ventrilo quist came along, and I found that ho couldn’t do as much as I had, as long as I could remember, been perfectly able to do. 1 showed him that I could beat him at his own business, and ho put me into it. There wasn't anything to learn, except to work the figures, do the patter (dialogue), and get used to an audience. I formerly earned §3 a week working twelve hours a day; now' I get sls, and the whole doesn’t amount to that much time.” Were she rid of her English provincial accent and coarseness, so as to be acceptable to re fined audiences, she would easily mul tiply her present income. Ai no Inducement for Jeenta to handle Ojn Watcher we make the following liberal offer: wt will send a sample of above wat«-b t>y refristerai mail, to any address on receipt of $6.50. if you wish to ex amine watch before paying for it, we will pend vou a arm pie C.O.D. witli privilege of inspection, before paym* for it, on receipt or *0 ctr. in htamr® (to guarantee exprv.su ( hartrer; or references to ahow that watch is ordered in K\x*d faith. The above cut represent* Gentlemen’* watch ; it has ink gold pta ted hunting nae«e: celebrated anchor lever movemsot; compensation lialanc*-;sec< ndhandistem winder: atom aetter: keeps cr act tiir«* and ha* the cppearmner of wittcli. 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And for tine writing our Plowboy Favorite Surpasses any pen yet made, 61.00 per gross postpaid, on receipt of price. Samples on ap plication. THE PLOWBOY CO,, East Point, fia. THE PLOWBOY CO. IS PRSPABKD TO DO NEWSPAPER woir-ik: Os Every Description In THE BEST POSSIBLE MANNER. And tt the Shortest Notice. We Furnish READY PRINT INSIDES OR OUTSIDES For Newspapers, or Tine Hifkst Order ot EiceUeice. NEWSPAPER HEADS Made to Order From the Latest Style of Type. Publishers who desire to furnish their subscribers with the greatest amount es reading matter at the least cost, will ds well to communicate with ua at one*. We will print the inside or outside, 01 the entire paper, if desired. Samples of Ready Prints sent on ap plication, and prices quoted that are surprisingly low and defy competition. All ws ask is an opportunity to serve oar fellow publishers, confident that ws can give satisfaction. THE PLOWBOY CO. East Point* Ga