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Broadway & 19th st.
NEW YORK CITY.
The price has nothing to do with the
FIT
For ALL of Dr. Warner's Corsets are fitted to living models.
Prices from one to six dollars each.
Postage Stamps, &c.
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=STAMPS!= =300= fine mixed Victoria, Cape of G. H., India, Japan, etc.
with fine Stamp Album, only =10c.= New 80-p. Price-list =free=. _Agents
wanted_ at =50%= commission. STANDARD STAMP CO., 4 Nicholson Place, St.
Louis, Mo. Old U.S. and Confederate Stamps bought.
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100 all dif. Venezuela, Costa Rica, etc., only 10c.; 200 all dif. Hayti,
Hawaii, etc., only 50c. Ag'ts wanted at 50 per ct. com. List FREE!
=C. A. Stegmann=, 2722 Eads Av., St. Louis, Mo.
=50= var., all dif., 5c.; 12 var. Heligoland, 15c.; 6 var. Italy, 1858 to
1862, 5c.; 8 var. Hanover, 5c.; 35 var. C. American, 50c. Agents wanted.
F. W. MILLER, 904 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.
=POSTAGE DUES.=--50c. and 30c., at 70c. each; the pair for $1.25. =Diamond
Stamp Co., Germantown, Pa.=
_=FALSE MUSTACHES= and GOATEES._
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Fun for the boys, a complete disguise. Fine hair goods. As Sample of our
1000 Novelties, we send one of each with large Catalogue for 10c.
R. H. INGERSOLL & BRO., 65 CORTLANDT ST., N. Y. CITY.
[Illustration: If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE
WATER]
Two Exciting Puzzle Contests Ended.
Endeavoring to favor the TABLE with an easy puzzle, since many said the
questions were too hard, a flood of correct answers resulted in the
Authors' Outing Contest, and, in accordance with the role, a second
contest had to be held. Here are correct answers to the original
contest:
1. Moore--Moor. 2. Gay. 3. Yonge. 4. Lot's wife. 5. The mulberry is said
to have turned red because Pyramus killed himself at the root of the
tree, in the belief that Thisbe had been devoured by a lion. 6. Bacon.
7. Hogg. 8. Ruskin. 9. Lemon. 10. Robinson Crusoe's man Friday. 11.
Dickens. 12. Watts. 13. Bangs. 14. Theodore Child. 15. Butler. 16.
Canning. 17. Hawthorne. 18. February. 19. Reade. 20. Swift. 21.
Howitt--How it. 22. Motherwell. 23. Scott--Scot. 24. Hood. 25. Lamb. 26.
Lover. 27. Harte. 28. Twain. 29. Spenser. 30. Akenside. 31. Holland. 32.
Sterne. 33. Cooper. 34. Smiles. 35. Wordsworth. 36. Goldsmith. 37.
Shelley. 38. Borrow. 39. Steele. 40. Santa Claus.
A set of 35 new questions was prepared and sent by mail, to those who
gave the foregoing correct answers. Thus the ties were played off, so to
speak, unsuccessful contestants and outsiders being barred. Following
are answers to the new questions. In some cases the questions themselves
are given, since they have not before been published. It was asked who
wrote these:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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