FROM CHICAGO, PEORIA OR ST. LOUIS TO ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS, CONNECTING AT MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL FOR ALL POINTS NORTHWEST. TO COUNCIL BLUFFS AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS IN IOWA, OR TO OMAHA IT IS THE POPULAR LINE. TO CHEYENNE IT HAS A DIRECT THROUGH LINE. TO ST. JOSEPH AND TO ATCHISON OR KANSAS CITY IT IS THE DIRECT LINE. TO DENVER IT RUNS THREE DAILY THROUGH TRAINS FROM CHICAGO, TWO FROM PEORIA, AND ONE FROM ST. LOUIS. * * * * * Tickets via the Burlington Route can be obtained of any coupon Ticket Agent of connecting lines. P. S. EUSTIS, Gen. Passenger & Ticket Agent, Chicago. THE CHICAGO AND ALTON R.R. IS THE ONLY LINE RUNNING PULLMAN VESTIBULED TRAINS --TO-- KANSAS CITY AND ST. LOUIS. * * * * * Palace Reclining Chair Cars and Ladies' Palace Day Cars Free of Extra Charge. Pullman Palace Buffet Sleeping Cars, Pullman Palace Compartment Buffet Sleeping Cars, Palace Dining Cars, and Smoking Cars. For Tickets and all information call on or address R. SOMERVILLE, City Passenger and Ticket Agent, 195 SOUTH CLARK STREET,--CHICAGO, ILL. GRAND UNION PASSENGER DEPOT, Canal Street, between Adams and Madison Streets CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL R'Y. Electric Lighted Vestibuled Trains to St. Paul and Minneapolis. Finest Dining Cars in the World. Through Sleeping Cars to Denver. The route of the first "Golden Gate Special" Excursion Tickets to Colorado. Excursion Tickets to California. Everything First-Class. First Class people patronize First-Class Lines. Ticket Agents everywhere sell Tickets over the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. * * * * * SEASON OF 1889. BASE BALL POSTERS, WINDOW HANGERS, Colored Score Cards, Again Adopted by The National Leape and All Principal Associations. Inclose 25 Cents in Stamps for Sample Set of Twenty-Four Designs. JOHN B. SAGE, -- Buffalo, N. Y. The Pullman Buffet Sleeping Car Line --between-- THE WINTER CITIES OF THE SOUTH --and-- THE NORTHWESTERN SUMMER RESORTS, THE MONON ROUTE GIVES CHOICE OF 21 INTERESTING TOURIST LINES VIA Chicago or Michigan City to Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Louisville Burgin, and the South. For further information and descriptive pamphlets of Fishing and Hunting Resorts, etc., address E. 0. McCORMICK, Gen'l Passenger Agent. 186 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. * * * * * THE SPORTING TIMES A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO BASEBALL, THE TURF, AND ALL MANLY SPORTS. PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY BY THE SPORTING TIMES PUBLISHING CO., P.O. BOX 611, No. 73 Park Row, New York. IT COVEKS THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. DeWITT RAY, Editor and Manager. TERMS: SUBSCRIPTION, ONE YEAR $2.00 SUBSCRIPTION, SIX MONTHS 1.00 ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. ADVERTISING RATES: OUTSIDE PAGE, 20 CENTS A LINE EACH INSERTION. INSIDE PAGES, 15 CENTS A LINE EACH INSERTION. READING NOTICES, 50 CENTS A LINE EACH INSERTION DISCOUNTS: