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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
November
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
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('AKI9. Cixoulw&t _ Bill-Heads. _. Letter-Heads. _ Shipping Tas. . - Printed at tlie Abous oflice. In tlie bost style and cheap. Don't order elsewhere before calling. _ Satisfaction guaranteed in every respect. _ The philosnpher's stone : Advertise- in the Aesus. - Tho Board ot Supervisors threaten to adjourn to-day: - Jas. T. Field does not lecture before the Student's Lecture Association thia eveniug as heretofore aunounced. - Anadjourned term of the Circuit Court ,vill be held on Monday next, when the jury can ■ will be proceeded with. - A new time-table was put in operation on the Central Railroad on Sunday last. For changos see card in another column. - The stone-work of the new Congregational eluirch hai been completed, except the tower, vbich will not be connnenced until another year. - Judge Turner has been holding eourt for Jmlge Crane tliis week- closing Wednesday noon, hearing oases in vrhich Judge 'rane was an Attorney. - Mrs. E. M. Henriques and daughter- Sarah left our city on Monday, en route for San Diego, Cal., and will be absent snme. eight or niue months. - On Tuesday evening next Rev. Dr. Cocker will give a talk on " The Gold Fields of Australia," nt the M. E. Church, before the Ladies' Beuevolent Society. Admission 2fi cents. - " Put your money wliere it wil! do the most good : " th;it is, p;iy your debts and keep it movBg. A little money aetively circulated will aid hi the trausuetiou of a large line of business. - The way to get lectures at a low tigure is to punshase a season or course ticket for $3.óü, irhicb will bring the lectures at a fraction less than 30 cents each. Now is the time to do it, Rev. S. W. Duflield will preach on Suuday raovinng especially to young men, it being the da)' set apart by the Young Men's Cliristian Associations of the country for general and ooncertecl preachmg to the young. - A letter f rom a f rieud in a central Xew York city says : " You have no idea in Michigan of the awul tightness of the money inarket here." We certainly dou't wnnt an idsa, if it is auy tii(hter thore tliun liereabouts. - Among the ocoupants of the platform on Weduesday evening, at University Hal!, we noted Gov. Bagley, ex-Gov. Feleh, Hon. John D. Piense, flrat State Superintendent of Public Instruction, ex-Regent Sill and other prominent citizens of the State, clergymen, lawyers, etc. - The lecture of Bret Harte on Saturday eveuing last was really a good thing. The speaker tollowed the "Argonauta of '49 " (gold hunters) through city and minos and many devious ways, bvinging out the features of California life with a inaster hand. His eununciation and nuinner were both good. - The much croaking tliat liad been done by interestcd and jealous parties about Universitj' Hall fi'ighteued somo timid persons and kept theni at tbeir homefl on Weduesdav evening, with eai-3 distended m listening for tlie predicted crash, and yesterday morning we presumo that they were mad because tlieir fears had not been realized - for whieh fears they may now well be convmeed tbere was never the shatlow of a cause. - The next lecture in the S. L. A. course ia to be given in University Hall on Wednesday 12, by Mrs. A. H. Leonowens, who is wellknown to the magazine reading world, as the author of " Woman in the Harem " and " The Eoglish Governess at the Siamese Court." Her subject is : Siam : its Court and Customs," and it is to be presumed that she will " speak from the card " or deal out facts rather than lictions. Sho is reported an entertaining lecturer. The publisher of the Chrittian at Work is a generous, whole-souled fellow : that is we would say so if we could trutlifully. But he Í3 enterprising beyond a doubt, in proof of which a simple statement of facts will suffice. He sends us by express, subject to 50 cents charges, three chromos - " gift " cliromos to the subscribers of his semi-sensational veligious weekly or semirehgous sensational weekly, and which, with his weekly, said subscribers can procure, mounted nifree of express charges, for the insignifi(fintly small siim - considering that the original paintings ai'e valued (by liim) at $33,OOO - of 18.25. For these chromos - forwarded unsoliciled he modestly demanda of us $20 in advertiMtig atour regular rutes, the larger share of it to be in "original" editorial puft's, written by himself. Kducing the demand to " language tliat'a plain," he asks us to pay him $2O.óO (expresa charges included) for paper and chromos which he is glad to sell to all parties uot unfortunate enough to be newspaper publishers for $8.25. Perhaps Mr. Adams will find publishers enough to bite : we are not so dispoeed, and shall wait for better evidenco that he is a " Chrietian at work." 69 Hunos St., Ann Abuob, Oct. 29, '73. E. B. Pon-d : Dear Sir- Our frieud Mr. Gilmore before leaving put at my disposal a numbei of bound volumes of Harper's Magazine and a large parcel of Harper's Weekly. I wrote to Dr. Van Deusen, Superintendent of the Insano Asylum, Kalamazoo, inquiring if they would be useful there. I send you his reply as some persons raay be glad to make the same dispositiun of tbeir pictorial magazines and papers. Yours truly, G. D. GILLESP1E. u We should be very glad to procure those volumes of Harper's Magazine for our library, twth the bouud and the unbound. You may be sure that they will receive a warm welcome from our patients. Tliey are greedy for reading of tlxib character and long for pictures. The latter suggest thought without wearying the feeble energies of mind and body, and addressthemselvr? equally to the educated and the unlettered. Aoything which you may desire to send may be lorwardedat our expense i'or expresa and f reight." Very sincerely yours, E. H. VAN DEUSEX.

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