] 2 : HE MOON | Elpbistone, who bad bad charge of Govern- | the vents in the walls of the well rose up in a A HEW PARADISE. HOLIDAY GoOoDs. HOLIDAY Goons. THE GREAT AIR LINE TOTHE MOON | Doi gunpowder during the ware and who was | vast column 3,000 or 40C0 feet high At lost all During the last few years the attention of th . ——— Pe - geenssineaneiomiuese — Supposed to know all about the mat- | the melted metal had run into the mould. The Suk kad ease Gn tee adeon, peal civilized world has been attract Bh NEW YEAR'S LUXURIES ] | From Scribner's for January.) ter, wade a short address. ‘‘Now.” said he, ‘‘a | Ni: ra of iron had ceased to flow. pend ange ty matter. They were ‘Reto pen mean of the im a 1s we quite penile tnt, Bate oe Fae Gen | ee teen een toe oe aa ne 2 << Poy tery lilly however, about brandy. lane ading nations have engaged in a brisk os Ri csedennsinsaneemnsiiennalil s oo ve eard the story of e ands of ler. ¢ Armstrong can: wi . ‘ . A | Chib of Baltimore, and its Femarkable transac. | Quires, seventy-five poumts of powder foran | tor ediately. Fifteen days after the casting | | Everything was now prepared. sen sreat | competition, with various results In the strife | STAPLE GROCERIES [p4820W ® oacLeny OF Fine ants, hon. W so, it is’ well that they should be in | seo and ball, and the, Kodman Golumbiad the great cannon w i covercd by e vast | cone wis co ee ene ees ee over the on nee see eee se | pm cis hanno seni, walkie, e h ts which, not many | sends a half ton ball 5 miles with 160 pounds of | cloud of smoke, a — } stant ~< ' ermine those Fruch a renation in the civil- | powder. So yon sce, the wostanary. proportion | or ano fect from the mouth of the well, that no | delicacy ton or Sok ba leone mame ened Hire php ene feamee ty tevin welepaves tp | TEMPTING RATES. lores temartment of fine Partor ze A Jules Verne, a French of powder diminishes as the size of the ballin- | one could trea Upon it. as the 2 +. ~ man | VLIOS— rey ol ry sane eee shon the pales 00 0dliect ail the fects | cruise es August before the ground had cooled euficiently | surely have exploded the gun-cotton, and the | right to America, and more particularly "0°58 | wy s0- seaig yp socom al acotner sce | Sap acy—tirsngrarigs ant muvie yee in regard to the Gon Club and its wonderful | «I see that,” said J.T. Maston, ‘‘and if yon | to allow anybody to approach the casting, and | §! od aay ie agers. But nothing unto: | a jas been diverted from healogitimate of CHOICE GOODS suitable for the YEARS pA bengal exsor: ment of genuiee scheme, and it is to his work on the ee — only make your ball big enough we won't want | then the vakwen; boa ee eed Pappened: aaa Uaarecvend aperr ces, | pens iy Mein markets. one taeen | ‘and name in ae } sae re emOmAY LNGS, OH ROMOS, and PHO. indented for the information containe f at all core was suffic! 1» proce ema : moa islands s. | goa! Polat Biuetde | “tule Committee emiled, and the Major then | utsand itwas entirely removed by the 0° of | the shell was safely lowered to its proper post: | management of German merchants, not De- | Havana ORANGES S tits “very Ane:prige iow | "Rew Gade veenited svert Sat caanies The Gun Club, which was Sent Gening CUE | stated that he bad calculated that the wei yd coneneee. 755 napotit then drilled smooth, SS as this Gawraes ais satisfactorily Fi eee ate eo ee | YetgNciA GRA Noas ee, Spent | (*HOIOE HAVANA Gioa ns avil . bad for its princtpal object the wder necessary in their cannon would be | and everything w: dy. ; ti i 4 Teaso! | Several cases. Frait | fayewrs mant of artillery. Ko ene cowl belong bi to one-tenta the weight of the ball, and If the Moon only came along in time, and it gags, = te ee pa a that we had, adeq idea of itstmmensity BAL! Ibe. or § tbe. for $1 OO | at Lownes Figt Rae Toe cd Ce Or a rere aE ent least | it will therefore require 500,000 pounds of pow- a Prema og fossa eo eiiest pois eiparbicans was not willing to receive pond me betonn tee perc te = Ag x | dects-tw 1339 F street. Hove Building. roved nhOD OF @ fh if some kind. | der. nded upon, c g . | 3, 27 . Se nh In the words of M. Verne, the esteem in which | “‘'Better have 200,010 pounds,” eriea J. 7. | Benne Por puters Capt. Nichot | insite warned to eal ns debts bates | Ayegutl abd the longitude of joe and 12 42 | MAGIC EA RIES: be member held *“proporti ed to | Maston. non was now cast, pt. Nicho! < ’ the masaivenens of their cauuess au In a direst j The ides of this sperma, mace of powder | paid bisecord wager 2,000. 0 0 | Bejelt thie World semper now arrived re smaller, “iciading "howe? wna to the A os | FINE OPERA GLASSES 9 to q the dis dy at the Cominit- e great event © el h M : . ’ hs s. | tele paeceeene Wsctergeenbie ts oer onan | few moments, sat in silence. But | ple from all parts of the country, and the popu- | very Peepeetns 7: Apia hed Lapagrea ang Sess an ageregated area of ‘OO Rquare | Choicest CREAM TURES at very lowest | to relate all the results of the labors of this Club, | till more astonished when the Presi- | lation of Tampa increased to 150,000. Excur- | jeetile were not started on ay miles, and & native population of 35,097, nearly | club rates. | and we will merely remark that, at the end of that in his opinion | sions were organized tothe bottom of the can- | at exactly forty-six minutes and forty seconds the war, they showed in their own persons the | sliof whom Lave been converted to Christianity. it be enough. non, NUTS. Through the courtesy of Colonel A. Steinder- ALMONDS, choice Larydadoc soft shells, 4 4. H. HEMP: decks. ™ o3 es C0 pounds would ind @ steam elevator was kept going night | after 10 o'clock that evening, more iD eigh- | WALNUTS, be ‘ | PRANANAS, earnestness with which they carried out their | will waxt the force of twice as much da + The proceeds from the sale of tiekets persons re org Pietra ger, the nceredited eseret agent of the Ameri. Cans. er B FLORIDA ORANGES, e: e e Clab ard~ for this trip ameunted during the season it 0 Same w crop. ag nage Gee roche ymin r do!” cried J. T. Maston. | nearly 600.000. . Hons of venith and perigree. =. | group ou the id instant has excited @ deal of BOP. | ean ge 8 BOROMELL, 1338 FONE, ple for every f ns, and but two legs | ‘never do! 1,600,000 pounds of powder will On the 30th of September, at thirty-seven A rfectly enormous beh of thet nited | Peculation, we are enabled to present to our s 0 tee. for 9100 _ de aim = her Ebbitt House for every ». there such | occupy a space of 22,000 cubic feet and, as the | minute 3 in the afternoon, a telegram, by | Stone's Hill. bend nt ro the Old World readers a few scraps ef general information HOLD. AY BOOKS. rT *g Tooden legs. patent arme, | cannon will only hold 51.0 cabic feet, your | ocean cable, came to President Barbieane. This | Stater, and from varioue partsof the >| that at this time are of surpassing interest t> 1 a Iver skulls, platina nose wder will nearly half fill it, aud there won't spectators were assembled. pove the | the entire country. Colonel Steluberger left H BE Ma b: os room enough left to give the balla decent 29th September—4 a. m. About 7 o’clock the Moon arose above the Sun Francisco last Jane, and reached the Sa- : fe was deciared, these poor fellow | start.” pa. Florida, United States: horizon, Grandly and brightly she mounted | jog at a ‘most auspicious season. The term! doleful, there was nothing more to | «1 know all that,” said the President, ‘and I | Substitute cylindro-conical projectile for | the skies, punctual to a minute to her appoint- FANOY GooDs LEATRER WALLETS and POCKET BOOKS i, edenirablearticie. Tein os, JUVENILE BOOKS, « large assortment if the bighest grader, PBAVEB BOOKS, Ac., &e, pation of the most disastrous civil war in the history of the people had jast been reached and the healing process, the cementing of various interests, was not yet comme had dashed to pieces many t race. Ina contest between the aristocracy and ‘ (id the Moon receive 80 magniti- And s0 they sat about idly do not intend to use that much powder—Ionly | spherical bell. Shall go inside. Shall arrive | ment. Never did the N - here | Want the force of that quantity, and so I pro- | by steamer Atlanta. sis Macon eral wae ati Cheer atter cheer arose from her iece was a fortress, | pose that, instead of powder, we use gun‘cotton, Of course this proposition created the great- e mi < < the clocks wan ‘au embrasared tower? | Br which 400,000 pounds will be equal to | est excitement inthe Gun Club, and tbrough- Every one was now wild with excitement re bayonets, stuck im a cannon ball, served | 1,600.000 pounds of powder, and it will ocenpy | out the United States. At first everybody | Before the applause which greeted the Moon “ ‘ lers ap- en a ndlésticks, and where the very frames of | so little spac. that the bal! wil! have more than treated the proposition with ridicule. “Then | bad died away, the three lanar travel ; the common people the latter had achieved a 3 ine weakens wise ware Wasthcoed iver the: | tenten cr eas before taking its grand tight | they began to think about it, and President | peared, ready Tor theie vorage. Ob thet ab- | partial victory and attained certain desirable TEAS. ot G1es maaan KR. B. MONUN & € manner of lines of fortifications. Tuere they | towardsthe Queen of Night.” Barbicane actnally wrote to the New York iron pearapes ee ba ar mln ede yath redou- | results. Entering at once upon his mission the - The. @1 to 8183 | aecaTte Corner Penueyly . id | And so the powder question was settled. founders to defer the casting of the projectile | bled force; and then, beng led by nai aes colonel visited the different islands of the grou 506. to as — = = Among the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the Unt- until further orders. enthusiasm, the whole crowd began 20 sing, " | and held interviews with every chief. In c to gi 2s pyoniay PRESENTS | ted States there was but one man who doubted On the 2¢th of October the Atlanta arrived at | thundering chorus, the national air of“ Yankee cases he was cordially received and tendere -3 ibs for 1 00 On Sih aie ne tee the success of the great scheme of the Gan | Tampa, and in it was Michael Ardan. He was | Doodle. aa , facilities for prosecuting his w@rk, He found woiceot HUMAN Tate for Club. This man was Capt. Nichol, and he | about 42 years old, tall, vigorous, nervous, com At last the singing ceased; all sound diet himself among people ‘possessing a written 6S &cO., ice a lived in Philadelphia. It was natural for him | bative, earnest, eminently bold and audacious, | away, and everybody looked and listened. The language their and toms that KOCER wine Jang’ R own and customs tha’ GROCERS : persons the tirst time | to be an enemy tothe Gun Club, for he was a | and, above all, he was the first man in the solar | thrce travelers now approached the mouth of jue nO existence elsewhere; a people virtuous Masonic Temple, 9th and F streets. puke Bare: it blow leit all into | mannfacturer of armor-plates. | Daring the | systtm who had determined to make atrip from | the cannon. They shook hands with their | Aimost beyond helier, heed me, generous, and — gee so.tr Opposite U. 8, Patent Ose __{Ohron} decir i and the perssons killed were the | whole war, whenever the artillerists invented | one planet to another. His reception was most | friends. It wa ouching scene. JT. Maston | rapidly progressing toward a higher civilization; eS — spectators around it; bat, then, there are very | a new projectile, or an unusually powerful can- | enthusiastic, and, after he had shaken hands | wept; and, at this last moment .iee age ~ be a people entirely tree from the terrible taints FOR NEW YEARs, OVERSTOCKED! few mortars even i they have been carefully | non, Nichol invented a new armor-plate. | with about 6,000 people, he was obliged to re. | allowed to go along. But Barbicane shook his | 9; vice that began the work of decimation . fired for many years, which can show a sum | Whenever Nichol dreamed, President Barbi- | treat tothe cabin of the steamer. And there head. It was area ded to the shei!, | *M0ng the habitants of other tropical islands at total of Killed so large as this. J. T. Maston’s | cane, of the Gun Club, appeared to him inthe | Barbicane had an interview with bi The three companions descende 1 es pis inthe Pacitic, and is yet unchecked; a people “HO. ee AND MUST BE SOLD! yoice was for continual cannon-tiring, and, | form’ of @ conical ball which pierced him The President ot the Gian Club found that | They bg mage lg: egg oe ed vila ats | ina paradise with only a few intraders among WARREN CHOATE & CO.'S, eonsequently, for continual war. ‘Why should | through and through. And whenever Barbi- | the Frenchman was fully determined upon his | orifice in the top. Then the win regime them, held in sway by patient missionaries, VISITING OARDS we sit thus with our hands in our pockets” | cane dreamed, he sew Nichol in the shape of project. He had occasion to go to the moon, he | ladders were removed from the mouth of the | whose counselsbave stimulated a morality that The Greatest Reduction Ever Made! cried J.T. Maston. (He had lost one of his | an immense iro clad, against the impenetra- said, and here was anexcellent opportunity. He | cannon. | has endured for years and seemingly bas no Engraved and Printed expeditiously and in the arms in the beginning of the war.) ‘ There are | ble sides of which he was obliged to batter his | might have to wait a long time before another Everything was mee: in . Mureni- | Umit. The physical appearance of the Sa- latest styles, { _ plenty of reasons for fighting, and why shouldn't | unfortunate head. Nichol was on particularly | conveyance would offer itself. Two miles aay, the civil engineer, Murchi- | moans is marvelously beautiful. In form and = 2 TES NEXT 19 Dave We light? For instance, did not this country | bad terms with Barbicane, because, on the very | "Finding the Frenchman so fully in earnest, | son, stood, with bis finger over the buttonof the | feature they are theembodiment of grace. The DIABIES FOR 1574, Fro ~ ence belong to the English?” “Of course,” | dayon which peace was declared, the former | Barbicane respected him. Nothing so thor- | electric battery. na? . jy | Cast of countenance is unlike that found in any | ‘a sesmietel | FOK THE NEXT 19 Dai Peete, Gol Bisby, an armless and harmless | bad finished a plate of an entirely new kind of | oughly commands respect in this world as | | Thesilence became awful; people scarcely | Sther race on the Paciie lainode in that ink Tre Patent neil Sen ess weteece Mons EXT 15 DAY Dyrtander. s set Prrergand: hongh he dared the Presl- | earnestness. What it commands in the moon | dared to breathe. Every eye was centered on | regular as the Europeans. ‘Then there is a look | pu Parents Bieok Memoraadum Books, oe " xs Well, then,” said J.T. Mastom,”” ‘why then | Senvor tendon Blot wen ee hee ae remains to be seen. the gaping mouth of the great gun. ing. | Of intelligence which is surprising in the ex- : : 1 OFFER OVEBCOATS shonid not Eng'and in her turn belong to us?” | non and his most portect ball, the proposition In the meantime a quarrel had arisen be. Now there were but forty seconds remaining. | treme until we are ceprined tat ‘every adult VISITING LISTS, | This proposition was received with great fa- | wasdeclined. Nichol waxed extremely angry | tween Capt. Nichol and Barbicane, anda duel | Each of these scemed an age. At the twentiet! | reads and writes the native language. Most of | | por hy he Gap Club in general, and It is pro- | at this, and offered Barbicane the most astoun- | was agreed upon. Buton the field Ardanmade | second the crowd fairly trembled with nervous the barbarous traditions to which'the people | with blank page for visite made end received, om AT A REDUCTION bable some action would have been taken upon | ding advantages. He proposed to set up his | a proposition. Excitement. Some people sobbed, some fainted. stij) adhere are practically of aharmiess na- | &®emente, a | AT A REDUCTION EAE Ey nad nor been that the attention of the | plate 200 yards from the cannon, but this was | ‘Friend Barbicane,” he said, ‘believes that | Then through the silence came the sound of | ture, and under the pressure of enlightenment PHYSICIAN'S VISITING LISTS. | members was unexpectedly occupied by the an- | refused. as well as subsequent offers of 10) | his projectile will go straight to the Moo thirty-six ! — thirty- | ume counting: | *‘thirty-fiv 4 ; | must soon pass away forever. There 1s one T A REDUCTION nouncement that a graud meeting had been | yards, 75 yards, and 50 yards. At last the Cap- Certainty I do,” replied the President of the ! yrbirty-elght : — thirty-nine! — forty! | chief who is considered sacred. Though he | Blank Books, Staple S: ionery, Bugraving. FROM FIVE TO TEN DOLLARS. e=tied by the president of the club to consider | tain, perfectly furious, offered to place his | Gun Club. 2 FIRE Ee never interferes in the politics of the group, Printing, Binding, Lithographing. | FROM FIVE TO TEN DOLLARS. some extremely important business. The meet- | plate 25 yards from the cannon, and to stand “‘ And friend Nichol believes it will fall back Then Murchison touched the button. and is not the ruler, he occupies an exalted po- | WARREN CHOATE & Co. j FROM FIVE TO TEN DOLLABS. ing was held at $a. m.,on th of October. | behind it! But Barbieane answered that he on the earth?” Immediately the most awful and unheard-of | sition that no other pereon eave his eldest son 3 J 3 ergheen-hundred-and-after-the-war. Thehall | would not make the experiment, not even if | ‘J am sure of that!” cried the Captain. explosion took place. Nothing like it was ever | Can ever attain. ‘The family of the peerless Seohnittien en Stationers, of theciub was tightly jammed with member- | Capt. Nichol stood before his plate. ‘; Well, then,” said Michel Ardan, ‘thi isthe | imagined. | If « mighty volcano had burst into | Samoan enjoys the benefit aecruing from the } And visitors. Corresponding and honorary mem- | Then Captain Nichol attacked Barbicane | way we settle it. Both of you take the trip with | atcms the detonation could not have been more respect paid to him, and to® certain degree VEENON g0W, | 1 OFFER WINTER SUITS bers, from all parts of the [nion, filled upevery | through the newspapers. He asserted that the | me,and then ou will know certainly whether | feartul. A straight jet of fire sprang into the | tie members thereof ate sacred. The group mar nee wine aunts, 1 | OFFER WINTER SUITS room and passage. and the streets and alleys of | plan was all nonsense, and proposed a series of | or not the ball will go to the Moon.” | air, and seemed to pierce the very sky, andthe i. divided into districts, which are goy- _dec26-tr_ 941 Pa. Avanes, ConNEE 10TH Sr. 1 OFFER WINTER SUITS the neighborhood were crowded with people | wagers, as follows The two rivals looked at each other, and then | whole country, for hundreds of miles, was | Gned by chiels. But the "petty rulers do THE | who could not get into the butiding. | First_That the money would never be they shook hands, and a eed to the proposition | lighted up. ‘The ground shook asif anearth- Tot‘arrogate to themselves the right to man. COTTAGE MARKET. AT A REDUCTION When the great cleck in the hall fired §, pres- | ra:sed for the big gun. seers acael 4.7. Maston groaned. Nobody had asked him | quake had rumbled beneath it. Notone of that 426 the Village where they respectively reside. a | AT A REDUCTION ident Barbicane arose and addressed the assem Srond—T hat they could not cast the to go. : vast astemblage remained upright; men, women According to a beautiful custom, that only S15 Fourreenty Sr. AT A BEDUOTION bly. The substance of his address was as fol- ot the money... On the loth of November, the great passenger | and children were hurled upon the ‘ground shows ins slight degree the respect paid t0 the — | lows ald not lowl the can- projectile arrived from New York. ‘The great | together. ‘The heated gas that srose from the | Nomen of Saimom, the villages are ruled by the | _ The proprictore of the COTTAGE MARKET an- | FROM THREE TO EIGHT DOLLARS He lamented the idleness of the clab caused the gun-cotton would go shell camethe railway, and was received with | mouth of the cannon in such vast quantitics | Taugttersof the chief each village having ite | neues thet they will bacon hand for the Holidays | FKOM THREE TO EIGHT DOLLARS by the recent peace. off of its own accord before they were delight and enthusiasm. created a partial vacuum, which was followed | j).ig. ‘The Saimoans probably owe their present. large supply of the finest gontein their line, | ¥BOM THREE TO EIGHT DOLLARS. He desired that it should u ready...... ne #,000 | | The inner walls of the projectile were covered | by an awful hurricane, which swept down Drocterous conditiontto the hign regard exhiv, | RACE Cee aD CBICe ERE. a sows. | great work. Fourth—That the cannon would burst at with a thick lining of steel springs and leutuer | every hut and tent in the vicinity, and | feqvorthe females, a regard ‘that i inherent A fall senteens of ORESE DUCKS tee He supposed that the mem! the first fire... é - 4,000 | padding. Several smail windows of enormousiy | every tree within twenty miles; and burst upon | {eg {athe ife, forming an irradicable , ctherkinde ct Pooitry. ALL OTHER GOODS IN PROPORTION. the moon, or had heard it spoken off. Fift_—That the ball would go about sic thick glass were constructed in the sides of the town of Tampa, destroying hundreds of | trait in’ th ter of the Samoan that is WILD TURKEYS, eine eeom 4 He stated that a ugh the moon had been rotles and would come tumbling back in cone, an ingenious water-spring was construct. | houses, and among others Mary’s Church worthy of emulation by the nations of the earth PHEAS. are. PARTRIDGES, a ALL 0 & GOODS IN PROPORTION. thoroughly »y astrouomers.no commu- | a fr w seconds. ae ‘ / 00 | ed to counteract the mitial shock atthe moment | andthe new Exchange building. Greatdamage 29 boast of civilization based upon the broad. dant othed BALEON; CANVAS-BAOK DUCKS, ALL OTHER GOODS IN PROPORTION. fered posbte at aueythe earth had been con- | Gn ihe 1h of October, Nichol received the | of firing, and everything necessary for the com- | was aleo done to the shipping inthe port, many est principles of human ‘progress. Amid the Pd altotber Kindeat Game.) ® dered possible up to that da! following note : fortof the travelers was provided. There were | vessels being torn from their anchorage a fiercest conflict the women can travel toand iro ROCK BALMOM, GOU aod all Kicdeot FILE. . . He proposed, therefore, th. BALtiMone, Oct. 18. receptacles for water and food, and there wasa | dashedupontheshore. Ships,even at a great unscathed, visiting elther or both of the con- OYyS{ EBS, TERRAPIN CALL AT ONCE hould open such communi Taken. Barnicane. | tank of gas sufficient to light ‘and warm them felt the effects of this tending parties and supplying friends with CHEESE, BUTTER AND EGGS. | CALL AT ONO hey should do it by making | _ One question now remained to be decide, | for six days. But there was one little difficulty, 1 storm, and the wreck ot the Childe &P?4'"& Pee | f ammunition, provisions, water, or any other All kindsof OANNED GOUDS._ CALL AT ONCE ly large to send a ball—bang' © moon. and that was: Where should the experiment »»> | they must breathe during the trip, which it was | Harold, of Liverpool, which occurred in conse- Seceesity. ‘Tho Samean mover checuts himsctr | Whe te anclemr snpply of VEGETABLES of | « these last words, the great hall, andthe | tried? The Gun Clab held a meeting to con. calcalated would last about four days. The | que of the hurricane, was made the subject | from home three days without writing to bis MEAT. : po lll eH aT Streets around it, trembled with the thun- sider this subject, and it was agreed that the | oxygen inside the cell would certainly not last | of diplomatic remonstrances on the part of | wife. Generally @ ranner or boatman is dis- ple ueunthe Se ieone a thing cise STRAU > ders of applaose which broke from that vast | southern portions of Texas and of Florida lay them very long.and the carbonic acid gas which | England. ich came pear producing war be- patched home to the spouse each day during FIRST-CLASS MARKET STO! s’, crowd. 1t was many minutes before the Presi- | beyond the twenty-eighth parallel of latitude, | they would expire would soon be sufficient to | country and the United States. such absence, with an affectionate message. Send in your orders early, and we will filthem. | Po ine Gunes " dent c Zain make himeclt heard, when he | and that any place in those sections would an- | kill them. The question, then, amounted to | “When all was again quiet, and the people ‘There letters’ abound in charming figures of | _dec333w GEO. HUNTLEY & CO. pular Clo s House, proceeded to state that this thing was easy | swer the purpose. this: The oxygen destroyed must pe restored; | could once more stand erect, several millions of sk — speech and present withal the acme of sincerity. | 1011 PENNSYLVANIA AVAEUR, enough to do. It was only necessary to give | The question was settled on this basis, and the carbonic acid gas produced must be de- telescopes and opera glasses were pointed to be said of the native poetry. ~ uC IOOKS. the ball an initial velocity of 12,000 vards per | the consequence was that there arose au unpar: stroyed. All thisis easy enough todo by means | wards the Moon. But they could not see the | 2h€ same may fe°sa) SHILLINGTON, BOOKSELLER, ry a Considering the temperate habits of the Sa | Between 10th and th streets, Sasnly reach the moon, | alleled rivalry between the cities of Southern | first of chlorate of pot» sb and caustic potash. The basen ger projectile; it had passed entirely Out moans, it malic be pent ered strange that an NEWS AGENT AND STATIONER, ' ited the cannon was pointed properly. | Texas and Florida. The whole country was | of these, under @ ¥ery high temperature, gives Ht. of sigh internecine war should occur, if we did not the meeting adjourned. | agitated by the controversy. The newspapers | out oxygen; the second absorbs carbonic acid; | Nothing was now to be done but to wait for prernereen Ny rinctpal island numbers a few C®FMer 4% Strect and Pennsylvania Ave, 87-Open daily till 9p. w.,pnd on Saturday tilt Hitenal ecemimed, after a vast amount of | and periodicals took it up; such publications as | the valuable oxygen would be produced, aud | telegrams from the observatory. on the Rocky White renegades from the colonies among it HOLIDAY GIFT BOOKS, >. m. a’ditienal seientitic calculation by the Gun | the New York Herald, the Philadelphia Pos’, | the destructive carbonic acid gas destroyed. | Mountains. population. APPROPBIATE TO ALL AGES. Slehy fo Bre the ball from -ome point between | and the Rir-rside Mayazine sustained Texas, | The great chemists, Mesars. Keiset & Regnault, The projectile was due at the Moon at mid- | Phe iignuds,save Rose, are of volcanic origin, “peers” sHoxs:” the Ewustor and 28 deg. north or south of the | while the Washington Chronicle. the New York | had demonstrated that peed socanrog was casy | night of the 4th of December; and, from + | and abonnd in remains of extinct craters. The carHoLiec, EPISCOPAL PRAYER-B0oKs | Fquator, to point the cannon at the zenith, and | 7ribun-.and the Newark Regist-rstood up boldly | enough. But as their experiments bad onl: | e’clock until midnight of that day, it might | 2oiogical feature of the group and the flora em THOLIC, EPIS AL, PRAYE s a to fire it precisely at 15 minutes and 20 seconds | tor Florida. been tried upon the lower animals, J.T. Mas | have been possible, under favorable circum- gaged the close attention of Col. Steinberger of ll o'clock a. m. on the Urst day of the next | The matter became emberrassing. A warbe- | ton offered to prove that it would be successful | stances, to bay | and bis notes onthe developments in that di- December. tween Florida and. Texas was threaten At | inthe case of man. which would have disappeared like a black An Executive Committee of the (ium Club | last Barbicane setiled the matter. “Texas,” “Since I cannot take the trip,"’ he said, “shu point moving over a portion of the bright face held a meeting at the house of President Barbi- | suid he, ‘has at least eleven cities which will | me up in the shell for eight days. 1 will thas | br the Moone Tut irom the time or icing until cane, Oct. 5. The matter of the ball was the | answer our purpose very well. Now, if we de- | discover whether or not atmospheric air can bs | the night of atched the course of the rhe ‘bay wy oes <4 Bear i that rection are copious and discriminating. As an ther WRITING DESKS. 7. | GOs bee an BOOTS ena enthesiast in botany and geology he tound in | Fine Borsa mud Morocco Leather POCKET: | Stuur of tlasite bostutan Oar eiock ones the islanda a fitting fiefd for the exercise of bis F | the best m: ; ines ries, Oall and examine for your- e 12th of December the sky had is and evidently he availed | Gj) TB NSand PENCILS, | selves, at first thing to be settled. Ot what should they | cide in favor of Texas those eleven cities will | produced by artificial means." been overcast; nothing could be seen. On that brmelt otevery aecnior siet caeeck teat te INITIAL NOTE PAPER, in fancy boxes; latest JOHN ANGERMAN & Sox's, make it’ How big thould it be? And what | be sighting for the honor of the enterprise ‘The effir was accepted, and asuficient quan: | night a great wind-storm arose, and the clouds | },ee\t of every facili Tnrough the islands he | rine FS TYING CARDS. Gecl8-2w 415 7th street uorthweat, — should ithave’ J.T. Maston was wild | There is but one town in Florida suitably situ. tity of the necessary chemicals, with food | were swept away; and, sailing through the descended into an extinct volcano, and at a New POCKET RECORDS, fer business men. | cee eam, and waving in the air bis iron | ated; so let us go for Florida and the town of | enongh to last eight days, were placed inside of | heavens, appeared the glorions Moon” Then depth of many hundred feet diecovereda latge | Whey ares.dlery. pocket Dock and semmorastens | beok, with a pen screwed into it, he made a | Tampa!” the ekells and om the 13in of Nevomber, At 'i | came news from the observatory of the Rocky | prove of stately trees, as fresh and healthy as book combined. BUY FOR CASH, spcech full of eloquent Sgures. J.T. Maston The Texas party was disgusted. “A little | o’c ock in the evening, J.T. Maston took leave | Mountains, which was telegraphed allover the | f} upon an open plain. Inthe centre of the Patest Seif -olostay DIARIES for 1874, Get the as great on figures; not only figures of speech, | place like Fiorlaa.’ said their principal organ, | of bis friends, mounted the ladder, and disap- | world. The projectile had been reeived grove he peered over the edgeof a yawning . Inquire fer them at Vout numerical figures. He liked nothing better | almost an island, squeezed between two seas, | peared through the aperture in the top of the | through the great telescope of the Gun Ciub! | abyss which the lack of proper appliances pre- SHILLINGTON'S BOOKSTOR: aT REDUCED PRICES. than to lie awake at night, and calculate with | will never be able to resist the tremendous con: | cone. The cover was then screwed down tight. | ‘The following is the substance of the dispatch : | venting him from closely inspecting. Again, T £, what rapidity a ball weighing three-quarters ot | cussion, and will be blown away the instant the How he liked it inside it wasimpossible to know ‘The projectile fired from the great gun at ne passed through a cave, with arteria’ decls-tr corner 4 st. and Penns. avenue, = @ certain weight. and moving with a velocity | cannon is fired ‘The wails were su thick that nothing could be | Stone Hill, December 1, has been perceived | chambers, whose entire length, exclusive | rr equal to se venteen-nipeteentus of some other “all right!” said the Floridians, ‘let her | heard from him. = at forty-seven minutes past 8 o'clock p.m. De- | o¢ several branches he estimates at three OLIDAY PRESENTS. ¥+ ocity. would pass over a distance 1,300 times | plow!" On the 20th of November, precisely atéo'clock / cember 12. The projectile has not reached the | Of, S¢¥ern) cave runs in a direction ore DBESS TRUNKS. the square root of some other distance. And It now became necessary to raise the money | in the evening, the holein the shell wasopenet. | Moon. Ithas parsed to one side; but it is near almost horizontal, conforming to the | 80. L when he made speeches before the Committee. | for thie great work, and subscription-books were | Maston’s friends were natu alittle uneas enough, however, to be retained by the lunar topography of the country ‘above, has ® roof ten 505 Pexnsvivan HES TRUBKS, he introduced all these calculations. opened in all the principal cities of the Union. | but they were soon encour: by ashout th: attraction. In this position its’ movement | ferrin thickness, and is oe thiy Guishod as | hesj supaer, athe is PACKING TRUNKS, Bat the President was a much more practical | and also in various foreign countries. Came from the tnside of the shell, aud in @mo- | has been changed to s circular motion of | feet tm Cichness, and isasamoothiy Gut islands | Dag /Nst received om tammenss ow — | paprie nam wan, tie could perceive in an instant exactiy | ‘The total subscriptions from all parts of the | ment J. I. Maston appeared on the top of the | great velocity, ‘and it deecribes au ellip. | uy tunnel in America. On one of t phe, ey 1 nals ant SArCuELs. aie thie what he wanted, and he settled the question of | world. counting nothing trom England—wnere | cone in a triumphant attitude. tical orbit around the Moon, of which it had seseing an immense volume ot waiee seams idee," IDA ry ‘POCKET ee VaLr the size of the ball without any trouble. “You | not #°farthing was subscribed, asthe English | te bad actually fat! become a sattellite. The laws which govern this | Doidiy from the TOck®, and Hall, Couading | which be ts enabled to offer st ees (han adicnany cs Prill understand,’ sald he, «that it will be of no | people expected to have to pay the Alabama | We must now go back a little in ourstory. On | new star bave not yet been calculated; but it is | into calm, gentle stream ana ay NEW YORK MABKET BATES. DOUBLE AND SINGLE HARN tse for us to firea ball at the moon, if we are | claime~amounted to $5,116,675. the 2oth of October of the preceding year suffi- | distant from the surface of the Moon about 2.513 | {Rt tropical’ gave, The foam Ne = ink | _S7A call will convince you. dec8-tr WORK Han DI Fe pe fe see Nether it gets there or not. So | Captain Nichol now paid his first wager, one | cient money had been paid over to thie Univer- | miles. Either the attraction of the Moca ait fall is rich and varied, and fariy entapturss | wage) FOTN 439 ABBIAY ES, covaRs, the ball must be big enough for us to see it all | thousand dollars. sity of Cambridge to construct a telescope large | gradually draw the projectile to its surface, in | tapi valor Seam eee ad fairly enraptures ' _ No, i 8%, IPB, &c., Fee ee NON NLU fhe largest telescone that | On the 20th of October a contract was made | enough to observe the course of the projectile | Which case the travelers may attain the oljec fountainsof imposing grandeur spring (ave, | 7#H StReer cHorce At the We are able to make. the enidiiest object visiblé | wits the Cold Spring Iron Works, near New | which was to bé seu: to the Moon. of their voyage, or the projectile will continue grandeur spring from the on the moon wr thi sixty feet in diameter.” York, for the tion of the métstials to | | There was no reason why complet oon AyD Cob | Francisco. e@ cocoanut tree reaches | ed at Tampa on the 2%! of | cylin and the object glass, which weighed | glittering tace. And thus he remained, as i: net oa stock is com embracing all sizes, the United States, with the price-list for the tober. B yun Cl 1 >, full stock PA! ANG. | from FUBNACE to CHESTNUT, and all the best ‘2 Sud bis compantane 10s nor tesa irae, | Saeit pearl TNGS, WINDOW SHADES, Picture Gord and | qualitien, which we ofter ‘at lowest market rates. ros ‘he : 0,000 pounds, into the region of | were, in perpetual communication with his | {¢cton bere without cultivation, and its fruit | ge nlange and bis companions did not remain long in this Wino dua Nails, ms Hes y e furnishes the staple article of export from the | eternal snow. But all difficulties were sur- | friends, who probably felt happy, in the certain ared cocoa! Sif’ made of ctr, comparatively thin | little town. They explored the surrounding | mounted, and,in lesethan @ year fromthe com. | ! they must have felt that’ the worthy J ee oo pep Bogle pha cast-iron, would be too heavy | country, and soon selected a suitable location | mencement of the work, ‘the telescope sat 3 11 for the European market, but now the Ger- jy skilifel city er delivery Lory 4 z aston would keep his eye upon them as long | @ r | Split or in the stick the Comm thes went to work te caiceieea win, | fOr.thelr operations, ; Proudly on the summit of the rocky peak. as he lived and the telescope held together. |“ | Sitiele ef commerce known Bs spre aed tare | eetace Frames and Window Shades made to | Peer he,stick: { =° —— tlee wen! < work tocalculate what | This place was called Stone’s Hill, and was it was now the 22d of November. In ten days He did not despair of meeting them some day. | {¢ home, where the oil 1s exp The Samoa | Order. - STEP! we would weigh. Afterspending | situated 1.920 feet above the level of the sea, in | the great event would take place. There was | «We will correspond with them,” he would say, ie te. ‘amounts to more than the entire _ @all and examine our stock, and compare goods Office 1 Ivante 3 Wating ss ant ns to the we cuberroots, and ele- | latitude 3 degrees 7 minutes, and 5 degrees? | onlyne thing how to be dons, aed that mas to | tothore who wished to hear, ‘when circum: | {hear product of the Heweley nies ee, prices before purchasing. All articles war- | dec2%-tr_—— Mill and Depot, 7th-street Wharf . pin bekees rekon = second power, theycame | m'nutes west longitude. “It is from here,” aaid | load the cannon, and it was rather a delicate | stances permit. 1 know them. They are in- fact alone entitles the Samoas to considera. | "8t4 Ss represented. ‘Terms cash. \ GooDwie y. avuxe, men prom — sion. They would make | Barbicane, stamp ng upon the summit of the | operation to stow away 100,000 pounds of gun- genious men; and they carry through space al! | tion by the merchants of this city. Vegetables J. MARKRITE! AtLec’s Whar}, foot of Sixth street, ey calcuiated th: bal sb | bil, “that the projectile of the Gun Ciub shall | cotton, But Barbicane was equal to most difi- | fre resources of art, science,’ and industry. | ¢row upon the islands in boundless profusion. 439 SEVENTH STREET, DEALEE IN WOOD AND OVAL, wand ours mae = a ball of that metal take its flight into the depth of the Solar Sys- | cuities, and he had this cannon loaded under With these they can ‘do what they wish; and | he indigo grows rank, and like the California | dectT-2) 8 doore above Odd Fellows’ Hail. | — “ Hurrab!” cried J. T. Maston. “I didn't | “ZY his own eyes. ‘The gun-cotton was brought from | yon will see that they will yet come out all | puoend6o. Grows ral as an intruding weed. pest | Orders by mail promptiy attended to. think we could get a bail fo cheap asthat” | pecauee the bei eae ee rather, strongly, | Pensacola be rail, ten great cartridges atu | Tight"? | “Colone) Steinberger discreetly retrained from | "THE NEW HOLIDAY BOOKS! | Liberal Geductlons made to the trate. Oargoce Aa Ge ack Tousen of te choseatns ee} pecauae che ball was ouly intended to go to the | time, and these were carried to the mouth of | communicating information in’reference to hic | Bloaded and stored or delivered. ect tr qu: stion of the catmnon was cong denn 2 the | Moon—but it sounded well. the cannon by workmen in their bare feet. Wooden Shoes. | secret instructions, and, therefore, the public | WAL! CuAL! WOOD: wooD: remain as much inthe dark as ever on | Songuof the Souls. By Dr.8. J. . = Cc — Eight days after this a fleet of steamers ar- They were then lowered to their ‘ition by . agreed that it would requii a n y E; ce has shown that a number of dis- large cannon ee ane pee sos rived at Tas laden with the material for the | means of windlasses worked by ha #4 No steam xperience has sl “ _ ; JOHNSON BROTHE: eat gun a! 5 : f ; cf eases, often resulting in impaired constitutions, | this point; but his graphic descriptions of | 8 and, as the cannon of the Gun Club mast | fowm became peraiee ‘See ony’ witn these: forbiden, within ‘a distance ot two silee’'it | and.cven in the loes of life, have been con- | islands and the people compensate one for the WHOLESALE AND KSIAlL DEALERS Wook nec 22,232 miles, so it was evident it | but with thousands of lnguisitive persons whe | Crider necessary to guard against the heat of | {acted by a portion of the farming and labor- Figg Nelle ag fa aa mis” | Bvery Boys Annual for 3 soa eoctwent, png FGA would have to be pretty long. | gathered from all parts rg population in consequence of wearing | sion. object Ports; S — Yer, indeed?” cried J. i. Maston, «Oar | Sunered f undertaking. 4 railtuad-was tak by the tight of au electric laps the ceruubecs | leather shoes, when engaged in their operations | the Colonel's visit to Sativa oe fest we atest | Site th ones 100) QO yy carucn must be half a mite long, at the very | from Tampa to Stone's Hill, and, in @ short | were placed in order in the bottom of the can. | during cold weather, oF in wet situations. To | Jutely certain, and that is his thorough know- | ALL THE OHOIOE NEW BOOKS OF THE SEA- Daving vessels —, revent those evils to some extent, wooden shoes | le amon. ns of every | . Half a mile!” exclaimed the Committee, in fe y | way thes they conta be eeousten Se ane or | ure eatonsively ‘weenie Eramoe aud; Gerraner. | rocks croc: ama plant tecpimme ake titene | WM. BALLANTYNE’s, pn ee 2a ie J. 8. am electric battery. Ail the wines gore mute, | They are highly recommended by the agricul: | models of évery variety of house or boat known | _deel-tr_48 SEVENTH STREET, BELOW B es,” cried J. T. Maston: ad then it wil On the 4th of Noy - 0 tural societies a! verpments of Europe. Im- | to Samoa, copies of al native » aml | be too short by at least one-half. menced. ee ee Ps thestis cites venting cai thon reetauens pressed with their importance, ‘the board accurate sketches of all the leading pointsof the | Hermr vooDs. Come, come, J. T. Maston,” said one of the | By the light of the sun during the day, and ¥ Committee; «-you are going too far.” under a of commerce and trade of Winterburg up. The artist who accom} the expe- aa a Theva wire as sopncrtnnin | called a practical workman from France ts | dines, C tain Moody, has produced a.series of | paycy QHIEESE AND JAPANESE t electric light at night, the pick : setenmn-engines Sever coheed | Suine,carth. There this wire was s on, | give instruction “in. their manufacture. | most interesting ek with © powerful ba ops “ Sir.” replied J. T. Maston, proudly, strik- steam- ing bis breast with his iron hook, “you ‘must | 7 4mnevel and the eoaes. Coon nd on the 10th of June, twenty days | where it was con € CUBIS, Not ‘allowing water to penetrate, as Samoa. After conversing with Colonel Stein- WORK BOXES, ac. TERY fbat an artilleryman is like a casmnon- | inside of the date fixed upon, the well with its | tery. All that was i shoes do, they are naturaly drier, capable of or and observing the intelligent manner in N. W. Bi 5 ball—he can never go too far!”? lining of masonry had reached the desired depth | thing wat in order, was to poser a iltte bateee keeping the feet warmer, prevent diseases, by | which his work has been prosecuted, one is im- | _dect2 tw 1338 F strect. Pg Se oe ee ae Personal, | of 900 feet, the work resting on a real bet- | and this 400,000 pounds of gun-cotton would be | Promoting the Feauiaite and pagan’ —- | pressed with _ — tat the Presilent has A NICE PAIR OF BAND BRACELETS, WAR- {i men, andlet us reason the matter gravely. ope ect deep. instantly ignite are regarded, to a great ex! mt, an in his oppointment of this geu- ‘at much ‘regular 3 81 m ‘ ile the great well had been in course of 2 hargi life-preservers, even in such cases wi tleman to inquire into the resources of the Sa- jOB'S, 1006 wenia ave- Fo ee ae OF A cannon is from twenty | construction preparations had been making for | tho nese win pen -euues eae ScuRtae | bathe, the uss of whee, aad etasr eaten: | canetanae Sa- | prices, at PRINOE’S, smmeetiy — pede ten fay engeed oon ate Siecune! ene tee eaenen, x now remained to be done but to lower | ments proved quiteineffectual. There is hardly t - in othing robin farm and farm. dred and forty time its weight.” had been "Sule 200 Tew sey uae But, betor ‘wan dons, the’ 3: | house. eh the ot be. re y “That won't do, cried J. T. Maston. These furnaces Pi I know it,” said the President; “for, if we ia never seen anything | of thermometers and baro: were constructed our cannon according to those pro- | more beautiful, he b= even in Gr . ' + im 1 ortions, it would only be be 223 feet long. whi however, remarked, had tions arriving took ‘Perfectly ridienious!” cried J.T. Maston. | pean’? — cae ‘D r pedgr's sale “You might as well take a pistol!” “Just 80,” auswored the President, “and for bat reason I propose to make our cannon 400 fro old graveyard at Claysville, Ky., which was | HOLIDAY SEASON. to the destruc- buried, ina metallic case, the » a plowing, mowing, | 1855. ‘The child was two fet acess wesntali a ai work in vineyards, as | & general assortment of flowers, its grandmother, Shen itmas DRY GOODS and FANOY ARTICLES Et t ry i = & poe gdh d hoe RMORY BAXTER, spat Fenon ai, ete ae ag cus | decis-tr 1920 Peausyivania avenue. This was agreed to, and the | th hy : died. Wh Sad wae a the length of the can- oa y cuovats, Mttle band until it died. When the shroud was | () YSTERS 0" wassettied. It was then determined that how could body put in the coffin, no ef- in STY. the sides should be six feet thick. would not have to to ‘the rose sweets from ae ine “You will probably not mount it on acar- ‘Babitation® ; and so the buds of flowers were Oonnen 8p axp H SrEests BW. riggs?" said one of the committee. Rave liked to have bud of More than enh eaieaes. ton, that would be gamit,” said J.T. Mas. He ‘dia not desire to aes, when the cots Soe SEO a SAEED: Proprietor. “Bat impracticable,” said the President. «I : — . P shall cast the gun in the ground. snd it will ™ _ - oy us have ail the resistance of the earth around s It was, subsequently. termined gzunon of cast Irom, Rad it was bellowed that uch @ gun, perpendicularly and solidly set in ‘ue earth, would not be likely to barst. tate tae cmmittoe then we: to work to calca- The next day the powde: tae Comites "OES Gea amigg was haere

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