An old observer tells that one's eyebrows are an infallible guide to his age. No matter how youngalooking the person may be, if bis eyebrows lack gloss and do | not lie flat and smooth he is no longer a young man. The United States Government has advertised for 5000 American white marble headstones. Congress, on Maroh 30, made an appropriation of £4000 to pay for them. The headstones will be used for the unmarked graves ef Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in various parts of the country. The Encyolopedia published by the Academy at Peking, as far aa bulk is concerned, at least, is the largest in the world, it being composed of 160,000 volumes,
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West Coast Times, Issue 7299, 21 January 1889, Page 4
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