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T--v ' •'?)•* i * rv * \ .A: mmm iU ̂ ' f ti-vh wm i .*" ,*i • - ysgp'ti • * . . " ' * * -S^ (*- ' • * •.\lfbJ • '&n- ; An Kxperlment for Bojra. Take two etnpty eyster cans ami a •lout smooth string. Let a small hole fee »ade In Hit bottom of each can, UrOufh which the string, say fifty or one hundred feet in length, i* passed and secured. Then let the experimen­ ters set up their talking telegraph by Cfcoosing their stations as far apart M Die tightly stretched string will per­ mit, and while one of the operators feel da his «ar to one of the cans, and his companion his mouth to the can of the •ther end of the line.they will find that «conversation can be carried 6u so that low tones and even a whisper will hi distinctly perceptible. What usu­ ally most astonishes those who make this experiment for the, first time, is Hat the sound of the voice does not Mem to comt from the person speak- **g at the other end of the string, but to issue from the can itself, which is held to the ear of the listener. This at first appears to be a deception, but it !• really not so. The ear tells the exact truth. Tho voice that is heard really Mines from the can that is held to the ear of the hearer. The voice of tho speaker communicates sound-producing vibrations to the wall of the can with Which his voice is in immediate con­ tact. These vibrations are communi­ cated to the string, but so changed that they no longer affect the ear. A person may stand by the string while the sound is passings and yethearnoth- Jng. At the other end of the string, however, these hidden vibrations re- themselves as sound,--Affiance VJ: ' PUMPS. I La large Stock of Adams celebrated ffeenosha Pumps. The best Pumps and *t lowest prices, at E. M. Owen's. Ate yoti Irotag te-tase Good Cash or Good Credit ift making Your Fall aajd w _ Winter Piirobaafifeff11# I , go and see what Cash will do. |51POne Price Only. Remember I buy Bankrupt Stocks, Goods from forced Sales, manufacture all my fine Clothinir and Overcoats, and present t!>< most attractive stock found in this section. I. 1 • •1%. • Are you Buying at the FflUowIngPrlces? Oood Print# 5 Best Prints Good unbleached Cotton by Piece Rest dUto AO inch ditto .......... ».3« Best Bleached 10 Dress Goods bargains to 45 Black Alpaca.... » 46 incli Cashnwer®, Good Corsets.35 All Cv'hnibrit'8® Dress Braids S Mens Suits. $5.00 to 825.00 Bnvs Suite..,.$3,00 to f 10.00 Buffalo Robes all prices & MARTIN n «,«&« ?nW' eadquarters i' \ r<r^v :-W&t - miim m , KM W: ]. *%••_ - vc <• ,TtiV T'.if! "Jut ,1 " • \ - 'W- M-#, ~t rf i-i '->» • •» -I*. -I •«»» . h; .. • .1* • .f'jBp? S ijyt jni- ,iW "> .«> ?>• -It-" k} t'i -. "tifir- r 9 &&'-"•'* "•*' " 100 12 c ut glass Goblets...... ,T 00 8S bars 9oz Soap........... t 00 12 Rs Rice 1 00 Gboxesdinie Matches,,... 25 12 cakes Honey Soap. 25 Sugar Chicago priced freight added 5 lbs G Coffee i„... 1 00 Best V H Tea 80 Best Japan Tea 70 Good Y II and Japan..i.%ji.. < HO B L Japan ..f... ^,^ 30 4 t>s B L Japan .,,,100 5c off on 5 lbs lots' < "'/A No I 65 Oastile Soa|» 15 ft-; Stemlcss Ilalsrus....' S lbs Layer ltai^ins ... 1 k( box l.nyer lljvlsins . '•...> •20 lbs Cod'Flsb. I 35 Ita tlnke J 20 tbs No I Mackerah..... 1 Ladies Shoes sewed and pesrged I Misses shoes 11 to 12 1 Mens Vo-vl Kip Boots warranted 4 Mens Kin Boots........... S Mens Split lyp Boots....i 2 Boys and Yolltha tocorresj pond. Ladies Furs all prices I bought my Woolens for tho manufacture of my Fall and Winter Stock at a less price than It cost to make the Goods. Come "to my Dundee or Richmond Store and you will be equally well served. , Am prepared at both Stores for a big trade and will more than satisfy you. Come, and it will be money in your pocket. G« Fa HALL tsrc hicago Office 122 Franklin St., top Stairs. Where Do You Trade? ^JOM^SeURCH .vl J. STORY, his old stand opposite tte MU1 ^ . .v i MoHENRY ILL.I Having enlargred his Store is now better. «in ever prepared to furnish his easterners d the baying public generally with ; YfflWi; r.< •• 8ttY8,fhrwar8, i® '..At Prices Lower thaa ever before offered in ttfcig suction. We have In stock a large variety fftt ' the leading 00 StJYK. 2 Of different styles and makes, which 'we in tes the public to call and examine and learn before purchasing. It is almost unnecessary to oall the at ten- l of the public to the fact that we keep stantly on hand a large stock of Shelf rdware, Nails, Table and Pocket Cutlcrj, are, Galvanized Band Iron (Barbed) for Barbed Wire, Shovels, Forks, etc., in t, everything found in a first-class Hard- re Store. *i.«srn " 4 . ? vr m• J.STCRY. Mcllenry, Nov. 12th, 1877. Crystal Lake t' 4 m •ft- --AND-- m* Preserving Workt 1# Runnlrig "I# IBXTUL,- Bl.^SarjD And expects to ran for aU time to eoMk t m*»» fall line of Groceries CHICAao PRICES. Alio Salt Pork, and all kind* of Salt Fish and Smoked Meat6, and take in trade or part cash. Oats, Corn, Butter, Egg*, Ac., at the highest market prices. be led away by false representations feat-give me a_ call and see tor yourself.-- Thankful forthe literal patronage I have had " " ril • '. > HENRY MILLER, -DEALER IN Fofeiiii Monuments, Keadstonea» etc. Boots and ShoeSj plats and G-roceriei of all Kinds, C. <te N - W. CIIICAOO A NORIII-WE8TEBK i-fttUiikei- Crockery Glass-Wai ,̂ ' : &i; \±; r • • • 1IIFEUIT CANS, CARPETS, TRUNKS, iVv ' •' * And in short, a First Class Stock of General Merchandize. V ' ),J I , Branches i»n<l connei-tionertomis the shortes and (juickertt route between Chicago and a! points in IUnxtia, Wisconfin, Northern Michl gan, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska. Californii and the Western 't'erritories. Its Oonaha and California I Is the shortest and best route between Clil go and all pninti) in Northern Illinois, low, Nebraska, Dakota, Wyonnng.Cw.lrado, tltal XeviMia, California, Oregon, China, Japan a*< Australia. Its Chicago, St- Paul A Minneapolli Line- Is the short line between Chicapo and a| p<<ints ir Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota and for Madison, St. Paul,. Minneapolis, Hi luth, and all points in the Great Northwest Its . Is LaCrosie, Winona & St. Peter line || Is the best route between Chicago and Ll§(' Crosse, Winona, Rochester, Owatonna, MSK kato, St. Peter, New Lihn nnd all points i|| Southern and Central Minnesota. Its . . ?i •- • v<-n#rv. W« are constantly receiving all feincip, and buying tli«m for Cash Down are thereby enabled to ofler special bargains iu all classes of goods. We know that talk is cheap, but the pari£ or parties who can undersell its don't live In this neck of the* woods. 0u* LARGE AND CONSTANTLY IN­ CREASING TRADE testifies better than anything we oftii say that OUR CLAIMS ARE NOT, U5\3FOUNDED. • ,, ' • • " *^r . . . We always guarantee our goods to be what they are represented to be tend are always ready to make good our word. We are here to get a livelihood and hence cannot afford to. be undersold or to deceive the public, nor to ask enormous profits oa our goods. W# intendJto, . -P • . 1 m Live and Let Live!" And'wMll we ore grateful to ft5* generous public for tlioir patronage in time past, we hope to teerit the same in the future, fl^GIVE US A CALL axid we wU|show yoii our Goods aud use you wel^whether you buy of us or not* PERRY & MARTIN. . " i i . At the Old Stand of Owen & Bi*oth«fs McTTpnry, Ill., «Tiily 27th, 1&7B. Green Bay & Marquette Linf " >e«. & Freeport & Dubuque Line Is theonly line between Chicago and Janei- ville, Watertown, Fon du lac, Oshkosh, A] lileton. Green IJsiv, Kwcanaba, Negaun Marquette, Houghton, Hancock and the La! Superior Country. Its !P Is the only route between Chicago and Elgirtk ^ ^ poiuts via Fre#*; Rockford, Freeport and all l>ort. Its Chicago & Milwaukee Line g the on® Is the old Lake Shore Route, and one .passing between Chicago and Evansto Lake Forest, llighlnnd Park, Wauk liacine, Kenosha and Milwaukee. ^ Pullman Paiace Drawing Rooil Cars s are rnn on all through trains on tuts road. This is tbe ONLY LINJi running tlisse catB between Chicago and St. Paul and Minnp a_polis, Chicago and MflwatiKce. Chicago ami Winona, or Cbioago ai'd Green Bav. Close connections nrfe made at Chicago with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, Micf* igan Central. Baltimore and Ohio, Pittsburg. Ft. Wayne, & Chicago., Kankakee Line a ltd Pan Handle Routes, for all points EAST anil SOUTH-EAST, and w ith the Chicago and Al­ ton and Illinois Central for.all itoints SOUTH. Close connect,ions are also made with tbe Union Pacilic R. Ii., at Omaha for all far Went points. Close connections made at junction point* with trains of all cross points. Tickets over this mute are soM bv all Co A. pon ticket agent*in the United &t«te» and Canada. Remember you asi for yonr tickets rfa til* Chicago £ Northwestern Railway and take none others. New York Office. No. 415 Broadwav; Rostov Office,-So, 5 State Street; Omaha 'Office, MA Fwrnham Street; San Francisco Ofllc , Ml Montgomery Street; Chicago Ticket Otlii ts. fi'2 Clark Street, under Sherman House; 7ft Canal, corner Madison Street; Kinxrre Street Depot, coi ner W. Kinzie and Canal Street*; Wells Street Depot, corneT Wrlls and Ki«xf* Streets. For rates or information not attainable froae your home ticketagents,apply to A .MARVIN HUGHITT UenerulSupt. W. E. STINNETT, Gen'l Passe:.ger Agent ^DEA^EE I5T-- ; q§§( M E R C H A N T T A I L O American & ScdiSi Granite, Constantly on Hand. Shop Two oiUQ%^rth of ^Ic- III. M lk And Dealer AKD BE CONVINCED. We have one of the most com­ plete Stocks of Fall and Winter Goods ever brought to this Vil­ lage, which we aid offering At a Small Advance Above FOR CASH Public inspection solicited. f^gf"Farmers Produce Wanted in Exchange for Goods. FITZSMRM)N^ & EVANSON, McHenry, III., Oct. 23d, '77. Johnsburgh, Aug.'SOth, 1877 LAUER '•& EICE1R, Invites the public to an inspection of newly purchased Stock. g^1 Prices to suit the Times and Goods Warranted us represented. CUTTINC DONE AS usualT "Store" One Door North of Colby's Drug Store. ¥ McHenry, III.. Sept. 12th, 1877. BUY ONLY THIE hog^m will continue and I will endeavor to ^ : M* F. JON E3V Agent* O^ttal Lake Oroesings, Oct. 29th, 1877. CHEAPEST AND BEST, CHICAGO * SHOOTING GALLERY. laming6 Pock, McHenry, III. The best 6VM and Finest Alleys to be found in the Northwest. Open daj and ^veaing. m. WHITE, Proprietor. „ , V " - f The People's Paper! 88 columns filled u'ith Editorial, Xofrfc Ag rlcnltural, Miecellimy aud Mar|Mt lie ports. One Copy l year, Postage paid.;. 75c, Clubs of Five, Postage Paid 70c. Clubs of Ten, Pontage Paid........;.Mt± Clubs of Twenty, Postage Paid ...Ne THE DAILY POST. w Cne Tear, Postage Pa^........,,.......,..|jIo# P«*t« of • Tear la Itcyortioit. to grentlv enlarge the DAILY P^rT O.-tober, after which the price will be $10 per year, postage i»aid. All who suboerlbe iiefore enlargement, at the pr<3#aat rate otf7 Mr ill receive tlie enlarged the end of their time without exMa e Sanu- terms to Agents on ®*I1 Weekly a« last year. A^drewf^--""- < $100 wanted HP ' ' "v County riK>nHHBEHK3ii f.,r the ir on w< n;knowlHRklSdard Medicines «v.efyj ̂ mily; reputation world- MiIS I ^ .many y«sara; made by a A phy«ieian; proofs of evidence given. An industrious, ener^etie person can make snug permanent income an«l very liberal 52™?' ^KldreMing with refenence, 288 Ch««taut Street, Philadelphia/^ Near the Depot, MCHENRY, -. ILLIN* • " • mJL-ty ' Tho subscriljers are now prepared with a Stock of jFINE CLOTHS -pf all kinds, to make to ••riler t;oat,s, Puntu, Vests or entire Suits, on short notice and ou the most tasaMe Terms. *Tw-<;ood*Fiti! Guaran­ teed and;-4^n. Work(|fw- rautisd. . ,v -. We also Keep a Full Line l̂ eady • Made Clothing, GKNTS Hats, Caps, &c "W'hirh will be sold aslow 'at.- at any establishment in the County. ' Clothes Cleaned In^he befet of manner and on short notice. 1&AUEE & BEGKERfi f1f McHenry, Feb. 36th, 1877. 3! Land Foir Sale. TIB®»n*'er>Jtnti«d han* numix-r of pieces of X viiitb bc OCQIS for Sale, situated as follow*! 4 'V 14 Acres of Timber Land, in Section 1, Nun- da To\v,iwjhip, , io A< ree in Section 12, Xunda" 4 20 Acre's in Section Nunda. 80 Acres in Section 23, STunda, with house. Ixt'rn, orchard, well fenced ana 'watefetf.' 54 acres nnder imuroveinent and balance timber I will also sell my Home Farm, containing 132 Acres, good buildings, and under a good state of cultivation. Any or all of the above will be sold on the most reasonable terms* . ' 4 I also have on Section 22 ten tons of good Hay, put up in good, shape, which I will .sell for $> per ton. JOHN FLttSKT, Mciftmry, 111., Sept. 25th, 1377, It is the Only Sewing iaehlns •which has a I OOODS. A ' ; - Ha#' on liantl a choice ̂ io<S ot PLOWS of the best make, which he is se.linff at the LOWEST PKIGES for Gash, r ite Farm and Democrat WAGONS, FANNING MILLS, The Celebrated task PHHL &Ci; &Cij Call at my Warehouse when in want of anything fn my line. E. M. OWEN, McHeaiy, If HAS SELF-SETTING PBDLB. NEVER BREAKS THE THREAD. NEVEE SKIPS STITCHES. lSTfiiMmsYttwa. The Slimiest, the Host Durante, and in Every Kespftct The test Family Sewing Machine! Tbe "NEW AMERICAN" is easUy learned, does not get out of order, and will do more work "with Iobs labor tluui any other machine. Illustrated Clreular ftarnlslMd on application. , A G E N T S W A N T E D . 1, S. leKXKSKT, Imgir, OBee aad Mmtoa, Ut Watul iniu, CUcho, IHIboIs, JLipent,. " McHenry. 111. BEASLEY S iepoAle, or Sale at the Saloon of cHenry, III. FOUNDRY AND McHENBY, ILL. WABD B. GALE, Proprietor. '« NEW,;" WAGON - • S I I O P , McIIENRY, ILLINOiS^v i3B •i'- Would rcspeptfnlly inform his frit rifTs Sni tho public gtinfrallv' that lie is now prepared* at his Shop, Wost c>f the I'lililir Square, to dtt all kin<ls of Cariienter AVovk or wovk-in wood of any kind, sncli as the wood-work of (fies, Wagojin, nuikiiiK Boats, £ and in short any thinjr «ver made in alirst-class Carpenter Shop. From a long experience in thq busineae and using none but the beat of Lumber I Ml in all cases Guarantee Satisfaction^ GENERAL JOBBING P#omptly|atteiided- to. Give MSs !C&l-l! E. PERKINS, Mellcnry, III * Not*, S»th,1876, The Tindorsicrnod has just dry and Machine Shop, and Btartcd a Foun­ ts now prepared to "do all kinds ol Ousting for Machinery, on short notice and in the best of manner. We also manufacture thejcelebrated Gale Wind Mill. Repairing of all kinds done promptly and satisfaction Guaranteed. Threshing Machines rcpaijRd on short no­ tice. Orders solicited, M '11 . ̂UDBJGaLB, MeHenry. ia., April %lhM*77, ^ not easily earned' !n these i inios. but it can he marie In three months by any one of either sex, in any part of the country who Is willing to work steadily at the employment that we furnish.-- »i«i>er week in your own town. Yon npe<l not he away from home over night. You Mn give your whole time to the work, or only your spare moments. We have agents who are making over ifriO per daySAll who engage at once can make money fast. At the present time money cannot. In- made so easily and rap, idj.C at any other business. It costs nothing to try the business. Terms and $5 Outlit tree Address at ojice. II, HAfcUBTT £ Oo„P«rtlMd Maine. ^