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ALICYLIC
SURE CURE.

Manufactured only under the above Trade-Mark

LIBRARY

OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.

Class

dred cases within three days.

SECRET.-The only dissolver of poisonous Uric Acid which exists in the Blood of Rheumatic and Gouty Patients.

One Dollar a Box; 6 Boxes for Five Dollars.

SENT TO ANY ADDRESS ON RECEIPT OF PRICE.

INDORSED BY PHYSICIANS.

Sold by all Druggists.

ADDRESS,

WASHBURNE & COMPANY,

Only Importers' Depot,

KNOX BUILDING, 212 Broadway, cor. Fulton St., NEW YORK.

FOR SALE BY

J. P. MILBURN & CO.,

No. 1429 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C.,

AND DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE

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OF FACTS.

Among the many topics which the solid tables of statistics in this volume illustrate are the following:

Population of the Globe and of the United States in detail.

Public debts, revenue and expenditure, imports and exports of all Nations.

Heads of the principal Nations of the world in 1880.

The railroads and telegraphs of all countries, with those of the United States and their progress, dividends, bonded debts, etc., in detail.

Occupations of the people in the United States.

Complete tables of the production of gold and silver, by far the fullest that have been gathered, and embracing the estimates of various publicists in one view.

A complete view of the excise and tariff laws, with duties on all important articles. Agricultural statistics of the United States from 1870 to 1879.

The business of the Patent Office of the United States from the beginning, with fees for patents.

Regulations for copyright under United States laws.

The statistics of the Post-office system and its revenue and expenditure from 1790 to 1879, with rates of postage, foreign and domestic.

Statistics of churches in the United States and the religions of the world.
Dividends of manufacturing companies during the last few years.

Table of the United States public lands open to settlement, and regulations for sale, and for free settlement under the Homestead law.

Valuation of property in every State and Territory in 1870 and in 1879.

Public debts of States and cities in 1870 and 1879.

Receipts and expenditures of the United States under each head from 1789 to 1879. Comparative table of newspapers and periodicals in the United States in 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1879.

Prices of twenty-five leading articles of consumption for fifty-four years, 1825-1878. Prices of British consols from 1789 to 1878.

The discount rates of the Bank of England from its foundation to 1879.

Prices of gold, railway stocks, and United States bonds in the New York market for the past twenty years, 1860-1879.

Statistics of education, showing number of pupils, amount expended for public schools, teachers' salaries, and number and cost of universities and colleges.

Tables of illiteracy by States and Territories comparatively.

Comparative population of American cities in 1870 and 1875.

Population of States which have taken their own census since the ninth census of the United States in 1870.

Pensions paid by the United States Government, with list of pension agents.

Annual immigration into the United States, with the Chinese immigration distinguished.

Interest laws of every State and Territory, with penalties for usury.

The army of the United States, with a pay table.

The United States navy and its pay.

A complete table of the gold and silver coinage of the United States.
Table of manufactures in the United States.

The date of each forthcoming State election.

The time of meeting for every State Legislature.

The Governors of all the States and Territories, with their salaries and politics.

Several pages exhibiting the climates of the United States in their farthest range of temperature, from Alaska to Florida.

Tables of rain-fall in America, and in other countries.

The reduction of the public debt of the United States and the interest thereon. Full statistics of National banks, savings banks, and other fiscal institutions, with the amount of their deposits, loans, discounts and circulation.

A table of vital statistics, showing the expectation of life at every age from one year to 104 years.

An official directory of the United States Government, showing the complete list of succession in every important office.

Tables of all the principal present officers of the United States-customs, revenue, executive, judicial, etc.-foreign ministers and consuls, with salaries attached.

A full list of both houses of Congress, with their committees and the political complexion of each house.

Complete tables in detail of every Presidential election in all the States; the fullest published.

The latest State elections, with the vote in each State by counties in detail.
And many other tables too numerous to be mentioned in this succinct summary.

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