Life — March 26, 1891 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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THE ADAPTABILITY OF GENIYS. Visitor: 1 SHOULD THINK EDITOR FAKERSON WOULD FIND IT VERY DIFFICULT TO COLLECT HIS THOUGHTS FOR WRITING THOSE SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES IN THE DISTRACTING DIN OF THIS NEWSPAPER OFFICE. The Sporting Editor: Weil, We USED TO HAVE DIFFICULTY WITH THE OLD ENCYCLOPEDIA, BUT THE NEW EDITION 18 SO CONVENIENTLY INDEXED THAT HE COLLECTS THEM WITH NO TROUBLE AT ALL. TTR AY THE FOUNDATION. THAT BOY HAS THE MAKING OF A POLITICIAN IN JUS, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK SO? He's Irisn, SPRING OPENING OF NEW CARPETS. JOHN H. PRAY, SONS & CO. In making our selections for the Spring Market, we have paid special attention to the modern style # furnishing, and taken into due consideration the newest ideas in high art decoration, so that all our new all Carpets will harmonize with the latest style of coloring and interior decorations, while many of our clusive patterns are the choicest productions of the best European and American designers. Our agents, both abroad and at home, have secured the latest novelties, so that we can offer the full psortment of English and American AXMINSTERS, WILTONS, BRUSSELS, TAPESTRIES, and other brics. PERSIAN, INDIAN, and other Eastern RUGS we shall continue to make a specialty, and our RIENTAL department will be found to contain a very large and choice stock of every variety of IPORTED RUGS and CARPETS. We invite our friends and the public generally to an early inspection of our new and large stock, cling confident that we offer inducements in style, quality and price that no purchaser can afford to pass. JOHN H. PRAY, SONS & CO.,, CARPETS AND UPHOLSTERY, 558 & 560 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON. comicbooks.com