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... trial prosperity to its present high position. perity; and the publishers are determined to make it more late meeting of the board of commissioners of the society at Thirty-five years ago all carpets were woven on hand looms. and more worthy of its position as the most popular scien-Syracuse. The paper is published in full in the current The cost of labor in this country made it impossible for tific and industrial paper in the world. With a circulation number of the SUPPLEMENT, in connection with an excellent American carpet makers to compete in cheapness with the of 50,000 copies every week, among the most intelligent and map of Africa, embodying the results of all recent explorawork turned out by the ill-paid hands of England and active men of the country, the men who are doing the coun-tions.