A WONDERFUL ADVANCE IN MANDOLIN MAKING.- The new 1897 Washburn Mandolin is creating a perfect furor among artists and amateurs. It is so far ahead of any mandolin ever heretofore constructed that it never fails to awaken the most enthusiastic enconiums, and expressions of surprise mingle with the praise, for the new Washburn mandolin fairly oversteps the line of expectation, and with its rich mellow tone marks out a field of its own. For the time it has been before the public its sales are phenomenal. A beautiful new catalogue (fully illustrated) telling more about this mandolin, and also giving full particulars of the 1897 models of Washburn guitars, banjos and zithers, may be had by addressing Lyon and Healy, Chicago.- Chicago Musical Times.