remarked the woman; “ but your studies are 
beyond my dertb. 1 am sorry you are not able 
to solve it, for the book the teacher offers as a 
reward would gratitiy us all. May be if you 
should go over to the surveyors early in the 
morning, he would show you how.” 
“No, mother, I was to do it all myself; you 
would not like to have me go to BChool with the 
surveyor’s work as mine, would you? What 
would the master say if he found it out?” 
“Of course not; the wrong would be the 
6 ame whether the master tound it out or not, 
my boy; and if yon loose the prize by failure 
after all your toil, yon will gain a higher prize 
in not winning at the expense of truth.” 
“I would like to win it though for all that,” 
remarked the boy thoughtfully; “ Will IIatne 
and I have been working hard all wiuter in a 
good nalurcd contest to beat each other. He 
says he bas found a way to solve the problem, 
and if he has the prize of better scholarship will 
be awarded him. If 1 could only see one point, 
the whole matter would be dear; but I have 
turned it in every shape I can think of, and the 
same difficulty comes across my way.” 
“Let it go then my eon; you have worked 
hard enough to win at any rate, and if yon fail 
in this you have not failed in making good pro¬ 
gress In yonr studies and gaining the approba¬ 
tion of your teacher. Disappointments will 
meet us all in life, and he who schools hl6 heart 
to meet them with a cheerful and heroie spirit, 
will conquer either here or hereafter. Your fath¬ 
er and I were horn to a better lot than this rude 
cabin and frontier llte, but misfortune bas bro’t 
us here without doubt to end our days; and yet, 
we are not destitute of comfort aud happiness 
even here; and a good Providence has softened 
down onrlot with countless mitigating mercies.” 
The boy ate his supper in thoughtful mooi, 
and afterwards resumed his task, hut was con¬ 
strained at last to give it up unsolved. Next 
morning he was making his way two miles to 
school through wood and wild, hut turned aside 
to the cabin of a land surveyor temporarily lo¬ 
cated there, who. with a few brief explanations, 
cleared up the doubtful point and made it plaiu. 
Then came upon the hoy the strong temptation, 
the battle of a lie against the truth; but the lat¬ 
ter by the help of bis good angel triumphed — 
aud he loBt thereby the prize of the hook on 
which he bad so much set his heart. 
“ In a certain mm," remarked the spirit, 
“ that boy's young life hasbeen <t failure!" John 
Delano started at the repetition of his own 
words uttered in presence of his sisters on the 
previous evening, but the spirit made no further 
sign. 
The scene shifted, as time sped on; the b»y 
was older tmt no less coarsely dressed, as he 
again appeared, dusty and travel stained, wend¬ 
ing bis wa; JOD foot along the road. A lame 
beggar sat rl the way-side upon a FtoDe holding 
in his hand 'broken crutch. He bad stumbled 
over a rougtt.jlHce and bciug lame had fallen to 
how could they he with the weight he carried; 
hut with the talent committed to his trusts, he | 
has returned more interest to his Lord than any 
of us will do I fear when our day of final reck¬ 
oning shall have come.” 
The moistened eye, the earnest tone, and the 
heightened color of the sister’s cheek, as she 
plead the cause of her father’s good name were 
eloquent indeed; and the brother, though he 
did not respond with all his heart, was silenced 
if not convinced. He kissed his sisters as he 
hade them both good night, aud they all retired 
to rest rendered so necessary by the grief and 
watchings of the past, few days. 
John Delano was not possessed naturally of 
a mean and sordid spirit, although the school of 
self-denial rendered necessary by the narrow 
circumstances in which the family had been 
reared engendered an undue desire to hoard for 
the purpose, as he cheated himself into believ¬ 
ing, of avoiding the evils of poverty. He placed 
a high estimate on the value of money, and was 
gradually developing the idea that success or 
failure in accumulating property was the meas¬ 
ure of success or failure in life. Narrowing 
down the truth that money is a blessing to its 
possessor only so far as it enables him to im¬ 
prove his own condition and to benefit mankind, 
he was sliding gradually downward from the 
plane of the economist to the degraded level of 
the miser; and the last thought running through 
his mind that night as he closed his eye6 to 
6 leep, was tbe good luck of the Johnson chil¬ 
dren each witff his hundred thoueand dollars. 
The faint and distant clang of a locomotive bell 
sonudedlu hie ears like the tinkling of coin, and 
the booming of the train dashing over a bridge 
was metamorphosed into the slamming shut of 
treasury vaults with their steel clad doom. 
Visions of grotesque 6bape and of doubtful in¬ 
terpretation lloated through his brain. At one 
time be seemed to have climbed a steep and 
slippery mountain whose summit was a mass of 
solid gold surmounted by a gorgeous fane, be¬ 
fore which a crowd of men and women worship¬ 
ped ; but on approaching and looking in he be¬ 
held a jeweld casket containing only a hideous 
and grinning skull. Anon, scaling a precipice 
of silver ore, he stumbled over a huge mass of 
uncoined bullion, and falling from a tremendous 
height i hat took away bis breath, he plunged at 
last into a pestilent and noisome marsh. Beg¬ 
gars were contesting the possession of bones 
with dogs, while men of hideous aud demon 
shape sat by on bags of coin, and offered no help¬ 
ing hand to the human against the canine brutes. 
In another place a man, whose face he could not 
see, 6tood by a huge sack marked $100,000, from 
which he was sowing broadcast double eagles 
among a scrambling crowd of gamblers, courte¬ 
sans and thieves; while not far apart with dis¬ 
heveled locks and broken heart, a woman sat 
upon a stone! 
Suddenly the tumult ceased, tbe fearful 
pageant passed away, and a mellow silver light 
stole into the room growing brighter aud 
brighter, in the midst of which a presence re¬ 
vealed itself in form and feature more than mor¬ 
tal. The being, whoever it. might be, was dressod 
in a loose and shining robe and wore a diadem of 
stars. In one hand it held a sliver wand like a 
caduccus entwined with fiowere, while in the 
other were gathered up the folds of its flowing 
robe. The young mau, annoyed and irritated 
from the effects of the late unhappy vision, ad¬ 
dressed the visitant, in a querulous tone, inquir¬ 
ing for what end he was thus honored, and 
whether he was indebted to the new comer for 
the exhibition of the past. 
“ Tartly, yes;” responded the other; “I have 
been commissioned by one who loves you to 
show you not only these, but other things, that 
you may be led back into tbe right path from-' 
which you have of late been straying. Come 
with me.” 
“ Have we far to go ? I must be back early in 
the morning for leave of absence from my place 
will terminate to-day.” 
“ All times and all distances are alike to me,” 
replied the spirit; “ and while under my control 
they will be alike to thee; lay hold of the skirt 
of my robe aud fear nothing.” 
The young man instantly obeyed, and they 
floated out into the open air. The full orbed 
moon was wheeling her majestic car across the 
cloudless arch of heaven, shedding a mellow 
radiance on all around, while the headed dew- 
drops on blade and flower glistened like gems 
tinted with rainbow hues. They paused a mo¬ 
ment in the cemetery through which they were 
passing, beside a new made grave; that in which 
the remains of his father had but yesterday been 
laid, and the spirit, sprinkling the fresh earth 
from a golden vessel, with what seemed to the 
young man to be the tears of the widow and 
the fatherless shed in regretful memory over the 
ashes of a departed friend, immediately there 
sprung tip a bed of flowers Iraught with celestial 
fragrance and beauty; and without further delay 
or comment, they hastened on their way. How 
fur they traveled or what direction they took, it 
was impossible to tell; but in the mean time the 
climate changed to a fierce and driving wiuter 
storm, and the region they traversed was moun¬ 
tainous and covered with snow. Suddenly they 
stopped ami entered a rude log house with a 
broad mouthed open fire-place upon whose juuib- 
less hearth there roared aud crackled a huge pile 
of wood and knots, sending up the chimney a 
sheet of flame. A woman, of much more, refine¬ 
ment in appearance than the concomitants would 
seem to warrant, was preparing the evening 
meal consisting of course brown toast and milk, 
while a man dressed in homespun was stretched 
upon a rude settee apparently restiug himself 
after the severe toils aud labors of the day. A 
young lad. similarly dressed was sitting in the 
corner busily engaged by tbe light of the lire 
trying to solve a mathematical problem; aud 
ever and anon gazing up with that bullied and 
oblivious look to all around, that, marks the in- 
tensest mental strain. 
“ I wish I could help you out of the difficulty,” 
Written lor Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
IE PRESIDENT IS DEAD 
FOE FAKMEES AUD 0THEES. 
ORANGE JLTDD, 
AGRICUI.TUJl.lL ROOK PUBLISHER, 
By authority ol' the Secretary of the Treasury, the un- 
dorstgned has assumed the General Subscription Agency 
for the sale of United States Treasury Notes, hearing 
seven and three-tenths per cent. Interest, per annum, 
known as the 
BY W. H. BANKS, 
The blow 1ms fallen, and our Chief is dead. 
He whom we loved as father, leader, guide; 
Whose truth and faith stood fast when sorely tried, 
Whom we revered, as our great Nation’s head— 
By dark hale slain,—onr President is dead! 
Unlooked for blow I and as tbe solid earth 
Quivers and trembles ’neatli the lightning’s shock, 
The nation trembles. Onr poor words hut mock 
The grief and gloom that ehrond each loyal hearth 
O’er this wide land: land of onr love and birth. 
Through Tour dark stormy years we’ve seen him stand 
As God has given him to see the right— 
Steadfast Ln purpose, mighty in that might, 
Unheeding Flattery's voice, or War’s red hand, " ~ 
Like Heaven's majestic priest, to save the land. 
The gentle Spring has come, with songs of birds; 
And gentle Peace Is dawning with the Spring— 
We weep and pray; no prayers or tears can bring 
Our leader back, with his Ann, reverent words. 
Whose mcm'ry, even now, the faint heart girds. 
Yet, from the stillness of the mnrdered dead, 
A mightier voice than that of liviug men. 
Swells to high Heaven, rolls hack o'er earth again, 
Preaching, UDstayed, those truths for which he bled, 
Tyrants can hush no more that voice or dread. 
O, full of cruelty, the dark abode 
Of slavery, In every age Imb been. 
The way to freedom and to light again, 
For ns has been a thorny, bloody road. 
Where, oh I how many perished as they trode. 
Now he has fallen ln his manhood’s prime, 
One victim more to fierce, barbaric pride, 
One martyr more his God hue glorified— 
One more light risen to sweep tbe stream of time 
Through nJ) its fioW, in this and every clime. 
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the following good Books: 
SPECIAL NOTICE —Any or til COO Kook* will be 
tent IW-I’Hl.1, to uny purl of the country mi receipt 
of the annexed price. 
American Agriculturist. .per year $1 50 
Amerlkanlscher Agriculturist (German), .per year 3 00 
Allen's (L. K.) Rural Architecture.euch 1 50 
Allen’s in. L.) American Funu Book. 1 50 
Allen’* Dlseatea Ol PomcRtlo Animals. 100 
Amcrie-nn Bird-Fancier...... „ SO 
American Farmer’s Encyclopedia. 6 00 
American Rose Culiurtsl... SO 
American Weeds arul Useful Plants. 1 75 
Burry's Fruit Harden. 1 75 
Bemenl 1 * Poulterer's Companion .. <00 
Bfflrtenl's Rabbit, Fancier . ... 30 
BonssmguuH's Rural Economy... 1 60 
Brldgcmati’n Fruit Cultivator’s Manual. 75 
Brldgeman’* Toung Gardener's Assistant. 3 00 
Brandt's Age. of Homes (English and German). 50 
Hrcck’s Book ol Flowers... 160 
Bulst’s Flower Garden Directory. 1 50 
BuUt‘r Family Kitchen Gardener. 1 00 
Burr’s Vegetables of America....... 4 50 
Carpenters' aud Jcineia' Hand Book (Holly). 60 
Choriton's Grape-Grower's Guide. 76 
Cole's (6. W.) American Frntt Book.... 60 
Copeland’s Country' Life...... 4 50 
Coftou Planters Manual (1 uruer).. 1 50 
Dadd’s Modern Horse Doctor. 1 50 
Dadd's (Geo. H.) American Cattle. Doctor. 1 50 
Dadd'* Anatomy Of the Horse (colored). 5 00 
Dana’s Muck Manual.. 160 
Dog ami Gun (Hooper'*).....-... . „ 80 
Downing’s Ft nits and Fruil Trees or America. 3 00 
Eastwood ou Cranberry... . 75 
Elliott’s Western Fruit Grower’s Guide.. 1 60 
Flax Culture, very good (Ready In April.). 50 
French’* Farm Drainage..... 1 50 
Field's (Thomas W.) Fear Culture . 1 25 
Fish Culture. tjS 
Flint (Charles L.) on Grasse*. 2 00 
Flint'■ Milch Cows and Dairy Farming. 2 00 
Fuller’* Grape CultUl'Ist.. .. 150 
Fuller’*Strawberry Cnltnilat. 20 
Goodalc’n Principles of Breeding . 1 00 
Gray's How Plants Grow...... 1 25 
Guenon on Mllcti Cow*. 75 
Harssrttiy Grape Culture, Ac ... 5 00 
Harris' Injurious Insects, plum <3,50; colored. 4 50 
Herbert'*llluls to Horn-keepers. 1 75 
Hint* to RlfieuiBli, by Cleveland .......... 1 50 
Hop Culture, very good, (Ready last ot March). 40 
Johnston’* Agnrullnrul Chemistry. 1 75 
Kemp's Landscape Gardening.. 2 00 
Lansslrotb on the Henry Bee. 2 00 
Leuehar's How to Build liot-Uou»es. 1 50 
Lluslej's (D. C.) Morgan Horses. 1 50 
MavhcwV. Illustrated Horse Doctor.. 3 50 
MuVhew's illustrslcd Homo Management. 3 50 
McMahon'* American Oardehei . 2 50 
Miles on the Horse's foot... 75 
My Farm »t EEilgewood.. 2 00 
Norton’s Scientific Agriculture..... 75 
Onion CP I Kira, very good. 20 
our Farm of Four Acres (hound) «0c; paper. 30 
Pardee ou Strawberry Culture... . 75 
Pcdder'* Land Measure) .... 60 
Qulnpy's Mysteries of Bee-Keeping. 1 75 
Kahlilt Fancier.... 30 
Randall’* Sheep Husbandry. 1 50 
Randall’* Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry.. 1 00 
Rand'* Flow era for Parlor and Garden. 3 00 
Rivers' Orchard Uouses —. 50 
Sub ('nek'.* Gardener's Text-Book.... 60 
Shepherd's Own Book... 2 25 
Skiufol Housewllc. 75 
Smith’s LandscapeGardening,...,,. 1 50 
Speucer’s Education of children. 1 60 
stcwarP* (John) Btablo Book. 1 50 
Ten Acres Enough. .. 1 50 
Timor's (A. D.l Principles ol Agriculture... 2 50 
Thomas'Fruit Coltnrist. 150 
Thompson's Food or Animals.... 1 00 
Tobacco Culture, very good. '25 
Todd'* (ft. E.) Yoaug Farmer’!' Manual. 1 50 
Vaux'* Vllln*anil Cottages... 3 00 
Warder's nudge* and Evergreens. 1 50 
Watson's American Home Garden. 2 00 
Wax Flowers (Airor Making).. 1 50 
Woodwnrd'sConntryHomes.... . . 150 
Youiitt and Spooner ou (he Horse. 1 50 
Youatt and Martin ou faille. 1 50 
Youatt on this Hog.. 1 00 
Youatt on Sheep. . 1 00 
yOilmans’ Household Science. t 75 
Youimins' New Chemistry.. 1 75 
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FAILUKES IN LIFE 
BY PROF.'EDWARD WEBSTER 
“ From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, 
The place is dignified by the doer's deed; 
Where great additions swell, and virtue none, 
It is a dropeied honor—good alone 
Is good without a ubmef—Shttkepeare. 
“ There will be no necessity for taking out 
letters of administrationremarked John De¬ 
lano, the oldest of a group of brothers and sis- 
tere, gathered sorrowfully together in a small 
and not over-furnished parlor, of a small and 
not over comfortable house, in one of our thriv¬ 
ing inland cities —and he added with just the 
slightest tone of discontent, bo slight indeed as 
to he detected only by the. ear of love and rev¬ 
erence rendered acute by grief—" father didn’t 
leave us anything to quarrel over, that is one 
consolation.” 
“ Not anything to quarrel over certainly,” re¬ 
joined one of the sisters; “but he has left us 
something infinitely better, the memory of a 
kind and indulgent parent, the priceless herit¬ 
age of a good name, and a character replete with 
every Christian virtue; and now that the grave 
has closed over him, and we have shed our last 
t ear except above his buried ashes, what can we 
desire or ask for mure ? Oh, John ! if we had 
always (lone onr duty by him, as children, as he 
did by us as a parent, thrice happy might we deem 
ourselves to-day! Do you remember him when 
the light went out in our humble dwelling by 
our mother’s sudden and untimely death, leav¬ 
ing usfour youi g and helpless children a burden 
oq his hands, how heroically ho toiled and suf¬ 
fered, adding tiie tenderness and vigilance of a 
nurse by night to the wearying toils of an arti¬ 
san by day ? How he reared us to manhood and 
womanhood, giving us all the benefits of a good 
common Etliool education, instilling Into our 
young minds the doctrines of an intelligent self- 
reliance, and never leaving us even in death until 
each of us is competent for self-support'? Why, 
only last week, you were pronounced by the 
foreman the best iron worker in the shop, ami 
your wages advanced to three dollars a day. 
Nat is a competent laud surveyor and drafts¬ 
man, with an opening even better than yours. 
Jane is successful In the school to which the 
Board of Education appointed her last summer, 
and I can run a sewing machine at good wages, 
equal to any oue of the thirty girls with whom»I 
am employed. We arc rich In the ability for our 
own support; rich in the respect and confidence 
of our employers; rich in each others love, and 
have besides a storehouse of hallowed memories 
more precious than gold.” 
“That may all be true,” replied the brother, 
“and God forbid that I should east a stone at 
father’s memory; but still, when I reflect how 
other men who came here with him in those 
early day6 when real estate was cheap, and in¬ 
vested even 6inall sums wisely have grown rich 
with half his Intellect and efforts, I cannot but. 
feel that in a certain sense bis life has been a 
ftdlure. Johnson for instance, who died the 
other day, left to his children a hundred thou¬ 
sand dollars.” 
“ Yes, and Sarah .Johnson married within a 
month a man, who, if report be true, will 
squander her fortune and break her heart; an 
adventurer whose antecedents, that were any¬ 
thing but reputable, will not be brightened by the 
consequents following after them thick and fast. 
Bowing to Die wind and reaping tbe whirlwind, 
will be the sequel of that already saddened story. 
And Tom Johnson, her own brother, and boon 
companion with her husband; as 1 came home 
from work only a few evenings nince I saw him 
half intoxicated following in the wake of one of 
my own sex whose character 1 dare not name! 
Oh, John! let this night-shadow of discontent 
pasE off your mind, and look upon our father’s 
earthly pilgrimage just ended as J am sure St is 
regarded by the angels. His deeds of charity 
aid mercy were not wide-spread nor famous, 
1 HIE EDITOR OF THE MANCHES- 
l.-r Dully unci Weakly Mirror, ln u leader ox the Dally 
Unit* writes of tint Compound : 
“The White I'lne Compound Is advertised at. much 
length in our columns, anil tv* are happy lo learn that 
the demand for It l* Increasing beyond nil previous ex- 
pretati*>ns. ills the very best medicine lor coulMin aud 
I'ftMf wr know o! and no family Shat ha* once used It 
will ever be without it. We spook from our own knowl¬ 
edge—It t“ sure to kill a cold, and pleasant n* It Is sure. 
The greatest Invention* come by accident, and Ills sin¬ 
gular that the White Fine Compound, made ibr roughs 
n ml cold*, should prove to be the greatest remedy lor kid¬ 
ney difficulties known. But so It Is, We cannot doubt It, 
•o many lesuinonial* come to ns from well-known men. 
Besides the eliai aeter of Dr. Poland Is such, that wo 
know that liu will not countenance wbui Is wrong. For 
years a Baptist clergyman, HudyinK medicine to find 
remedies (or Ills ailments, with a delicate, consumptive 
look, Handing with one loot upon the jrrnve.he made the 
thscoverywldc.il ha* saved himself and called nut trom 
hundreds ol other* the strongest tesimnnlal? possible. 
Wo have known Dr. Poland lor years, and never kuowa 
more conscientious, honoet. upright mau. und are glad to 
state that wc believe whatever he says about his White 
Fine Compound." 
sir For mu pnrtlciilnrs ot "White Fine Comuopsd" 
nee Rural of .March lstli, pace 93. Weow-tf 
RURAL KOOKS 
The following works on Agriculture. Horticulture,&c., 
may be obtained at the Office of the Kitral New- 
Yorker. We can also furnish other Books on RURAL 
AFFAIRS, las nor! by American publishers, at the usual 
retail prices,— and shall add new works as published. 
Allen's American Farm Book. 91,50 
Allen's Diseases of Domestic Animals. 1,00 
Allen'* Rural Architecture .. . 1.50 
American Bird FanclCt .... ............. 30 
American Fnill Grower's Guide (Lillotti. 1,50 
American Rose Cnlturlst. 80 
Barry's Fruit Garden. 1,50 
Browue.’s Field Book of Manures . 1,50 
lireck'i Boukon Flowers.. .. 1.50 
Buisf* Flower Garden. 1.50 
Carpenters’ amt Joiners’ Hand Book. 60 
Cattle and their Diseases (Jennings). 1,50 
Chemical Field Lecture*. 1,00 
Compleie Manual on the Cultivation of Tobacco ... 30 
Cottage and Farm Bee-Keeper.. . 75 
Colo's American Fruit Book. 60 
ColeV American Veterinarian. 60 
Dana’s Muck Manual. 1,50 
DafUnjrtou’s Weeds and Useiol riant*... 1,50 
Davy'* Devon Herd Book. 1.00 
lHroctlon* mr Preserving Natural Flowers. 1,50 
Domestic Poultry Book, with over 100 Illustrations. 50 
Every Lady hor own Flower Gardener... 30 
Everybody his own Lawyer.. 1.25 
Family Doctor, by Prof. Henry B. Taylor, .. l,2o 
Farm Drainage, by H. F. French. 1,50 
Field's Fear luRUre . .. . 1.25 
Flint on ijra**itw. 2,00 
Flowers tor the Parlor or Garden..— 3,00 
TIIJKDSALL’S ARNICA LINIMENT 
AN INIALLIABLE CUKE 
For IltrKNs, Scalds, Sprains, Rheumatism, Gun Shot 
Wounds,Pains in the Limps and Back, Chilblains,&c. 
A SINGLE APPLICATION 
allays the pain from ft burn or scftlil the instant It Is ap¬ 
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ttf~ For sale by uU Druggists. 790-18t 
LiECKET ART ol Catching Fish. In any water, as 
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MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
THE LAlOiEBT-CIKC'ULATING 
Agricultural, Literary and Family Newspaper 
IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY 
D. D. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
Herbert's Hint* to Uur»u Keepers... 1.75 
Hop Culture..,.--.-. 46 
House Culture and Drnamrnial Plants. (5 
Jennings' Sheep, swine and Poultry. 1,50 
Johnston's Chemistry aud Geology.... 1,60 
Kemp*’ Landscape Gardening. 3,00 
King*' Text Bonk,lnr Bee keepers,cloth 75c; paper 10 
LmigHtroth on the Hive und Honey Bee. 2,00 
Lltblk’t coenl Work oa A;:rlraHurv. 1,50 
Liebig's Fit in Lilli r Letter* to Farmers. 56 
l.lnsk-y^i Morgan Horse*.... 1.25 
Manual oi Agr.culturu, by Emcnou and Flint. 1,25 
Mile* on Horse's Foot. 30 
Manual on Flax and Hemp Culture. 25 
Modern Cookery, by ML* Acton aud Mrs S J Hale,. 1,50 
Onion Culture. 20 
Pardee on (lie Htrawberrv .. 75 
fTuctic*! Sin nherd. Randall... 2,00 
Produce and I'.cady Kecknor Log Book. 30 
QuLmby’e My Merle* of Bee-Keeping. 1,75 
(iulncy on Soiling Catllo. 50 
Rii libit Fancier ,. , .. 30 
Richardson on the Hog..... 25 
Ulrliurilsoa on the Dog, cloth... . 50 
Rogers' SeltinUflc Agriculture. 1,00 
Rural Home* (Wheeler). 1,50 
Bctu-tick'* Gardeners Text-Book. 60 
Sorghum Grower * .Manual, by w U Clark. 20 
Bti wart's (Jolfn) Hlahltt Hook ,. . 1,50 
Thu Horse and hi* Disease*, by Jennings. 1.50 
The,mb*’ Farm DUplemeuu ... 1,50 
Tod’s 1 onng Fieri :!cm Miiuua) and Work Shop. 1,50 
Warder’s Hedge* and Evergreen’s. 1.50 
Wax Flowers, now to make them. 1.50 
Woodward's Country Homes. 1,50 
Wool Grower it Fciu k. Register, Vul*. 1, 2, 5, 8, each. 811 
yonatt on the Hoc. 75 
Young Housekeeper'* »nd Dairy Maid's Directory. 25 
JUT - Any ol' the above named works will bo forwarded 
by mall, post-paid, ou receipt of Hie price specified. 
Address D. D. T. MUflfUt. Rochester, N. Y. 
CONUNDRUMS. 
When is a boat like a heap of snow? When 
it is a drift. 
Why does a fat dog not meditate ? Because 
be is not a cur. 
Why is a blush like a little girl? Because it 
becomes a woman. 
Why is a brokeu chair like one who despises 
you ? Because it can’t bear it. 
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