! PEAR TREES ST.'ADF; 
T'H-EA-NtCTAR 
1P8PP 
KNOWN..,; 
RICE 
u^5 .PIaNU oO-H-Y. 
TO LIFE INSURANCE AGENTS 
THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES! 
THE UNITED STATES 
Life Insurance Company of New York 
uni or 
A PRETTY MAIDEN’S SOLILOQUY 
Oh, dear rne ! I 
Am ready to cry 
And it sometimes seems as though 1 should die 
Nobody knows 
The number of woes 
That beset such n maiden as I. 
They call me a flirt, 
And try to convert 
Me into a hateful, contemptible prude t 
If they don’t mind, 
I think they will find 
That I’ll soon teach them what to conclude. 
is now prepared to negotiate with Life Insurance Agents throughout the country, for 
Local, District and .Special Agencies. With its twenty years of experience, nearly 
four millions of Assets, and its large surplus of about 
As for the beaux, 
Heaven only knows 
Why they seem so determined to persecute me 
What under the sun 
I ever huve done 
To make them act so, 1 can’t see. 
If they ask me to ride. 
Or to walk by t heir side. 
Whenever l think they’re about to propose, 
I manage the thing— 
Contriving to bring 
The subject at once to a close. 
But then if I wait 
It may bo too late— 
For men are but tickle ut best (so they say); 
I think I'll decide 
(Oh, dear, how I’m tried 1) 
To accept one without more delay. 
Now, John will be here 
To-night, without.fear; 
It will be very easy to just toll him ” yes: ” 
But his hair is so light. 
And his whiskers too bright— 
He’ll wait a while longer, I guess! 
over all liabilities, it presents inducements to the insuring public superior to auy 
other Company. 
IlKBUS.-No. 
ILI.USTRATED 
j:Answer in two weeks. 
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION 
AND THE 
BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM! 
To Canvass Personally for Applications. 
This Company is now prepared to make direct contracts on commissions only, 
ignoring entirely middlemen, and paying to the -workers the commissions heretofore 
paid general agents, and to whom heretofore a large portion of the profits of the live 
agents of the Life Insurance Companies have been paid. 
For circulars aud plans of this Company address the 
UNITED STATES LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, 
261, 262, 263 and 264 Broadway, Cor. Warren St., New ‘X’ork. 
CSS AS. s:. 8* CASH-:, Secretary. 
JOHI >J £. BE WITT, President. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA.—No. 5 
I am composed of thirty-three letters. 
My 5, 20, 8,83 is a girl’s name. 
My 13,10, 3, 13, 1, 28, 30 is an ancient city. 
My 31, H, (1, 33,13, 18 is the point toward which 
Mohammedans turn their faces in prayer. 
My 15, t, MU. 33 is a plant cultivated in gardens. 
My hi. 7, 35, 8 is a wild animal, 
My 27,33 Is a river in I laly. 
My o. 30, 2,21 is a pronoun. 
My 17, 10,31.8,15, 12 is the name of one ol the 
twelve apostles. 
My 14, hi, 29 is a name common to a race of 
cheiroptera. 
My whole is a verse In the Old Testament. 
Meanvilie, Fa. L. W. C. 
Answer in two weeks. 
THE GREAT NATIONAL 
RIRAL, LITERARY, TAMILY AND RISI.YESS 
WEEKLY OF AMERICA, 
Is not otilv the Largest, Best mid Cheapost Illustra¬ 
ted It ii rill. Intern rv. Piiinily and Business 
Weekly, but has a Circulation aggregating more 
limn ilu it hie t IniL of any oilier Journal ot ust lass 
in Hie World ’ Having a Metropolitan Position and 
no Immense t'oiilliieiital Circulation, It U taken by 
the best classes in both Town and Country-.by peo¬ 
ple of intelligence, enterprise and wealth ... every 
state and Territory ot the Union, Canada. &o. 
As on Advertising Medium, the Rural Nrw- 
Youkkic is unquestionably THr. BEST In its sphere 
of Journalism, presenting great advantages to all 
who wish to advertise widely arid profitably for. 
through Its pages they euti reach, at once, genre* 
of ihaiiMiitids of wealthy, enterprising and pro¬ 
gressive people throughout the Country. 
THE RURAL’S ADVERTISING RATES 
Are very low, in proportion <o thn extent and eh ar¬ 
il etc r ol Us (ilreuliiflon.aml In comparison with those 
of other similar papers. We aim to keep the Adver¬ 
tising Department flee from deception and humbug, 
which make* it more valuable C, all logltiniaii■ and 
honorable Business Men, ns well ns more acceptable 
to intelligent ami moral renders, in nil classes of 
society. The Hales «re ns follows : Inside Pages, ii 
cents per line : Outside (last page), f 1 per Hue. Kxtra 
Display and ('ms. price and u-lpilf special Notices, 
$1.5(1 per line ; Business Notices, tfi. 
Subscript ion, If! a your. Specimens tree. Address 
all orders, inquiries, &c„ to 
1). n. T. 3100 KE. 
5 Ilnclt ilia ii Si., New York. 
THE LAZY MAN, 
A lazy man is always good-natured. He 
never fiies into a passion, lie might crawl 
into one, if Unit were possible, but the idea 
of flying into one is preposterous. 
Who ever heard of a lazy man breaking 
into a bank where, a crow-bar had to he 
used, or drilling in Ion. Bale? Not hut that he 
might covet his neighbor’s goods conlained 
1 herein, but the horror of handling a crow¬ 
bar and drills would always deter him from 
actually committing burglary, lie never 
runs away with his neighbor’s with, simply 
on account of I lie horror he lias of running. 
If he is ever known to run, it is to—run to 
seed. 
He rarely lies about his neighbors, for it 
would be too much exertion; but lie lies 
about a bar-room all day. 
He is of inestimable service to a billiard 
saloon, keeping I he chairs warm and watch¬ 
ing the game, for few would care to play 
where there are no spectators. The fact that 
he does this without pay, day in and day out, 
shows the unselfishness of his nature. 
The lazy man never gets up revolutions, 
insurrections, or other popular excitements, 
and don't make a nuisance of himself by 
training around the country making incen¬ 
diary Speeches to promote public discontent. 
In his own neighborhood he is never a 
busybody in other people’s affairs, for the 
very idea of being a busybody at anything 
would drive him out of his head. 
No lazy man ever ran mad. If he went 
crazy, it was because he couldn’t go any¬ 
where else without walking. 
Lazy men don't disturb the quiet of peace¬ 
ful neighbors by putting up factories, fur¬ 
naces and other abominations. — Fat Con¬ 
tributor, 
BIBLICAL ENIGMA. No. 2 
I am composed of nineteen letters. 
My 1, 2,12 is a Bible animal. 
My 3.4 is a .lewis!) month. 
My 5. 10, If) is a Bible tret*. 
My 8.11,1C is a mountain. 
My 8, 0, 17 wus mi ancient tribe. 
My 13,14, 7 is something very small. 
My 15,18 was the birth place of a patriarch. 
My 10.11,18 is a kind of grain. 
My whole is an Oriental measure. 
i^r~ Answer in two weeks. Isola, 
pLOUCES! 
AT WHOLESALE RATES. 
We manufacture the Cheese we sell. 
We guarantee QUALITY, FLAVOR and 
PERFECT CONDITION upon arrival. 
sead for oi r m eekly price list, 
Direct letters: 
Windham, Ohio. 
Direct telegrams: 
Calhoun Station, A. X <; 
WHAT THE PRESS SAYS. 
Moons’8 RURAL Nkw-Yoskbh lias n very large 
circulation, and in a very excellent medium for ad¬ 
vertising to business men. It Is an able and •.veil 
manage <1 paper, mid deserves the success It has 
achieved.—A. i. Daily Times. 
WE don't cure what a publisher charges, tto that 
he gives us the worth lit onr money. Mr. MoOltI 
charges 75 cents a line, and his circulation makes it 
cheap advertising.—.V. 1‘ Tribune. 
THE KURALlS not only ft favorite ill the rural dis¬ 
tricts, but deservedly pnpn Inr In (lie cities. No news¬ 
paper in' any country ev*or ran u more prosperous 
career.- Lou-isritlc Jmtrnid. 
SCHESHIB 
BIOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA, No. 1 
I am composed of twenty-four loiters. 
My 8. 3,17. 0. 19, G, 11 was drowned in attempting 
to meet, his lady-love. 
My 18, 9, 4, 23,11. 7, 20, is, 8 was a French poet. 
My J3, 5, II, 13, 10 is a musical composer. 
My 3, 7, 33,14, 0, 23, 15, 3, f>, ii was a revolutionary 
hero. 
My 24,17, I, 1. 22, 20, 14, 43, 5, 10, 8,10 was an 
Italian statesman. 
My 21, 9, l, 23 was a Portuguese discoverer. 
My whole was an American politician who 
lately met a tragic death. 
Answer in two weeks. Oolie. 
Medical Madness 
I.ct us hope that the Insane practice of administering poisonous evacu- 
ants In cases of indigestion, biliousness, constipation, und female debility, 
i» almost out ,,f dale. When the Tonie-f'athurtle produced by Nature her¬ 
self in the most valuable Sanitary Spring in the world is re-produced by 
science, in the form of 
TARRANT’S SELTZER APERIENT, 
it is indeed midsummer maddens to rack, relax and Irritate the diseased or 
enfeebled system with drastic purgatives. This refreshing and delicious 
counterpart of u minedv prep red By the creative hand of the Omnipotent 
Physician Illmselt, is everywhere superseding the nauseous and sickening 
CQiiipoundsheretofore used us laxatives. 
sold ity am. nnuntil sts. 
College of Agriculture 
CornefS University 
WORD-SQUARE ENIGMA.-No. 3 
The next exntni tin lions for ml mission to 
this College will be held on Monday and Tuesday. 
September lltli and l'hli. 
The courses ol study extend over t tvo, three'or 
four years, and comprise, besides more or less ol 
purely scientific and literary branches, Agricultural 
Chemistry, Botany, Vegetable Physiology, Horticul¬ 
ture, Forest Culture. Landscape Gardening, Veterin¬ 
ary Anatomy, Physiology, Medicine and Surgery, 
Hniblingund Building Materials. Farm Architecture. 
Agricultural Entomology, Stock Raising. Dairying, 
mid alt matters perlutuing to the management of the 
farm in general. 
Besides the Instruction on the part of the resident 
Faeuhy, shout cm uses of lectures are given by 
gentlemen from various parts of ilut country, who 
nave paid special intention to the pun .culm branches 
of fanning upon which they lecture. Among these 
lecturers for next fall arc X. A-Willard, on Dairy 
Economy, and US. Randall, op Sheep Husbandry. 
Good working laboratories, and collcctlOliS Of 
models, tools, and specimens, are provided. 
Tuition and some other charges may be remitted, 
in cases of need and merit. 
For further part iculars, address 
PRO F. tb C. C A LOWELL, 
Dean of the Faculty. 
ITIIAf'A. X. Y.. July 22.1, U7I. 
Mv 1st belongs to a ship. 
My 2d is not wliiit all horses do, 
My 3d is a superficial measure. 
My 4th is a weaver’s tool. 
C3^“ Answer 4n two weeks. 
First Premium tind Diploma 
at American Institute Fair, 
18121 and 1K70, for SAFEST 
and REST ILLUMINATING 
OIL. Oil House ol 
Cl I AS. PRATT. N. Y. 
K»ln hi in lied I 7 70. 
PROBLEM No. 5 
TRADE MAP). 
S. AY. M„ Westfield, N. Y., sends us the follow¬ 
ing, unaccompanied by the answer. The first, 
five answers received will be published two 
weeks hence:—“Required, a square field con¬ 
taining as many acres ns It will take rails to 
fence it in panels ten feet long aud ten rails 
high.” 
N. 11.—In sending answers, always give the 
number of the problem to which the answer 
refers. 
GETTING UP CLUBS. 
GREAT SAVING TO CONSUMERS 
POPULAR SONGS ILLUSTRATED 
Parties inquire how to get up clubs. v.;ur answer 
is. send far Price I/ml. and a Club form " i 1 ! accom¬ 
pany u with full directions,—making a large saving 
to consumers and remunerative to Club oigatiizers. 
NUNK I5 K i I KK IN THIS MARKET. 1‘ric.rn vein 
Loir. Address CANANDAIGUA NURSERIES, N. V 
PUZZLE.—No. 2 
1 want 1,000 agents to canvass for the COMPI.KT,. 
Herbalist. I will give such tormsand furnish such 
advertising facilities that no man need make loss 
than S200 per month and all expenses to matter 
whether he ever cun vn*-cd before or not. A iireinl- 
ii tu of n new.lriFs given to lady canvassers Addiess. 
Dr. O. Ph m,r*s ISmjWN, No. 21 Grand St.. Jersey City, 
N. J., and full particulars will ho sent by return mail. 
!5I «( :M T'ESEY STREET, 
Bax 5613- NEW YORK. 
I send you a puzzle put to me some fifty years 
since, when I was about twenty years old. 
1 have no recollection of seeing the same in 
print; ami as this is a rainy day and I have but 
little to do, have concluded to retail it to you as 
I received it then. It was told me thus:—There 
was a ship at sea. nearly mil of provisions aud 
likely to starve. Resides the officers there were 
thirty privates fifteen Christians and fifteen 
Turks. Upon consultation Jt was mutually 
agreed that the privates formed a line on board 
the ship, the officers to front them and begin 
to count at the head ot the line and throw over¬ 
board every ninth mat), until one-half the men 
wore thrown overboard, thereby leaving the 
others, who oonhl subsist longer on the small 
amount of rations in store. 
The officers being Christians, arranged it so 
that every ninth man should boa Turk ; count¬ 
ing from head to foot aud then again beginning 
at the head and counting those only that, re¬ 
mained, ns each ninth man, asileamc to his turn, 
was thrown overboard. They were to fill) pro¬ 
miscuously into ranks so that it seemed to bo 
fair and Just. Ilui such did not proveto be true, 
as el>el'll Turk was a ninth man,and thus left the 
fifteen Christians. Now, the puzzle is so to place 
the said thirty men ttiat when counted as stated 
above, every ninth man shall be a Turk, and to 
C/ivc a rule for the same. Ity taking any two 
colors of counters and working diligently, any 
one can so pi ace them, but the object is to have 
a rule for the same. John Bonn ISO. 
IS PURI2 
SAFETY 
T ilit. \t AlxLJtYLl.U N 
EARTH CLOSET, 
Ib by all odds the beat yet 
patented. Send to W ark fused 
Earth Closet Co.. ijiiDey St. 
New Yotk. for Descriptive 
pamphlet, or cal! and exam¬ 
ine. 
Oil^ Will 
H tract all Hie pure and 
5 *u!" „il ii contain*. r,<- 
- y fWVryOlLt iuotlng fully nne-third 
y Jiif'i' «o 'it?r7Tn Hpn/ ‘ l 'f "n 11 jT ttTI gi® 
gives a brilliant light at a cost of If et. per hour, and 
a ligated lamp may lutupset and broken wlOicuu r 
Of explosion or fire. Tin* Fire Underwriters ot X. V. 
recommend it* ns.* a ; a projection Ui life and prop¬ 
erty. For sale in sealed cans nr from barrel) by most 
grocers, druggists, &>■ , In the V. 8. Kxtra induce¬ 
ments to dealers ar.d agent,*. Address Du.N-l.OW* ,V 
Uf'SH. 130 Malden burns N\ Y., 8 Custom H 8t . Bos¬ 
ton, Mu., 31 s Calvert St., Baltimore, Md.. 51 S. Water 
St.. Chicago, lit., or ISW Superior St., Cleveland, O 
I*. S. Five gallons eVpressed lor 83 to tin) jnlu'e 
where not sold. 
W LREEN TEA FLAVOR 
Warranted to Unit all Tastes. 
TOR SAlaB EVERYWHERB. 
And for sale Wholesale only by the 
GREAT CHANCE FOR AGENTS, 
Do you want an agency. tofu! or traveling, with 
a chance to make $5 to S‘AO per day selling 
our new 7 strand H'liifr IFire Clothes Lima 1 
They last forever: sample free, so there Is no 
i lisle. Arltlrrs- of hum Hudson Stiver litre 
l :n>i*ll-x. gor. Water St., and -Maiden Lane, N. 
i Deqiboni 8t., Chicago, 111. 
x 5506. No. S Church S 
Send for Thea-Nectur Circular 
UUiDINft PArWl 
OF FOUR GRADES 
Water-Proof CLAP-BOARDS, 
A perfect substitute for pine, at about 
half its coat, mid entirely wmei -grout. 
SHEATHING BOARD, 
For outside of studding, under C aP- 
boards. A non. conduct'.; ot c**ld. heat 
SPAEKS or JOLLITY, 
cr.lars luuiiud B 
I kj 
miglv tv tlie SS*? 
UNITED STATES PIANO CO.. 645 Broadway, N. Y. 
A BOOK FOB FARM BC1KR*. 
WILL bn mailed to anv address FREE. It eon- 
> T tains rcliahlpdeecriiit Iona of hundreds of Farms 
and Country Houses, which are offered for sale by 
HENDERSON A: CO., 
24 Tmnoitl Row, Boston. 
A few questions in literature—“ What be- 
comesoi' all tlie cook books?” The trouble 
with most of them is, they are overdone. 
A sign in a "Western city reads, “ Boots 
blacked inside.” Most persons prefer the 
old way of blacking them on the outside, 
Mrs. Partington says that since the in- 
vcnlion of the needle-gun there is no reason 
why women shouldn’t fight as well as men. 
Why is a baby like a sheaf of wheat? 
Because it is first cradled, and then thrashed, 
and finally becomes the flower of the family. 
Ill-natured acquaintances of a certain 
Boston militia officer assert that his sword 
was never drawn but once—and then in a 
raffle. 
! ■ A 1 tfL/tW j. ft'.-o — * 
1 a Cheat, and pci fuel substitute ftw lath 
g and plaster : mokes a » 1 ""; ,l ' s |, 
K stall tin) wall, al icfs than halt ll,e 
8 usual cd8l- 
| DOUBLE-THICX ROOFING, 
S made entirely uX Wind Felt, a cheap 
& anri perfect in tiolf . 
f Samples aud Cii’culars t»ent tree, oy 
rock RlVKIt PAPER CO., Chicago; or 
B. F. HALE.22 tc 24 Frankf ort St . .N. Y. 
full I, tic >>■■!. The b.*sl and ej**“'' e8 5 VV“ess 
Sewing Machine In the nmrket. Auares 
JOHNSON, CLARK A CO., Brnnu, MM* ' 
Pittsburg, bu. phlcHRO, 111., or St. I/nils. • 
Mi PAltER, CORElt AND 
ce ?2. Does till at once. Wariantei 
n ft WHITTEMORE. Worcestei, Ma— 
PUZZLER ANSWERS. -July 22, 
The I'nlvnt Artrni Hbhii, Ip conitruclc/ U]K,n entirely different 
pitnelpl'-a from iuiy Plum, now made. The Tout, «n*t Workman- 
si,in U *u]ui,i„r and thAHumimeuiaare utorc darnltle. Wo do 
noiclaim X',in,,111., out wcclulm 8u|,»rlori(y. W,* warrantSvery 
/ir.nc wo insket .r II \ e t nit [wri.vs desi, in,: to pi, reliuse u 
truly First Class tv euT, plirrltsst. uu »* A, , loft”o» trial. 
Write tor our til VR.-o illuati'nted pamplilet wliic.l, wo mall free ; 
It deaerioearlie coustrucilon of every k’lunu lu Ilu, miuket ond con¬ 
trasts Ikem with tlie "Aitnii."—Dm, thuya Plano until you nave 
read this book. When you write slate where you sow thla notice. 
A dill CSS, The Arion Plano-Forlo Company, No. (* vl Brocaway. 
Naw-Vork City. 
IUA'STHated Rebus NO. 2.—Rut turnl.ic to a 
fnend, said he, " It turns, and all the world shall 
see.” 
Cross-Word Enigma No. 2.—Agriculture. 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA No. 2.—Make hay while 
the sun shines. 
Miscellaneous Enigma No. 3. — Margarxt of 
Denmark. 
Problem No. 3.—24. 
K EliI.IEY’,S PATENT tllEMKAI, MF,- 
TAlil.lt? i’AIVi’?*. ail sbndos. Propuri-j) 
for inime/jltto ;lse. reqiiiririg no Put up in 
5,10,30. ar.d 40 gallon packages. 
Price per gallon for Inside work.$2.00 
Price per gallon for outside v>-<*rIc. 1.50 
Price per gallon for roofs. Imres and fences. 1.00 
NEW YORK. CITY OIL COMPANY, 
Sole A gents, 110 Mi! idea Lane, N. Y. 
