PERSONAL ITEMS. 
Paul TL Du Cjtaillu is net lost. 
The Hhali is a fine horseback rider. 
M. M. Ballou has left the Boston Globe. 
Gen. Beauregard's health is quite infirm. 
Jean Tngelow has a new novel half written. 
Ida Lewis has separated from her husband. 
Ole Bull will spend t hree years in Norway. 
John Stuart Mill was an excellent musi¬ 
cian. 
President Grant never uses profane lan¬ 
guage. 
Ex-Gov. Warmoth will spend the summer 
North. 
Joe Jefferson is going to Europe for his 
health. 
Tiie Crown Prince of Swodon will visit this 
country. 
The Illness of Christina Rossetti causes much 
anxiety. 
John Russell Young is editing a paper in 
London. 
Hiram Powers had an imposing funeral at 
Florence. 
James Parton is summering at Newbury- 
port, Mass. 
Prof. Maria Mitchell of Vassar has gone 
to Earope. 
Richard B. Kimball, the author, has been 
made a LL. D. 
Gkn. Van Buren says the place sought him, 
not he the place. 
Gen. McDowell is satisfied with the condi¬ 
tion of the South. 
Miss Thorkait, the last of her family, has 
gone to Bangor, Maine. 
A statue of Stonewall Jackson Is ready for 
shipment from Germany. 
James Russell Lowell has received an hon¬ 
orary degree from Oxford. 
H. W. Beecher made a Fourth-of-July ad¬ 
dress at Hudson, X. V. 
Prince Bismarck is passing the summer on 
his eatate at Varzin. 
Miss Leo Hudson ordered a bronze horse to 
be put over her grave. 
President Grant lias been visiting a horse 
farm in Oswego Co., N. V. 
Congressman J. G. Wilson of Oregon died 
in Marietta, Ohio, on the 2d. 
Rev. Wm. R. Alger has given up preaching, 
to write tlio life of an actor. 
The Shah of Persia is represented as proud 
willful, sensual and arbitrary. 
Gen. Butler will take the stump for the 
Governorship of Massachusetts. 
Prof. WatSON of the University of Michigan 
figs leave of absence for one year. 
*AIr. Sidney K Morse has retired from the 
• $Av York Observer, to Jive abroad. 
John Stuart Mill once offered to bear the 
expense of publishing Herbert Spencer’s works. 
BUBAL SEW-YOBMEB, 
ami £Uacluncvy. 
^cvtiUsw, 
TO AC ENTS. The Celebrated Bone Fertilizers, 
- GROUND BONE, 
There Is no field of labor that offers greater re¬ 
muneration than the sale of the family Knitting 
Machine, and there is no machine that Possesses 
one-half the nuslitiios which are so absolutely 
necessary for family u*e a* the 
Bickford’s Improved 
Its simplicity and ease of management, together 
■with Its capactty for doing the great rangeof work, 
and its trifling cost, makes it h matter economy 
tor o cry fnrnilv to nave one, and will ultimately 
bring it into aa general use as the Sewing Machine. 
The practical utility of the machine only needs to 
ilcmi>n,l rated to the people to produce an un- 
guMicntion.s, 
For the Country! 
For the Sea-Shore! 
CHOICE COLLECTIONS OF HOUND MUSIC! 
‘‘GEMS OF STRAUSS,” 
Oontaiulnfl: nil Strauss’* best Waltzes, Galops, 
rillos. Mazurka*, About 20,000 sold* l nue, 
“ ORGAN AT HOME,” 
lust out. A u'tw collection of over 200 of tho most 
popular pieces of tiie day, arranged for Heed Organs, 
Ac. Price, t'Z.U). 
“ Musical Treasure,” 
Filled with the best of new music for the Voice or 
tor Piano. Over 100 Gems, all established favontes. 
Price $2.50. 
“ Wreath of Gems,” 
Choloe Songs. Ballads, Ac. Price, f'L.iO, 
“Piano-Forte Gems,” 
Containing the best Pliuio-Furte Music. Price, $2.50. 
S rT The above books ore uniform in style and bind¬ 
ing, all the pages being full Sheet Music Size. They 
will befoumlm valuable lor the s^-shoreor coun¬ 
try resort, containing bright and pleasing music, all 
elso being carefully uvoirted. 
The Coming SABBATH-SCHOOL SONG BOOK, 
entitled 
THE RIVER OF LIFE, 
With new music and words by the most distinguished 
writers in tiie country, is nearly ready. Specimen 
tuo above books sent, post-paid, for the retail 
OLIVER DITSON & GO., Boston. 
C. H. DITSON & CO., 711 Broadway, No w York. 
10,000 VOICES RING 
the praises of the new, be.* 1 and cheapest fam ily paper- 
•• My Own’ Fireside.” Great success. ovcrlOO.OOU 
sold. Onlyflaveai. A 85 Oil. CHKOMO FREE. 
Tn thoroughly introduce this favorite puper. we send 
H three months tor 25 cents. 15 large pages, crowded 
wltli freshest stories, answers to correspondents, Ac., 
Ac We pay good ag LXTSu permanent iiiul.thly each 
salary. Outfit, $1. Money returned it not satisfac¬ 
tory. Applv oi subserlbc nmr, or scud 2.) cts. and 
try it !i inns. JONES A. HaDLKV, Publishers, lib 
Broadway, N. Y._ 
rilUE UICST FAMILY PERIODICALS. 
A T11L ATLANTIC MONTH LY. *4. 
nUit YOUNG POLK*, S'A. 
EVERY SATURDAY, 85. 
Published b J AME8 OSGOOD & CO.. 
Boston. 
Sir- Send for full Prospectus, and for Catalogue of 
Standard Works by first American and English 
authors. 
PET SEWING HACIIIM: DOUBLED IS VALUE 
BY 
PALMER’S 
COMBINATION ATTACHMENT 
pon jHjJj sjnrtjyti 
The perfection of making and arranging 
every style of Dress Trimming with as 
much ease and simplicity as run¬ 
ning up an ordinary seam, with 
some new and entirely Orig¬ 
inal Accomplishments, 
AND ALL WITHOUT BASTING. 
1. —It prepares the Milliner,’ Enid better than can 
2. —It prepared^M jVl'iniTu’ Fold with different 
colors and pieces ot guodsat one ope mi ion. 
3,. It prepares and places si told m any »eum 
Dcrfeelly, without basting. . . .. , , 
L—It prepares and put* a double or sulglo told 
on the edge of n bund. 
b. It cords btns Imnds. . . 
6. - It prcjiaros and applies a dounln I roiicn ntin 
finish. . _ i, 
7. —It prepares a cord well perfectly. I 
5, -It prepares aud place' u e.ord wolf >•> n ny 
nenin without pasting. , . Jt 
9 ,—it prepares a cord well, at the same time gallt- ; 
erUigand placing the well In the gal lie c- 
intc scrim, sowing it to a plnlii bund, it de¬ 
sired, ni one oprrtiflon. 
10. —It docs plain umbering. . 
11. nlL gathers and st-ws nn at the snnie umo, 
hotter than any other gatherer. 
12. —u hem* all goods, bins or slringhl. 
13. —Jt binds wiib braid. 
1 *.—It binds w ith cut binding. 
16.-it sews any seam wit bum busting. 
The arrangement is very novel, and it Is one of the 
simplest Attachments In use; indispensable in its 
utility, doubling the value of any Sowing Machine. 
In ordering, state kind of Sewing Machine. 
Price. #3, with full instructions tor Its use mulled 
post free. Address 
PALMER MANUFACTURING CO., 
,Sl? Broadway. New York. 
An opportunity seldom offered to Agents Of both 
sexes, which are wanted, everywhere, immediately. 
ATTENTIOMWNERS OF HORSES! 
a * the zinc collar 
» V /g«A PAD isgimrantevd tocure 
\\ the worst case of raw and 
QtlSaDSBHKi inuamt'ii neck m 
v V y J <ttid work th' Hor»t /very uni/; 
.f'B and will not clilife or wear 
wkN*, the mane. For sale by Had- 
\ "* * ■ 1 1 dlcry Hardware Dealers and 
Harness Makers. Manufac¬ 
tured bv the /INC COLLAR PAD 
Mich. Information furnished on application. 
romtmnv is in possession Of lipridrcdsof relia¬ 
ble testimonials from Farmers. Lumbermen, leam- 
^ers DeaU-w and others, fully endorsing all we duim 
for the /Inc Pad. We annex the following notlu.. 
Chicago, Feb. B, 1872. 
2ino Collar Pad CO., HuchtMUrn, Mh%: 
IJrsrLF.MEN:—We have bmi selling the Curtis 
Zinc'Collar Pud for the last eighteen months, and 
take pleasure tn saying that in all tlWl'Mm^e have 
not had one* word of cuiaplaiut agwUUt tllcitt, hut on 
the contrary our customers all ViUu them, and say 
there Is no Pad made that gives such general satis¬ 
faction. Very respectfully, 
nuiiun. OrTMAVM l, LEWIS & CO., 
Dealers in Saddlery Hardware. 
T IMPROVED FOOT LATHES, 
iCfrl A slide-rests, Hand Planers for Metals, 
/m 5 Small Gear Cutters. The very beat, sell- 
k§k= 4A ing everywhere. Catalogues free. 
aJ r^iP N. H. BALDWIN, Laconia, N. H. 
LEE’S SUMMIT NURSERIES. 
If Usage Hedge Plant* by the 1,000 or 
1,000,000. Send for **«*£“£* BROS.. 
Lee’s Summit, Jackson Co., Mo. 
T O ENGRAVERS, PRINTERS, &a—Litrg^ stock 
well teasoued and prepared Huxvvood, Mahog- 
aiiF MadI? and Pine- VANDHRBUttOlltWl^LL^& CO.* 
Type, Cabinet A. Press Warehouse* IS butch St# Jv. ^. 
I* IlIUlVvM | 
f Muuv Rowing .Miiohlno Atfents. finding the in- j 
crease ut competition und the dtfneulty of soiling 
U high-priced machine* in militate against a flour- 
) lulling buMnettM, are taking hold of the 
BICKFORD 
| Family KillUis lachtia, 
/ ,md meeting with the greatest success. Mer- 
eJiants, finding In Dana Bickford’s invention a 
cheap, simple aud practical Knitting Machine, 
find it profitable to purchase nnd keen nn sale. 
The almost entire absence of compet ition does 
not require the “ etnrnal vlgllaneo to ,el1 thlB 
muoiiine as m the case of sewing machine*. 
AgeiiI* Wanted Everywhere. <,ood. binart 
Men can make S50 I’KU WREK AND gxi'tNSF.s. 
Bend for Instruction* and t treulars. Price 
to ffiO. 
BICKFORD KNITTING MACHINE CO. 
DANA BICKFORD, President. 
Office and Salesroom, 689 Broadwa y, N. Y 
AddfuM ft P. K. DEDERiCK & CO., ALBANY, H.Y. 
tor Pries Llil /T | V dK B A L K S IIAY 
BB<i dMc riplMB , ry* 1 * J sSA wUhotl Tramping 
^.. - ar Stoppioe- 
THE P. E. EEDESIC2 PEEPETEAL EAT P8ISS 
Bales hay faster, puts It In belter shape, withi less 
help and less expense than suy other. _ A whole stat ic 
or mow of bay may be pitched into *' without stopping 
or tramping, and will tie discharged in hales by tho 
machine, without, assistant:*. Sue thorn in operation 
■it our works.Tivoli St., Allmnv, N. Y.; No. W College 
St., Mom real. P. Q.; No. 105 West 10th SC, Chicago. 111.; 
Cor. Wilkinson Aye. and Third St., N. St. Louis, Mo. 
__ STA NDA UD 
f CANE MACHINERY 
For Sorgo and Sugar Cano. 
ptr The only recognized 
standards in Cane Ma- 
imjn Cools Kvaporntor 
Hill JilWa-j nnd Victor t une Milt. 
B bIIk iIMhWBBi Them are "1 these ma- 
tj | | 1; :! Jfffwf* • , ehlDe*nver31 ,<MKHnuse. 
‘liJl | l'Jlss5*w T/irp h«er fiivn'i thr Ut t‘rr- 
AiijS ntiii'ias ut 117 Stuff Fitim. 
^^ 07.Ce 1 Send for Descriptive Cata- 
logue and Price List. BLVMYKll MANUF’G C<>., 
Successors to Blj myer, Norton & < o., (Inclnnatt, <». 
Cane Mills and Kvaporators. Improved Thresher, 
Corn and Cob Crushers, etc. 
Important to Farmers 
and Throshormen. 
We will send free on application a Dese.rlptive Clr- 
culur and Prices of onr improved Tliroahor—a small, 
compact mar blue, weighing, with lever power, etc., 
complete, less than 2.000 pounds, and WARRANT*!’, 
with four to six horse*, to Bejiiirntc and clean thor¬ 
oughly from 200 to HiXI bushels Wheat and a propor¬ 
tionate amount of oat - per day, doing its work equal 
to tiie best, of I lie large threshers. Prices and freight 
much less than tho large machines. 
IlIjYMYKK MANUK'S CO., Cincinnati, O.. 
Successors to Blymyer, Norton & Co.. M’f'rs of Cane 
Mills and Kvaporators, Farm, School and Church 
Bells, etc. 
TWO GOLD MEDALS 
B .E* 2 g.^a«a| 
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AWARDED THIS MACHINE. 
MVVHnn IMPROVED POWER 
r*in b! U Press, iutcumt - head 
S eiinwa, improv’d Guat- 
bk Ikon Pos ts, and forty 
other things for Cider Mills and Vinegar Factories. 
For Circulars,address O. K. JOHNSON, Medina, N. >. 
pifr'rcUaucou,*’. 
FERRETS, 
For clearing oul 
Bats &c., for sale by 
8. B. MAKSH, 
Palo, Mich. 
BONE MEAL. 
BONE FLOUR. 
Fresh Bone Superphosphate of Lime, or 
p 1 ...ir.q j. 
NOVEL INVENTIONS. 
BEEBE’S FERTILIZER, 
Bleacher and Other Matters. 
This Fertfliatr is composed of the gases, Ac., of coal 
of all sorts, having carbon, with cokes, combined or 
otherwise. I claim tiie process of extracting from 
any kind of e.<ol or coke, gases, &c., by the use ot 
heat, nr calcination, and grinding and placing the 
coid 'll water, where the gases will escape and be 
held with the oxygen of the water. Thu coke* are 
used without calcination. This uqjnsi is spread over 
the land and every kind of growing crop having a 
root in the soil. I also sow the ground coal and coke, 
nr either of thorn, over the him/, crops. Ac... and put 
them into the hill or drill with the seed. < mil being 
a vegetable formation, contains about 00 per cent, of 
carbon, which is the only element nr resource left us 
fnr restoring wt/r, vegetation, &c. 
1 also use dds ti'i a hr as a coal alkali tor various 
purposes, such its tiie distillation and the brewing 
of the above coals, &c„ nnd products with or with¬ 
out other vegetables, grains. Ac., or other liquids. I 
claim the above ns food or reed, with or without mix¬ 
ing or cooking with other vegetable ufcttor, grain, 
meal, Ac., for feeding or tutD-iiing poultry nr animals. 
I also claim the above cfiiti. liquids. Ac , as preserva¬ 
tive*, from iitniDsphere and weather, of oil meats and 
eatables, and the packing of them, as '•veil as mms 
of all sorts, and the immersion of eggs in the liquid 
carbon to give a new sliclt. Also In the manufacture 
of refrigerator* and fire safes, the using of prepared 
coal, rvikes,\c.j and the use of ovensaOd cylinders 
for baking*ml roasting coal, somewhat similar to cof¬ 
fee roaster*. ■ claim coal and cokes and lire alkalies, 
as above.as n base io” . otiinmrcud and manufacturing 
pnrpoMw. etc., etc. I claim a* one property of it. the 
reducing of all soft, metals In combination ami solu¬ 
tion with it. In iii'in ii'.irt ii eiiitj aud illy rui'intl goods 
and libers oi ev, rv description, including soap*, tan¬ 
ning In h i ami cniing skirls, and Improving ami mak¬ 
ing water-light nil kinds of leather, and for bronzing, 
coloring, -hading and dyeing the above, or any Other 
material, or either of them, and for giving luster to 
all painted or varnished surfaces. 
I have for some time past milipifu'.'turod, used and 
disposed of the products of all tlm varieties of cal¬ 
cined coals and cukes above named, in both liquid 
and dry conditions, as a cleanser and bleacher of all 
oleaginous and fatty mutter, gums, Ac., irom wool, 
fiirsiuid every other fiber, and restoring .stained cot¬ 
ton add stained goods, threads, twines, cordage, &e.. 
c'caning nil cloths, and preparing and Hcausing all 
cloths for receiving dyes; also for removing barks, 
Ao., from hemp, tliix, &o., in tho stalk : and also tor 
making all paper stronger, wtiiter and without odor, 
and in the manufacture of parchment; nUo for de¬ 
odorizing rubber, giittn perebannd all gums; and for 
Improving nil glove material nnd gloves, and color¬ 
ing and strengthening the -urne ; also for improving 
undid- , cu-t or wrought, or lunnufitothrad Into any 
article, and all bright and polished surfaces -tele¬ 
graph nnd all surface wires, piano and all musical 
wires,ami glvluir In ■ ier mid iniltwii to the same ; spin¬ 
dles, mnciilnprar. .Lxv including Iron buildings, rails 
and rolling b ' k, iron steamships or vessels, arms 
and xinnun olits, engines, boilers, &c.. by closing and 
coating the •'urfaces wlih this absolutely lndeBtruct- 
tble compomid, iiraventing rust and oxidation ; also 
fur converting iron, through this Inexpensive pro¬ 
cess, into steel. I slulm the healing or calcining of 
iron and all other ores und metals, and cooling them 
in the alkali In-fore smelting the ores, und also till 
railroad and all other Irons and metals, and cast Iron; 
also the Immondon of ores and coal In tho tluiil, with¬ 
out hunting, for one or two days. And the using tiie 
prepared or calcine*I final, and til® immersion of it in 
water, us fuel add fiiix: und also ground coke and 
coal, or either, with orwithoul baking, saturated with 
petroleum, tor heat in burning bricks, making steam, 
and all other purposes, making no sparks or smoke. 1 
have made of o.itum<*b wire, by o. siting with carbon 
and zinc, a steel spring. Tho same results tuny he hail 
with B. B. Iron, Ac. II. draws the saps and closes tho 
surfaces of all opisbod woofls. curpotilry, tlinber, Ac., 
aodtiicenneUlngand stolfilngoi any such woods; 
also hardening, smoothing,mrirhlelzlntt all plastered 
Willis,through cmnhtnatlon, with or without coloring 
matter; cleansing and improving (tO atone nnd brick 
surfaces, bv combining, filling and making smooth 
and Indestructible rnrtan-s, llius protecting them 
from the weather; and tor applying the above pro¬ 
cess to till w,.rks ill marble and stone, such as sculp¬ 
ture, and removing stain*from painted iron, etc. 
i also ciaiiu the above compound a* an anti-friction 
agent or coaling for gunnery, i also claim the clean¬ 
sing and clarifying of all oils, varnishes, etc., etc., by 
tlm use of this coal and water compound. X also 
claim Improvement In the tnnniifneture of illumi¬ 
nating and warming gas, by elofitisbii! and deodoriz¬ 
ing tho same, anil urtordlng greater illuminating and 
heating power, by passing tho suld gases through 
this coal and water compound; and also that this 
compound la a universal oiainfectaat. 
A* to the fertilizing properties of the cokes or 
ooa l«, above referred to, it would be a simple way of 
testing their immense value, by using or spreading 
on an acre of common land about two ton* or less of 
ground cokes, or ne ton or less of the prepared coal, 
or about two tons or less of the prepared fine coal, 
With deep plowing, for producing a large Crop of im¬ 
proved tobacco, hemp, flax, or uny other staple or 
crop for two or three years; or It. may be spread in 
liquid form (In quantities of 50 lbs. to the barrel, 
which cun lie re!*fled four or five times and retain its 
properties,) with a street sprinkling apparatus, oueo 
or twice a work, for two or three week*, for the pro¬ 
duction of two crop* of hay ftunuulry. 
1 have made use of these compounds for both mak¬ 
ing and fixing dyer for goods, eto., and also in making 
cloth* and nil substances Impervious to water, aiid 
in adding luftor, p«»d irzlg,to the surface ot all cloths, 
by (•ponging or otherwise; also for glazing, whiten¬ 
ing nr coloring ail porcelains, and in the manufacture 
of tho above ware, stone war®, pottery, etc., etc. 
The soaps made by tills compound hav-c bleaching 
qualities that strengthen fiber instead of Injuring it, 
and great healing qualities for barbers and toilet use i 
also choice preparation* of “ t'ryitlul I'oul ll'abr,” 
(trade-murk name,) carefully prepared for ladies’ 
use. Its whitening and purifying effect* upon the 
skin and due toilet properties are uUaiuuble in no 
other way hut through this process 
Partins wishing to lease or secure rights for any or 
all of those inventions, cor form coinpanloH for them, 
will please address me for particulars. 1 claim to ho 
the inventor 01 the above, under the Talent Laws, 
> and I have made successful experiments therewith. 
■ 1 am prepared to furnish tlio products and compounds 
’ of coal and water, combined with zinc or any other 
• metallic substance, tor tho protection of ship’s bob- 
• tom*, and all metallic ami other surface*. 
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II HIDltD: A Complete Treatise on 
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