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MOOBE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
®it and "Jumq. 
“A little nonsense now and then, 
Ts relished by the wisest men.” 
SPARKS AND SPLINTERS. 
Kentucky seems to prefer personal option 
—In the matter of whisky—to local option. 
A Hartford young woman exclaimed the 
other day. “I have excurtedthree times this 
summer.” 
No wonder we have so many rapid financial 
revolutions, when every greenback bears the 
name of a General Spinner. 
When a young fellow begins, to talk of “ the 
last little delicate aquiline curve in a sensitive 
nose ” of his girl, lie’s a goner. 
“I wouldn't have left, but the people kinder 
egged me on,” said a nun who was asked why 
he quit his Kansas home In a burry. 
Nevada Is proud of a woman resident who, 
when the stealthy savage approached her, just 
pulled off her hair ;yid gave it to him. 
There never was a thoroughly happy mar¬ 
riage whero the husband was master and the 
wife his servant. And “ wlsey weraey.” 
It occurred to a scholar while writing a com¬ 
position to remark that “ an <>x does not taste 
as good as an oyster, but it can ruu laster. 
“ Haven't T a right to be saucy if 1 please? ” 
asked a young lady of an old bachelor. ? ° s > 
If you please, but not if you displease, was the 
answer. 
An unsophisticated person once declined a 
plate of maocaronl soup, with the remark that 
they “ couldn't palm off any b'il&d pipe stems 
on him ? ” 
An old farmer on being informed the other 
day that one of his neighbors owed him a 
grudge, growled out, 11 No matter, he never pays 
anything.” 
“ I am, indeed, very much afraid of lightning,” 
said a pretty lady. “And well you may be,” 
said a despairing lover, "when your heart is 
made of steel.” 
This brief chronicle was written by the editor 
of the Philadelphia LedgerLowell—Satur¬ 
day, Two little boys and a pistol. Now, only 
one little boy and a pistol." 
A Mississippi pilot saw the comet, the other 
night, and immediately cried, “I’ve got era ; 
snakes I’ve had before, but the stars have got 
tails on 'em ; I'm a dead man." 
“ Patrick." said the priest, “ how much hay 
did you stoal ? ” *' Well, I may as well confess 
to your riverenco for the whole stack, for I am 
going after the balance to-night." 
WnAT do they talk about? In Maine and 
Alabama, caterpillars ; In Illinois, chinch bugs 
In Minnesota, grasshoppers; In Kentucky, po¬ 
tato bugs; In New Jersey, mosquitoes. 
“Pat,” said a j nicer, “ why don't you get your 
ears cropped? They are much too long for a 
man." “ And yours," replied Pat, " ought to be 
lengthened ; they ura too short for an ass.” 
A little boy having broken his rocking 
horse the day It was purchased, his mamma 
began to scold, when he silenced her by inquir¬ 
ing, “ What's the good of a horse till it's broke ?" 
“Takes wing?” gushed a pompous upstart, 
extending his bent arm to a sensible young 
lady, at the close of an evening meeting. “ Not 
of a gander," she quietly replied, and walked 
home with her mother. 
GEO. A. PRINCE & CO., 
Organs k Melodeons. 
The Oldest, Largest and Most Perfect Manufactory 
In the United States. 
54,000 
Now In use. 
No other Musical Instrument ever obtained the 
same Popularity. 
Z3T Send for Price-Lists. 
Address BUFFALO, N« Y. 
ECHAWICS’ H- 
PRATT’S 
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SUCG&&~£D BY A PAWTOH 
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HY0F,KMV\t. 
DISPLAY OF IMPLEMENTS AT THE P’Alit. 
CALKINS’ 
Champion Washer 
GREAT REDUCTION. 
TEAS AND COFFEES 
AT WHOLESALE PRICES. 
Increased Facilities to Club Organizers. 
Send for New Price List. 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA CO. 
P. O. Box r>043 . 3i & 33 Vesey St., New York 
Budd Doble’s Condition Powders. 
JO. H. A. C.-OJVE. 
INVALUABLE FOR HORSES OUT OF CONDITION, 
and when In condition will Invariably keep them so. 
Farmers and Stock-breeders look to roar interests. 
Put up in packages of l n>. Prloe, $1. 
Forwarded to auy part of the country, upon the re¬ 
ceipt of *1.12. , 
BUDD DQBLE, 1121 South Penn Square, Phllada. 
Buy the Best.— Price $7.50. 
60,000 
SOLD IN TWO YEARS. 
Medal Awarded at N. Y. State Fair, 1874. 
First Premium at Western N. Y. Fair, 1874. 
Special Medal of Honor, Pa. State Fair, 1874 
12 State Fair Premiums taken the past year. 
We want CAN VASSERS and ACTS 
Iti every town and neighborhood In 
the EaM. 
Almost every family will buy It, 
after SEEING IT IN USE. 
Send for Descriptive Circulars and 
Terms to Canvassers. 
CALKINS' CHAMPION WASHER CO., 
1 Ofl Chambers St., New York, 
and ‘207 South Clark St., Chicago, III. 
Easy Payments for Best Organs. 
The MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO., winners 
Of TWO HIGHEST MEDALS and DIPLOMA OF 
HONOR, fit PARIS, 18G7, VIENNA, 1878. respectfully 
announce that they now offer their celebrated Cabi¬ 
net Organs not only exelttsl vely for cash, as formerly, 
but also on different plans Of easy payments which, 
it Is believed, afford purchasers unprecedented In¬ 
ducements. Characteristics of these plans arc : 
1 . Opportunity to try on organ six- months or longer 
be/ore concluding to purchase it. This may be done at 
cost of only a reasonable rent for the time the organ 
is used. 
2. Time to make payments, varying to suit the con¬ 
venience of purchasers. An organ may be obtained 
by a first paymeut of less than ten dollars, with pay¬ 
ments monthly, quarterly or at other intervals ex¬ 
tending through one to four years. 
8. The affording these accommodations at the lowest 
possible remunerative rate to the Company. An organ, 
though taken with privilege Of return, Sf purchased 
and the payment for It made within one year, costs 
the purchaser only five to ten per cent, more than 
the lotvesi price for which such an organ could be 
obtained for by payment of all cash. 
Many dealers say that such terms cannot possibly 
be afforded. The Mason & Harullo Co., knowing the 
quality of their work, and having ample experience 
to assure them of the satisfaction their organs give 
in use, are confident that very few will be returned, 
and that this will make even such low and favorable 
terms remunerative to them. 
Organs can be furnished through agents, or direct¬ 
ly, to almost any part of the country on these terms. 
Illustrated Catalogues, Terms and Prices, with all 
particulars, aeut free. Address 
MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO., 
BOSTON, NEW YORK, or CHICAGO. 
(CIRCULAR.) 
Consumers Importing Tea Co., ) 
No. 8 Church Street. 
P. O. Box 5,509. New York City. ) 
This Ua combination of capitalists to supply the 
consumers of Teas throughout the United State- on 
the mutual principle. 
We have experienced agents in all the best dis¬ 
tricts of China and Japan to select Teas especially 
for our trade. 
We expect every consumer of Teas 'o render ua all 
the assistance they cun In carrying out our enter¬ 
prise, as we make a specialty of SUPPLYING CON¬ 
SUMERS ONLY (and allow no middlemen to make 
any profit on our importations), wnicli will enable 
us to supply them with Teus at prices lower than 
have ever been known, and of those fine qualities 
„hit seldom reach the Interior, being sold only to 
the large cities and among the very wealthy. 
Hoping the consumer will take tin interest In our 
enterprise, and send at once for a circular with full 
explanations of how to proceed to obtain our goods, 
we remain, 
Most respectfully yours, 
Consumers Importing Tea Co., 
No. 8 Church St., 
P. O. Box 5,509. New York City. 
Entered, according to Act of Congress, In January, 
1874, by the Consumers Importing Tea Co., in the 
Office of the Librarian of Congress, W ashnigton, D. C. 
WHEELER & WILSON’S 
Celebrated Rotary-Hook Loek-Stiteh 
SEWING MACHINE 
FOR FAMILY USE, 
ASTRAL OIL 
Absolutely SAFE ! 
Perfectly Odorless! 
Always Uniform. Illuminating Qualities 
SUPERIOR TO GAS ! 
Bums In any lamp without danger of exploding or 
taking fire. Manufactured expressly to displace 
the use of highly volatile aDd dangerous oils. 
ITS SAFETY tinder EVERY possible 
TEST, and Its perfect burning 
qualities, are proved by Its 
continued use in over 
500,000 Families 2 
While no accident, directly or indirectly, has ever 
occurred from burning, storing or handling It. 
The many imitations and counterfeit# of the Astral 
Oil that have been thrown unsuccessfuUy 
on the market Is further 
PROOF OF ITS_SUPERI0R MERIT. 
XIIF ASTRAL 
Has now a world-wide reputation as the SAFEST 
and BEST. The 
Insurance Companies and Fire Commissioners 
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY 
RECOMMEND PRATT’S ASTRAL OIL 
As the Best Safeguard when Lamps 
are used. 
CHAS. PRATT & CO., 
ESTABLISHED 1770. 
108 FULTON ST„ NEW YORK, 
THE PUBLIC 
need not be told that the old original 
Family Favorite 
maintains the same splendid reputation which was 
freely aooorded to it when first presented for criti¬ 
cism at the 
Paris Exposition of 1867. 
All who have tried this most Blmple, capable and 
durable 
SEWING MACHINE, 
endorse the merit claimed for it by the manufact¬ 
urers. 
All classes of people, and every variety of stitch¬ 
ing, bear witness that It has no equal. 
The Awards at Vienna in 1873 
to the Weed Sewing Machine Company surpassed 
those to any other exhibitor of Sewing Machines. 
The Patrons of Husbandry and the Sovereigns 
of industry are among our staunchest friends. 
No one can afford to buy a Sewing Machine with¬ 
out first examining 'l he Favorites. 
Manufactory at Hartford, Conn. 
SEWING MACHINE 
For Leather Work & Heavy Tailoring. 
Wheeler & Wilson's Family Sewing Machine was 
the first Introduced Into the household for general 
use and for more than twenty years has stood un¬ 
rivaled. More than 1,000,000 have been sold, a 
number far exceeding the total sales of any other 
machine of Its class. 
Wheeler & Wilson's New No. 6 Sewing Machine is 
designed to do in a superior manner a wider range 
of work than any sewing machine heretofore pro¬ 
duced. It is especially adapted to the stitching of 
hoots and shoes, harness, carriage trimmings, gloves, 
leather work generally, bags, hosiery, clothing, and heavy 
fabrics of every description, It is Intended to be 
opeiated either by foot, or at a higher rate of speed 
than other machines by steam or other power, Bnd Is 
rapidly gaining that pre-eminence for manufactur¬ 
ing purposes which their family machine has long 
maintained In the household. Send for Circular, 
giving testimonials and description of the machine, 
to 
WHEELER & WILSON M'F’G CO., 
625 Broadway, New York. 
SHALL FRUITS. 
Our Autuinu Catalogue of the above, beauti¬ 
fully Illustrated with many engravings and a splen¬ 
didly colored lithograph of a Group of Double 
and Single Hyacinth*, will be ready for distri¬ 
bution Sept. 1st. A copy will be mailed to all appli¬ 
cants Inclosing Ten Cents; regular customers sup¬ 
plied gratis. Address 
B. K. BX.XS? 6 l SO NS, 
Seed, Plant and Bulb Warehouse, 
34- Barclay 8t., New Y r ork. 
P. O. Box No. 5712. 
AUBURN TELEGRAPH SCHOOL! 
A thorough knowledge of Telegraphing, Book¬ 
keeping, &c.. taught by practical operator, lime 
unlimited. No vacation. Lady and Gentlemen Stu¬ 
dents may enter any time. Terms. Ac., on entirely 
new plan. Send stamp for Circular. 
Address A. G. FOX, Manager. 
Lock Box 148 Auburn, N. Y. 
