GEO. A. PRINCE & CO., 
Organs & llclodcons 
“ A little nonsense now and then 
Th relished, by the wisest men.” 
JSA6Y LESSON IN CHEMISTRY 
The Oldest, Largest and Most Perfect Manufactory 
In the United States. 
Some water and oil 
One day had a broil, 
As down In a glass they were dropping, 
And would not unite. 
But continued to fight, 
Without any prospect of stopping. 
Homo pmirlash o’erheard, 
And as quirk as a word. 
He Jumped in the midst of the clashing 
When all three agreed, 
And united with speed, 
And soap was created for washing. 
Now In use. 
No other Musical Instrument ever obtained the 
same Popularity. 
£ Jf“ Send for Price-Lists. 
Address BUFFALO, N. Y. 
SPARKS AND SPLINTERS, 
People Of good sense are those whose opin¬ 
ions agree with ours. 
Don't throw dust in your teacher's eyes. It 
will only injure the pupil. 
England is thinking of celebrating the cen¬ 
tennial of the .succulent potato. 
Til® telegraphic puzzle is how so many crook¬ 
ed stories can go ovur a straight wire. 
To lie upon a man never hurts him, but to tell 
the truth about him sometimes docs. 
When whining hours are perfect, how can a 
little busy bee hope to Improve them ? 
They arrest sneak thieves in Chicago “on 
general principles," w! ntever that may be. 
“ Colon" writes occasionally from Omaha to 
the Chicago Times: but he is only a semi-colon. 
A DARKEY arrested with chickens in his sack, 
declared, “De man dat put ’em dar was no fren 
of mine.” 
It is considered a safe plan for a young man 
never to trille with the affections of a woman 
who whistles. 
The crow is not «o had a bird, after all. It 
never shows the white feather, and never com¬ 
plains without caws. 
It can hardly be denied that Spiritualism has 
a heavenly origin, when we reflect that even 
Venus Is going to trnnce-D. 
Tim Thanksgiving turkey of the noble Dem¬ 
ocratic editor will be mostly composed of Dem¬ 
ocratic rooster.— Roch. Deux. 
A Chicago young lady nearly stove in the 
back of her head last week throwing u stone at 
a tlog in the front flower-garden. 
A nINRURY little darkey refused to go to 
Church, “ kase he didn't want to look there 
like a huckleberry In a pan or milk.” 
Formula of divorce used by a negro Justice 
in Desha Co., Ark.As 1 jined you, so I bust 
you 'sunder. So go, you niggers. You co !" 
Pratt’s Astral Oil! 
Absolutely SAFE ! 
Perfectly Odorless! 
Always Uniform. Illuminating qualities 
SUPERIOR TO OrA.S. 
UHA8. PRATT dtc CO 
Ea'ahltshed 1770. 1 OH Fulton Hi., 
need not be told that the old original 
not a. lasting- iivri>R,Essioisr. 
sioJ” r ne r arhis a v?ui|e n0t V ® ry celebrated > has succeeded in making a great “impres 
maintains the same splendid reputation which was 
freely accorded to it when first presented lor criti¬ 
cism nt the 
Paris Exposition of 1867, 
All who have tried this most simple, capable and 
durable 
ExcelsfofBo Your Own Printing- 
K Port able CQ Prettforcwds, lahtl#, envelopes 
\' U: ' I ‘5T ?cr « li!tl , a for large work. 
'VlWlk 1 * n s 111OKS J>1 '• 11 " their prln i ing and 
(CIRCULAR.) 
Consumers Importing Tea Co., ) 
No. 8 Church Street. r 
P. O. Box 5,509. New York City. ) 
This is a combination of capitalists to supply the 
consumers of Teas throughout the United States on 
the mutual principle. 
We have experienced agents In all the best dis¬ 
tricts of China and Japan to select Teas especially 
for onr trade. 
We expect every consumer of Teas ‘o render us all 
the assistance they can in carrying out our enter¬ 
prise, as we make a specialty of SUPPLYING CON¬ 
SUMERS ONLY land allow no middlemen to make 
any profit on our importations), wnich will enable 
us to supply them with Teas at prices lower than 
have ever been known, and Of those line qualities 
.hit seldom reach the Interior, being sold only to 
the large cities anil among the very wi althy. 
Hoping the consumer will take an Interest In onr 
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 1 Tea €o., 
No. H Church St., 
P. O. Box 0,509. New York City, 
wS nt i?I 0 ,i’ ilc ^ or<,lnK t0 A ct °* Congress, in January, 
T C . < .’ U3, " r]ors Importing Ten Co., in the 
a advertising, save money and Increase 
trad.-. Amateur Printing', delight 
rul pastime for spare hours, HOYS 
have great fun and make money fas' 
^ITintintf atprfntuig. Sind two Stamp* fur full 
„«-pS catalogue prossea type etc, totho Mfrs 
rfiSS* 5 KlCLSliYA CO. DleHiten Cnnn 
endorse the merit claimed for It by the manufact¬ 
urers. 
All elussoB of people, and every variety of stitch¬ 
ing, bear witness that it has no equal. 
The Awards at Vienna in 1873 
to the Wood Sewing Macblno Company surpassed 
those to any other exhibitor of Sewing Machines. 
The l*iiiron«ot ilii-lmmiry and the Sovereigns 
oi I n.ltiMi ry are among our staunchest friends. 
No one cun ntTui-t to buy a Sewing Machine with¬ 
out first, examining T he Favorites. 
Manufactory at Hartford, Conn. 
CALKINS’ 
Champion Washer 
eo ' oo ° 
Sold in 2 years 
Price only $7.5©. 
WASHES CLEAN AND EASY. 
Will do a large Washing iii 2 Hours 
Medal Awarded at N. Y. Slate Fair, 1874. 
First Premium at Western N. Y. Fair, 1874, 
12 State Fair Prems. taken during past year. 
MASON & HAMLIN 
CABINET ORGANS. 
THREE HIGHEST MEDALS 
AND DIPLOMA OF HONOR, 
KENTUCKY Republicans naked:—'“Why should 
Proctor Knott go to Congress ?" And t he peo¬ 
ple saw no reason why he should not go there. 
One of the most exhilarating Bights In the 
world istisce a newspaper collector dunning 
an unsuccessful candidate for his advertising 
bill. 
A lecturer on modern education eahi, very 
solemnly, to his audience " Parents, you may 
have children, or if not, your daughters may 
have.” 
An impertinent fellow wants to know If you 
ever alt down to tea where ski mined milk was 
on the table without being asked, “ Do you 
take cream ?" 
“ Susan, how in the world did you ever marry 
that brute?” “ Oh, I don’t know, Jane. I used 
On reoeipt of price, will send it to your town 
Charges prepaid. Address 
CALKINS’ CHAMPION WASHER CO., 
. !/?/L ©*• ambers Hi., New York, 
and M07 Houili Clark St., Chicago, Til. 
\I,W AYS t ’E u , r 2,"< 1 highest premiums at Indus- 
,, . V. trial Expositions, m Kuropeand Amer¬ 
ica. Out of hundreds there have not been six in u n 
where any oilier organs have been preferred, 
THE OYI.V American Organs which have ever 
v "bt lined any medal In Europe, or 
which present such extraordinary and recognized 
excellence as to oommand a wide sale there. 
REST Declared by Eminent Musicians, it, both 
hem I spheres, to be unrivaled. See TEs- 
TIMON'IA 1. C1IICULA H, with opinion - "f morn than 
One Thom-und (sent free). 
CUE A PEST Hold always at fixed prices which 
,, V ar<; t ,, ’l'* ,t 'd in price lists, and 
subject to no discount. H is Hie custom of other 
makers to print In tiieir catalogues very high prices 
from which grout discounts are made, sometimes 
II rnijii-jlmr/t > cent-, or mure. The pooler the organ 
the higher the printed prut* and the linger 
the discount. Dealer* sometimes recommend other 
organs t ban the Mason N Haudiu, because they get 
these enormous discounts mi them. 
INSIST on having a Mason A Hamlin, with recent 
11,11,111 improvements, at Catuh eue Price, and 
you will gel, according to >.*.? and style, the best 
Organ Mint ran hr run de, as liov as It ca, bo af¬ 
forded by Uni maker having gieutest facilities for 
manufacture. 
YEW STYLES ln Elegant upright tteso- 
„ , , * «»"• t asea iPatcuied, 1871.) 
Very rich and beautiful; adding much to the musical 
power and resonance: with other Important patented 
improvements, used exclusively in these Organs. 
EASY PAYMENTS J ? ,!W ‘* l!inH udopteii this 
rjaa 1 1 1 11,1 * 11 Season. Organs sold for 
niiarterly or moiithlr payment*) or rented 
with privilege of purchase. Bern paid three 
years inirrlinse* the (irgau. Thcfolfowlng table 
shows terms of pay meut on several plans for a Five 
delate Double Reed Orguu in elegant Up¬ 
right Rcnoiirnit Case, with Five Hi ops i Vox 
Hu in nnu, A in oom tic hv, ell, K nee Swell, &c. 
New Method $ $ Piano-Forte. 
Endorsed, by the Musical, Educational and 
general Press, and by Good Teachers, to be 
Beyond all Comparison the Best 
to be had nt Book and Music stores. 
Sent by Mail, Price, $3.75. 
LEE & WALKER, 
GREAT REDUCTION. 
TEAS AND COFFEES 
AT WHOLESALE PRICES. 
RANDALL'S 
Practical Shepherd 
Increased Facilities to Club Organizers. 
Send for New Price 1J«i. 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA GO. 
P. 0. Box 5843. 3i & 33 Vesey St., New York 
A COMPLETE TREATISE 
ON THE BREEDING, MANAGEMENT 
AND DISEASES OF SHEEP. 
A thorough knowledge of Telegraphing, Book- 
keeping, Ac., taught by uractloal nperutor. Time 
unlimited. No cor iMon. Lady and Gentlemen Stu¬ 
dent*! may enter nny tirre. Terms, Ac,, on entirely 
•new plan. Semi stump for Circular. 
Address A. G. FOX, Manager, 
Lock Box UU Auburn, N. Y. 
LL. D.. (author of “ Bheep Husbandry In the South,” 
‘ *“8 'V 00 ! Sheep Husbandry," &c.,) Is the Stand- 
ard Authority on the Subject. It is the most com¬ 
plete and reliable Treatise on Amorlcan Sheep Hus¬ 
bandry ever published, und <oa the New England 
Farmer says) ” should be In the hand and head of 
every person owning shcop.f 
The Practical bhepukkd contains 452 pages, and 
la Illustrated, printed and bound Id superior »tvl*>. 
Twenty-seventh Edition new ready. Bent by mall 
post-paid, on reoeipt of price—*2. Address 
In six 
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tural papers published inthlscoimfy. Wecerlalnly 
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paper for the farmer and U’s tlreside as dues this 
Journal. Mr. Moore aims to make the Rural such 
a paper as shall delight the hospitable housekeeper, 
give instruclton anil umu.-omeiit to ine young, und 
furnish pleasant rending to all whether la country 
or town. Taking tbe last Issue as a specimen num¬ 
ber, we can truly say It fulfills all these conditions 
and heartily u»nuncnd It tu all.— xXi•• tr (A. J.1 Mall. 
Ho * 7> I $M.3Q easb^^flO monthly for 12 months 
Many styles at proportionate rates- 
HAT \ LOGUES i ln<1 Circulars, wlthfull'niirtlcu- 
1 | ftrtt unn* <Vs»x. A . \IASON 
lars, sent free. Addres M 
& HAMLIN ORGAN CO., BOSTON, NEVV YO 
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