C.G. GUNTHER’S SONS 
502—504 Broadway, 
OFFER THEIR EXTENSIVE STOCK OF 
“ A Utile nonsense now and then 
Ts relished hu the wisest men.” 
SPARKS AND SPLINTERS 
A mean a tie— the average. 
A Cohn Extractor—A crow. 
A Stock-in-trade—H osiery. 
VmSKUJ of wrath—family Jars. 
Tin; father of nil corns—Pop-corn. 
Thi; ago of the logiHlaturo—mileage. 
'I’m; child of the sea is a harbor buoy. 
A good line of business—the flub line. 
Moiimonihm Is absorbing an Indian element. 
A botanist says nature loves the number 
five. 
A pot-up job the medical prescription busi¬ 
ness. 
There is never a scarcity of the small-potato 
crop. 
A tough thing to manage—Boarding-house 
steak. 
The loading boot-black in Omaha is a Polish 
refugee. 
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are un¬ 
answerable. 
When is a gun-barrel a chicken?—When It is 
a little foul. 
The London season lias just opened—that is 
the set son for fogs. 
Windfalls in orchards are not sudden riches 
to fruit cultivators. 
A\ hat goes mostly against a farmer’s grain? 
His reaping machine. 
1‘ASHIONADLE coiffeurs out in Kansas are 
called “ hair-butchers.” 
Raining like pistol bullets on an election 
day, is a Kentucky phrase. 
Whkkk might you expect to And a cow’s 
pedigree ?—In a cattle-log. 
Clergymen of the Church of England avoid 
deatli by purchaainffii living. 
Song of the plundering politicians—“Como 
with the loot, come with the lay.” 
Two cats over one mouse, two wives in one 
house, and two lovers after one young lady, 
never agree. 
A pack of wolves In SUerbourno County, 
Minnesota, chased a couple of lawyers five 
mile:-, and the New Orleans Republican thinks 
they showed a lack of professional curiosity in 
doing so. 
\\ ashington Irving once said of a pompous 
American diplomatist, “ Ah, he is a great man, 
and in his own estimation a very great man, a 
man of groat weight. When lie goes to the 
west, the east tips up.” 
An affected young lady on being asked, in a 
large company, if she had read Shakspeiire, 
assumed a look of astonishment, and replied: 
“ Read Slmkapearo! Of course I have; I read 
that when it first came out.” 
OF Wltat science does u man think when a 
railway train is coming towards him in a narrow 
cutting? Engine-nearing. 
“No Yen Don't, JUDGE.'*—Scene In court: 
A wltuoss examined who saw the assault on 
Mr. Brown. 
Judge. Young man, do you know Mr, Brown? 
Witness.—No you don’t, Judge. 
Judge.—What do you mean by that, sir? 
AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES, 
AND ALL OTHER TURS, 
IN GREAT VARIETIES, INCLUDING 
OF ALL GRADES AND STYLES 
IN VERY LARGE ASSORTMENT, OF EVERY 
DESCRIPTION. 
502-504 BROADWAY 
Wholesale and Retaif. 
need not be told that the old original 
new way to yoke oxen. 
Farmer, (who has directed Patrick to yoke the oxen,) — “ What do you carry that 
club for?” J 
Ph<—‘‘F aith, sur, how will I iver get the conthrivanee on tliim if I don’t knock thim 
prongs off the heads o’ thim ?” 
maintains the same splendid reputation which was 
freely accorded to it when first presented for criti¬ 
cism at the 
Paris Exposition of 1867. 
All who have tried this most simple, capable and 
durable 
Keep Your Feet Dry 
(CIRCULAR.) 
Consumers Importing’ Tea Co., ) 
No. 8 Clmrcli Street. r 
I*. 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 beBt dis¬ 
tricts of China and Japan to select Teas especially 
for our trade. 
We expect every consumer ol Teas to render us all 
the assistance they can in carrying out our enter¬ 
prise, as we make a specialty of SUPPLYING CON- 
SUM KKS ONLY (and allow no middlemen to make 
any profit on our importations), wnieh will enuble 
us to supply them with Teas at prices lower than 
have ever been known, and of those line qualities 
.hi t seldom reach the interior, being sold only to 
the large cities and among the very wealthy. 
Hoping the consumer will take an interest In our 
enterprise, and send at once lor a circular with full 
explanation* of how to proceed to obtain our goods, 
wo remain, 
Most respectfully yours. 
Consumers Importing Tea Co., 
No. 8 Church Ht„ 
P. O. Box 3,509. New York City. 
Entered, accord, ng. to Act of Congress, in January, 
J»74, by the Consumers Importing Tea Co., in the 
Oflieeof the Librarian of Congress, Washnigton, D. C. 
endorse the merit claimed for it by the manufact¬ 
urers. 
All clause* 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 Pill rona ot IIushnuilry and the Sovereign*, 
of InilUHiry arc among our staunchest friends. 
No one cun afford to buy a Sewing Machine with¬ 
out tint examining The Fu vorlte*. 
Manufactory at Hartford, Conn. 
The only POMliVIC WAT ICItPKOOF 
xii.l I. oh tiler Prefcervni i vc. Nimwivie 
• or cannot penetrate where it is ap¬ 
plied. Sold everywhere» 
N. N. STAFFOItO, IffanuPr, 
218 Pearl Si,, New' York. 
1127“ Box mailed on receipt of 25c. 
THE NEW 
MASON & HAMLIN 
CABINET ORGANS. 
THREE HIGHEST MEDALS 
AND DIPLOMA OF HONOR, 
At VIENNA, 1873, PARIS. 1807. 
ALWAYS highest premiums at Iudus- 
. ' Vi lr, “ l Expositions, in Europe and Amer¬ 
ica. Outuf hundreds there have not been six In all 
where any other organs have been preferred. 
THE GALA American Organ, which have ever 
", VI. I. • Obtained any medal in Europe, or 
which present such extraordinary and recognised 
excellence as to command a wide sale there. 
REST Beelured by Eminent Musician*, in both 
hemispheres, to bo unrivaled. Hce TES- 
Tl.MOMAL Cl IlCU I.AK, with opinions of more than 
One Thousand (sent free). 
I'HE V PEST HoW a| wayH at fixed prices which 
. ar ‘ *»*•»»»• *•<* in price lisi*. and 
subject to no d ihcoii hi . it is the custom of other 
makers to print la their catalogues very high prices 
from which grout discounts are made, sometimes 
stveniv-flr, p, , cent., or mote. The poorer Hu- organ 
the higher Ihe printed price and the Huger 
the discount. Dculers sometimesrecororueud inner 
organs than the Mason & Hamlin, because they get 
these enormous discounts on thorn. 
INSIST n1 ' having u Mason & Hamlin, with recent 
° Improvements, at Catalogue Price, and 
you will get, according to Size and style, the best 
Orgtin ihut CBM be made, us low U s It can tic af¬ 
forded by the maker having greatest facilities for 
manulucturo. 
IVEW STYLES ,n ipuixht u t -*o- 
:: . num Cases (Patented, ihu.) 
Clarkes 
New Method 4 $ Piano-Forte . 
Endorsed by the Musical, Educational and 
general Press, and by Good Teachers, to be 
Beyond all Comparison the Best 
io be had at Booh and Music stores. 
Sent by Mail, Price, $3.7b. 
LEE & WALKER, I” 
CEO. PRINCE & CO., 
0run ns A Meloricons 
ASTIITH4 CORED!—For Circulnr and price, ud- 
a(y 1 dress S. C. UPHAM, Philadelphia, Pu. 
SUPERFLUOUS HAIR 
The Oldest, Largest and Most Perfect Manufactory 
in the United States. 
GREAT REDUCTION. 
TEAS AND COFFEES 
AT WHOLESALE PRICES. 
Now in use. 
No other Musical instrument ever obtained the 
same Popularity. 
S~lf~ Send for Price-Lists. 
Address KUFFA 1,0. N. v. 
Increased Faclliiien lo Club Organizers 
Send for New Price I.iai. 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA CO 
P. 0. Box 5043. 3i & 33 Vesey St., New Yor 
Pratt’s Astral Oil! 
Absolutely SAFE ! 
Perfectly Odorless! 
F'AViTi't in 1 Iti T!ir«:p i In Mix 
In Twolv 
Month#. 
M until*. 1 .MoiiHih. 
txcelsfo *® 0 Your Own Printing 
**PnTt,nblp* CO Press for cards, labels, envelopes 
*?« etc. Largersizes for large work. 
No. 2. 28.H0 — 28.00 — gf, oil 
No. 3. 27.92 27.92 27.92 27.02 27 93 
*• 16.30 16.30 16.36 
No. 5. Iff.00 - 67 .06 — — 
No. 6. 69.90 — - — P9.90 
No. v. > 11.80 oaah, > 10,44 monthly for 12 months 
Many styles at proportionate rates. 
LAT4LOGIIES aud circulars, withfull narticu- 
c,'? jara, sent free. AddressMASON 
A HAMLIN ORGAN CO., BOSTON, NEW YOP.K, or 
CHICAGO. 
It ii si no** Aleu do their printing mid 
advertising, save money and increase 
I rude. Amateur Printing, delight 
fill PUR time for spare hours, BOYS 
have great fuq and make money fast 
at printing, Bend IwostampBfur full 
catalogue presses type etc, to the Mfrs 
KFL8FIA CO. Meriden, Conn. 
always Uniform. Illuminating Qualities 
SUJPJ3RIOR. TO G-2VS. 
CHAS. PRATT & CO 
Established 1770. 108 Fulton St., 
