PATENT DEVICE FOR STOPPING A RUNAWAY HORSE 
C.G.GUNTHER’S SONS 
502—504 Broadway, 
OFFER THEIR EXTENSIVE STOCK OF 
SPARKS AND SPLINTERS, 
"V/rr*" 
AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES 
AND ALL OTHER rURS, 
IN GREAT VARIETIES, INCLUDING 
“Tub man who lauglm” The man elected. 
A put- in* Job- V'onr physician V prescription. 
To make a telling speech a man should tell 
something. 
Uktirino eai'ly at night will surely shorten a 
mart’s days. 
In many places in Texas a few horse thieves 
are always hanging about. 
San Francisco is content with nothing short 
of Lotta drinking fountains, 
V iiat nun must have his glass before he can 
do a day’s work V A glazier. 
\V rttiN Is a loaf of bread said to be inhabited ? 
When there’* a little Indian In it. 
A man is distressingly pressed when he is too 
poor to pay a little attention to his friends. 
Let friendship creep gently to a bight; If It 
rush to it, it may soon run itself out of breath. 
Cutting rdf the head of on offlee-holder in 
Japan means something more than a figure of 
speech. 
Professor Mason has written a book on 
“The Three Devils—Luther’s, Milton's and 
Goethe’s.” 
A schoolboy spelled “sob” and when 
asked to define it, blundered out:—“It means 
when a feller don't want to cry, and it bursts 
out Itself.” Another defined a comma as “a 
period with a tail.” 
NO YOU ID OKI’T 1 
[THE WONDERFUL INVENTION OF MR. H. D, 
STOVER, THE GREAT AMERICAN PATENTEE.] 
CHEAPEST BECAUSE BEST 
(CIRCULAR.) 
Consumers Importing Tea Co.,) 
No. 8 Chiircli Street. r 
P • ©• Box 5,509. New lforlt city. ) 
This tsa 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 bo select Teas especially 
for our trade. 
W<; expect every consumer of Teas o render us all 
tin; assistance they can in carrying out our enter¬ 
prise, as we make a specialty of SUPPLYING CON- 
SU M BUS ONLY (and allow no middlemen to make 
any protlt on our Importations), which will enable 
us to supply them with Teas at prices lower than 
have ever been known, and of those line qualities 
JR t seldom roach 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 fora circular with full 
explanations of how to proceed to obtain our goods, 
we remain, 
Most respectfully yours. 
Consumers Importing Tea Co., 
No. N Chinch St., 
I*. O. Box 5.500. New York City. 
.Jeered, according to Act of Congress, in Janiiarv, 
"»?• by the Consumers Importin ' Tea Co., in the 
O(bee of tiic Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C. 
OF ALL GRADES AND STYLES 
Fur Trimmings 
durability, li took the <L\ | 
IN VERY LARGE ASSORTMENT, 09 
DESCRIPTION. 
lit Hie VIENNA EXPOSITION of I S?.t. 
W urrroom*. No. *L» Ku«.i till. Si., N. V. 
From the New York Tribune. Jan. 6,187*:—“Amer- 
R.in manufacturers have triumphed once again. 
Many hundred* of plnno-fortc* were exhibited at 
the Vienna Exposition from the manufactories of 
the most eminent, makers, but to Uio American 
] uii.es Ol Geo. Stock & Co. ALONE was awarded 
ol‘f h '.I? 1 I”'***' 1 Ike Gold Medal. We eon- 
gi atulaie '■'le. k a Co. upon their brilliant success in 
a branch of Industry which Is assuming such colossal 
proportions.' 
502-504 BROADWAY 
Wholesale and Retail. 
CALKINS’ 
Champion Washer 
M L 1‘rice only $7.50. 
jf\ Washes Oleau & Easy. 
Jf Will do a Large AFasli- 
itig in Two Hours. 
need not be told that the old original 
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 
CEO. A. PRIIVCE & €0., 
Organs & Mclodcons 
endorse the merit claimed for it by the manufact¬ 
urers. 
AH classes of people, and every variety of stitch¬ 
ing, boar witness that it bus no equal. 
The Awards at Vienna in 1873 
to tlie Weed Sewing Machine Company surpassed 
those to any other exhibitor of Hewing Machines. 
The Pu t rii in. oi Husbandry and the Sovereigns 
of I ii.1 ii hi ry are among our staunchest friends. 
No < no can afford to buy a Sewing Machine with¬ 
out first examining The Favorite*. 
Manufactory at Hartford, Conn, 
SOLD IN TWO YEARS. 
Medal Awarded at N, Y. State Fair, 1374.-First. 
Premium tit Western N. Y. Fair. 1SVL—Twelve State 
•‘air Premiums taken during the past year. 
The Oldest, Largest and Most Perfect Manufactory 
in the United States. 
ExcelsfopDo Your Own Printing 
V Portable" <&Q Rrcs*iforcards,labels,envelope. 
a _ V" etc- Larger sizes for large work, 
JSusiuess Mon dothcirprlntingand 
II* 7 *'On receipt of price, will send it. to your town 
Oliarsto* prepaid. Address CALKINS' CHAMPION 
WASHER PO., lot) Chambers fcft., New York, and 2n) 
South Chirk St., Chicago, Ill. 
do theirpriiitingand 
ad vortitdiig, save money and increase 
trade. A mat our Printing, delight 
fiilpavtauu for i pure hours. ROYS 
have great fun and make money fast 
a t,printing. Send two stamps for full 
catalogue presses ty pc etc. to Uxc Mfrs 
lU.LSlT'Jit'O. Mn Lli ii, Conn. 
Now in use. 
No other Musical Instrument ever obtained the 
same Popularity. 
C ff~ Send for Price-Lists. 
Address BUFFALO. N. Y. 
\STIIIW .\UURED !—For Circular and price, ad- 
dress S. C. UPHAU, Philadelphia, Pa. 
SUPERFLUOUS HIIR Kkmoted. Address 
r-Hi uk ut H lllV g c Uphitm, Philu. 
The past twelve month* at the Waltham 
Watch Factory have been the busiest in the 
Company’s history. Several wholly new stem- 
winding watches have been produced, and 
great improvements have been effected in the 
manufacture of ail variety of their standard 
watches, until now they include every size In 
both key and Stem winding, that can be de¬ 
sired, of every quality and of every price. At 
the same time new inventions in machinery, 
and other large economies, have cheapened the 
cost, no that at present It is not too much to 
claim that the Waltbam Watches are Hie best 
and cheapest watches in the world. These 
claims are, In fact., almost everywhere admit¬ 
ted. In this country it is a matter of fact that 
hardly any line American watches are sold but 
those of the Waltham make, while orders are 
now regularly received from England, Austra¬ 
lia and the British Possessions generally, and 
foreign countries are abandoning the hand¬ 
made product ions of Switzerland and England, 
and eagerly adopting American machine-made 
Waltham watches in (heir place. 
Buyers of silver watches should be careful to 
observe the stamp of the Company <in the case, 
as well as on the movement, as the Waltham 
Watch movements are frequently put into cases 
which are inferior both in quality of metal and 
workmanship. 
For sale by all leading jewelers. 
Positively no Watches sold at retail. 
ROBBINS & APPLETON, 
General Agents, 
New York, Boston, Chicago, and London, En¬ 
gland. 
Readers of The Rural 
will confer a favor by allowing their minds to 
tie directed towards the 
At VIENNA, 1873, PARIS, 1867. 
ALWAYS highest premiums at Indus- 
* V ' V. trial Expositions, In Europe ami Amer¬ 
ica. Out of hundreds there have not been hi x In .ill 
where auy other organs have been preferred. 
THU II \ 1.1 American Organs will eh have ever 
■ obtained any medal in Europe, or 
which present such extraordinary and recognized 
excellence as to command a wide sale there. 
HFST Declared by Eminent Musicians, in hath 
■“ * heniUpliercB.to be unrivaled. HccTF.S- 
T1MONIA l. t'IRCl LA R, with opinions of more than 
One Thousand (sent free). 
riir, IPFST Hold always at fixed pr re* which 
, . * * 1 ,. !m ‘ Primed In price- lists, and 
subject to no discount. H is the custom or other 
makers to print hi their catalogues very high prices 
from which grout discounts are made, sometimes 
■ren/w-nrr pi / iiut.ui m urt. The poorer i lie organ 
• he higher the primed price undllii- larger 
tliu disco a nl. Dealers sound,iniesrccommond otju'.r 
organs than the Mason .% Hamlin, because they get 
these enormous discounts on them. 
INSIST on haring a Mason & Hamlin, with recent 
I. improvements, at Catalogue Price, and 
you will get. according to size and style, the best 
Organ Ihal cun he made, ns low as it cap be ji f- 
torded by the maker having greatest facilities for 
manufacture. 
NEW STYLES in Elegant Upright If cmo- 
„ " , , , mini Ciimcm IPiitoniiKl, WH.) 
Very rich and beautltul; adding much to the musical 
powerund rcsoimncu: with other Important patented 
Improvements, used exclusively in these organs. 
EASY PAYMENTS Now Plans adopted this 
i .liutuiiid Organs sold for 
quarterly or lliqullily pnynienis i or rcutiwl 
thus leading them to examine this simple and 
efficient little aid to beauty before purchasing 
any other, and our word for it they will never 
regret this appeal. Manufactured by 
New Method 4 4 Piano-Forte. 
Endorsed by the Musical, Educational anti 
general Press, and by Good Teachers, to be 
Beyond all Comparison the Best 
to be had at Book and Music stores. 
Sent by Mail, Price, $3.75 . 
LEE & WALKER, } 0 u,.SULV.L',1 st - 
LIFE AND ACCIDENT 
INSURANCE CO., HARTFORD 
Pratt’s Astral Oil! 
Absolutely SAFE ! 
Perfectly Odorless! 
Always Uniform. Illuminating Qualities 
SXTFEHIOXl TO GrikS. 
General Accident Policies for the year or 
month, written by Agents. 
Life and Endowment Insurance of the best 
forms at Low Cash Rates. 
THE TRAVELERS 
CHAS. PRATT & CO 
Established mO. 108 Fulton St., 
STAMPED TIN-WARE 
“owttuTF' sfcS&K. 
Timv AKK -i hfiLA TUK IIK8T. 
IRON tl.AD ■A~r~ i r"n£y CAN COM’Y, 
u11«n »!,, Iff. Y. 
^ I!*' hENSB—who wishes to mi ve 
Driee List M THE 
GREAT REDUCTION. 
TEAS AND COFFEES 
AT WHOLESALE PRIUES. 
Increased Facilities to Club Orgauizers. 
Send for New Price List. 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA CO. 
P. 0. Bor 5(143. 3i & 33 Ve3ey St., New York 
n Twelv 
•Milll tll'I. 
JAS. G. KA r rURSON, President, 
RODNEY DENNIS, Secretary. 
John E. Morris, Ass’t Secretary. 
S&~ Apply to any Agent, or write to the Company 
New York Office, 207 Broadway. 
months 
Many styles at proportionate rates. 
CATALOGUES I 1 "' 1 Circulars.with full'partlcu- 
V® * Ia 'S. sent f re®, Address MASON 
A. IAMUN ORGAN CO., BOSTON, NEW YORK, or 
PtAK. 
Fftvm’t In 
Advance. 
In Thf6Q 
Mouths. 
In Six 
Months. 
Iii Nino 1 
Months. 
]%*’Z'ZWZ 
cocccoo 
$14.30 
28.(10 
87.92 
71.50 
67.06 
69.90 
$14.30 c 
$14.30 
27792 
16.36 
isb, $10. 
$14.30 $14.30 
28.60 - 
27.92 27.92 
16.80 16.36 
67.06 - 
4 monthly for 12 
