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GEO. A. PRINCE & CO., 
Organs & Melodeons 
SPARKS AND SPLINTERS 
“MANY men cf many mines” in Nevada. 
Home stretch—The stretch across the mater¬ 
nal knee. 
At last the terrible cold Is all over—all over 
the country. 
What Is better than a promising young man? 
A paying one. 
An exchange translates/do dc sc as meaning 
a fellow deceased. 
Ten highwaymen cannot pull a shirt off a 
naked man's buck. 
Tni; inhabitants of Green Bay, Wis., are 
called Green Baybles. 
The bridge of size- The one building over 
tho East River at Brooklyn. 
Public spirit—Readiness to do anything 
which Is likely to prove lucrative. 
A “JOURNEYMAN grammar smasher ” Is what 
St. Louis editor terms another. 
The Oldest, Largest and Most Perfect Manufactory 
in the United States. 
Now In use. 
No other Musical Instrument ever obtained the 
same Popularity. 
IfT Send for Price-Lists. 
Address BUFFALO, N. Y. 
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NOBODY supposes Deltnonlcoto he a skater, 
yet everybody knows him as cater. 
Austria Is preparing for another Artie 
search —so are all of ns 'round here. 
Attila, bo historians Bay, often dined on 
horseback. We prefer canvass back. 
Why is your shadow like a false friend? 
Because It follows you only in sunshine. 
Edwaud 8. Stokes Is so pleased with Ids 
present residence that lie wants a re-lease. 
Why la a cut on its liind-lcgs like the great 
Falls of Niagara? Because It is a cat-erect. 
Young as ho is, Alfonso can go a loan—forty 
millions from tho Bunk of Spain to begin with. 
Majok Poore thinks that Charles Sumner 
loved trees on hillsides, but treason nowhere 
else, we know. 
The difference between the cook and her 
lover is, tho one cooks the meat and the other 
meets the cook. 
Young ladies, says a Kansas editor, are 
always ready for young gentlemen to make 
their “statements.” 
“TOO TniN” has become obsolete. “Not 
sufficiently materialized ” is the latest form In 
which this idea Is clothed. 
Mr. Thaw, a nice young man of 81. Louis, 
melted in the beams of a pair of bright eyes 
and ran away with the owner. 
Two brothers were married to two sisters in 
Lexington, Ky., tho other day, and now there 
are four heart a that beat ns two. 
Spain's cry to-dny“ Hail, Alphonso Francis 
d'Asslsse Ferdinand Pie Jean Marie de la Con¬ 
ception Gregolre, King of Spain I” 
Instances of men who go down on a piece 
Of orange peel and get up and think as much of 
themselves as they did before, are rare. 
A wag being asked the name of the inventor 
of butter stamps, replied that It was probably 
Cadmus, as he first brought letters Into Greece. 
Senator Thurman 1b a grout snuff-taker and 
indulges oftort during debate. But he tldnks 
the Louisiana question is not to he sneezed at. 
Somebody advertises a preparat ion for keep¬ 
ing a lady's hand free from chaps. A report 
that she has no money would do the same 
thing. 
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QITY COUSINT 11ST THE COUNTRY. 
« Hark ! Cousin Molly, wliat makes that noise ?” 
—“Tree Toads. Cousin Tom.” . . ,,, 
“ Tree Toads ! And do they make the noise with their wings ? 
City Cousin.— 
Cousin Molly 
City Cousin. 
.ItlD SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE 
ZJL TItAVliLEUR I'M K VIXCIi GO. 
HARTFORD, Conn., January 1. 1875. 
ASSETS. 
Real Estate owned by the Company. t ?8,B6l 24 
Cash on hand and la Bank... Ho.kd 84 
Cash in hands of Agents .... . .... .. o.jgg 
Loans on First Mortgages Beal Estate.I.W.W »j> 
Accrued Interest.. . 
United States Government Bonds. t 
State and Municipal Bonds . U?'Vw, m 
Railroad Stocks and Bonds. 171.1111 no 
Bank and Insurance Stock*. .. 490,003 0 0 
Total n*M»ts...... S3,188,240 78 
LIABILITIES. 
Reserve for re-'n.mranco, Acc. Departm’t .^ 172.R39 77 
Reserve, N, Y« standard, Lifo Department. 1,<55,280 »>0 
Claims unadjusted and not due, and ull 
Other liabilities. 174,W0 96 
Total liabilities.... .12,103,117 29 
Surplus, as regards policy-holders..81,085,123 40 
Surplus as above, on four per ct. reserve.. .$900,799 41 
iriiU«r<’, Horticulture, Domestic Affairs, and kindred topics, Moore’S 
Authority for a score of years, during which it has become the 
itv and Family W ickkly on the Continent. To sus- 
nor expense will be spared, but every proper effort put 
u Population— one especially adapted to the wants of 
THE HORTICULTURIST, 
THE DAIRYMAN, 
THE 6ARDENTER, 6c c. 
Affairs, the RURAL is not unmindful of the Family 
of each number to Choice and High Toned LlUraryand Miscellaneous 
This feature has given it- a high reputation, all over the land, 
On all subjects pertaining to A irinOlurr, 
Rl'ilAI. has been the KMCOUNlXlill.. 
Leading and Largest Circulating Rural, Li 
tain and augmint this pro-eminence, neither 
forth to furnish a Model paper for the I 
THE rABMER, 
THE STOCK GROWER, 
the HOUSEWIFE, 
But. In addition to its attention to Practical 
Circle, for H devotes several pages 
Heading, adapted to both sexes and ml ages, 
Statistics of the Year 1874 
Life Department. 
Number of Life Policies written In 1874. 
Gain over 1873 In New Policies written........ 
Net Gain In amount Insured.81 ,121,« 
Net Gain on Lite Policies tn force. . 
Whole number written to elate..oiii , 
Gain In Net Premium* over 1W.849,1 
Whole number of Life Policies tnforcc..... 
Total nmouut insured. 81 7 , 972,1 
accident Department. 
Number of Accident Policies written In TL. 
Net Cash Premiums ree’il for Slime.. 8482. 
Whole number Accident Petiole* written- 3 
Number of Claims paid In ISM .-•••••_ •.** ■ 
Whole number of Accident Claim* Iaid.. • 
AS A LITERARY AND FAMILY PAPER 
The moral lone of Moore’s Rural has always been pure 
an Educator is worth many times Us eost to any family. U 
render the whole paper BRIGHTER ani> n iTTER TRAN k\ lr 
proud of It and thousands of new ones become Its ardent adn 
TilK li URAL'S ILLUSTRATIONS M U vwUnue « 
Indeed, our object is to render Die paper exceptionally ' aluah 
Its Reports of Market*. Oropa, Etc., arc alone worth double th 
Each Number of the RURA). NBW-YuRKer c mtalns Sixteen 
A Title Page and Index given at the close oi each 
TERMS, In Advance, PoBtnso Prepaid*— Only 92.85 
Itepay under the new law. In dub* t»f tan or more only 
trial Inducements to Club Agents. Premium Lists, bpectr 
behalf of the Rural and its Objects. Address 
The Woman’s Journal bolds that it is not 
lying for a woman of forty to swear that her 
age Is twenty-eight, provided she Is looking for 
a husband. 
Nothing will sooner tempt a bachelor to juecratod 
abandon his resolution t<» marry than to sleep 
in the ad jolng room to a young couple with u 
collckv baby. 
An exchange refuses to publish the poein 
commencingI breathe on the face of a 
maiden,” until the editor knows what its 
author drinks. 
TnK time iiaa now arrived when the voice of 
the shivering husband Is heard at daybreak, 
murmuring, “ Hannah, where'n tho old scratch 
are ray boots?" 
ADAM Klem a 'Frisco barber, being refused 
by Johanna Dilter, tendered her a choice be¬ 
tween a wedding and a funeral. She merely 
JAS. a. BATTHRSON, President 
RODNEY DENNIS, Secretary. 
JOHN E. MORRIS. Ass’t Secretary. 
New York Office, 207 Broadway. 
GREAT REDUCTION. 
TEAS AND COFFEES 
AT WHOLESALE PRICES. 
Increased Facilities to Club Organisers. 
Send for New Price List. 
THE 6REAT AMERICAN TEA CO. 
P. 0. Box 6643. 3i & 33 VeBey St., New York 
(CIRCULAR.) 
Consumers Importing Tea Co.,) 
No. 8 Church Street. f 
p. o. Box 6,509. New York City. ) 
This Is a combination of capitalists to simply the 
consumers of Teas throughout the United States on 
tho mutual principle. 
We have experienced agents In all the best dis¬ 
tricts of China and Japau to select Teas especially 
for our trade. 
We expect every consumer of Teas to render ns all 
the assistance they can in carrying out oar enter¬ 
prise, as we make a specialty of SUPPLYING CON¬ 
SUMERS ONLY (and allow no middlemen to make 
any jirotlt on our importations), wnich will enable 
us to Bnpply them with Teas at prices lower than 
have ever been known, and of those tine qualities 
,lu 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 onoe tor 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, Washington, D. C 
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 
Do Your Own Printing: 
a a Press for cards, lahelM. envelopes 
»I>v etc. Larger sizes for largo work. 
Business Men do their printing and 
advertising, savemoncy and increase 
trade., Amateur Printing, delight 
lulpaalimo for t-putc hours. BOYS 
have greul fun and mako money fast, 
ntprintlng. Send two stamps for full 
catalogue presses type etc, to the Mfra 
KLLSEY&CO. Meriden, Conn. 
CHEESE FACTORY 
New Method ,f ^ Piano-Forte. 
Endorsed by the Musical, Educational and 
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. 
I FE& WALKER, } Ba %S£V£XL st ' 
All Dairvro^n In nned of any kind of Machinery, 
Utensils dr Furnishing Goods, In the above line, 
should send for our new IUu«trnt<i(l 4 trculnrand 
Price List, which gives full information regarding 
all modern Improvement*. _ „ _ 
Cit a Rl.Es MILLAR & SON. Utica, N. Y. 
PRESSED TIN-WARE. 
/\a' Buy no Tin-Ware without 
lr%L£S£2aE3 this Stump. It Is the best. 
I ’ IKON CLAD CAN CO., 
55 Pulton St., New York. 
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