We offer for SPRING, ’75, an 
large utock of well-grown, thrifty 
*tnndnrrt nud Dwarf Fruit Tree* ! 
Crape Vine*, Sinnll Frnilni 
O run mm i n I Tree*. SliratiM, Hoses) 
New and Hare Fruit mid Ornamental Trees) 
Evergreens and Bulbon* Ront«, 
Sew mid Hare tJrren mid H«l-lmU»e Plants. 
Small parcel» forwarded l/U Wad when desired. 
PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL INQUIRIES. 
Descriptive and Illustrated Hricea Catalogues sent , 
prepaid, on receipt of •tamps, as folltrws: 
No, 1—Fruits, 1 Or. No.2-Ornament*J Trees, 1 Oc. 
No.3—Green-house, lUc. No. 4—Wholesale, Free. 
Established 1810. ELLWANGER & BARRY, 
Mount Hope Nurseries, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
SPARKS AND SPLINTERS, 
A VALENTINE. 
I DEARLY luv the singtn’ bird 
And the little buzzin’ bee. 
But dearer far than all the world 
Is thy sweet voice to roe. 
Oh very deep Is daddy's well. 
And deeper t» the sea, 
But deeper in tuy buzzum is 
The luv 1 hear for the. 
Then smile on me, dear Angellne, 
And make mv heart feel lite; 
Chain the big dog and I will come 
A courtin' Sunday nite. 
Natural clipper*— Reis. 
A nod fellow Morpheus. 
A CLOCK should never hesitate. 
A distant relation—Your Ant-Tpodes. 
Trance action -Walking In one's sleep. 
A useful thing in the long run—Breath. 
The worth of woman—Double you, O man. 
Why did Freedom shriek? Kosciusko fell. 
The oldest Western settler—the evening sun. 
The root of all evil to Adam and Eve—Snake- 
root. 
The best throw of dice Is to throw them 
away. 
The man who works with a will—The Probate 
Judge. 
The best way to take a cool bath is to take It 
coolly. 
AN Indiana town wants to have Shanks 
mayor. 
It seems as though 
sprung. 
Good place for 
Springs. 
What animals are always seen at funerals? j 
Black Kids. 
It’s warmer, but don’t mind about your linen 
dusters yet. 
Who Is the oldest lunatic on record? Time 
out of mind. 
Truly this has been a trying winter, especial¬ 
ly In Brooklyn. 
It la a great hindrance, yet they call It a 
snow block-ade. 
Jokes arc like nuts: The drier they are the 
better they crack. 
When a man bows to circumstances he is 
considered to be polite. 
POOR men and hens are obliged to scratch to 
get along lu this world. 
An early spring—Jumping out of bed at five 
o’clock In the morning. 
** What can't be cured must be sold fresh," la 
wlmt they say In Porkopolis, 
A statistician estimate that courtships 
average three tons of coal each. 
The hair of a young lady In Vermont turned 
white in a single night. She fell Into a flour 
barrel. 
A {dressmaker's apprentice speaks of her 
cross-eyed lover as the fellow whose looks are 
cut bias. * • 
Considering that this is the Lenten season, 
the now prevalent Ice-gorges are untimely 
gluttony. 
And now those go-ahead .Vassar collegians 
hayed opened an art gallery 1 ; yet none of those 
girls paint. 
Perhaps the attack on the Amoy telegraph 
was because the Chinese didn’t receive Amoy- 
ity of the profits. 
Mr. Somerset Is a bachelor. He couldn't 
persuade any of his female acquaintances to 
turn a Somerset. 
Several factories have commenced to manu¬ 
facture bandboxes six feet high. Intended for 
the "coining bonnet." 
Comstock became a poor dissipated, starving 
wretch, who blew his brains out at last. Moral. 
Never discover a gold mine. 
It must run In the family. This winter even 
the planet Mercury has not uppoared more 
than twenty degrees above the horizon. 
The divorce of Mr. and Mrs. Best leaves us in 
doubt which came off first Best and which 
second Best. They fool comparatively bettor. 
It maybe true that both the Quakers and the 
Shakers are diminishing in numbers but the 
living has a considerable effect in improving 
their figures. 
“What’S the use, in these days, trying to he 
honest?” exclaimed a grumbler. "Oh, you 
ought to try It once and see,” replied one of his 
companions. 
A WOMAN at a civil service examination In 
Washington, the oilier day, being asked what 
clerical experience she had, replied, "Very 
little, as I only joined the church last week." 
Some fiend In human form has invented 
chestnut pie. Some persons may think It 
nourishing and digestible, but we prefer pud- 
diug made out of red clay and seasoned with 
brass nails. 
A father being recpiested by a rich and 
vulgar young fellow for (permission to marry 
“ one of hts girls," gave this rather crushing 
reply:—" Certainly; which would you prefer, 
the housmaid or the cook?” 
GEO. A. PRINCE & CO., 
Organs & M Hod eons 
The Oldest, Largest and Most Perfect Manufactory 
in the United States, 
Now in use. 
No other Musical Instrument ever obtained the 
same Popularity. 
Z'Jf~ Send for Price-Lists. 
Address BUFFALO, N. Y. 
gentle spring ” had 
matchmaking—Sulphur 
Warranted Two Years ! ! 
FOB PRICKS, &C„ ADDRESS 
A. N. HADLEY & CO., 
Indium*poll*, lad. 
This Popular Journal, long the Standard In its sphere, entered upon its Twenty-Sixth Yeah 
(and second Quarter of u Cenlury) January 2nd, under such auspices us will enable its Founder and 
Conductor and his Associate>t to manifest more fully than ever before the true spirit of its glorious 
Motto, "Excelsior," and laudable Objects, " Progress and Improvement.” The constant aim will be to 
■more than maintaiu its well-earned position as the 
«a Nr, 
On all subjects pertaining to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Affair*, and kindred topics, Moork’9 
RURAL has been the UkuOunizkii Authority for a score of years, during which it has become tbe 
Leading aud Largest Circulating Rural, Literary and Family Weekly on the Coutlnont. To sus¬ 
tain and augment this pre-eminence neither labor nor expense will be spared, lint every proper effort put 
forth to furnish a Model Paper for the Rural Population-quo especially adapted to the wants of 
f rT The intention of 
Slarket Gurilcuvr* 
uml private fnmt- 
Itei* at places where 
our *ueda are not 
kept for suit-, is par¬ 
ticularly requested. 
Liimlreihn’ Rural 
Register nud Alma¬ 
nac containing Cat¬ 
alogue and Prices, 
in ii i I e (1 without 
charge to a pp I i- 
cunts. 
DAVID LANDKETH & SON, Philad’a, Pa. 
gsrir each subscriber to the Rural New-Yorkf.r 
will send up his address, plainly written on a Postal 
Card, he shall receive our Publications as they ap¬ 
pear from time to time. 
THE, HOUSEWIFE, THE GARDENER, dtc. 
But in addition to its attention to Practical Affairs, the RURAL is not unmindful of the Family 
Circle, for it devotes several pages of each number to Choice and Iligli Toned Literary and Miscellaneous 
Reading, adapted to both sexes and all ages. This feature ha* given it a high reputation, all over the land, 
POSTAGE 
AS A LITERARY AND FAMILY PAPER 
The moral tone of Moore’s Rural has always been pure und unexceptionable, while Its value as 
an Educator is worth many times Its cost to any family. Duiing 1875 special effort will be made to 
render the whole paper rrighteh and bitter than ever before, so that it* old friends sliull be 
proud of it uud thousands ol new one* become its ardent admirers. 
THE RURAL’* ILLUSTRATION* will continue to be Appropriate, Varied and Beautiful. 
Indeed, our object is to render the paper exceptionally Vuluable and Acceptable in all its Departments. 
Its Reports ol Market*. Crops, Kte., are alone worth double the price of tbe Rural. 
Kach Number of the Rural New-Yorker contains Sixteen Quarto Pages, handsomely Printed and Il¬ 
lustrated. A Title Page und Index given at the close of each Volume, ending with June und December. 
TF.R1YIS, In Advance, Pontage Prepuidi— Only 12.116 per Year, Including Postage, which we 
Itepay under the new law. In clubs of ten or more only $2.16 per yearly copy, Including postage, 
treat Inducements to Club Agents, Premium Lists, Specimens, &c„ scut to all disposed to act In 
behalf of the RURAL and Its Objects. Address 
D. D. T. MOORE, New York City. 
need not be told that the old original 
maintains the same splendid reputation which was 
freely accorded to it when tirst presented for criti¬ 
cism at the 
Paris Exposition of 1867. 
All who have tried this most simple, capable and 
durable 
CHEESE FACTORY 
(CIRCULAR.) 
Consumers Importing Tea Co.,) 
No. 8 Cl* ii roll Street. 
I». O. Box 5,509. New York City. ) 
This Isa 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 und Japau to select Teas especially 
for our trade. 
We expect every consumer of Teas to render us ail 
the assistance they can in carrying out our enter¬ 
prise, as we make a specialty of SUPPLYING CON¬ 
SUMERS ON LV (and allow no middlemen to make 
any profit on our Importations), wuieh will enable 
us to supply them with Tea* at prices lower than 
have ever beeu known, and ol those fine qualities 
tin t seldom reach the Interior, being sold only to 
the large cities and among the very wealthy. 
Hoping the consumer will tukeun 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, 
and Creamery Apparatus. 
All Dairymen in need of any kind of Machinery, 
Utensils or Furnishing Goods, lu the above line, 
should send for our new Illustrated Circular and 
Price List, which gives full information regarding 
all modern i in pro v aments. 
CHARLKS MILLAR & SON, Utica, N. Y. 
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 Hewing Machine Company surpassed 
those to any other exhibitor of Hewing Machines. 
The Put rum* ol Htu-.hu miry and the Sovereigns 
of Industry are among our staunchest friends. 
No one can afford to buy a Hewing Machine with¬ 
out first examining The Favorites. 
Manufactory at Hartlord, Conn. 
Apparatus, Implements & Supplies 
The Best uud the Cheapest. 
Send for Descriptiuo Circular ami Price List. 
WM. RALPH, Illicit, N. Y. 
GREAT REDUCTION. 
TEAS AND COFFEES 
AT WHOLESALE PIUGES. 
Increased Facilities to Club Organizers 
Send for New Price List. 
PRE88ED TIN-WARE. 
Buy tin Tin-Ware without 
this Stamp. It is the best. 
IRON CLAD CAN CO., 
23 Cl ill *»., New York. 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA CO 
79 more young men to learn Tele¬ 
graphy. Good situations guaran¬ 
teed. Address, with stamp, 
■ J ~ Oberlin, O. 
MOoUK’S Rural New-Yorkkh is one of the best 
agricultural and family newspapers published, and 
for many years has been an established favorite. It 
has a most competent corps of writers, and while 
matters of agricultural Interest receive especial at¬ 
tention, the literary and news department* are not 
neglected. The conducting editor and publisher, 
p, II, AiuoKB, assures his patrons that his paper 
for i876 will present even greater attractions than 
before, and he is sure to fulfill his promise.— Penn 
Tan Express. 
Consumers Importing Tea Co., MXXX, *rr- au,n * u 
No. 8 Church St., ^n making upjlsts^f newsmv 
P. O. Box 5,509. New York City. by,” The Rural New-Yokki 
conducted by D. D. T. Moore. ] 
Entered, according to Act of Congress, In January, journal of Its class Is published 
1874, by tbe Consumers Importing Tea Co., in the Club now being made up at tb 
Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washingt on, D. C $2.15 a year.— Lyons Republican, 
