GEO. A. PRINCE & CO. 
Organs & Mclodcons 
SPARKS AND SPLINTERS, 
“ Spelling bees ” dead ripe. 
Spring C. Hicken Is expected. 
B. A. Degg is a« unsavory as ever. 
Hot words often produce coolness. 
An era unknown to woman—the middle ages. 
How to treat a wife—Treat her to anew dress. 
Gentle Annie, the spring-time is here at 
last. 
Dried horse liver makes an admirable imita¬ 
tion of coffee. 
Tennessee proposes to tax bachelors ten 
dollars per capita. 
A domestic broil usually makes a very un¬ 
satisfactory meal. 
Does a mav with one arm have an off-hand 
way of doing things ? 
To keep your wife in constant check—Make 
her dress in gingham. 
What is the largest room in the world ? The 
room for improvement. 
M is for monkey, 
Who Is wiser than men ; 
If you once get him drunk, 
You can’t do it again. 
May is getting ready to take her part in the 
annua) procession. 
Quarrels among printers are generally 
“ quad ” wrangles. 
Cheap— A baby carriage for $20, with a hand¬ 
some baby thrown in. 
Thirteen base ball clubs itave spoken for 
the next championship so far. 
Don’t take off your flannels just yet—unless 
you want to put on clean ones. 
A young lady makes Shakespere say, “ An 
eye like rna't to threaten and command.” 
Mrs. Bret Harte and Mrs. John Hay both 
boys. Copyright secured according to law. 
In some of the new styles there is no change. 
Poor relatives ere cut the same as lust year. 
Eli Perkns will probably quit Joking now. 
He has been and wont and gone and got mar¬ 
ried. 
Du. Mary Walker finds her card is on every 
street—“A specialty In gentlemen’s under¬ 
wear." 
Aschooliioy’s aspiration—“Oh, how I wish 
I were a fountain, for then I could always he 
playing. 
An old lien sat on turtle’s eggs. 
And she hatched out goslings three, 
Two worn turkeys With slender legs, 
And one was a bumble bee. 
“Very odd children for such a mother!” 
Said all the hens to one another. 
Marriage by advertisement is rapidly in¬ 
creasing in London. Advertising always pays, 
remember. 
Winter took such a long nap in the oyster 
beds near Long Branch that they’ll have to be 
made up again. 
A baby with twenty-eight toes has been born 
In Stockton, Mo. That baby ought to toe the 
mark when it grows up. 
Funny that the coffee merchants of New 
York should concern themsalvcs about an in¬ 
crease of the tariff on cblcoory. 
A Connecticut Iran says, no more amateur 
opera for him. “They are too noisy." His 
wife goes as usual, but she is deaf." 
Widows can properly wear mourning for 
eighteen months, unless the weeds are sooner 
removed by a second husbandman. 
“ I always thought. I should never be able to 
roar that child," said an old lady of 00, on hear¬ 
ing of the death of her son, aged 70. 
A pretty school-mistress receives $200 a 
month in Neveda. Four weeks Is about the 
time she is allowed to remain single. 
A contemporary boasts that he “can stand 
on Ids intellectual capital.” We suppose he 
means that lie can stand on his head. 
SHACK and Shill vent OP dot hill 
To get a bail nt vutter, 
Und ilhey got tttui on dcr vey 
VtiicU of course dhey shouldn't oughd to do. 
Shack logged Slid! sqware In der shin, 
Pnd dot gif him der fever, 
Vile Shack did never loelo happy agin, 
On nckouudotdotvhlch he had done to his friendt. 
Du. Deems is a very sensible man. He says ; 
“Remember Lot’s Wife, as Die liiblc teaches, 
ami forget every other man's wife except your 
own." 
Tom HOOD' speaks of a bird building its nest 
upon a ledge over the door of u doctor’s office 
as an attempt to rear its young in t lie very jaws 
of death. 
Drop a live-dollar gold piece into Vander¬ 
bilt’s hat every time the clock ticks and you 
will get some idea of his income. Aud yet 
Vandy isn’t very happy. 
The Oldest, Largest ana Most Perfect Manufactory' 
In the United States. 
Now in use. 
No other Musical Instrument ever obtained the 
same Popularity. 
Send for Price-Lists. 
Address BUFFALO, N. Y. 
We announce that (until further notice) we will 
sell to applicants in any city or town where we have 
DO agent on the same term* and at the same discounts 
as to large dealers who purchase from $30,0(10 to 150,- 
0.0 annually. 
The fact of ours being the oldest and largest manu¬ 
factory in the United States, with 55.000 instruments 
now In use, Is a sufficient guarantee of our responsi¬ 
bility and the met its of our instruments. 
GEO. A. PRINCE & CO. 
(CIRCULAR.) 
Consnmers Importing Tea Co.,) 
No. 8 Church Street. 
P. O. Box 5,509. New York City. ) 
ThiB 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 our trade. 
We expect every consumer of Teas »o render us ad 
the assistance they can in carrying out our enter¬ 
prise, as we make a specialty of SUPPLYING CON¬ 
SUMERS ONLY’ (and allow no middlemen to make 
any protit on our Importations), wnich will enable 
us to supply them with Teas at prices lower than 
have ever been known, and of those fine qualities 
thi 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 for a circular with full 
explanations of how to proceed to obtain our goods, 
we remain, 
Most respectfully yours, 
Consumers Importing Tea Co., 
No. X Church Xl., 
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. 
TOO 33 _A_ ID _ 
Tom —I uay, there’s T.ucy' sitting over there; why don’t you ask her to dance. 
Willie —Well Tom, old fellow, have danced with her twice already, and if I trot her 
out again it will cause talk ! 
ARE YOU GOING TO PAINT? 
MILLER BRO’S 
ICAL PAINT -READY FOR USE 
and made of Strictly Pure White Load, Zinc and Linseed <> I. It '» the Most Durable, Cheapest aud 
Handsomest Paint in the World! All other Chemical Paints are imitations. 
Send for Sample Card of Colors, 
lTlIi.LEK BUSY’S, 109 YVnler Si., Cleveland, Olilo. 
N I£ \V YORK 1CNA1T1KL PAINT lO., 
103 Clinmber* St., New Y'ork. 
Sfsctuhtd 
branch of bin: and Factory: 
500 WEST ST.NEW YORK. 
No. 210 South 3«1 St., St. T.oiiIm, Mo. 
No. S3 Weal Van Huron St., t’kiengo, Ill. 
AND A WHOLESALE DEPOT AT 
Win. King «.V llro., No. 2 North Liberty St,, 
Baltimore, Md. 
Any Shade from Pure White to Jet Black, 
A combination of the purest puint with India Rub¬ 
ber. tunning a SMOOTH, oLossy, mm. durable, 
ELASTKunil RKAUrniL Paint, unaffected by change 
of temperature, D perfectly watet-proof, und adapt¬ 
ed to a>l classes nt work, und Is iu every way a better 
paint for either Inside or outride pulnttng than any 
utner puint In the world. Being from one-third to 
one-tourih cheaper and lasting at least three times 
us long us the best lead and oil pa In la. 
Be sure that our TKADE MARK (a lac simile of which 
is given above,) is on every package. 
Prepared ready for use and sold by the gallon only. 
There bus never been a paint offered the public 
tint has become so popular (In the same time) and 
given us perfect satisfaction as the Rubber Palut. 
need not be told that the old original 
Real Estate and Loan Brokers, 
Cor. Summit and Monroe Sts 
maintains the name splendid reputation which was 
freely accorded to it when first presented for criti¬ 
cism at the 
Paris Exposition of 1867. 
All who have tried tills most simple, capable and 
durable 
Real Estate purchased, managed and sold on com¬ 
mission. Large properties aud manufacturing estab¬ 
lishments a specialty. Money loaned on Real Estate. 
All money und papers remitted through banks. 
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. 
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 Sewing Machine Company surpassed 
those to any other exhibitor of Sewing Machines. 
The Patron* ol II iixlmnilry and the Xoveneigns 
of Industry are among our staunchest friends. 
No one can ttlford to buy a Sewing Machine with¬ 
out first examining The Favorite*. 
Manufactory at Hartford, Conn. 
CHEESE BEST 
Factory & Farm Dairy Apparatus, 
Furnishing Goods. &c. 
Send for Circular. II. H. ROE & CO., 
Madison, I,like Co., Ohio. 
GREAT REDUCTION. 
TEAS AND COFFEES 
AT WHOLESALE PRICES. 
Page’s Portable Force Pump, $5. 
Unequaled for applying liquids to vines or trees. 
Throws jet, spray or finest mist without change of 
nozzles. Circulars free. N. PAGE, JR., Danvers, Mass. 
Increased Facilities to Club Organizers. 
Send for New Price I.lst. 
THEGREATAMERICANTEACO. 
P. 0. Box 5643. 3i & 33 Vesey 8t., New York 
ANTED IMMEDIATE!. 
PRESSED TIN-WARE. 
Buy no Tin- Ware without 
this Stamp. It is the best. 
IKON CLAD CAN CO., 
23 dill 8t., Now York. 
A few moreyoungmen and women to learn Book 
keeping, Penmanship,Ac.,to fill positions ala sal¬ 
ary of $800 to $1500 peryear. Salary iwid while 
learning Situations guaninteoil. Address with 
stamp M.W. Cobh, Pres. Bus. Coll., PalnesvUle.O. 
OHN S. COI.J.TNS 
__ „ _-- Moorestown, N. J., 
raises and sells genuine Plants, Potatoes, Roots, 
&c. See p.ge 246, April 10, or send for Price List. 
