abounding In timely illustrations, and well 
AL NEW-YORKER. 
JULY 3 
it and §itmot[. 
SPARKS AND BPLINTERS, 
The naked truth—A bear story. 
A spiritualistic organ—wrapping paper. 
A Boston tailor advertises “ diagonal boyB’ 
suits.” 
If you don’t bridle your tongue, 'saddle be 
your fate. 
TriE biggest grave In the world is that of the 
Dead Sea. 
Tnc best way to get along with barber’s-Grln 
and bay-rum. 
A man goes to extremes when he kicks and 
gets his dander up. 
Drinking glass after glass must produce 
panes In your Inside, 
There is a man in Oregon who never saw a 
woman. He Is blind. 
In what respect does a Bishop resemble a 
fish? Both live in the see. 
Tjtk first person who ever wont around the 
world— tli m man in the moon. 
The man who courted an Investigation says 
It Isn’t so good as an affectionate girl. 
Why Is Barnum like the Atlantic count? Be¬ 
cause he Is the great American shore. 
Whether he wants to or not, the tailor is a 
person who is always expected to feel sew-sow. 
Culture Is not incompatible with business. 
There Is some “refinement,” even In a lard 
factory. 
The hay-fever season is approaching ; the 
time when, if ever, you will realize that all 
flesh Is grass. 
“ 'CHE proper study of mankind Is man,” says 
Pope; but the popular study Is how to make 
money out of him. 
A curiosity hunter would like to get some 
moss from the reck of a cradle, and a rafter 
'from the roof of a mouth. 
The report that the Prlnoess of Wales “ had 
lost her hearing ” was only a Cockney perver¬ 
sion. She lost an ear-ring. 
When Dan Rice can command a salary of 
$10,000 per season, it’s no wonder that Harvard 
professors are discouraged, 
A writer In a Boston paper says: “It re¬ 
quires more strategy to be a book agent than to 
be a general,” and more brass. 
Love Is sod tu be blind, but I know lots of 
pliellowa In love who can see twice as much in 
their galls as I kan.—Josh Hillings. 
“Do you like codfish balls, Mr. Wiggins!” 
Mr. Wiggins, hesitatingly—” I really don’t 
know: l don’t recollect attending one.” 
“That beet’s all!" as the man said when he 
sat down to Ills first dinner in t he new house, 
on moving day, and found the supply short. 
A T)ANOEK said to Spartan, “you cannot 
stand so long on one leg as I can;" true, 
answered the Spartan, “ hut uiy goose can.” 
“ And so,” said the Judge, “It appears you 
live entirely by swindling?’’ “Why, your 
Honor, one must live In the spirit of the age.’’ 
** Comic into tlte garden. Maud, 
With a brickbat aud a stone; 
Here’s the biggest cat you ever sawed, 
Gnawing a chicken bone; 
Ruu like the mischief. Maud, 
I’m with the beast ulone!” 
Tweed, the hoys says, was never In the habit 
of getting very full. And yet it seems to take a 
good while, in the present instance, to bail him 
out. 
Six dollars’ worth of jewelery, 1} prudently 
selected, will go a mile and a half towards 
making some women forget that this world 
has a single heart-ache. 
Lorenzo Day having married Miss Martha 
Week, a local paper comments: 
“ A Day is made, a Week is lost, 
But Time should not complain— 
There’ll soon be little Days enough 
To make the Week again. 
An exchange relieves Itself in this wise: 
“ T-o-n-g-u-e spells ‘tongue,’ and the man who 
first spelled it so should have been hongue. 
A-c-h-e spells ‘ache,’ and that’s all you can 
mache out of It. E-l-g-b-t spells ‘eight,’ no 
matter how you deprecieigbt the idea; and ■ 
that a-i-s-l-e should spell ‘aisle’ and f-e-i-g-n 
‘feign ’ Is enough to make any body smalsle if ■ 
the effort were not too peiguful," 
Tommy—” Oh 
WILLARD’S 
PRACTICAL BUTTER BOOK, 
NOW READY AT THIS OFFICE. 
Every Farmer and every Family where 
Butter is made should have this book for con¬ 
stant reference. It is 
and is replete with 
PRACTICAL HINTS, 
SUGGESTIONS, 
and INFORMATION 
WOLCOTT BROS 
Real Estate and Loan Brokers, 
Cor. Summit and Monroe Sts., 
TOLEDO, 0. 
Real Estate purchased, managed and sold on com¬ 
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All money and papers remitted through banks. 
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. 
of value to every one who makes Butter. It 
contains 171 pages, in which the subject is 
treated both scientifically and popularly. 
Among the new topics of interest, and which 
heretofore have not been presented to the pub¬ 
lic are: Prof. Wilkinson’s plan for controlling 
temperature in dairy rooms; the Swedish sys¬ 
tem of setting milk for cream in ice water; 
the new practice adopted at the Ridge Mills 
Creamery, and the recent method for improv¬ 
ing skimmed milk in skimmed-cheese manu¬ 
facture. These are very fully discussed. 
Sent, post-paid, upon receipt of SI. 
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This is a combination of capitalists to supply the 
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we remain, 
Most respectfully yours, 
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The Ritual New-Yorker, founded by D. D. T. 
MOORE, 1? cue of tue bust, if not the best, agricul¬ 
tural papers published in this country. Wcc* rlatnly 
know of none which so exactly 0 ) 1 ** our tdea of a 
paper for the farmer and hi- fireside as does this 
journal. Mr. MooitE aims tn make the RURAL such 
a paper as shall delight the hospitable housekeeper, 
give Instruction and tininsemmi i to the youur ana 
furnish pleasant reading lo all whether in country 
or town. Taking the last issue a* a sped men num¬ 
ber, w« can truly say it fniffil- uil these conditions, 
and bonrtlly commend It to »1L —Dover (fV. ./.I Mail. 
Moore's Rural New-Yorker. conducted by 
our jolly friend, Hou. D. D. T Moore, leans all tbfc 
paper* of its class in this country, it is edited with 
great cure aud has a turge variety of interesting and 
instructive departments for the family ana me fire- 
selected, it has no superior in its peculiar sphere.— 
Yonkers Gazette. 
