JULY 10 
(CIRCULAR.) 
Consumers Importing Tea Co., 
No. 8 Uhurcli Street. 
P. O. Box 5,500. New York City. 
This Is a combination o t 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 Ten* *o render us ml 
the assistance they can in carrying out. our enter¬ 
prise, as we nialce a specialty of SUPPLYING CON. 
SUMERS ONLY (and allow no middlemen to make 
any profit on our Importations), wnioh will enable 
us to supply them with Teas at prices lower than 
have ever been known, and of those fine qualities 
that 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 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 Bt., 
P. O. Box 3,509. 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. 
SPARKS AND SPLINTERS 
A khaueholdeu A plowman. 
Why does the raven cry ? Caws. 
Costi.y furniture- Indian bureaus. 
A costly kind of lumber—Summer board. 
Get your babies all counted for the oensus 
man, 
Man proposes; but woman (frequently) re¬ 
fuses. 
Flour by any other name would smell as 
wheat. 
When Is coffee like the earth? When it is 
ground, 
“Fart friends” are often dissipated ac¬ 
quaintances. 
Do tight boots have anything to do with a 
corn exchange ? 
What Is worse than a gosslpplng woman ? A 
gossipplug man. 
The greatest legal authority on cremation is 
paid to be Coke. 
At what time of day was Adam born ? A 
little before KVe. 
“ Weai.ly,” paid Charles, “ f think the game 
of cwoquet Jr for-Iavvn. 
A ifooK that bachelor geologists are igno¬ 
rant of Hook the Cradle. 
A sweetheart Is called a turtle dove, so a 
coquette must be n mook-turtle dove. 
80 Lilt err ought to lie good physiognomists. 
They all know how to write about face. 
A Boston beggar can solicit In fifteen lan¬ 
guages, but, he can’t nay saw-horse in one. 
ft 
None hut those who cannot raise them 
would want Burn-side whiskers In summer. 
A Butcher, on being asked what was the 
best thing for an empty stomach, said “ Fillet o 
veal.’’ 
English spelling match. Teacher—“Saloon.” 
Scholar — “ Hess— hay—hel—ho—ho—hen-sa¬ 
loon.” 
What is the great,est " affair of the heart” 
known to science? The circulation of the 
blood. 
Epitaph on a King of the Sandwich Islands 
—He was a tender parent and a nutritious 
father. 
An itch for office does not always lead to a 
niche in the temple of fame. This is a humor¬ 
ous remark. 
Can you tell me when it Is that a blacksmith 
raises a row in the alphabet? It is when lie 
makes a poke r and shove I. 
An old gentleman of great experience says 
he is never satisfied that a lady understands a 
kiss unless lie has it from her own mouth. 
An Illinois grocer says that lie would rather 
have the power to tell a good egg from a bad 
one than to bo President of the United States. 
Many a pretty girl of humble extraction has 
risen far above her station in life. Why, even 
Venus herself came of the very scum of the 
ocean. 
“John, I came very near selling my shoes 
the other day,” said one m m to another. 
“How was that?" “Why, 1 bad them half, 
soled.” 
“Mrt. D-, if you'll get my coat done by 
Saturday, I shall be for ever indebted to you.” 
"If that’s your game it won’t lie done,” said 
Die tailor. 
Baden, Pa., boasts ol' a young lady resident 
whose hair is six feet eight inches long. She 
purposes sending it to the Centennial Exhibi¬ 
tion next year. 
And Whttelaw Reid too—a vistor at the 
Woodhull's! And General Butler and Albert 
Brisbane! Statements, gentlemen, produce 
your statements, 
“I think I have seen you before, sir. Arc 
you not Owen Smith?” “Oh yes, I’m owin’ 
Smith, and owin' Jones, and owin’ Brown, and 
owin' everybody.” 
An Iowa man who got a divorce from his 
wife, last fall, lias taken her back as his house¬ 
keeper, and gives her more dresses and pin 
money than ever. 
“Are the young ladies of the present day fit 
for wives ?” asked a lecturer of his audience. 
“They are fit for husbands,” responded a fe¬ 
male voice; “ but the trouble is you men are 
not fit for wives!” 
GREAT REDUCTION. 
TEAS AND COFFEES 
AT WHOLESALE PRICES. 
Increased Facilities to Club Organizer* 
Bend for New’ Price Lint, 
DESPERATE CASES NEED DESPERATE REMEDIES. 
Patrick.—" Arrali ! ye spalpeen! If ye won’t driuk, ye’ll be afther gittin’ some 
nourishmint inter yez this way !” 
END FOR CIRi'I LAK of the best Paint in 
1 tile world to RUBBER PAINT CO., Cleveland, O. 
WILLARD’S 
ALLAN’S NEW LOW-PRICED 
SEVEN SHOOTER! 
Three-lncli barrel ; weight 8 ounoe*; very neat and 
durable; a sure shot. Price, by mull, $1.50. Address 
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1# MILIARS PER DAI AfflW&pIWfflffl 
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NOW READY AT THIS OFFICE 
Buy I lie CHARTER OAK LAWN MOWER 
Every Farmer and every Family where 
Butter is made should have this hook for con¬ 
stant reference. It is 
Claim to have brought out the best Sowing Machine 
for manufacturing uses ever produced. 
IT IS CALLED TOE 
and is replete with 
PRACTICAL HINTS, 
SUGGESTIONS 
IT IB VERY STRONG, 
VERY SIMPLE, 
VERY EFFECTIVE 
AND PERFECTLY SATISFACTORY TO ALL 
WHO HAVE TRIED IT. 
Testimonials furnished on application. Examina¬ 
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Address as above, at 
HARTFORD, CO.Y.Y., 
Or at Branch Offices in all leading cities. 
and INFORMATION 
NEW AGRICULTURAL 
Real Estate and loan Brokers, 
Cor. Summit and Monroe Sts 
For 1873. 
More effective, and more complete, and more read¬ 
ily adapted to the various agricultural uses than an 
other in the market. Fraction! improvements mc® 
mutated from twenty years’manufacturing cm*i 
once, with reputation maintained, and success estuu 
U Send for Circulars descriptive uud ry 
menials concerning eur POR I A BLE, 81AWO> Alt 
Real Estate purchased, managed and sold on com¬ 
mission. Large properties and manufacturing estab¬ 
lishments a specialty. Money loaned on Real Estate, 
All money and papers remitted through hunks. 
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. 
