Grist and Flouring Mill 
■TTI/^U QATT Located in a good 
X UH nn h Pi. wheatregion :pi e n- 
SPARKS AJlD SPLINTERS, 
The oldest Tory—history. 
A bad position—Imposition. 
Roll-call— the baker’s visit. 
A comic Song le an absurd-ditty. 
A heoulau beat—the heart beat. 
A court for hot weather— Just-Ice. 
A popular brand of cigars—contra brand. 
Ir all flesh Is grass. Is hay beef a la mowed ? 
Comfortable-quarters— twenty-five cent 
pieces. 
Hotel-keepers are people we have to “ put 
up with.” 
How to get along in the world—never get 
short. 
The cup that cheers ”—Any of those won by 
the Americans. 
The man who takes too much punch makes a 
Judy of himself. 
\ t*u can always find a sheet of water In the 
bed of the ocean. 
Why do housekeepers preserve so much fruit? 
Because they can. 
There Is one town In Connecticut that Is not 
afraid of the measlos. It's Haddawi. 
A sport wears a ten cent silver ploce on his 
shirt bosom, and calls It a dime ami pin. 
As between the cucumber and the water¬ 
melon, give us a little brandy and sugar. 
Brigham says If Ann Eliza will only come 
back he will not harm a single hair he her 
(CIRCULAR.) 
Consumers Importing Tea Co.,) 
No, 8 Church Street, r 
P. O. Box 5,509. New York City. ) 
This Isa combination of capitalists t6 supply the 
consumers of Teas throughout the United States on 
the mutual principle. 
We have experienced agents in all the best dig. 
triets of China and Japan to select Teas especially 
lor our trade. 
We expect every consumer of Tea* *o render us ad 
the assistance they ean In carrying out our enter¬ 
prise. us we make a specialty of SUPPLYING CON¬ 
SUMERS’ ONLY (and allow no middlemen to make 
any profit on our Importations), wnieh will enable 
us to supply them with Teas at prices lower than 
have ever been known, and of those fine qualities 
thrt seldom roach the interior, being sold only to 
the large cities and among the very wealthy. 
Hoping the consumer will take an interest incur 
enterprise, and send at once lor 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 Hi., 
P. O. Box 5,309. New York City. 
,® n W. according to Act of Congress, in January, 
Consumers ImportingJTea Co., in the 
OUlce of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C, 
bead. 
The most ©comical time to buy cider is when 
it Is not very clear, for then it will settle for 
Itself. 
A man slid his son had a well stored mind, 
but the neighbors never could find where he 
stored it. 
The chap who receutly converted his hat in¬ 
to a back-yard has plucked the feathers from 
the wing of a house. 
Some elderly young ladles have declared, 
during the hot weather, that they wished they 
were on the shady aide of forty. 
A mourning widower declares that nothing 
brings him such nffoctlug memories of his dear, 
dead wife as to tumble over a flat-iron. 
Why is a church bell more affable than a 
church organ? Because one will go when it is 
tolled, and the other will be “ blowed " first. 
There may be different answers to W. E. G.’s 
question, “ Is the Church of Eagland worth pre¬ 
serving?" but one thing la dear- the Jars are 
ready. 
A school-mistress once asked a pupil to tell 
What word# the letters 8 double E opeil. 
The child was but doll, and so mistress cries, 
“ What is It. you duuoe. I do with my eyes ?" 
'• Oh yog!” says the child, quickly taklDg the hint: 
“ 1 kuow the word now. ma'aa-i double K, squint!” 
A bCHENECTADY girl at a spelling school sat 
This happens at other 
FAXDIDXjIISrG^ HER OWN CANOE. 
Jones— “ Miss Tibs, let’s go home.” 
Miss Tibs— ‘‘Yes, Jones, if you’ll make it my home too —if not I shall capsize the 
boat and you’ll be drowned ! I can swim, you know, and you can’t.” 
FARM for SALE. 
Pine Stock farm of 400 acre# lu Atchison Co . Kan- 
wik; near railway; convenlen to schools, churches, 
only 20 mil^B frum Atchison, to© ralWity center 
oi Kansas: most improvements made in 1«74. Large 
new house; goou outbuildings; one mile of new 
board fence; T5 acres under plow; 2i nmes timber 
bind (timber o*k, walnut, hickory. Act: creek on 
place, also fine spring; 2<S acres bottom land; 100 
acre, up.und; Due quarry of magnesium lime rock 
on the premises. Prl o ilu.Ouu, Term*. #«.0t 0 cash, 
buluoce, three payment* of 92.000 each. Or will take 
small fruit farm tn New Jersey, Murylanc. or Dela¬ 
ware. worth to 93,000 and £>.000 cash as first 
payment, the balance to ueln twounnunl payments; 
defeired payments to bo rr cured b mortgage. This 
property is worth the attention of stock men, being 
near the large cities of-tbe fitate. Cf/rresponclerue 
solicited and careJuUp answered. 
„ , _ WOLCOTT Bit OS., 
Heal instate Utokcre, Toledo, Ohio. 
THE 
Best Proportioned, 
Best Ironed, 
AND 
Lightest Running 
Wagon in the Market 
The original, well 
known 
JJA0INE WAGON 
In use and for sale in 
nearly every 
State and Territory 
** IN THE UNION."*" 
All work fully war¬ 
ranted. 
SENT) FOR PRICE 
LIST. 
Mitchell, Lewis 
& Co., 
RACINE, \V1S. 
GREAT REDUCTION. 
TEAS AND COFFEES 
AT WHOLESALE PRICES. 
Increased Facilities to (Jlrtb Organizers, 
Send for New Price List. 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA CO. 
P. 0. Vox 5643. 3t & 33 Vesey 8t„ New York 
dowu on “ pantaloons.” r ‘ ___ 
places often, and yet it never "gets into the 
papers. 
“My onthaukful hearers,” said a backwoods 
preacher, “ you air like onto bogs eatin’ aoorns. 
They never look up to see where the acorns 
come from.” 
An establishment iu Boston, licensed to sell 
“victuals,’ was found to contain china eggs, a 
wooden ham, some imitation of pastry, and a 
large stock of real liquor. 
“ Hast thou ever loved, Henrietta ?” I sighed. 
“I should rather Imagine I had," she replied, 
‘Oh, did not my glances my feelings betray, 
when you helped me to pudding the third time 
to-day ?” 
It was an Irish Coroner who when askod how 
lie accounted for an extraordinary mortality in 
Limerick, replied sadily—“ I can not tell. 
There are people dying this year that never 
died before.” 
“ You would be very pretty Indeed,” said a 
gentleman patronlsingly to a young lady, “if 
your eyes were only a little larger.” My eyes 
may be very small, sir, but such people as you 
don’t fill them I” 
A boy recently found a pooketbook, and re¬ 
turned It to Its owner, who gave him a live cent 
plvce. The boy lookod at the coin an instant, 
and then handing it reluctantly back, audibly 
sighed, aa he said“ I can’t change it.” 
Little Alice was crying bitterly, and on be¬ 
ing questioned confessed to having received a 
slap from one of hor playfellows. " You should 
have returned It," unwisely said the question¬ 
er. “ Oh, I returned it before," said the little 
girl. 
Boswell complained to Johnson that the 
noise of the company the day before had made 
hi# head ache. “No, Sir, It was not the noise 
that made your head ache ; ft was the sense we 
put Into it.’ “ Has sense that effect upon the 
head ?” “ Yes, Sir, on heads not used to it." 
An old gentleman of the name of Gould, hav¬ 
ing married a very young wife, wrote a poetical 
epistle to a friend to inform him of it, and con¬ 
cluded thus: 
“8o you see, my dear sir, though l‘m eighty years old, 
A girl of eighteen Is In love, with old Gould.” 
To which his friend replied— 
" A girl of eighteen may love Goild It is true ; 
But believe me, dear sir, It is Gold without U.” 
Claim to have brought out the best Sewing Machine 
for manufacturing uses ever produced. 
it is called the 
IT IS VERY STRONG, 
VERY SIMPLE, 
VERY EFFECTIVE, 
AND PERFECTLY SATISFACTORY TO ALL 
WHO HAVE TRIED IT. 
'Testimonials furnished on application. Examina¬ 
tion solicited. 
Address as above, at 
HARTFORD, CONK., 
Or at Branch Offices in all leading cities. 
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IAN TED IMMEDIATE !. 1 
A few more youngmeu and women to team Book 
keeping, Peaintuiship.&iv.tO Ml positiormata sal¬ 
ary of »800 to #1500 peryear. Salary void while 
learning. Situations guaranteed. Aadrcsewlth 
stampM. W.Cobb, Ties. bus. Coll., I'uIiimvlU.j.O. 
NKW-Yorkkr Is neither dead 
*sl® e p. 6lit *til| goes forth on its weekly visits to 
interest, instruct and amuse Its many thousands of 
subscribers, st9 It has done during the pust tventy- 
["'■rTeare. with Its note* and essays on agriculture, 
horticulture, gardening-, floriculture, and general 
j? C J ? hf’^o„ t9 a new > S ' Bl<)rl< ’; s : Punic*, jot on. etc.,'suited 
to the tastes and necessities of young and old, ol all 
grades Ui society, —LtNog Gazette 
Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.—T his king of Ae- 
v.far t nnOnf l tho rs euterea Upon Its twenty-sixth 
year, under the most favorable auspices. It is the 
00 f? Publisher* to furnish a brighter 
und better paper than ever. In style, type matter 
and editoria biltty, there is no paper of its kind 
Republican compares with -'Trempealeau (TVw.) 
Moore's Rural New-Yorker, conducted by 
our Jolly friend, Hon. D. D. T. MOORE, leads all the 
papers or 1Uclass in this country. Jt is edited with 
great care and has a large variety of interesting and 
Instructive departments for the family and tne fire¬ 
side. Convenient In form, remarkably neat in typog¬ 
raphy. abounding <n timely Illustrations, and well 
filled with the choicest of matter, both original and 
selected, it has no superior in its peculiar sphere.— 
Yonkers Gazette. 
Moore s* Rural New-Yorker lean excellent. 
Agricultural paper, and very popular. As a family 
Visitant It is hard to bent In the attractions It holds 
forth for young and old. We are pleased to see that 
CEND FOR CIRCULAR of the best Paint In 
L? the world to RUBBER PAINT CO., Cleveland, O. 
10 DOLIAIB PEI! DA? 
SHUTTlt Sowing Muslim*. 
Addreu JOHNSON. CLARK At CO , Dor0>n, >Uw.: New York 
City; Pltohnrgli, l'u ; Clilcug", III.; nr St. L-mi-, Mo. 
In making up lists of newspapers for 18*5, we hope 
our farmer-friends will not overlook that '* old stand¬ 
by,” The KUltAi, Nkw-YokKku, founded and still 
conducted by p. D, T. Moore. New York. No better 
i ournal of its class Is published anywhere. Joid the 
hub now being made up at the Post-Office, at only 
92.15 a year .—Lyons Republican. 
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