Cady’* Patent Iron Slclsli 
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ffntfFV Ku,e#i - 
IIU 11 ij I Reduces the Cost of Sleds and Bobs 
OjyjE-TUIHJt, 
I Jl TriTn Enables every man to be his own 
i A V i• I ] mecijamc * 
111 T JJU. 2,000 in u*t. .Vo breakage. 
_ BRAPLEY.MFG. CO., 
Send for Illustrated Circular. Syracuse, N. Y. 
SPARKS AND SPLINTERS, 
A GROUND HOG — A sausage. 
Singular -To see a garden walk. 
Always operating for a risa-Emetlcs. 
What man going down blit want—Checks. 
Shull of the ocean—Gunboat ammunition. 
Eyes nave they, yet they see not—Needles. 
Any two apple? are alike If they are pared. 
Neptune’s c >at of arm?-The erase of a wave. 
Halit-baked bread is a dough-mes3-stlck 
affair. 
What does the potter say to his clay ? “Be 
ware." 
The dentist’s epitaph—“ He Is filling his last 
cavity." 
A regular knock down of talent— A ham- 
rnerturo performance. 
New Bedford Is said to have but one whaler 
left—a school master. 
When Is a steamboat sick? Why, when It 
gets coaled, to be sure. 
Oregon lins a new town called Pay Up. It Is 
said to be a good place for settlement. 
A girl being accused of trifling with her 
lover's feelings, replied, “ 1 plead jilty." 
How the free In ich 11 nid solves ? lie problem 
of existence—by the buy-no-moai theory. 
Why don’t Sweden have to send abroad for 
cattle? Because see keep? her Stock-holm. 
The railway passenger who put a clock under 
his seat for safe keeplugsays ho went through 
on time. 
A man’s position In society Is virtually de¬ 
termined by bis own conduct. As he soweth, 
socially reap. 
“ Did my mustache trouble you ?” said he to 
her. “No," she sighed, "I only felt a little 
down In the mouth," 
Tt Is nonsons* to speak of "trifles light as 
air.” The pressure of air Is fourteen pounds on 
every square Inch of surface. 
Somebody advertises for “ machine girls.’ 
The quesrlon la lu what particular a machine 
girl Is bettor than a hand made. 
A humorous apothecary exposes a case of 
soap In his shop window with the pertinent In¬ 
scription, "Cheaper than dirt." 
A Canadian gill claimed to be a champion 
driver of a reaping machiuo until she fell under 
the knives one day, and now she Is no mower. 
Foote, on being scolded by a lady, sa’d, “I 
have heard of tartar and brimstone; you are 
cream of the one, and the flower of the other.’ 
A hotelkeeper at one of the watering 
places says generously of the opposition house 
over *he way, that It Is "a hotel without ar¬ 
rival." 
A Saratoga philosopher says a single wo¬ 
man, as a general thing, can be told from a 
wife, and yet he has known many a girl to be 
taken for a wife. 
It is stated that the Philadelphia confectioner 
who advertises *• Centennial kisses ’’ can’t sell 
any. They ore too old. The 16 iuls are pre¬ 
ferred by men of taste. 
“Every true is subject to disease," said-a 
speaker in a fruit growers’Convention. “ Wbat 
ailment can you llnd on an oak?" asked the 
ch iruian, “ A corn,’’ was tee triumphant reply. 
“ That clock, si ranger," said a Michigan t arm 
er, “ was the be>i kind of clock up to six mouths 
am, when my daughter began to have beaux, 
and now Iho blamed thing is always uvo hours 
slow.” 
“ What do you know of the character of this 
man?” was naked of a wltiuss lu Court the 
otucr day. “ I know it to be unbleachable, your 
honor," replied the witness, with much em¬ 
phasis. 
We see through it at last. The butcher sticks 
those miserable little pins—which no amateur 
carver can contemplate without profane im¬ 
pulse—into the roasting piece to make it more 
sekewor. 
Some Pennsylvania workmen, recently en¬ 
gaged In excavating, found a gold watch sev¬ 
eral feet below tin,surface. They thought they 
bad found the original bank whereon the wild 
time grew. 
A villaoe pedagogue In de-p?lr with a stu¬ 
pid boy, pointed to the letter A and asked him 
if he knew it. “Yes, Sir." " Well, what Is It?" 
“ I know him veiy well by sight, Sir—but rat me 
if 1 can remember ills name." 
Sunday school teacher—“ Wlijft do you un¬ 
derstand by ‘suffering for righteousness sake ?’ ” 
Boy (promptly) — "Practicing hymns Sunday 
morning, and Sunday school In the afternoon, 
and blble class In the evening?” 
A boy, who was “confounding" tbe mus- 
qulto, was told by liia pastor that “doubtless 
the insects are made with a good end in view,” 
when the young scamp replbd, " I can’t see tt, 
whether it is lu view or not. At any rate, I 
END FOR CIH'ULAR of the be?t Paint In 
the world to RUBBER PAINT CO., Cleveland, 0. 
(CIRCULAR 
Consumers Importing Tea Co., 
No. 8 Cburclj .Street., 
e.O. Ilox 5,5UP. New York Oily. 
This Isa combination ot capitalists to suDply tn© 
consumers of Teas throughout the United State? 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. 
Weexpect every consumer or Tea- o render us a.l 
the assistance they cau in carrying out our enter¬ 
prise, as we make a specialty of SUPPLYING CON¬ 
SUMERS ONLY (and allow no middlemen io make 
any profit on our Importations/, woteh wkl enable 
us to supply them with Teas at prices lower than 
nave ever been known, and ol chore tine qualities 
thi t seldom reach the interior, being sold only to 
the large cities and among the very wealtny. 
Doping the consumer will lake an interest incur 
enterprise, and send at once for a clicular with full 
explanations of how to proceeo to obtaio our go'-dt, 
we remain, 
Most respectfully yours. 
Consumers Importing Tea Co., 
No. N Church eft., 
F. O. Box 5,5119. Ness York City* 
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in Jannary, 
f• by the Consumers Impurtin.- Tea Co., In the 
Ofliceof the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C. 
THE SHODDY BOOK BUYER. 
Lady Customer .—Have you a nice book all covered with red leather, with gold let¬ 
ters on the back ? 
Storekeeper — Yea, Madam. We have Dr. Quincy’s works,—3 volumes in Russia ; or 
Gen. Sherman's Memoirs, 2 volumes in calf. 
Lady Customer .—Oh 1 I don’t want anything about Russia. Give me the book 
about the dear little calves, besides it was made by a General. 
FARM for BALE 
Fine Stock fa>ro of tGOacros tn Atchison Co . Kan¬ 
sas: Hear mtiwav; convenient to schools. churcLes, 
Ac.. only 21) unit's fr.itn Atchison, toe railway center 
oi Kansas; most improvement® made in ls74. Largo 
new house: good outbuildings; on© nule cf n-w 
board fence i 7ft acres under plow; a> acres Umber 
laud (limber oak, waluul, hickory. Ac.!; * reek on 
place, also tine spring; T>t> acres bottom land; KJO 
acres tip and; Due quarry uf magnesium lime rock 
on the promises. Frl c liu.uou. Tvrms. N.IMJ cash, 
bn lance, three payments of *2 IKK) tuclt. Or will take 
small Iruit farm in No* Jersey, Al, rylsnc, or Dela¬ 
ware, worth X.'.’kjO to E'.'.OuO And fa.UK) cash a? Prut 
payment, the bnlauCc to he In two uniinsl puymenta; 
deferred paynieuls to be scoured b mortgage. Till* 
property is worth the attention of slock men, being 
neur the largo cities or the- ,-tate. Lurruvondme* 
tvluiUd and car<JuUv atitv tnd. 
n , WOLCOTT OR OS., 
Real Estate Broken., Toledo, Ohio. 
Send for Reduced Price List to the 
AVERILL CHEMICAL PAINT CO., 
32 Hurling; Slip, Pi. Y., or 132 and 134 East River St., Cleveland, Ohio 
Best and Cheapest Work on Poultry 
GREAT REDUCTION. 
TEAS AND COFFEES 
AT WHOLESALE PUII’ES. 
Increased Facilities to Club Organizers* 
Bend for Now Brice List. 
THE 8REAT AMERICAN TEA CO. 
P. 0. linx 5643. 3i & 33 Vesev St., New York 
All who keep Poultry ol any kind, lor either profit or pleasure, should at once procure 
and carelully peruse a copy of the popular work entitled 
THE PEOPLE’S PRACTICAL POULTRY BOOK 
Claim to have broeght out the best Sewing Machine 
for manufacturing uses ever produced. 
IT is called the 
IT 19 VERY STRONG. 
VERY SIMPLE, 
VERY EFFECTIVE, 
AND PERFECTLY SATISFACTORY TO AIL 
WHO HAVE TRIED IT. 
Testimonials furnished on application. Examina¬ 
tion solicited. 
Address as above, at 
HAUTI'ORI>, CO^N m 
Or at Branch Offices in all leading cities. 
From tb*» K*n»iw Farmer. 
Th* k’n Tkacticai. Fouitijv Book. —For a thorough and 
compM c work, it is th* jsinut r.our.U* and direct of any poultry hook 
we Are AmjUnluUitl with. Tliwrv are liugle page* worth tb« price of 
th« hook to Muy one who kevpe fuftU. 
From the New Enx lurid Homeetead. 
It If the moat complete work of the kind ever puhliahed. Mid con- 
tAlna everything nnybodv wUbe» uj k ow about breeds of fowl*, with 
the rearing, fattening Ain’t proper « «re of all sort* of the feutbered 
tribe, fully and attractively pictured out. 
From the Country Gentleman. 
Thc author preaenU n book which will be a convenient addition to 
the library of any poultry keeper. 
From tbe N. Y. Daily Son. 
It l» Jim such a book a* every person wanu who keepe domestic 
jowls, either for profit or pleasure. 
BY WILLARD’S 
PRACTICAL BUTTER BOOK. 
Now Ready. Price Si. 
Address MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
78 Duane St.. New York 
In making up lists of newspapers lor 1875, we hope 
our f urmer-friends will not overlook that" old stand¬ 
by," TBX RURAL NEW-YORKKit, founded and stilt 
conducted by D. D. T. Moore, New York. No better 
Journal of Its class is published anywhere. Join tbe 
Club now being made np at the Post-Office at only 
42.15 a year.—Lj/ons Republican. 
