LANTERNS 
FARM for SALE 
Fine Stock farm of <00 ncres In Atchison Co., Kan¬ 
sas: near rati war: convenient to schools, churches. 
Ac.: only 2u miles from Atchison, the railway center 
ot Kansas: most Imprurements matin in ls74. Large 
new house; good outbuilding-; one mile of new 
board fence: 75 ncres under plow; 25 acres timber 
land (timber oak. aalnut, hickory. &o.i; creek i.n 
fines, also tine spring: 275 ucn-s bottom land; HU 
acres Upland: Ode quarry of magnesium lime rock 
on the'remises. Pri 'e ItOAHi. Terms. W.W.D cash, 
balance, three payments of FUflO each. Or will take 
small fruit tnrm in New Jersey, Miry lane. or Dela¬ 
ware, worth *2,500 to *3,0(0 and $3.iXM cash as first 
payment, the balance to be In two unnnal payments; 
deferred payments to be secured !>;• mortgage. This 
property is worth the attention of stock men, being 
near the large cities of the State. Correspondence 
solicited and carefully answered. 
„ „ WOLCOTT BROS., 
Real Estate Broker*, Toledo, Ohio. 
SPARKS AND SPLINTERS 
A limited acquaintance—Knowing your own 
mind. 
The Romans urned their dead; we earn our 
living. 
Hops have become very cheap and beer is go¬ 
ing down. 
A romantic young man says that a woman's 
heart is like tb<» moon—it changes continually, 
hut always has a man in it. 
Precocious boy, munching the fruit of the 
date tree. Mamma, if T eat dates enough, will 
I grow up to be an almanac ? 
“ Let me ‘ fly * to him,” was what the cham¬ 
pion swimmer's sweetheart said when shespied- 
her Webb after bits conquest. 
Every third man In St. Louis is named Jones, 
Brown, Johnson or Smith, while the balance 
answer to the name of " hello, there?" 
She was overheard to *ay to him, “ Our par¬ 
lor stove is up now; do call and see what a 
little sptrk It takes to kindle a flame. 
Patrick, says that the bad coudftfon of a 
Western railway Is owing to the fact that the 
whistling of the locomotive “ wakeriB the sleep¬ 
ers.” 
Oi.d Party (who starnmere,comes in for some 
ipececanbu): •— 11 Oh, If you p-please, young 
m-mari, I w-want some ip-ip-ip-ip—” Festive 
Cady’s Patent Iron Sleigh 
/TflMV Knee*. 
li U ll jj I Reduces the Cost of Sleds and Bobs 
O.VA-TH/K/1, 
I i Trrvn Enables every man to be his own 
I A V P || mechanic. 
Ill I U13. 2)000 t „ jy 0 breakage. 
_ BRADLEY MFG. CO., 
Send for Illustrated Circular. Syracuse, N. Y. 
END FOR CIRCULAR nr the best Paint In 
i the world to RUBBER PAINT CO., Cleveland, O. 
GREAT REDUCTION. 
TEAS AND COFFEES 
AT WHOLESALE PRICES. 
Increased Facilities to Clnb Organizers. 
Send for New Price List. 
I HE GREAT AMERICAN TEA CO. 
P. O. Box 5643. 3i & 33 Vesey Bt„ New York 
ANTED IMMEDIATEL 
A few more youngmen and women to learn Book 
keeping, Nnnwi*lilp,tc.,to fill position* atasal- 
ary <if*fi00 to ♦ IE00 per year. Salary paid while 
learning Situations gnamnlmil Amln-sa with 
stamp M. W.Cobb, Pres, liu*. Coll., Palnceville.O. 
Child— “Does the Lord take tho papers?” 
Mother—” No, my child; why do you ask?” 
Child—“Oh, I thought he didn’t, it takes our 
minister so long to tell Him about things !” 
“ Why do you flap your hands so," inqured a 
gentleman of a shaking Quaker, “when St. 
Paul says that bodily exercise proliteth little ?" 
“I know it," replied tho Quaker, “it's that 
little that we’re after.” 
A young lady in Minnesota boasts of having 
ten grown-up brothers to watch over her; but 
a Norristown girl prefers to have only one 
brother to watch over her—provided be is the 
brother of some other girl. 
A i’urrier, lamenting in an advertisement 
the tricks played on the public by unprincipled 
men in his own trade, " earnestly requests 
ladies to bring him their skins and have them 
converted into muffs and boas." 
A Detroiter was called on as a witness In a 
case before one of the Justices lately, and when 
the oath was administered he raised both 
hands and said ” I shall spoke nodding ivhat 
ain’t drew if ever I hope to die so quick as a 
minute 1” 
"We have a great many felt sl'ppers, now-a- 
days," said a young lady to her octogenarian 
uncle. “ You have, have you?” responded the 
old man, with great animation; “well, the 
slippers were felt in my young days, too, and no 
mistake 1" 
Sue sent her husband down town after some 
red dye-stuff and he got cochineal, which 
wasn’t what she wanted. She told him so and 
he got mad, and when she insisted upon his go¬ 
ing again he got madder—which was what she 
wanted in the first place. 
.Said a distinguished politician to his son. 
“Look on me I I began as an Alderman, and 
here I am at the lop of the tree; and what is 
my reward ? Why, when I die, my son will be 
fi-po T Rnrr clothing warehouses, 
\At/U« JJ* Dill I j rl38 & 140 FULTON ST., NEW YORK. 
Successor to FREEMAN Sc BURR, [Established 1353.] 
This old and popular establishment opens tbe season with an unparalleled stock, to which the atten¬ 
tion of purchaser* Is cordially invited. 
OVISKCOATS. SUITS. BOYS’ SUITS. OVKRCOATS. 
*5 to $40. $IO lo $50. $5 to $25. $3 to $20. 
Hvil Aviv, rv Tlic NEW SYSTEM Tor ordering; By 
UlCie^ing Letter, or wliicli Thousand* avail tliein- 
selves, enables parlies in any part oi* the 
Clothinp' country to order with the certainty ot* re- 
6 reiving the most PERFECT FIT attain- 
By Letter. ‘ Full directions and explanations for or- 
dering' SENT FREE on application. 
Claim to have brought out the best Sewing Machine 
for manufacturing uses ever produced. 
IT IS CALLED THE 
PATENT BELL TREBLE 
OF 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, CONN., 
Or at Branch Offices tn ull leading cities. 
Grand, Square & Tpriglit Pianos. 
ROCHESTER. X. V. 
Ftnpst m Tone! fityin and Finish 1 Warranted 
seven (71 years In any climate. Used over the U. S. 
nud Canada, Practical Mechanics. Merchants, dis¬ 
interested Musician'- and the Public Indorse and rec¬ 
ommend the i-ATENT BELL TREBLE PIANOS. 
Send for Reduced Price List to the 
AVERILL CHEMICAL PAINT CO. 
32 Burling Slip, New York, or 
132 Sc 134 East Kiver St., Cleveland, O 
(CIRCULAR. 
Consumers Importing Tea Co.,) 
No. 8 Church Street, r 
P. O. Box 5,500. New York City. ) 
This Is n corablnntlonlof capitalistsjto supply the 
consumers of Tea* 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 to render us ad 
the assistance they can In carrying out our enter¬ 
prise. as we make a specialty of SUPPLYING CON- 
SUMER8 ONLY (and allow no middlemen to make 
any profit on our Importations). wnichTwlll enable 
us to supply them with Teas at prices lower than 
have ever been known, and of those fine qualities 
thpt seldom reach the Interior, being sold only to 
the large cities and among tho 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 remutn, 
Most respectfully yours, 
Consumers Importing Tea Co., 
No. 8 Church St,, 
I*. O. Box 5,&0U. New Y ork City. 
io^ nt .? re . d J BC Jr 0rrt,nt -’ to Acl of Congress, In January, 
by the Consumers Importing Tea Co., in the 
Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C. 
A Complete Treatl*e on Dairy Farms 
and Farming, 
Dairy Stock and Stock Feeding, 
Milk, Its management and Mann* 
facture Into Butter and Cheese, 
History and Mode of Organization of 
Butter and Cheese Factories, 
Dairy Utensils, Etc., Etc. 
BY X. A. WILLARD, A. Id., 
Dairy B-usbandry Editor of Moore’t Rural New- 
Yorker, Lecturer in Cornell University, Maine 
Agricultural College, Etc., Etc. 
This is the most full, practical and reliable work 
on Dairy Husbandry ertant j Indeed the only one 
wbtcb describes the recent great Improvements in 
the Dairy Business. It is highly commended by lead¬ 
ing Agricultural and other Influential Journals, and 
must speedily become (In fact Is already) the Stand¬ 
ard and Only Autlvority. It will pay every one en¬ 
gaged tn any branch of dairy business, or who keep* 
a single cow, to obtain and study this work. 
O. D. T. ftlOORK, Publisher, 
78 Duttue fit.. New York. 
New Scale Upright or Boudoir Bell 
Treble Piano, Just Finished. 
nandsoine. Compact, Stylish and Reasonable Price. 
Agents and Dealers increase their business and es¬ 
tablish their reputation by selling thorn. They please 
and Satisfy all. Extra inducements offered where we 
have no Agents or Pianos. Great object to write for 
Illustrated Prices and Terms to Wholesale and Re¬ 
tail Warerooms. Address 
MACK IE & CO., 
82 State St«, Rochester, N. Y. 
M’AILISTERS PATENT ARTOPTICON. 
The most powerful Magic Lantern evor 
^ made: with a brilliant Oil Lump: for 
£f J ,1)Home, Sunday School and Lectures, 
7. m QVy J 8te»eopticous. Ac Slides ut reduced 
~^V7ir 1 I prices. A profitable business for a man 
■wtn, so, i... H ,vital. Catalogues sent on application. 
WM. Y. M’ALLISTER, WS Chestnut St., Phila., Pa. 
Moobjs’8 Rural New-Yorker became a house¬ 
hold word and power in the land long before we quit 
” going to school,” and, perhaps, needs no comment 
from us; still “its memory is ever fresh and green," 
and is renewed by Its appearance every week, brim¬ 
ful of good things as ever. We are glad to announce 
that our predictions in the January number are 
being more than fulfilled. We have sent it more 
than five hundred names, and we learn that sub¬ 
scriptions have been pouring in in like proportion* 
from all parrs of the country, despite the bard times. 
Long may it continue to bo what it is—a power for 
good in the land,—-ljent’s Friend. 
The prospectus of Mrjcnos'K iii'iitr, New-Yorker, 
one of the best literary, horticultural and agricul¬ 
tural Journals published in this or any other coun- 
tuy. is Inserted in another column. The merits of 
this excellent Weekly, as set forth in the advertise¬ 
ment, are cot exaggerated, inde'-d, the paper pub- 
sesses numerous admirable qualities which the tal¬ 
ented publisher does not mention.— York Fenneulva- 
nian. 
ITY WILLARD’S 
UY WILLARD’S 
PRACTICAL BUTTER BOOK 
PRACTICAL BUTTER BOOK 
Now Ready, Price SI. 
Address MOORE’S RURAL NEW YORKER, 
Now Ready. Price 81. 
Address MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
78 Duane 8t„ New York, 
78 Duane St., New York, 
