[CIRCULAR. 
Consnraers Importing Tea €©., 
No. 8 Ciinrcli Street. 
P. O. Box 5,509. New York City. 
This tsa comblnatlonlof capital istalto suoply the 
consumer* 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 seiect Teas especially 
for our trade. 
Wc expect every consumer of Teas *o render us ad 
the assistance they can In carrying out our enter¬ 
prise, a* wc mulcc a speolalty of SUPPLYING CON¬ 
SUMERS ONLY (and allow no middlemen to make 
any protit on our Importations), wnich.WiU enable 
us to supply them with Teas at prices lower than 
have ever been known, and of those tine qualitie 
thrt 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 soutl at once for a citcular with full 
explanations of how to proceed to obtain our goods, 
we remain, 
Most respectfully yours, 
Consumers Importing Tea Co., 
No. 8 Church St., 
I*. O. Box 3.309. New York City. 
Entered, according to Act of Congress, In Janaary, 
1874, by the Consumers Importing Tea Co., in the 
Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C. 
LINES ON A ROAST DUCK 
A duck has been Immortalized by Bryant, 
A wild i ne, too ; 
Sweetly he hymned the creature lithe and buoyant, 
Cleaving the blue. 
But whoso says the cluck through ether flying 
Seen by the bard 
Kquitls the canvas-back before tne lying, 
Tells a canard. 
Bone to a turn, the flesh a dark carnation, 
The gravy red, 
Four slices from the breast, on such a ration 
Gods might have fed. 
Bryant go to, to think that thy rare ghost duck 
Truced 'gainst the sky. 
Could e’er at all compare with this rare roast duck, 
Is all tny eye. [Joseph Barber. 
SPARKS AND SPLINTERS, 
Tub bout thing out—An aching tooth. 
A NSW name for tight boots—A < orn crib. 
Noses arc fushionable, and have always been 
followed. 
WuiSKT is lilte an internal furnace and an in¬ 
fernal turn-UB. 
When In ahorse not worth a shilling? When 
it is worth less (worthless.) 
What two letters of the alphabet indicate 
very cold weather ? I C (icy). 
CASTOR-OIL and brandy will help the hair. 
Yes, Hut which shall be taken Inside. 
VVuat is mind ? No matter. What is matter? 
Nover mind. But what ie mind? Oh, Its Im¬ 
material. 
A fellow who got ilnmk on election day 
said it was owing to Ills efforts to put down 
party spirit. 
Why Is coat the most contradictory article 
known to commerce ? Because when purchased 
It goes to the cellar. 
A Kentuckian thinks he has attained the 
hlght of human happiness in the possession 
of a wife eight feet threo Inches tall. 
A citizen of Rome, who had been blest with 
two wives, both of whom have left him, now 
calls himself “the no-blest Roman of them 
all." 
A foot. In a high station Ib like a man on the 
top of a high mountain—everything appears 
small to him, and he appears small to every¬ 
body. 
“ What does ‘Good Friday’ mean?” asked 
one schoolboy of anot her. “ You had better go 
home and read your ‘ Robinson Cruso,’ ” was the 
withering reply. 
A woman purchasing some cups and saucers 
was aakod what color she would have. “ Why, 
I ain’t particular,” said she, “any color that 
won’t show dirt.” 
Love, like an eogine, is ever at Hirst accom¬ 
panied by the tender and a train of car(e)s; it 
vanishes, heeds not the by-goue ties, yet leaves 
tho T-rail bohlnd. 
“Mr native city has treated me badly,” said 
a drunken vagabond, “ but I love her still." 
“ Probably,” replied a gentleman, “ her still Is 
all that you do love.” 
“ You haven't opened your mouth during the 
whole session," said an M. 1*. to a fellow mem¬ 
ber. “Oh ye?, J have,” was the reply, " I yawn¬ 
ed through the whole of your speech." 
“Talk about the extravagance In dress of 
woman!” cried Martha Jane, exultlngly. 
“ What do you say to Tweed's six million suit. 
I’d like to know? Re Isn’t a woman, I guess!” 
Tunv have found apetritled Mormon In Utah, 
and from the number of dents In the head, 
evidently made with a poker and flat-iron, it Is 
judged that he bad at least thirty-three wives. 
A Brooklyn man, who had the toes of one 
foot cut off by a horso car, sued the company 
for $5,01)0 damages—$1,0110 per tne. Tne comoany 
denied responsibility in toto, but the jury award¬ 
ed tiie plaintiff $500 as a memento of the affair. 
Tim latest form of benevolence. “Why do 
you eat that beef, if it Is so tough? said Jones 
to his compiuion at a restaurant, “ I want to 
prevent Its appearing In some poor fellow's hash 
to-morrow,” was his reply, “.Do unto others 
as you would that others should do unto you.” 
Little Willb having hunted in nil the coi¬ 
ners for his shoes, at l ist appears to give them 
up, and climbing on a chair, betakes himself to 
a big book on a side table. Mother says to 
him “ What is darling doing with the book?” 
“ It Ith the dictionary; papa lookth In the dic¬ 
tionary for things, and I'm looking In it to sse 
If I can Hod my shoes," 
A traveler on the Continent, visiting the 
Cathedral of-, was shown by the Baoristan, 
among other marvels, a diity, opaque glass 
phial. After eyeing it some tlmo, the traveler 
said. “Do you call this n relic? Why, it is 
empty,” “Empty l” retorted the Sacristan in¬ 
dignantly. ” Sir, it contains some of the dark¬ 
ness that Moses spread over the land of Egypt.” 
“ Dio you ever break a yoke of four-year-old 
steers ?” asked a farmer of a young ebap who 
wanted to marry bis daughter. “No I never 
did,” was the meek reply, “but I hare rode a 
mul a In a circus, and had a good deal of other 
experience in tho world." “No other experi¬ 
ence,” said the farmer, “could qualify you, 
young man, for trying to handle that girl,” and 
the sad youth departed. 
THE PALACE HOTEL TRAIN 
BETWEEN 
NEW YORK AND CHICA80, 
via Cleveland. 
Leaves Erie Hallway Depot, foot of Chambers St. 
New York: 
9r00 A. HI., Daily except Sunday. Drawing-Room 
Sleeping Cnache* through to Chicago; but 
one change of day car*. 
7,00 P. 1*1., Dally. The Palace Hotel Train to 
Chicago. Drawing-Room Sleeping Coaches 
and Pullman’* Hotel Dining Car. through 
without change; bnt one change of day curs. 
The only line running Hotel Diving Cars out of 
New York. A ride of nearly a thousand miles with¬ 
out leaving the car to cut, orlnk or sleep 1 
BLACK uiA.3vroisrxjs. 
Jim, why are you like dat ar’ load of coal V’ 
Dunno.” 
-“’Cause you’re black as ebony, of course. 
“ Look lieah, Sam, you had-but, now, why’s you like de coal V' 
I surrenders. 
“’Cause you’re as black as ebony, of course. Yah, yah ! Go ’way, darkey, 
MERCHANT CLOTHIER. 
WAREHOUSES : 
138 & 140 FULTON ST., NEW YORK 
[ Established 1858.] 
Successor to FREEMANT& BURR 
This old and popular establishment opens the season with an unparalleled stock, to which theatten 
tlon of purchasers Isicordiallv invited. 
QVKBCOATS,! gUITS, 
QVERCOATS,( $fi to $40 . gUITS, 
/ \ VKKCOATS, C^ITS. 
3 PRACTICAL, HI TTER HOOK, 
Now Beady.Price $1. 
Address MOOBK'S BUBAL NKW-YOt EUR. 
78 Duane St., New York 
jlJITS 
OYS> 
$10 to $50. I’/’* 87 $5 to $20. 
J>OYS» i^CITS, ] 
n^nrOA nu &JAII I ORDERS by Letter promptly Ailed. 
UlllltKd tJI mliBL. GEO. L. BURR’S System for supplying patrons at a 
vitw kaiiw ■ mniki j distance, which consists of furnishing Kales for 8ell- 
Mensnrc, Samples of Goods, Prices, Book of Fashions, etc., free on application, enable? parties 
in all parts of the country to order, with the certainty of receiving the most Perfect Fit attainable. 
PATENT BELL TREBLE 
Grand, Square & Upright Pianos. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
Finest In Tone! Style and Finivh! Warranted 
seven (?) yeats In any climate. Used over the U. S. 
and Canada. Practical Mechanics, Merchants, dis¬ 
interested Musicians nnri the Public indorse ami rec¬ 
ommend the t ATENT BELL TREBLE PIANOS. 
New Scale Upright or Boudoir Bell 
Treble Piano, Just Finished. 
Handsome. Compact. Stylish and Hoi* suitable Price. 
Agents and Dealer-. Increase their business and es- 
taolish their reputation by selling t hem. They please 
and satisfy all. Extra inducements offered where we 
have no Agents nr Planes. Great object to write for 
Illustrated Prices and Terms to Wholesale and Re¬ 
tail Warerooms. Address „ _ 
MACKIE A: CO., 
8*2 State 8t., Rochester, X. Y r . 
DOMESTIC 
SEWING . 
MACHBNES. 
\ r 3/ Ubcral terms of Exchange 
for Second-hand Machines 
-—^ of every description. 
“DOMESTIC” PAPER FASHIONS. 
The Best Patterns niatlo. Bend Sets, for Catalogue. > 
Address DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINE CO., 
Beg- Ac.kkts w . nt no, XL , Y OR K. v 
T>UY WILLARD’S 
The Most Extensive Manufactory of Cottage Organs in the World! 
^'ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES SENT FREE. 
GREAT REDUCTION. 
M TEAS AND COFFEES 
AT WHOLESALE PRICES. 
Increased Facilities to Club Organizers. 
Send for New Price List. 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA CO. 
P.O.Box 5643. 8i & 33 Vesey 8t., New York 
PRACTICAL BUTTER BOOK. 
Now Ready. Price SI. 
Address MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
78 Duane St., New York, 
REAL ESTATE BROKERS, 
52 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. 
ty Eastern property exchanged for Wes tern and 
Western for Eastern. Correspondence solicited. 
MooitB's Rural New-Yorker Is one of the read¬ 
able, useful, family papers, equally in demand bv 
the ladv in her conservatory, tne matron with her 
household, the farmer In hts Held, the stocs raiser 
among his animals, at d the young folks around the 
evening lamp.—Laws of Life. 
VF.ND FOR CIRCULAR of the best Paint in 
3 tne world to RUBBER PAINT CO., Cleveland, O. 
