illustrated 
atalogue 
THEGREAT 
experiences-a photoc-ranh of tlie great farming 
work! an it is—a journal ot t<>-day. l.Ml.uou readers, lib 
eral to club-raisers—every surplus dollar of this y carl 
WEST yof tand- S*nJ/br mar's and circular*. 
...' .'VW.-H-Cofftk,L anxl C< unmissiotier, 
M SS0UR V elflI,le •^ u ^ lIlu * r - St - Louis, Mo- 
JAN.29 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PERSONAL ITEMS. . 
Professor Legate, of Nevada, says ttiat the 
moon’s rays spoil fish, and mat his experiments 
prove It. 
Of the seventy-six United states Senators only 
thirty-three were born In the states which they 
represent, 
General Garfield’s step-father, William Belden, 
died near Grand ltaplds, Mich., on Friday night 
week, aged seventy years. 
Mr. Gladstone 13 reported by his wife as singing 
every morning In his bath, and the Inference Is 
that be Is not much worried by the Irish agitation. 
General Grant has'enga .edan architect to make 
such repairs upon his cottage at Long Branch as 
are necessary, and put It In complete order for his 
occupancy next Summer. 
Judge Gere Black, who Is seventy-one years old, 
Is a great favorite In Washington society. He says 
that he la a prutty old man, but that he did not 
write Coke’s law books. 
Alvin Hawkins was Inaugurated Governor of 
Tennessee at noon last, Tuesday before a',large as¬ 
semblage ot people. He Is the first Republican 
Governor that Stale has had for ten years. 
Olive Logan, writing from New England, says 
that cold pork and beans for breakfast, bean por¬ 
ridge for dinner and warmed-up beans for supper 
constantly remind her of the part of the country 
which she Is visiting. 
United Slates Senator McDonald, of Indiana, 
after hla term expires next March, will return to 
his old profession as a member of the law firm of 
McDonald A. mil ler, at Indianapolis. Hets quoted 
as saying: “The practice of my profession has 
been my life business and politics but an episode.” 
Dawson habitually whipped his wife at Padu¬ 
cah, Ky. Wyatt, his neighbor, said to him, “If 
you don’t stop the practice I’ll kill you.” The next 
time Mrs. Dawson screamed. Wyatt went In and 
kept his promise by shooting her husband through 
fhe body, though the wound did not prove fatal 
until a week later. 
Mr. Philip Vmiour, the wealthy Cincinnati mer¬ 
chant, and Manager Carpenter, of Chicago, both 
of whom died a few days ago, lost their lives 
through overwork. Mr. Armour was thirty-eight 
years of age and worth, It Is variously estimated, 
from $2,000,000 to it, ooo,(ion, and Mr. Carpenter was 
successful at thlny-slx years. 
Dr. Lucr S. Pi no in of Boston, who graduated 
last March from the United States Medical Col¬ 
lege, ot New York, being number two In a olass of 
sixteen, Has been elected secretary of the West 
Side Medical Association, or New York City. This 
Is probably the first. Instance of a woman being 
elected to such a post ion In an association com¬ 
posed almost entirely or men. 
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Catarrh of Eleven Years’ Standing 
Cured in Three Montis*. 
The President of the Wisconsin .state Norrrnl 
School, Mr. William D, Parker, says. In a letter to 
Drs. Stavkey &■ I’alen, under date of Sept, -ith, 1S79: 
‘•After enduring post-nasal catarrh for eleven 
years, at times greatly annoyed and sickened by 
the abundance of the secretions, lri the full belief 
that cataiib Is Insurable, I procured your Com¬ 
pound Oxygen, and after three months’steady ap¬ 
plication the secretion min illy ceased and has not 
yet relumed, six mouths having elapsed since I 
have used the Oxygen. 1 therefore commend your 
specific to the thousands of sufferers from catarrh 
with its attendant His. 1 shall take pleasure in 
testifying for the benefit of any Inquirers.” Our 
Treatise on Compound Oxygen, which contains 
a largo number or testimonials to remarkable 
cures, Is sent free. Dus. Stark ky & Palbn, 1109 
and 111 l Girard St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Sms. giants, &r. 
QTTT? rtQ—Choice selections Horn lie’ most ve 
i i 1 , , "able growers and unpotieis. No 
old Heeds in hIot. Kvery vnr|et\ tested before 
pltered for sa e. Special attention given to orders 
uy mad. Seeds shipped |>v mall or evpress to any 
part oft lie United Stares, Reference: Home National 
Bank. Chicago: Ftirsr a- Bradley Mf’jj <’<«., Chicago: 
Kirby, Carpenter A Co., Chicago. Send for Cat¬ 
alogue of Seeds and Farm Mne.Uluevv. 
A. B. BARNES, -111 & 48 W. I.ake St., Chicago, Ill, 
trade . make. 
foil 
RHEUMATISM, 
Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, 
Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, 
Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swellings and 
Sprains, Burns and Scalds, 
General Bodily Pains, 
Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Fee* 
and Ears, and all other Pains 
and Aches. 
No Preparation on earth equals St. Jacobs Oil as 
a safe, sure, simple ond cheap External Remedy. 
A trial entails but the comparatively trifling outlay 
of 50 Cents, and every une suffering with pain 
can have cheap and positive proof of its claims. 
Directions in Eleven Languages. 
SOLD BY AI.L DRU0GIST8 AND DEALERS IN 
MEDICINE. 
A. VOGEJLER & CO., 
Haiti more, Wet., TJ. 8. Ah 
(A a week, $12 n day at home easily made. Costly 
it outfit free. Address True & Co., Augusta, Maine. 
FOR SALE. 
A nice Country Home and Fruit Farm, 37 acres; 
splendid fruit laud; large bearing orchard ot' best 
apples; plenty of small fruit; largo and splendidly ar¬ 
ranged house; largo barn, Ac , &e Price $15(10. Ad¬ 
dress il, 3f, .yi’AKK, Aditiinist rntor. 
__Mfiii na, tlrlenua Co., N. Y. 
XZ i | Chromos, name in new type Me. by mail. -Ill Agts. 
U" Samples, ttic. U. S. Card Co.. Nortliford, Ct. 
ft i t LithographedChronmCards. uo2alike,Itie. Name 
ff 7 tin fancy type. Cons. Gaud Co., Northtord, Ct. 
BURKE’S ThSAS ALMANAC 
FOR 1881. 
22-1 pages. Information about lb, X AH, with New Map. 
Price30cIs., postpaid. ,1. Bur.itr., Ju., Houston,Tex. 
250 M A RYL A ND FARMSSSfeS 
Near railroad and navigable Salt water (with all its 
luxuries), In Talbot Op, Md. Climate mild ami healthy 
Titles good New Pamphlet and map. showing location 
freo AddrtMK 0 F, .SHANAHAN, Ati'y, East >u, Md. 
8K8T WA8HEK. AND WRiNGEIt 
in the World, Guaranteed to do perfect work or 
money refunded. Warranted for 5 years. Price of 
washer. $8. Sample to agents. *3.60. Price of Wring¬ 
er, *7.60. Sample, $4.26. Circulars free. 
KRIK. WA-HKK CO. , Erie, Pa. 
Q/rv* a week In your owu town. Terms and *5 outfit 
q)UU free. Address H.Ballett & Co., Portland, Maine 
Square BOS CHURNS 
Cheapest and Beat. No 
-fl > indue fixniros.aml at trays re. 
By ''vr II liable. Mix sixes of each kind 
fje> tf/ Hy«»ni.ido Thru sums of the l.nv 
I’ll it Butter Woikormade. Best 
■u ri fj material used, and every 
Chiivn ami Butter Worker 
f-fl warranted exactly a* repre- 
— - - I , 1! sented. Oue Churn at whole- 
* wale where wo have uo agent 
m, >" f Send postal for Circulars. 
OORMr.ll A-, CURTIS Fort Atkliisen, Win. 
The only Tvarld J^nomccl 
F^lMNEXPmi'fe^ 
IB 
GASOLINE STOVE 
VAPOR OIL STOVE CO. 
_ iCLEv eland. 0 .1 _ 
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New Music Books 
p ■ ■ w ^ « ($1 50). By Margaret Pear- 
nn I IVl t O main Osgood, Translations by 
Louisa T. Crngin. Emphatically a household collec¬ 
tion, containing lullabies, nursery songs, kindergarten 
songs, and everything ot the kind that musics 1 moth¬ 
ers, sisters and all the jk *i m children so dearly 
love, compiled from the AV IV U best American and 
foreign sources, and in nrniy oasev having both for¬ 
eign and KiigUsh words. To* snugs have simple ac- 
eom pan I incuts. Ith!/men ami Tunes has already receiv¬ 
ed most flattering notices, and bide ■ | jva o 
fair to bo a universal favorite. & U 11 C.a. 
Now Subscribe for the Musical Record. 
Try SI lor CJ .Months. 
Emerson’s Quartets & Choruses. 
FOR MALE VOICES. (60 cents, or $6 per doz¬ 
en.) A capital collection of pieces, Just made, and well 
fitted by their moderate compass and easy arrange, 
ment, as well as by their solid merit and groat variety, 
for clubs and quartets that are now so rapidly increas¬ 
ing. The book is compact, and may easily be carried 
m the pocket. 
BEETHOVEN, Biographical Romance by 
Ran. $i.5u. 
ALBUM OF SONGS. Franz! Authorized 
edition of 1(,0 of the very best German Songs ever 
issued. 
fn Press .—Anew Sunday School Soug Book. 
tJT" Any book mailed, post-free, for retail price.) 
OLIVER DITSOM & CO., Boston. 
O. H. I) It son Ac Co., J. E. Dltaon Ac Co. 
M3 BToadway, New York. 1238 GhestnntSt.. Phi 1 a 
OUR LITTLE ONES. 
February number for sale by all Newsdealers. 15 cts. 
a copy : *1.60 a year. One specimen free. BUSSELL 
PUBLISHING CO., 149 A 'Ireiuout St., Boston, Mass. 
The .Farming World 
16 page, 61 col. illustrated, invaluable as a record of 
AltD BROS., Pubs., J2B Chestnut St., Pblla., Pa. 
AGENTS! AGENTS! AGENTS! 
JOSIAH ALLEN’S WIFE 
h Sm, a new book. 
“ My Wayward Pardner/ 
AGENTS WANTI D in every Town. Don't miss it, but 
send for Circular at once, and secure territory. Addins 
AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO.. HaitriOKn, Conn. 
RT Meution Rural New-Vorker. 
M Folki ihontd lend » three tmt TV AT T TCI 
swmphirafrjt-bookofncarlv I '111 1/ m| 
“h^nr^’E! 1 !! rULlVo 
Foot*, die aatootof 
MEDICAL COMMON SENSE AND PLAIN HOME TALK, 
on Scrofula, Pueaios of Men 
W'lf'kTITT and Women, ami all chronic 
II 111 I 1 niltneiiU, with the e-ri.lencewf III II 11/ 
| ItiljH TX&nTcT dUUJv 
Bos IDS, New York City. 
lML^llk,BEST 
income to them. Special'— inos.,80 rents.—6 mos , 
40 e dits—3 luos., 2u rents. 
Free tor 1SS1 to every Nli,lister, 
widow and couple married in i«so, w ho inclose 25 cents 
for postage. Send 3 cent stamp for specimen. 
THE FARMING WORLD, South Bend, lad. 
FARMERS ore MAKING M AIJ MI tJ P’O 
to SoO per week selling IIIHIHliniU O 
ILLUSTRATED STOCK BOOK 
Because every funner netimlly needs it. It is 
tlio luteal, litr gcMl, and moat roinjilelt- work ever 
Issued 111 America treating of Uorsrs, Cattle, Sheep, 
Swirl* and Poultry—tlmr breeds, bmoduig, training, 
care, and management; their diseases, causes, preven¬ 
tion. symptoms and remedies. I GOO pages, 400 
illustrations, and 2 superb charts. Anyone desiring 
J.Estey & C o. U 
Brattleeoro VT. 
Sendpostal for freelllusirated Catalogue. 
HBEBWTBR’S^ 
LEVEL TREAD 
HORSE POWER. 
Speed Ketfnlator. 
Little Ciant 
Tkresliing Machines. 
“UNION” FEED CUTTER. CIRCULAR AND 
DRAG SAW AIACHINES, &c. 
Send for Catalogue. 
HEEBNER Ac SON’S, Lansdale, Mont. Co., Pa. 
AGENTS WANTED FOR THE 
SUMMIT 
Stove-Pipe Shelf .— tbs vost 
convenient article ever ojfcred to House* 
keeper »• Otv<3 Agent made $144.6? in tei% 
day*. freight charge*. 
Addrcit, K. g. HARTZELL * CO. 
H 5 Beads Tklnt 8 t„ PkU»delplila. 
FARM CRIST MILLS 
and CORN Slltu.l.lis. 
JM Over 25.000 Now in Use. 
ml) Every Afncliine Is lull, Wnr- 
®Lra»l«(l. Price of Mills, *15 to $86. 
’‘A’ I'hellers, $5. Don’t buy a Mill or 
I -hcHer until you have seen our terms 
\ ftNd md Illustrated Circular. Address, with 
jP 2 *’-tamp. l.IVINt.STON & CO.. 
Iron Founders, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Hampden Watches 
Are acknowledged by competent and Scientific 
Judges, and by all who have critically tested 
their time-keeping qualities by using, to be 
The Best Finished and Most Accurate 
ly Adjusted 
WATCHES 
Manufactured in this country, for equal price. 
HAMPDEN WATCH COMPANY, 
Springfield, Mass. 
Factories and General Ofliee, Springfield, Mass. 
New York Office, 12 Maiden Lane, U. 8. A. 
CHAS. D. ROOD, Treas. and Manager, 
THE PLANET JR. COOD3. 
Let every man, woman.and child whether interested much 
or little ui working the soil, semi now for our carefully 
ffr written Catalogue. We want all farmers who value labor- 
saving tools to study out our combined Horse Hoc, Oulti 
o yatnr and Coveror; Market Gardeners, who hav e acres upou 
ai-r.-sun i -voh of which our Double Wheel Hon w ill sure if* 
cost yearly, to examine the merit* of our fine garden tools: 
and every onewho has even asmad vegetal levarden b > read 0 
V* closely what the Firefly Hoe amt Garden Plow will save — 
them. fs. I,. AL.EKN dk GO., 220 Market St., Phil 
Phlladelphin, i’u. 
CLARK S IMPROVED ROOT CUTTER 
PERFECTION OBTAINED 
CUTTING BOOTS 
Tills Cutter nas received the First. Premiums at 
every Fair, and has no equal. Do not fall 
to examine it. 
The Neatest, Strongest, Simplest, Cheapest, 
and most Perfect Root Cutter in the Market. 
This Cutter is built with a heavy oak frame, well 
bolted together; is staunch and strong, neatly fin¬ 
ished. handsomely striped and ornamented, The cub- 
ting apparatus consists of twentwrier steel knives 
(gouge shaped), so arranged ou a wrought-!rou shaft 
that they are perfectly secure; no chance of becoming 
loose ivr breaking. The roots are neatly cut in pieces 
suitable for feeuing. No coarse, ungainly pieces are 
left by this Cutter. A boy can easily out 35 to 40 bush¬ 
els per hour, bo easily does it do its work. UP~ Don’t 
fall to examine 
Wo are manufacturing three sizes, designated by 
numbers,—!,2 and 3. 
No*. 1 and 3 designed for hand use. 
No, 8 Is the Bower Cutter, and will cut 100 bushels 
per hour. 
Price, No. 1. $12.00 
" No. 2 . U.oo 
“ Wo. 3. -22.00 
HIGGANUM M’FG CORPORATION, 
Higganuni, C’t. U. * A. 
Warehouse 38 80 . Market At. Boston, Mass. 
For sale by R. H. ALLEN .v CO.. General Agents, 
189-101 Water St., New York. 
LINCOLN PATENT 
CHANNEL CAN CREAMERY. 
Deep setting perfected. Gets all the 
cream In less than ten hours, with or¬ 
dinary well or running water, or In two 
hours with ice water, with loss than halt 
the ice called for by any other process. 
Agents Wanted. Send for Circular 
to W.H. E. LINCOLN, 
Warren. Mass, 
perfected ' 9 butter color 
ItGives Btif ter the gill-edged color the year round. The largest. Butter Buyers recommend Its use. 
Thousands of Dairymen say IT 1*4 PERFECT. Used bvalUlieberr creameries. Awarded the Inter¬ 
nal tonal D.ploma at N. X. Dairy Fair. Ask vonr drucglst. or merchant for U;or write toask what It (a. what 
•itcosts, who usoslt. whereto get It. WELLS, RICUAltPSON A CO., Proprietors. Burlington. v,„ 
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