GUIDE 
PERSONAL ITEMS 
With such a department once established, t am 
sure, it would prove a source of much profit and 
valuable Information, and T have not the slightest 
doubt but that many boys and girls would be 
glad to contribute a problem now and then, or a 
historical sketch. By way of a beginning let me 
give your young readers a little problem tor them 
to solve! 
.Mr. A. owns a piece of ground 12 rods broad and 
18 rods mug. He wishes to purchase an equal 
amount, to be added on all four sides, so that the 
lot may still be 1 n Its original shape. How wide 
Is the strip or land to be on each side ?—h. c. 
[Thk Ritrat, had and has this Department. 
We do not. wish, however, to stint our thanks to 
our kind correspondents, nor to deprecate sugges¬ 
tions from any and all sources.— Ed. j 
Ileal estate 
Gen. Dick Tayior Is visiting Mr. Abram 8. 
Hewitt at Ills house In Washington. 
Sankey protests against Ills revival tunes being 
arranged ror waltzes and quadrilles. 
The Rev. W. Vandemark of San Francisco Is to 
act as Hamlet In a theater of that city. 
Mr. John B. Gough Is so 111 that he has been 
obliged to postpone Indefinitely his Western en¬ 
gagements. 
The Emperor and Empress of Brazil have 
arrived at Jerusalem lu good health from their 
tour through Palestine. 
The Due d'Autnale, In spite of his lofty rank, Is 
not a bit above taking pay for his articles In The 
Revue lies Deux Afondrs, 
Mrs. Jemima Lbtzbr, a grand niece of Daniel 
Boone, t jed at her residence In Caldwell County, 
X C., a few days ngo, aged 91. 
Married on Christmas Day, Ebert J. Sunshade 
and Miss Maggie Wllievetler. Query:—Wlll-he- 
vell-er now that she’s a Sunshade. 
Mr. John Eliot, good man and preacher to the 
Indians, Is to have a monument built on the spot 
where he gave the red men his first discourse. 
Mr. Livingstone of this city drives a fourteen- 
In-hand in Floienee, and frightens all the ladles 
In the drive by his maneuvers with bis cavalcade. 
Mr. e. ir. House, formerly of the New York 
Tribune, la soon to begin the publication of a 
weekly newspaper in Toklo, Japan, to bo called 
the Toklo 'rimes. 
Mu. Richard Grant White Is complimented by 
one of the London weeklies as an .American who I 
speaks like an Oxford man and looks like a 
guardsman. Fortuuate RiebarjJ 1 
Mariano Fortuny’s heart is deposited In a 
r+mpel at Reus In Catalonia, and a beautiful 
sculptured slab ol marble, represent lug his bust. 
In relief, has Just been placed above it. 
BrothkrMoody, in one of Ids Chicago meetings, 
asked all to rise who would promise not to offer 
strong drink to callers on the New Year's Day. 
Nearly the whole congregation stood up. 
Mu. Lamar, since 1872, has been in the habit of 
highly praising Carl Schurz, although many of 
his constituents have considered the clever 
German-Amerlcan a Radical in disguise. 
By Mr. norsman’s death the English House or 
Commons loses one of the very few members who 
held seats at Queen Victoria’s nocesslon to the ' 
throne. 
No nathma or cnUrrh hero. 
Map* and catalonaea froo. 
J. F, MANCHA, 
Dover, Del. 
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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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It is the Standard Authority on Agriculture, Hor¬ 
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with newe and improvements of value to 
The Farmer, The Dairyman, 
The Horticulturist, The Housewife, 
The Stock Grower, The Girls and Boys. 
In addition to these Practical Subjects and its Mar. 
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TWO I’APKRS 1 N ONE 
and outa like a two-edged sword Into the affections of 
the ladies and children, as well as the members of the 
family who seek instruction in their daily avocations. 
A. 8. Fuller, the celebrated Horticulturist, is Ed- 
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Floriculturist and writer on Rural Topics, and X. A. 
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jnson. Editor Loudon Garden; Col. F. ft, Hsinner, 
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Missouri -state Entomologist; Herman Rtbeciler, 
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James Vice, the great Rochester Florist; Geo. Such, 
The deceased entered Parliament lu 
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Bartoletti, the chief dancer In “ sardanapa- 
lus,” went from this city to Boston with the 
company, and there seriously lamed herself by a 
fall on the stage, while trying to kick higher than 
usual. 
Gladstones pamphlet on the “Bulgarian Hor¬ 
rors and Russia in Turklstan,” has been re¬ 
published In Lelpale, with other tracts by the 
same writer, as No. 1,031 ot the Tauchultz collec¬ 
tion of British authors. 
auk planted h\ a million people in America. 
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HOVKY A OO., 53 North Market Nt., Boston, Mass 
An unknown quantity of algebra was eliminated 
from the freshman course at Hamilton college 
recently. The funeral services were conducted 
In i ho old senior recitation room. Tbe remains 
of the algebra were Incased In a first-class coffin 
with pretty handles, and there were many 
mourners, The text of the discourse was a very 
touching one—“He has gone Irom among us”— 
and tho dirge had a pathos or its own. “Put 
away the leather breeches which our darling 
used to wear; he'll not need them any longer, 
’twill be warmer over there.” The undertaker 
lifted the lid and every mourner viewed the 
remains. A bell was tolled, torches were fired, a 
pyre was upraised, Incineration went on apace. 
Mk. Editor:—P lease pardon my boldness In ob¬ 
truding upon your Important time. This is the 
first time my pen has made any remarks for your 
excellent paper, but I trust it, will not be the last 
time. An article tn your paper entitled “ Farm¬ 
er’s Need,” from tho pen of Air. \\ . u. White, 
especially attracted my attention. I think he 
bits the nail squarely on tho head when he says 
There is a need of more and better education 
among farmers.” Notwithstanding the met that 
farmers as a class have a better general knowledge 
of business than mill operatives, mlnc?rs, day- 
laborers, arc., yet there is much room for improve¬ 
ment. Farmers need a practical, every-day 
business education. Lucking this they are far 
from holding that position in society, to which 
they justly belon] 
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Ik; Commbua Nursery, Columbus, Ohio. 
they justly belong. Farmers, us a class, are not 
tuUy cognizant of the great Importance of their 
mission as a factor of our body-politic. In order 
that thc-y can be able to more tully realize this 
they must have a beuqj and more extended edu¬ 
cation. 
And right here, Air. Editor, please let me make 
one little suggestion : i up not wish to bethought 
obtrusive, iou know best how you desire to 
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that our predictions in the January number aie 
being more than fulfllled. We have sent it more 
than Jive hwulreti names, and we learn that sub¬ 
scriptions have been pouring in In like proportions 
from nil parts of tho country, despite the hard times. 
Long may it continue to be wbat It Is—a power for 
good In the lund.— Aumt'v Friend. 
one little suggestion ; j - 
obtrusive. You know best how 
conduct your paper. But as you have a. depart- ! 
ment for almost everything of interest and bene- l 
fit to the farmer, why not give a little space, only , 
a little, for an educational department ? The l! 
long winter evenings arc fast coming on, and I : ! 
think that the many thousand families into ' 
whleh your paper weekly finds Its way. would 
welcome such a departure. .Many homes, full of • 
bright children will take a great interest, tn such ! 
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day, and thus would enjoy such instructive recre- I 
ar.lon nuer their labor. Evenings spent In study 
at home are not spent in tad company. . J- 
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