IMPROVED 
MARK 
TRADE 
j.m.thorburn&cos 
I SEED WAREHOUSE 
/S JOHN ST, N EW-YORK . 
SPARKS AND SPLINTERS 
“ That Banker of Mine” lias the best run of 
anything out. The edition rarely stops short of 
Europe. 
If the short man ever feels overcome with an 
intense desire to be tall, it is when lie finds him¬ 
self on the outside of a crowd at a dog fight. 
Some one will soon bring out a volume and 
put a stop to these silly book titles. It will be 
entitled: “The Fool, or the Man who Buys 
Me.” 
“ That’s a bit up-hill for me," as the cripple 
on cratches said, when he came to a place where 
the road sloped upward at an angle of forty- 
five. 
It is not difficult to imitate Josh Billings; 
thus: “Doan’t karray aigs in your cotale 
pocket. Aigs ain’t good after they’ve been sot 
on awhile.” 
He was bound to be accurate, and he thus de¬ 
scribed the woman’B costume • “She wore a 
suit of something or other, cut biaB and trim¬ 
med endwise. 
The old maxim, “ be chaste and you’ll be 
happy ” is contradicted point blank by a Black 
Hills man, who was recently chased ten miles by 
a party of rod-skins. 
The horHO-shoe done in llowerB seems to be 
supplanting the time-honored floral bell at wed¬ 
dings. Is this to make horse-sboe-rance doubly 
sure in tying the knot ? 
Lady to door-keeper of the French Assembly 
—“ Here is a franc lor you. Just see that the 
session is entertaining. I will give ten sous 
more if they come to blows !” 
The Worcester Tress man shudders to think 
of the time when a woman’s dress w.ll consist of 
s hred black silk which she will carry in her 
hand, at a distance from and behind her. 
X. is a fine conversationalist. “ Remark,” 
said he, the other day, “what is, on this point, 
my style of thinking.” “ Ah 1” said a bystander, 
“ tell me your thought, but save me from your 
style." 
A countryman at tho baby-show asked : 
“Ladies and gentlemen, why is a—when is a 
flowerist like a wise child ?” “ I think, perhaps,” 
said a timid maiden lady, “ it’s when he goes to 
bed early." 
Now does the foolish man devour the cold 
mince pie before going to bod, and before 
another sun appears is surprised to see green 
turkeys, clothed in yellow blouses, hitched to a 
red omnibus. 
A would-be-suicide wrote these farewell 
words to his wife : “ Hear Mary, when my body 
is dragged out of the river they cun identify it by 
the linen patch you put in the seat of my black 
cloth trowsers.” 
Fibst fond Parisian mother of an actress— 
“ Well, how is your little girl coming along ?” 
Second of ditto of ditto — “Oh, nicely. She 
never stops now before a sLop window where the 
jewelry is paste.” 
Clekical bint:—It is a bad plan to divide a 
-.“ L!!!| ®- l ’p^> r n 1 ** in i ■ w p 
Perfect stock, be st. work, very efficient and durable. 
Nine sizes made, churning from one to 130gallons. 
Warranted to be exactly ns represented. Sold by 
all dealers in It 15Af.IA’ llrsl-elass Farm Tools. 
PORTER BLANCHARD'S SONS. CONCORD, 
N. H., Sole Manufacturers. Send for Circular. 
SANDWICH 
Manufact’g Company, 
Sandwich, DeKalb Co., Ills. 
_,Adniii«’ Patent Sell-Feeding Power Corn 
(shelters (widely known as the Sandwich Shelters), 
of sizes and capacities to suit all wants. 
GREATLY IMPROVED THIS SEASON. 
FARM HORSE POWERS of all sizes and most 
advantageous forms. HAND SHELLEKS of blith¬ 
est grade of excellence In material and manufacture. 
Send for Illustrated Circulars. 
J. P. A DAMS, Secretary. 
OPENING THE CAMPAIGN. 
Generalissimo, (otherwise Mamina.') —Girls! Attention! None of you having gone off—in¬ 
deed, I may even eay none of you having shown any signs of being likely to go off for some time 
to come—I do really think it very unkind and—very un—what do you call it ? Un-daughterly of 
you, and I really do hope that you will—in fact it is really absolutely necessary that you should —do 
something soon ? 
pat. CARBON plow 
Matthews’ Ganleu Seed Drill 
Matthews' Hand Cultivator, 
Matthews’ Drill & Cul- _ j 
tivntor combined, surpass 
all otlierB. Send for Circular (fy.. ■; 
before you buy. 
Manufactured only by —K 
EVERETT & SMALL, 
Boston. Mass. 
THE HARDEST 
KNOWN 
SUBSTANCE 
THAT WILL 
SUOUR 
IN ANY SOIL. 
Scroll Saw. 
The Beat and most Practical of 
Us kind in use. 
Simple^ Chrnpy lji/fht Hun- 
ii ini; «nd / tumble . 
1 With adjustable table for inlay¬ 
ing work.it is especially adapted 
for ludies’ use. 
Every machine fully warrant¬ 
ed. Send stamp for Circulars 
and full particulars. Address 
the manufacturers, 
LEWIS BROS.. 
Seneca Falls, N, V. 
The Carbon Metal Is a practical mixture of refined steel, wrought Iron and other metals, cast in 
Combining great strength, great wear and 
Costs less than steel. War- 
If there are none lor sale In 
REMINGTON AC’L CO., 
form. Harder than steel or any surface-chilled Iron. (-' 
durability. Subject to line polish, and guaranteed to scour In any soil, 
ranted to do good work It. any land, see one ! Try one! Buy one! 
your locality, send for full particulars to 
Mauufricturers ol Agricultural Implements, Illou, N. Y., 
or 37 Reade St., New York. 
N. B. Also manufacturers of the colebraced REMisoi^t” itent Steel Shovels, Scoops, Spades, 
Etc. Also, Right and Left-Hand Steel and Grey Iron Ploi^P'' 
The Rural New-Yorker has accumulated a very large number of desirable Wood Cuts, 
Electrotypes, etc., representing Illustrations that have appeared In this Journal from time to 
time. We have had numberless Inquiries Bom publishers, asking our terms for such cuts as 
were ueslrable to them; but we have never, until the present time, had them arranged in a 
manner that made them easy of access for reference. 
We are now prepared to fill orders for these Cuts, and as we do not care to do more than 
secure a part of Hie first cost of the pictures (having used them once), we shall make the prices 
very low. similar Cuts cannot be bought In New York for less than 20 cents per square Inch, 
and from that price ranging up to 50 cents, according to the quality of the work. 
v\e now offer any Illustration appearing in the Rural New-Yorker, at the following price, 
delivered in New York: 
The most perfect, simple and only elevator that 
raises tho hay from was on and carries it lu barn any 
required distance. Economical, durable, labor-sav¬ 
ing. Send for Illustrated Circulars and prices to 
J. R. FITZUCGH, 
1708 Barker St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Branch Office : 55 Beekman 8t., New York. 
warm weather, and now a second crop of old 
summer clothes has appeared on a good many 
persons in this place. 
Cordial bat equivooal. Mamma — “ Look, 
Cissy, here is the doctor coming. What a fa¬ 
vorite he is ! See, even the little chickens run 
to meet him, ’ Cissy—“ Yes, ma; and the little 
ducks cry * quaok, quack!’ ” 
It is said that at dinner parties in Spain the 
oldest lady present is seated first. When that 
plan was tried in New York many years ago it re¬ 
sulted in the collations given at evening parties 
where everybody stands up. 
Never send a woman to the postoflice with a 
letter. If she doesn’t quarrel with the post¬ 
master because she doesn’t sec it go right into 
the mail bag, she will forget to stamp it, read it, 
or else lose it before she guts to the ofiloe. 
Slavey. “ Missis ses the milk’s more than 
arf water, an’ she 11 have to deal suinwares else 
if ’tain’t no better.” Milkman.—“ Well, my dear, 
you must tell your missis that I’m very sorry. 
TEN CENTS PER SQUARE INCH 
All the leading and most desirable kinds of 
Vegetable, Field, 
AND 
Flower Seeds, 
will be found lu my new price lists. Mailed free 
to all, 
ALFRED BRIDGEMAN, 
Broadway, cor. IStli St., New York. 
All expenses of postage or expressage must be borne by the purchaser. 
1 his rate Is so low that we cannot undertake to furnish proofs of Cuts, or do anything that 
will cause extra expenditure of time, labor and postage on our part. Intending purchasers should 
Indicate the Cuts and date of papers In which they appearod. On receipt of this Information and 
the cost of the Cuts (where the parties are not known), we will immediately fill order. 
Address orders * 
RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
78 Duane St.. New York. 
We continue to manufacture Steam Boilers and 
Engine- nnd alt kinds of Cheese und Butter-mak¬ 
ing Apparatus, combining the latest improvements. 
Send for Illustrated Circular and Price List. 
CHARLES MILLAR & SON, Utica, N. Y 
OUR TERMS ARE THE BEST. 
Send for our New Reduced Brice List. 
THU GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY. 
P. O. Box fititi. 31 and 33 Vesey St., New York. 
NEW DEPARTURE 
t a /TH This is a combination of 
' Q 1 L 1 /a capitalists to supply con- 
■ ■ i Hunters mil j throughout 
■“ the (TmtrM States with 
PURE TEAS on the 
mutual principle, by getting up clubs, bend for 
New Price-List. 
tlONSnSERS’ IMPORTING TEA CO., 
P.O. Box 5509. No. 8 Church St.., New York City. 
At the solicitation of many of our friends, we 
this season publish our Untiilogue ot Voge- 
iiible, Aui-iculiurnl, Flower and Tree 
{•cede, together with itll llio Novelties o. 
• lie rseanon, under one Cover, free lo all on 
application by mail. 
6}K Cards, 25 styles, 10c., or 20 Chroinu (>r<ls, 20c„ 
with name. J. B. BUSTED, Nassau. nI Y. 
6 ^ FASHIONABLE CAROS, no 2 alike, with name, I0c„ 
U*J post-paid. GEO. I. REEL A CO.. Nassau, N.V. 
Kfl Best Mixed Cards, with name, in case, 13c„ or 25 
O' ' no2alike luc. Outfit Hie. Dowd A Co., Bristol,Ct 
and Revolvers, illustrated Price List free 
Cheat, Western Own Works, Pittsburg, Pa 
(HTT?Ti 1 FT)Ti'T)C1 from nervous debitity 
|S 11 H H H, n H. K |\ etc., can learn of a certain and 
kitj x x xjxlxjxlm speedy remedy, Jrr.e. Address 
Dll. JAQUKS & CO., 130 W. lith St., Cincinnati, Ohio, 
IIUER PRE8HEH. AND GRATERS. 
Boomkk A BosonitUT Pukss Co., Syracuse, N.Y 
