JAN as 
♦ 
A GOOD LEGEND. 
Just tack this legend on your door 
For those who’re going through It; 
“ Please take this door along with you— 
As far as you can do It .”—Tid-Bits. 
An “old stamping ground”—the post-office. 
—New Age. 
A lady of high standing — Bartholdi’s 
Statue of Liberty. — New Age. 
They raise vegetable tallow in Australia. 
There’s the place to laugh and grow fat.— Tex¬ 
as Siftings. 
“O Maud, what do you think? My canary 
oird has laid a egg!” “That ain’t nothin’ 
much; my pa laid two stair carpets yester¬ 
day !’'— Life. 
Lady (to drug clerk): “A two cent stamp, 
please.” Clerk (absent-minded): “Yes, madam. 
Will you take it with you or have it sent?”— 
Harper's Bazar. 
In the Alps.—Guide: “If the ladies will 
only stop talking, your honor may hear the 
roaring of the waterfall across the valley.”— 
Fliegende Blaetter. 
“A sea-green glass vase, nine incheshigh, 
supposed to be 1,300 years old, has been found 
in Bologna.” That settles it. We shall eat 
no more Bologna.— Norristown Herald. 
“Paradise Lost,” says a recent writer, 
“was sold for a song.” The man who bought 
it for a song must have considered himself 
badly sold when he tried to sing it.— Life. 
German Professor (to young American): 
“You don’t musht make yourself drouble to 
speak Cherman by me; when you shpeak 
English I know your meannes ferry veil.”— 
Vermont Tribune. 
Drawing room Car. —First Porter, in a 
hurry: “Another washout!” Second Porter, 
excitedly: “Where, where?” First Porter, 
as he disappears through the next car: “On 
the clothes line!”— Boston Globe. 
The two-and-a-half-year-old was watching 
the fog effect the cold had on his young breath, 
and tickled with it he was breathing his lungs 
out. “What are you doing that for?” said his 
mother. “I’m blowin’ the dust out of me.”— 
Babyhood. 
A visitor to Ireland was bidding farewell, 
and said to an attendant: “Good-by, Pat.” 
“Good-by, yer honor. May God bless you, 
and may every hair in your head be a candle 
to light your soul to glory.” “Well, Pat,” 
he said, showing him a bald pate, “when that 
time comes there won’t be much of a torch¬ 
light procession.”— Farm and Fireside. 
Intimate Friend: “Have you been enjoy¬ 
ing your honeymoon at Old Point Comfort?” 
Heiress (lately married): “Yes, we’ve been 
there; but, do you know, I overheard Tom 
tell a friend of his it was ‘harvest-moon’ with 
him instead of ‘honey-moon.’” “What do 
you suppose he meant? Funny, wasn’t it?” 
Friend (knowingly): “Oh, yes, very—for 
Tom.”— Life. 
Young Tommy has an incredible facility 
for gathering upon his clothing all the dirt 
within a great radius, and the care of his 
clothing is a matter of terror to all his house¬ 
hold. The other day Tommy happened to re¬ 
fer in a moment of agreeable fancy to the 
time when he should be singing in heaven 
dressed in his robes of white. “So you think 
you will go to heaven and wear a white robe, 
Tommy?” asked his sister, somewhat older. 
“Why, of course, Marian.” “Well, all that 
I can say is, won’t the angels that do the 
washing make a fuss when you get there!”— 
Boston Transcript. 
any of our readers are so 
unfortunate as to suffer from 
Dyspepsia, they should read a 
Treatise on this disease, writ- 
en by 
JOHN H. Me ALVIN, of Lowell, Mass., 
fourteen years City Treasurer. 
It embodies the expeiience of an actual sufferer, 
and gives the result ot a conscientious study of the 
disease. He will send it free to any address. 
GOOD NEWS 
TO L ADIES- 
"Greatest o'Ser^Row^fOU^ime 
to get orders for our celebrated 
Tea*, Coffees and Baking 
Powder, and secure a beautiful 
Gold Band or Moss Rose- China 
_ Tea Set, Dinner Set, Gold Band 
Moss Rose Toilet Set, Watch, Brass Lamp, Castor, or 
Webster’s Dictionary. For particulars address 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA. CO., 
P. O. Box 289. 31 and 33 Vesey SL, New York. 
Prairie State Incubator. 
Rel able, Sucrea-ful, Guar¬ 
anteed. First Prem. St.Louis 
Fair, Oct., 1886; First Prem. 
St. Louis PoultrySho w.Dec , 
’86; lirst Prem. Piedmont; 
Fx., Atlanta, Ga., Oct., ’87. 
First and 2d Prem.Ainerican 
P. Show, Chicago, Nov., ’87; 
First Prem. Titusville, Pa., 
Dec., ’87; First Prem. New 
Bethlehem, Pa , Dec., '87. 
Send stamp for circular. 
S. W. Guthkie, Sec. & Treas. 
Homer City, Pa, 
“Oh, Maria!” 
Every Gardener and Far¬ 
mer should have it. 
New Bay State Tomato, 
Another of our Novelties for 1888. 
A GREAT BOON for MARKET GARDENERS. TRUCK¬ 
ERS and FARMERS. A New Tomato after 15 years’ selection and 
breeding from the old Trophy. A Tomato that never has been excelled 
for flavor, solidity and quality. The Bay State is free from ribs, perfect 
in form, very little pulp, meaty all through, vines hardy but not 
coarse. See catalogue for full description. 
Offered in Packets only. Price postpaid, 20c. 3 packets, 50c. 
CATALOGUE READY JAN. 1st. 
INSTRUCTIVE, STRIKING AND BEAUTIFUL. 
B. L. Bragg & Co., Springfield, Mass. 
IMPORTANT TO NURSERYMEN AND DEALERS. 
The Finest Stock ol APPLE, Extra Size and First Class STANDARD PEAR, DWARF 
PEAR PLUM and PEACH TREES ever offered to the trade 
Also a full line of GENERAL NURSERY STOCK. Write for particulars, stating quantity, size 
varieties, etc., wanted. 
SMITHS, POWELL «fc LAMB, Syracuse, N. Y. 
NEW AND RARE TREES, Mill? XT 15 8, ROSES, 
AND SMALL FRUIT PLANTS AT LOW PRICES. „ , 
8TR AWB E3RRIE5S A S- d „T,5. er 
Catalogue , re e. KW EDITION “ N. Y. 
THE COOLEY CREAMERS 
AND PRODUCTS 
HAVE BEEN AWARDED 
SEVEN GOLD MEDALS 
AND 
EIGHTEEN SILVER MEDALS, 
At the ]\ew York Fair, May, 1887. 
$795 WAS AWARDED 
BUTTER MADE BY THE COOLEY PROCESS, 
IT BEING 
13 OUT OF 21 PREMIUMS. 
ALSO 
At the New England Fair, Worcester, Mass., Sept., ’87. 
1st Premium on Creamery Butter. 1st Premium on Dairy Butter. 
At the Maine State Fair, Sept., ’87. 
1st Premium on Creamery Butter. 1st and 3d Premiums on Dairy Butte 
At the Rhode Island State Fair, Sept., ’87. 
1st and 2d Premium on Creamery Butter. 
At State Grange Fair, New Hampshire, Sept., ’87. 
1st Premium on Creamery Butter. 1st, 2d and 3d Premiums on Dairy Butter. 
At St. Johnsbury Fair, Vermont, Sept., ’87. 
Largest Exhibit of Butter in Vermont. Three 1st Premiums out of a possible five and five Special Pre¬ 
miums out of a possible six. 
At Fat Stock Show, Chicago, Nov., ’87. 
Twelve 1st Premiums and Sweepstakes. 
At the World’s Exposition, New Orleans, ’85. 
All the Premiums on LONG-KEEPING Dairy Butter. 
At International Dairy Fair, New York, '78. 
THE HIGGINS SWEEPSTAKES OF $250.00. THE ASHTONS SWEEPSTAKES OF $125.00. 
We Might Give Hundreds of Others of like tenor if Space Permitted. 
THE COOLEY CREAMER LEADS THE VAN IN 1887, 
As it has for Ten Years, 
The DAVIS SWING CHURN, 
AWARDED 
SEVEN SILVER MEDALS! 
AT THE LEADING AGRICULTURAL FAIRS. 
WOBKS EASIEST, GREATEST CONCUSSION. MAKES MOST BUTTER, MAKES 
BEST BUTTER. 
_ Print Butter Presses and Carriers, Butter Workers , &e. 
Vermont Farm Machine Co., Bellows Falls, Vt. 
OYER’S B5B £S!SX MILL 
Established 1852. 
Warranted CAST STEEL GRINDING PARTS, CAST STEEL 
COB CRUSHER, and Sieve for Meal. 
REQUIRES LESS POWER. DOES MORE WORK, 
and is the MOST DURABLE Mill made. Is sold as low as ordinary 
Cast Iron Mills. (IST'Send for catalogue for full information. 
W. L. BOYER & BRO., Sixth & Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Also manufacturers ol L©v©l Tread Horse Powers, Threshers, Feed Cutters, fa. 
PLANET JR. CARDEN - 
Eacil one of these 
PJPULAR tools 
has been either 
REMODELED 
ir IMP ROVED. 
They are more com¬ 
plete, simple, prac¬ 
tical and strong! 
than you can imag¬ 
ine; so look them 
over carefully. 
NEW STYLES. NEW 
drills 
HORSE HOES- 
FIRE FLY. 
Those who saw them 
at the test trial in 
actual work say they 
Are THE BEST 
yet. You will find 
them so. Our ’88 
Catalogue, with 
4 O Wood c iits.wnl 
give you a fair idea 
of the new points 
8and better money 
,, - — -values we now offer. 
Jrs., 127-129 Catfiarine £ t.. Philadelphia, Pa. 
RUSTLESS 
IRON WATER PIPE 
ISLAND HOME STOCK FARM. 
Savage & Farnum,Impor¬ 
ters and Breeders of Per- 
cheron and French Coach 
Horses, IslandH omeStock 
Farm, Grosse Isle,Wayne 
County, Mich. We offer a 
very large stud of horses 
to select from,weguaran- 
tee our stock,make prices 
reasonable, and sell on 
easy terms, Visitors al¬ 
ways welcome. Large 
catalogue free. Address 
Savage »fc Farnum, 
Detroit, Mich. 
Percheron Horses. 
French Coach Horses. 
DEDERICK’S HAY PRESSES. 
te e fjf the customer 
' /FK keeping the one 
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* 
end for catalogue. THE WELLS RUSTLESS IRON C 
Braman, Dow «fc Co„ Boston Ag’ts lor New England. 7 and 0 CIi 
treet, New York. 
Order on trial, address for circular and location of 
Western and Southern Storehouses and Agents. 
P. K. DEDERICK &. CO., Albany, N. Y. 
RICHMOND City 
MILL WOBKS 
| RICHMOND, IND. 
Manufacturers of 
FLOURING MILLl 
MACHINERY 
and the best FRENCH HI Hit 
CormFeed Mills 
In thecountry. Sendfoi 
description and prices. 
CHALLENGE 
W IND MILLS never blow 
down, a record no other ‘ 
jmill can show. Sent on 30 1 
days’ trial. Also feed grind- J 
ers, shelters, pumps, etc. J 
Agents wanted. Catalogues l 
free. Challenge Wind 1 
Mill and Feed Mill Co., l 
Batavia, Kane Co., Ill. 
O JJJhJJhhrlrlHHHHr-Hr-r'r'rJr J rS! 
1-WILLIAMS 
Grain Threshers, Horse Powers, and Engines. 
Highest prize awarded these machines at the New 
York State Ag. Soc.’s latest trial, over a large num¬ 
ber competing. -Ample warranty and opportunity 
for trial given. For full particulars address 
ST. JOHNSVILLE AGR’L works, 
St. JoUnsrillc, Montgo mery Co., Now York, 
WELL DRILLING 
Machinery for Wells of any depth, from 20 to 3,000 feet, 
for Water, Oil or Gas. Our Mounted Steam Drilling and 
Portable Horse Power Machines set to work in 20 minutes. 
Guaranteed to drill faster and with lesspower than any 
other. Specially adapted to drilling Weils in earth or 
rock 20 to 1,000 feet. Farmers and others are making $85 
to $40 per day with our machinery and tools. Spier 
• Winter or Summer. We 
. Splendid 
business for Winter or Summer. We are the oldest and 
largest Manufacturers in the business. Send 4 cents In 
Stamps for illustrated Catalogue D. Address, ^ 
Pierce Well Excavator Co.. New York. 
If you intend to buy a 
hay car (of which we make 
three (3) styles) a grappling 
Fork or a Sulky Plow. 
Send for-prices, etc., to 
Fowler i Farrington, 
Taugkannock Falls, N.Y, 
PURINTON’S IMPROVED FARM BOILER. 
BEST ARTICLE MADE FOB 
Cooking Feed and Wanning 
Water for Stock. 
Needed on every Farm or any place 
where 
Cooking , Boiling , or Steaming 
Is needed to be done with Economy 
and Dispatch. 
Made of BOILER PLATE STEEL. 
Costs but little. Send for stamp for 
pamphlet, “Facts for Farmers.” 
J. K. Purinton, Dallas Center, Ia. 
New Monitor Incubator. 
Self-regulating. Williams’ Im¬ 
proved Hydro Incubator Sim¬ 
ile, Low Price. Reliable. Also 
irooders. Free Circulars. 
Albert F. Williams, 
Bristol, Ct. Factory near Depot. 
