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VEGETABLE AND. FLOWER SEEDS 
FLOWER AND FRUIT PLANTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
BROTHER GARDNER’S LIME-KILN CLUB 
“ Gkn’lem. if you see a pusson rushiif ’roun’ 
de world enveloped in a dirnund pin an' an 
ulster, am dal any sign dal he pays taxes, rents 
a church pew an* brings his chil’en up in de 
way dey should go ?” 
Brother Gardner looked down upon the sixty- 
four faces in the orchestra chairs, but not a 
voice responded. 
•• When you see a pusson seated in a sky-blue 
cutter, purthin’ de lines over a fast boss an’ 
lookin' outer his left eye as if he had de bulge 
on all de eo'ner lots in town, am dat any sign 
dat a single grocer would trus’ him for a box 
of sa'dinos nr a peek of carrots ?" 
The elder Toots heaved a deep sigh; and 
Huckleberry Jones silently scratched his off Leg 
just below the knee. 
“ When a inau takes up fo’ seats in de kyar. 
pushes folks juroun' on de market, elbows 
aroun’ de city hall, an’ gits de fust place at de 
stamp-window in de post office, am dat any 
sign dat when it came to do pull he’d give half- 
a-dollar’s worth of wood ter keep an orfun 
asylum from freeziu’ to death? Doan’ yon 
black folks git dust in ycr eyes! Dar’s u heap 
of sand an’ sawdust in dis woruld dat passes 
for sugar to de man walkin’ by, but when you 
come to du pinch de sugar aint dar. De saw¬ 
dust bulges up an’ de sand creeps out, an’ you 
am dis’pitiled an’ disgusted, it's kinder hard 
to have to eat cold turnip when you know dat 
de family next door am luxuriatin’ on sweet- 
cake an’ turkey, but if de turnip am paid for 
yer needn’t fear for ycr digestion. I oxpeek 
dat de h’araftcr am de biggest fing enny of us 
hev got to work fur, an’ 1 tole you, brudders, 
dat big seal-rings an - pants cut twenty-two 
inches across de bull are nowlmr’ longside of a 
kin’ word an’ an honest heart .”—Detroit Free 
Press. 
Veteran Corn Shell sr 
FOR HAND OR POWER. 
Just the Thing for Mill, Farm or Plan¬ 
tation. 
Power and Hand Corn .Shelters of all sizes 
and to suit all wants. 
HORSE t»OWreR,S, JACKS, <fco. 
Write for Descriptive Circulars and prices. Ad¬ 
dress SANDWICH MANUF’G to.. 
Sandwich, Illinois. 
Mill Manufactory 
EatablLUed 1851. 
Orlat axilla 
OF 
FRENCH Bl'HR STONE 
Fottabla Mill* tor Farmer., 
Raw Mill OsD«ra, «to. Price 
from £80 up. Cumpltto Mill 
and HUoller *1*6. A bo j can 
(rind sod keep In order. 
Adopted to ai:y kiwi of aulta- 
bie poser. Complete Flouring 
snd Corn Milt rerr cheap. 
HOSmS & kASMOM CO. 
Indianapolis. Ind. 
»$3 Presses”!:!,,. 
*ic. <S*1f-ink«r$ j) t> Larger air 
For busluoia, jileu-tire, young or o 
CtttMujfUO ol IVeses, Tyjie, Kt . 
for 1 lainf*. KELSEY .fe Co 
“ Meriden. Cor 
His Own 
Printer 
mri A AHEAD ALL THE TIME. 
* ■ * IJ Im The very best tresh floods 
H ’ J Fb direct rroin the importers 
a ut hair the usual cost. Best 
plan to Club Agents and 
large buyers. All express charges paid. Quality 
guaranteed. New terms free. 
TBS GREAT AMERICAN TEA CO. 
P. O Box 4235 tl and '« Ve«e, at., w. V 
Every Man His Own Miller. 
.agjgBMgifr The only Mil) that will 
^ - grind Corn with Shuck on 
—-without extra expense. The 
only Mill grinding Com and 
Cob successfully that will 
vrtrui fl U I'Hn^ 0o r n tine 
J. .. Grind* twice as fast, as any 
|s o t h er Mill Ol same site and 
i*Si f* _^pti,priee. Manufactured by 
• a. field, son a co. 
922 N. 2d St., St. Louis. 
fTIDKK FRESHES AND GRATERS. 
»nnui» t, Ro«' «rt Ps«Rd f’o. KrrRPtiaw N.V 
1832] MERIDEN CUTLERY COMPANY [1879 
aruiniN ouTt.aat 
cosri.r 
MA NUFAUTUIt F, It S o/ the FINEST l'ABEK CUTLERY In the WORLD. Their CIELI.U- 
1,011) HANDLE is superior to IVORY, unit especially suitable tor HOLIDAY GIFTS. Warranted 
and sold by all. dealers , and by MERIDEN CUTLERY’ CO , 49 Chambers Street, New York. 
THE **•«- 
X * LLXJ serves 
Perfect M illtPaiJjP^ JSp 
~~ 4^,' the'n'imosphere 
of theBtable.which 
f ablinalo^ors. A 
j| ji cannot^) os lopp e d 
r Ww -•' niilk'"hi strained 
before entering it. 
If your desire purer, more wholesome and fragrant 
milk, cream and butter than ever before, send 12.00 
fora pail, or get circulars and induce the storekeeper 
to order a dozen. Address 
DAIRY’ SUPPLY CO., 
P. O. Box 416. 13 Murray St., New York. 
Somebody writes to a rural paper to ask 
“ how long cows should be milked.” Why, 
the same as short cows, to be sure. 
What is the difference between the weather 
and the baby? One never rains but it pours, 
and the other never pains but it roars. 
A western editor. In response to a subscriber 
who grumbles that his paper is intolerably 
damp, says it is “ because there is so much due 
on it." 
Cincinnati calls herself the Boston of the 
West. Onr sympathies are solemnly tendered 
the Eastern Boston in this her hour of gloom.— 
Ia)u is mile Co uriCr-Jo urnal. 
Edison’s phonograph can whistle, sing, howl 
and jaw, hut it can’t throw a stone at a yowling 
cat on the back fence, or kick a ehromo off the 
front stoop. There are still lots of room for 
improvement. 
“Jane, what letter in the alphabet do you 
like best ?” “ Well, I don’t like to say, Mr. 
Suobbs.” *' Pooh, nonsense! tell right out. 
Jane—which do you like best?” “Well,’’ 
dropping her eyes, “ I like ‘ U’ best." 
A MLLLONAIHB, who was lookiug at a level 
tract of land which he had just bought at an 
extravagant price, said to the agent who had 
sold it to him, “ 1 do admire a rich green Hat.’’ 
“ So do I,” significantly replied the agent. 
A LITTLE six-year-old. upon finding a lone 
and solitary slick of candy in his stocking on 
Christmas morning, mournfnlly exclaimed. 
“Gracious! if I had been born twins. I’d only 
got half this much!”— A T orristou!n Her old. 
Yesterday an Eighteenth Ward young man 
asked his landlady what kind of a bed the new 
one in his room was. “A spring bed," sbe re¬ 
plied. The youth felt the crop of December 
wheat under his chin as he said. “ Weil, 1 
wish you would put more clothing on that bed 
and make it a winter iustead of a spring one.” 
New York Star. 
Agricultural Chemicals 
and all Fertilizing Materials 
adapted to Home-made Ma¬ 
nures, Composts and 
Formulas. 
Report June 1st, 1878, Bulletin No. 14, Connecticut 
Agricultural Experiment Stntlou, Prof. 8. W. 
Johnson. Director, on *• Muriate ol Potash (80 
per cent.) guaranteed 50 per cent, actual potash, 
sampled in Conn., and sold by the Mnpes Formula 
and Peruvian Gnnuo Co. of Now York. 
•' Amount potnwn claimed.50 per cent. 
iuund...,.00.17 ** 
Calculated value..*17.74 
Cost to consumer .*3800 
“ lit this article, potash cost 3.0 cents per pound.” 
MURIATE et POTA 4U (80 per cent.), price 
per ton, packed in bugs, delivered on boat or cars at 
New Yoi k, |85. 
We keep In stock all grades of Genuine Peru¬ 
vian Guano, Sulphate ol Ammonia, Nitrate 
ol Soda, Dlwaolved Roue, Fine Raw Bone, 
and all Muteriule lor preparing Home¬ 
made Fertilizers for Experiments, etc. 
Address THE MAKES FORMULA AND 
PERUVIAN GUANO CO.. 
138 Front Si,, New York. 
Send for new Pamphlet , issued about February 1st. 
Manufactured by the LOSING & BLAKE ORGAN CO_ 
of Woroeater, Mass., and Toledo, O. 
The only organ made in which is successfully com¬ 
bined the following essential qualities of tone: power, 
depth, brilliancy, and sympathetic delicacy. 
The most exquisitely beautiful solo effects ever pro¬ 
duced. 
The only Btop-actlon ever Invented that can not be 
disarranged by use. 
The only organ made with bellows capacity so great 
that it requires but little effort with the feet to supply 
all the air desired. 
The best matte and most elegant cases in market. 
Noshoddyoraamentsnsed —nothing hut solid wood. 
Every t try an fully warranted for floe years. ' 
Write to us for Illustrated Catalogue and Price List, 
wbieh will be mailed postpaid on application. Addresa 
LORINC& BLAKE ORCAN CO. 
Worcester, Mass., or Toledo, 0, 
UT EL EPH °NES 
1 HForBn«lDeuUaei.ll Wmm W 
Special Offer 
Keystone W ringer 
m „ Hum Greater Capacity, 
Jy NF L More Durable, ana 
p • -i.'i'' Tff - -^Sj| In better finished 
£ ’ f * 1 J ' Bf Th.n any other wrlnptr now mud*. 
THK UOLL8 
'v k'lit-—iK'i-sa Are made of While Rub- 
r Kfi her clear to the shaft. No 
j i J 1 IM -a twiue or wire or fibrous ma- 
M k _ • y'llMjfH teriul, or anything else but 
-—iyp rubber being used. Tberub- 
bor is valcantied upon the 
_ij.ii shajl and cannot b> taken off 
LF except by cuttina it off. They 
are more elastic than other rolls because there is 
nothing but rubber on the shaft, and more durable 
because there is no twine or Qbrous material to rot 
out or wire to cut the rubber. They are grcutlj 
superior to any other klud Oi roll now known. 
ASK YOUR DEALER for the KEYSTONE WRINGER 
PAINT YOUR HOUSES 
WITH THE 
Rubber Paint. 
Send for Sample Curd and Circular to 
THK ItUBBER PAINT COMPANY, 
New York, Cleveland, Chicago or St, Louis. 
WK SELL. EVERYTHING FOR THE 
Priced IllustrAicd Caiaiogue* Free on application. 
PETER HENDERSON&C0 
35 COBTIANDT ST.. NEW YORK. 
IVORL0 
Vrouirbt Iren Frme, Vreneht CoopHsga, WrongW Steel 
Shovel Elect), and ALL the late Improvements. 
Wood or I rnn Dram Plow*, mid Doiiblt Toii.’U, or Sinflr Tongue 
will, tlound., ran L. nit-J on Ilia twine frnme,being luuu.hwnge.'ible. 
Tlu-y Jo PERFECT WORE, draw lightly, and are easllv 
liandled, Wu mUo luakir a Coiubtuod Hiding or Walking Cul¬ 
tivator. 
Sand forPaitlphlat (tent frea), glrlnr full dawrlptloo of our Whaal 
Cnltivatora, Sulky Kukri, PIpw», Sulky and Hunt Plow., Harrow!, 
etc. i alio containing valuable Table*. Rodpat, Portal Law,, Rata* 
St Farclgn puetngu, Home Pbveli'tan, a to. ,t 
jrURST «t BRADLEY MFG. OO.,' 
kb N. DaeaUnn Strael, Cbkago. 
nriTl A ^>4 This Is a combination of 
/% capitalists to supply con- 
B ■ J /-m sumers only throughout 
the United States with 
PURE TEAS on the 
mutual principle, by getting up clubs. Bend for 
New Price-List. 
Regulates the quantity by making tlie feeders 
revolve raster or slower by merely moving a 
lever. No moving of feeders, changing of gears, or 
stopping theteam, and accurate toaptiit. The Drill 1ms 
the Uuublu-Forco-Feod. Force Feed Grass- 
Seeder, Patent Rear Hoe Sifter, Surveyor, 
Mini the only ported Fertilizer and Spring Hoe. 
For Catalogues, Prices, Centennial Reports, Ac, ad¬ 
dress, tituling where this notice v, ns seen. 
CONSUMERS’ IMPORTING TEA CO., 
P.O. Box 4286. No. 8 Church 8t., New York City, 
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