r rake the ** boat,* 1 and moat manufacturers rlo so, no matter how poor the rake. The place to show who 
Lomu* Kake does not require one-fourth as much repairs as others, that it works easier, takes up the 
jvo thea® things to be true on trial in the.field, with any other rake made. If these tinners are true, the 
true, no farmer should buy them. The largeness of our sales show our claims to be true. It Is sold by re. 
THE 
QUEEN 
BRIC-A-BRAC. 
ONLY A PIN. 
Only a pin; yet it calmly lay 
On the tufted floor in the light of day; 
And it shone serenely fair and bright, 
Beflecting hock the noonday light. 
Only ft boy; yet he saw that pin. 
And his face assumed a fiendish grin; 
He stooged for a while, witba look intent, 
Till he and the pin alike wore bent. 
Only a chair; but upon its seat 
A well-bent pin found safe retreat; 
Nor had the keenest eye'discerned 
That heavenward its point was turned. 
Only a mau; but he chanced to drop 
Upon that chair, when. Axa-bang-pop ! 
Ho leaped like a cork from out a bottle, 
And opened wide his valve do throttle, 
Only a yell, though an honest one, 
It lacked the element of fun. 
And boy and man, and pin and chair, 
In wild confusion mingled there. 
[ Pornm of Places. 
.IOSTT BTLLINOSISMS. 
Ip a young man hat n’t got a well-balanced head 
like to see him part hlz hair In the middle. 
I don’t take any foolish chances. Tf I wuz called 
upon to mourn over a dead mule I should stand in 
front ov him and do ml weeping. 
There Is no man so poor but that he lean afford 
to keep one dog, and I havo seen them so poor that 
they could afford to keep three. 
I say to 2-thirds of the rich people In this world 
to make the most of your money, lor It makes the 
most of you. Happy thought. 
I never argy aglu a success when t seo a ratt.le- 
snalx’s head sticking out of a whole ; 1 bear off to 
the left and say to mlself that hole belongs to that 
snalx.' 
I thank the Lord that there Is one thing in this 
world that money kant. buy, and that lz the wag 
ov a dog’s tall. 
I nottss one thing, the man who rides on the kars 
every day is satisfied with one seat, but he who 
rides once a year wants four. 
Flattery Is like colone water; to be smelled of, 
not swallowed. 
The man whom you kant git. to write poetry or 
tell the truth uutll you get him half drunk, ain’t 
worth the investment. 
Ip' a musket ball be fired Into the water It will 
not only rebound but be flattened; If fired through 
a pane of glass It will make a hole the size of the 
ball without eracking the glass; If suspended by 
a thread It will make no difference, and the thread 
will not even vibrate. Cork, if sunk 200 feet in the 
ocean, will not rise on account or tbe pressure of 
water. In the Arctic regions, when the ther¬ 
mometer Is below zero, persons can converse more 
than a mile distant. Dr. Jamison asserts that he 
heard every word of a sermon at the distance of 
two miles. 
Boots of great men all remind us. 
We can make our souls sublime; 
And, departing, leave behind us 
Footprints that are seven by nine.— Tennyson. 
Verily there Is nothing In tills life wholly good 
or wholly bad .—Boston Transcript. Ain’t, eh? 
You forget the egg.—Count Joannes. 
The Students of Eastman’s Business College 
are the recipients of many valuable favors 
through the generosity of the management. 
Among these are courses of lectures. The follow¬ 
ing extract Is from “ crises In Life, 7 ’ a lecture de¬ 
livered by Rev. Wm. Lloyd, before the College 
In every human life critical periods occur, and 
it is an exceedingly easy tiling to mistake or even 
miss them when they come. According as the 
choice Is made at. such times, life becomes Invested 
with happiness or mantled In misery. Much of 
future character and destiny Is wrapped In decis¬ 
ions then made. 
The first crisis Is the choice of a business or a 
profession. Sometimes It. seems to be perfectly 
easy to decide the question, what shall be the 
business or the profession In which a man shall 
engage. 
Especially this ts the case where a young man’s 
father and perhaps his grandfather have been en¬ 
gaged In a given line of business or In a certain 
profession. An old bachelor being asked why he 
was a bachelor, answered that ho did not know 
•unless ll was because his father was a bachelor. 
The school-boy, Prince Victor Napoleon, reca¬ 
pitulates the history of Ills ancestors: 
Number 1, died at St. Helena, a prisoner of the 
English. 
Number 2, died on foreign soli. 
Number 3, died in exile. 
Number l, died In exile, and ln;the service of Eng¬ 
land, the Jailer of Number l. 
“ And they propose,” murmurs the school-boy, 
sadly, “ that 1 shall continue the figures in this 
fatal series7 Thanks! I would a hundred times 
rather stay here In the school of Charlemagne, 
unt il I am seventy years old, than be their Num¬ 
ber 5!” 
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THE “ THOMAS ” RAKE. 
THERE WERE MORE THOMAS RAKES SOLD DURING TnE SEASON OF 1879 TO FARMERS ta 
THE UNITED STATES, THAN OF ANY OTHER RAKE. 
It is an easy matter to call an 
the field. We claim that, the T 
agents are always Toady to nr 
should have. If they are NOT true, no fa 
If there is no agent in your town, send 1 
t A rake is the best is on trial in 
\V iu better condition, and our 
Ihomas” is what every farmer 
ble agents everywhere. 
in. senn. lur ilu stra t ed circular to 
J. H. THOMAS & SONS, Manufacturers, 
Springfield., 
Oliio. 
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ESTABLISHED 1830. 
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MANY THOUSAND DEXTER VEHICLES NOW IN USE. 
1,000,000 FARMERS WANTED 
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Ts admitted to have more good points than any other vehicle in use. The use of 
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» f 1 7/ X> / i l T fT* V T .I, r i + Y 
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