THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Books About Plants. 
Every reader of this paper knows or ought to know 
Gray’s and Wood's Botanies, so we only quote prices and 
conditions. 
Or ay'8 How Plants Grow .— 
Interesting and useful for home 
study. Price SOcents. Sent for 
five trials at 25 cents. 
Gray's Lessons in Botany .— 
Giving plain and easy directions 
for the study of plants. Price, 
95 cents Given for one new sub¬ 
scription at $2 or seven trials 
at 25 cents. 
Gray's Manual of Botany .— 
The scientific classification and 
description of plants. Price, 
SI.62 Given for one new subscrip¬ 
tion at $2 and two trials at 25 
cents. 
Gray's Lessons and Manual 
in one volume. Price, $2.16. Given for two new subscrip¬ 
ts*^ at $2. 
Wood's American Botanist and Florist.— Remarkably 
well adapted to private study. Price, $1.75. Given for 
two new subscriptions at $2. 
Some of the “Best” Home Books. 
We have selected the following as some of the best home 
books out of hundreds. These are all cloth bound, well- 
printed standard books. Sent post-paid. 
Eve's Daughters , or Common Sense for Maid, Wife 
and Mother. —Price, $1.50. Given for one hew subscription 
at $2. 
Common Sense in the Household. —A manual of Prac 
tical Housewifery. By Marion Harland. Price, $1.75. 
Given for one new subscription at $2. 
The Booh of Forty Puddings. —Price, 50 cents. Given 
for three trials at 25 cents. 
Mrs. Gilpin's Frugalities. —Remnants and 200 ways of 
using them. Price, $1. Given for one new subscription 
at $2 ; or for five trials at 25 cents. 
Common Sense in the Nursery. —Same terms as the pre¬ 
ceding. 
Ire Cream and Cakes. —A new collection of standard 
fresh and original recipes for household and commercial 
use. Price, $1.50. Given for one new subscription at $2. 
The Witchery of Archery. —A complete manual. Same 
terms as the preceding. 
Practical Sanitary and Economic Cooking: Adapted 
to persons of moderate and small means. By Mrs. Mary 
Hinman Abel. Endorsed by leading physicians, and pub¬ 
lished by the American Public Health Association. Price, 
40 cents. Given for three trials at 25 cents. 
Ben Uur: A Tale of The Christ— By Gen. Lew Wal¬ 
lace. Price $1 50. Given for one new subscription at $2. 
Macaulay's History of England. Complete in one vol¬ 
ume; 982 pages. Price, $1.25. Given for one new subscrip¬ 
tion at $2 
Housekeeping Made Easy.— By Christine Terhune 
Herrick ; 3 4 pages, $1.00. Given for one new subscription 
at $2. 
The New Handv Binder. 
Given for One New Subscription at $>. 
We want every Rural 
reader to have one or 
more of these “handy 
binders,” and for this 
reason have put the 
nrice practically at cost. 
Doubtless the reader 
knows how easily papers 
are lost unless they are 
kept together in consec¬ 
utive order. The New 
Handy Binder for The 
Rural, is neatly and 
strongly made, covered 
with black cloth, lettered 
on one side with the 
name of the paper. Price, 
post-paid, 75 cents; or 
given for one new sub¬ 
scription at $2. Size for 
The American Garden, 
50 cents, post-paid ; or 
given for four trial sub¬ 
scriptions at 25 cents 
each. 
How to be Your Own Lawyer. 
A $1.50 Law Book for One New Subscription. 
Every one now and then needs to learn something about 
law, and he may as well get it from this 500-page book as 
to pay a lawyer $2 to $3 for the information. It is adapted 
to all parts of the 1 uited States. Concise directions are 
given and forms furnished for the transaction of all kinds 
of business, and the preparation of legal documents in com¬ 
mon use, such as Agreements 
Bonds, Deeds, Leases, Notes! 
Mortgages, Wills, etc. Ittreats 
of over 70 different subjects, a 
few only of which we have 
space to name below: Argu¬ 
ments, Assignments, Auctions, 
Bankruptcy, Bills of Sale, Cat¬ 
tle and Dog Laws, Collection 
of Debts, Contracts, Deeds, 
Divorce, Dower, Executors, 
Farmers, Fences, Guardian 
and Ward, Highways, Hotels 
and Boarding-Houses, Hus¬ 
band aud Wife, Interest, Land¬ 
lord and Tenant, Leases, Let¬ 
ter-Writing, Libel, Slander, 
Lien Laws, Marriage, Mining 
Laws. Mortgages. Naturaliza¬ 
tion, Pensions, Parliamentary 
Rules, Partnership, Patents, 
Personal Property, Power of 
Attorney, Promissory Notes, 
_ . , , , Rights of Married Women, 
schools. subscription Papers (How to Draw), Trade-Marks, 
trespass, Voters, Wills, Warranty of Horses. There is a 
Dictionary of Legal Terms: Tables for the Computation 
of Interest; Measurements of Land, Lumber, Logs, Grain; 
Legal W eights: U. S. Land Measure: Presidential Vote 
from 1824 to 1885; Time for holding Elections in different 
* u? e8 ’ -P°P u l a fton of the United States; many valuable 
tables, etc. Price, $1.50. Sent to any yearly subscriber 
tor <5 cents. Or given for One New Subscription at $2 ; or 
for Five Trials at 25 cents. 
A New Book for Housekeepers. 
Given for One New Subscription at $2 ; or for Four Trials at 25 Cents. 
The publisher’s good wife says that this is a thoroughly 
accurate, practical and valuable book, so we are glad to 
offer it. It is a hand¬ 
some book of nearly 500 
pages and numerous il¬ 
lustrations, handsomely 
printed on good paper in 
large type. It is written 
by a veteran housekeep¬ 
er, and includes bread 
of all kinds, preparing 
yeast, rolls, biscuits, 
crumpets, sally lunn, 
buns, crackers, batter 
cakes, corn cakes, muf¬ 
fins, gems, waffles, puffs, 
fritters, musb, grits, 
etc. Soups, 60 different 
kinds, including ox tail, 
bouillon, meek turtle, 
terrapin, consommf*, 
Spanish,French, tomato, 
Julienne, etc. Meats : 
Boiling, roasting, bak¬ 
ing, broiling and frying 
meats of all kinds ; cut¬ 
ting up andcuringpork, 
with illustration and 
description of smoke 
house. Poultry : Howto select, kill and dress poultry, and 
numerous ways of cooking; also game. Salads: Chicken, 
ham, oyster, fish, etc. Eggs: Numerous ways of prepar¬ 
ing, including omelets. Pickles: Cucumber, tomato, 
walnut, cabbage, cauliflower," etc. Catsups: From to¬ 
matoes, walnuts, cucumbers, mushrooms, etc. Cake 
making: 175 recipes, from the plainest to wedding. 
Puddings, dumplings, etc : 119 different kinds, with 
numerous sauces. Pastry: 75 kinds of pies. Ice cream and 
water ices : 35 recipes. Dyeing: How to dye clothes suc¬ 
cessfully in a variety of colors and shades, with directions 
forcleaning soiled garments. Price, $1.50 full cloth bound, 
post-paid. Or given for one new subscription at $2; or for 
four trial subscriptions at 25 cents each. 
A Sat of Charles Dickens’s Works. 
Price, $1.00. To our yearly subscribers only special price 60 cents post¬ 
paid, or given for One New 'Ub-cription at $2, or Five Trial 
Subscriptions at 25 cents. 
This set of 12 volumes of Charles Dickens’s works is 
printed in new, clear type and bound in handsome paper 
covers and com¬ 
prises, complete 
and unabridged: 
David Copper- 
field, Martin 
C huzzlewit, 
Nicholas Nick¬ 
el by , Dombey 
and Son, Bleak 
House, Little 
Dorrit. Our 
Mutual Friend, 
Pickwick Pa¬ 
pers, Burnaby 
Rudg e and 
Christmas Sto 
ries, Oliver 
Twist andGreat 
Expectations, 
The Old Curios¬ 
ity Shop and 
the Uncommer¬ 
cial Tiaveler, 
A Tale of Two 
Cities, Hard 
Times and, The 
Mystery of Ed¬ 
win Dro od. 
Everybody of intelligence knows these famous writings, 
which are not only entrancing as stories, but have also 
done much to worn notable retorms in society and govern- 
It is well to supply pure literature to our families 
and thus save them from the ill-effects of trashy reading. 
Terms as above. We will quote terms on application for 
sets of these or of any other books, in any styles of print¬ 
ing and binding. 
James Fenimore Cooper’s Famous 
Leatherstocking Tales. 
In one volume. Price, 50 cents post-paid. To our yearly subscribers 
only, for 30 cents. Or given for Two Trials at 25 cents each. 
Only one American book has ever attained the success of 
Cooper’s books— Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The great author is 
dead, but his charming romances still live to delight new 
generations of 
readers. “The 
wind of the 
lakes and the 
prairies has not 
lost its balsam 
and the salt of 
the sea keeps its 
savor.” Beauti¬ 
ful indeed are 
Cooper’s stories 
of tne red man 
and the pioneer, 
full of incident, 
intensely inter¬ 
esting, abound¬ 
ing in adven¬ 
ture, yet pure, 
elevating, man¬ 
ly, and entirely 
devoid of all the 
objection a b le 
features of the 
modern Indian 
story. No read¬ 
ing could be 
more whole¬ 
some for young 
or old than 
Cooper’s fa¬ 
mous novels. 
An entirely new edition of the Leatherstocking Tales has 
just been published, in one large and handsome volume of 
over 300 large quarto pages, containing all these famous 
romances, complete, unchanged and unabridged, viz.: 
The l)eer slayer. The Oath finder, The Last of the-Mohicans, 
The Pioneers and The Prairie. This edition is printed 
upon good paper, in clear new type and is well bound in 
stout paper covers. Terms as above. 
THE LIGHT OF NEW DAYS. 
There have been vast improvements in the 
lighting of our houses since the “ light of other 
days” shed its dim rays over 
the old-time kitchen and 
sitting-room. We believe we 
have found the best lamp in 
the country in the Pittsburgh. 
Any subscriber who wants a 
wonderfully luminous and 
beautiful lamp on easy terms, 
should send for our special 
circular on this subject. The 
great bargain isan embossed 
brass lamp with one of the 
new colored linen shades, 
which is usually scfld for $5, 
and which we are offering for 
two new subscriptions. Send 
for special circular. 
The Kodak Camera. 
Given for 20 New Subscriptions. 
Everybody has 1 e rd of the famous 
and efficient little Kodak Camera 
for taking photographs of anything 
under the sun : landscapes, babies, 
cousins, uncles, animals, flowers, 
trees, boats and birds, etc. We have 
arranged to offer the Kodak in two 
ways; as a premium for 20 new sub¬ 
scriptions at $2; and also in our list 
of premiums for the largest clubs to 
be announced later. Price, $25; or 
given for five new subscriptions at the club price of $1 50 
and $17 additional. Descriptive circular of the Kodak will 
be sent on application. 
MANY OF THE ARTICLES named in this 
L list are FOR SALE at the prices given. 
BUT YOU CAN GET THEM AT MUCH 
>< LESS COST by getting a small club of sub- 
i ; scriptions and paying the balance in cash, if 
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you do not want to spend time enough to 
secure the whole number named, 
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* The American Club Skate. * 
The chances are favorable for good ice this winter, and 
lots of skating. The American Club is well krown as one 
of the best, has no heel screws or straps, being quickly- 
fastened to the foot by means of clamps worked by the 
catch on a little lever. We can furnish any one desired,, 
but make a specialty of the Nickel plated Skate, with 
nickel-plated steel blade, tempered, and with the plates 
and clamp, etc., of crucible steel. Price. $2 50. Given fortwo- 
new trial subscriptions, or for one and 50 cents additional. 
* Scribner’s Lumber and Log Book. * 
Given for Two Trial Subscriptions at 25 Cents. 
Nearly a million copies of this book have been sold. A 
partial table oLcontents follows : Loading Logs ; Log and 
Lumber Measures of all Kinds; Table of Prices ; Stave and 
Heading Bolt Table; Wages, etc.; Weight of Woods - 
Speed of Saws and Power ; Size of Nails ; Cost of Fences - 
Hardness of Wood ; Strength of Ropes; Shingles; Growth 
of Trees ; Cord Wood on an Acre ; How to Saw Valuable 
Timber; Splitting Rails; Charcoal; Felling Timber; 
Cubic Measure, Cubic Weight, etc.; Care of Saws, etc.; 
To Measure Hight of a Tree; Weight of Iron; Strength 
and Elasticity of Timber and Shrinkage; Tables of Dis¬ 
tances; Interest Tables; Business Law, etc. Price, 35 
cents. Given for two trial subscriptions at 25 cents. 
* A Book of Grain Tables. * 
Given for Two Trial Subscriptions at <5 Cents. 
This book has over 20,000 different calculations and is in 
fact a "ready reckoner ” of weights and measures of grain. 
hay, produce, feeding, wood, tanks and cisterns, ropes, etc. 
It is useful to everybody. Price, 30 cents. Given for two 
trial subscriptions at 25 cents. 
Choice Wall Paper for the House. 
* Enough for the Room for Two Subscriptions. 
“A queer thing 
for a premium” 
yon will say. But. 
why ? We propose 
to give our readers 
anything they 
want. So we have 
arranged with one of the best concerns in the country to 
supply choice wall paper for our readers’homes. Au average 
and quite large sized room requires 10 rolls for the walls 
and 20 yards of border. Your choice ot styles for a chamber 
costs $2.50; we give it for two new subscriptions at $2 
For a parlor or dining-room the cost of a really superior 
jiaper is about $6; we give it for four new subscriptions a«- 
->2 When your club is started send for samples stating 
kind of room or rooms for which it is wanted 
