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a little boy or girl. The seat of the swing is upholstered 
with enameled cloth, showily painted, and hooks and all 
complete accompany it—ready to be suspended anywhere, 
where the four hooks can be driven over-head. When it 
is hung up. the hooks over-head to whicti the lever ropes 
are attached, must be set about one foot in front of the 
hooks to which the main ropes are attached. A child is 
delighted with being able to swing himself by simply 
pulling and pushing the handles. Nine subscribers 
easily obtained in an evening or two, will secure one 
free. From C. W. F. Dare, 47 Cortlandt St., New York. 
No. 91.—Doll’s Cotta g-e Chamber 
Set.— Eight pieces of furniture, prettily painted: Bed¬ 
stead (size 11%X18 inches), Bureau, Table, Commode, 
Towel-rack, two Chairs, one Bocking-chair. Will occupy 
and please the little Girl, and give her early lessons of 
order in housekeeping. A free set requires only a dozen 
subscribers. Many Boys can each collect twelve sub¬ 
scribers, and get this Premium as a present for a little 
Sister or Cousin. We have many successful little can¬ 
vassers. Made by C. W. F. Dare, 47 Cortlandt St., N.Y. 
nr©. 29. — Crandall’s Improved 
Building Blocks furnish a most attractive 
amusement for children. Churches, Dwellings, Barns, 
Mills, Fences, Furniture, etc., in almost endless va¬ 
riety, can be built with them, and the structures remain 
so firm as to be carried about. For developing the in¬ 
genuity and taste of children they are unequaled. The 
Blocks are put up in neat boxes, accompanied by a large 
Illustrated Sheet giving various designs of buildings, etc. 
This is one of the most successful toys ever invented. 
No. 93.—Crandall’s Masquerade 
Blocks. —These are put up in boxes; the blocks in 
each box will make, by various combinations, 300 
different pictures in brilliant colors. They are not in¬ 
jured by washing, and afford endless amusement for chil¬ 
dren. They are very beautiful gifts for the little ones. 
No. 24.—Crandall’s Acrobats.— 
The most attractive, amusing and won¬ 
derful Toy of the age. Children everywhere, 
who have seen the Acrobats, are delighted with them. 
Thousands of figures can be made from the pieces in a sin¬ 
gle box. The pieces are variously colored, and there is no 
end of fun in a box of them. If you take your premiums 
in other articles, don't fail to buy the children a box of 
these Acrobats. Most dealers in Toys are getting them, 
as fast as they can be supplied. The manufacturers are 
now making and selling about 1,500 boxes a day, 
so popular is this new Toy and so great is the demand 
for it. 
No. 25. — Pocket Tool Holder.— 
(See Engraving .)—Every boy (or man) will be glad to get 
hold of this Premium. We have kept a similar, but less 
perfect set in use many years, and found it very con¬ 
venient for a thousand little jobs. In a maple handle, 
which is hollow, with a lignum-vitse head, are packed 
twenty miniature cast-steel tools, any one of which may 
be quickly adjusted to the handle. It will also grasp and 
hold for using anything from an S-inch mill-file to a cam¬ 
bric needle. These are made for us by the Miller's 
Falls Manufacturing Co., 78 Beekman St., New York. 
No. 2C.—Bracket Saw. — {SeeEngraving.) 
—Although this is a little thing, size of frame being 
about 6x12 inches, it is sufficient for the manufacture of 
very many ornamental and useful articles, as Book Rests, 
Brackets, Boxes, etc., which the ingenuity of any person, 
young or old, may devise. The frame is rosewood high¬ 
ly polished, and the saws of tempered steel, four of 
which, with Designs and Directions, arc sent with the 
frame. The Boy (or Man) will spend many an hour with 
this, which might be woi'se employed, and not only de¬ 
velop ingenuity and skill, but also turn out useful and or¬ 
namental articles. We have seen a humble Parlor wholly 
adorned with brackets, 
frames,shelves,etc., which 
were mainly prepared 
by father and son from 
the wood of cigar boxes, 
with some from cedar and 
other shingles, and thin 
boards. The room was Prem.36 
as attractive and pleas¬ 
ing to us under the cir¬ 
cumstances, as some other 
drawing-rooms furnish¬ 
ed with costly brackets, 
etageres, etc., at a cost of 
many hundreds of dollars. 
Four subscribers only will 
secure this Bracket Saw free. Made by the Miller’s 
Falls Manufacturing Co., 78 Beekman St., New York. 
No. 27. —“ People’s Pump.” — (See 
Engraving.) —What most country families need. An in¬ 
door Force Pump for 1}X inch Suc¬ 
tion Pipe; capacity 15 to 18 gal¬ 
lons per minute. These pumps are 
tested to 150 pounds pressure, and 
will throw water from a hose pipe 
50 feet high, and 80 feet horizontal¬ 
ly. Being operated by a side shaft 
entering through the air-chamber, 
there is no piston rod to wear out 
brass stuffing box as in other pumps. 
They are among the most power¬ 
ful, simple, and durable pumps to 
be had. The ease with which any 
part can be renewed in case of accident, or access had to 
the interior for repairs, commends them for greenhouses, 
farmers, and stockmen, as 
well as for city use. Award¬ 
ed Medal of American Insti¬ 
tute, as the Best Force Pump 
of all exhibited, Nov. 15th, 
1873. None genuine without 
“ People’s Pump, Patented 
Aug. 31st, 18(50,” cast on the 
lid. Send for a descriptive 
circular to W. S. Blunt, 
Manufacturer, 77 Beekman 
St., New York, and secure 
a free one through us for 
your own use, (or for sale at 
$12,) by simply sending us 
19 subscribers, which you can 
readily collect during a very few evenings or rainy days. 
No. 28. — Non-Freezing Ont-door 
Force Pump. —This is another style of the popular 
“People’s Pumps,” and by the same manufacturer. The 
description of Premium No. 27, is also applicable to this, 
and while that is designed for in-door, this is for out¬ 
door senice. For seven additional subscribers at $1.50 
each, we will send, with either of the above pumps, four 
feet of hose, with cougrlings, and bi'ass hose-gripe, price $3. 
No. 2!). — Excelsior Pocket and 
Dissecting Microscope.— (See Engraving.) —The 
microscope reveals to us a beautiful world unseen by 
the unaided eye, and hardly conceived of, until one has 
the microscope before him. One of these instruments 
(the best obtainable) ought to he in every family, in 
country and city. It will furnish rational amusement for 
old and young, diverting the mind from baser pleasures, 
enlarging the conception of the skill and wisdom dis¬ 
played in creation, to say nothing of its usefulness in 
examining and detecting a multitude of noxious insects. 
We have long sought an instrument of this kind that, 
while complete enough to he of any use, would be cheap 
enough for general introduction. That which we now 
offer, though not having the power and appliances of one 
costing $20 to $100, or more, is yet very valuable and ser- 
vicable for the price, and the best we can obtain for any 
thing like the cost of this, and we are happy in being able 
to supply such an instrument free to every one, sending 
us barely seven subscribers. (Each of the subscribers 
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will get many times his money’s worth in the paper it¬ 
self, while the canvasser will have his microscope free, 
and can use it in interesting the others. So in this ease, 
as with all the premiums, the canvasser will “ Do Good 
and Make Money," or get what is as valuable as money, 
or more so.)—The Premium Microscope (shown in the 
engraving,) is supplied with three Lenses , and is packed 
in a neat case for the pocket. It is patented by J. T. 
BausCli, of Rochester, N. Y.. and is manufactured by ihe 
Vulcanite Optical Instrument Co., and it is for 
sale by the dealers in optical instruments generally. 
No. 30.—Pocket Soap Bubble Toy. 
—We enjoy seeing children blowing soap-bubbles. There 
is much philosophy involved in the whole operation, 
besides the skill of manipu¬ 
lation— but we must leave 
the Children’s Editor to dis¬ 
cuss the “ philosophy ” of it 
in the Children’s Columns. 
The little toy offered is much 
superior to the clay pipe, and 
will greatly please all the 
boys and girls. Twool these 
toys will be given for this 
premium, and almost any 
child can readily get 3 sub¬ 
scribers at $1.50 each, and 
thus secure one of these for 
himself, and another to give 
away. It may he carried in 
the pocket, and can be used 
for blowing bubbles in¬ 
doors or out. Directions accompany each one. Manu¬ 
factured by S. B. Bliss, 34 Barclay street, New York. 
Premium 30 
No. 31.—Turn-tal>le Apple Parer, 
JmpreyveH.—(See Engraving.) —No. 32. Cli¬ 
max Apple Corer anil Slicer.—No. 
33. Family Clierry Stoner.— All the 
above machines, which are most useful in every house¬ 
hold where apples and cherries are to be cared for. are 
manufactured by D. H. Goodell, Antrim, N. II., and 99 
Chambers street, New York. We have never seen the 
work for which these machines were contrived, more 
rapidly or better done, than they will do it. The Apples 
are pared, cored, and sliced with the greatest facility, and 
the Cherries are readily relieved of their stones, leaving 
the fruit in good shape. Only three subscribers are re- 
Premium 31 
quired to get any one of these, or nine subscribers for 
the whole of them, free. See Premium Table. 
An Illustrated Supplement 
containing full descriptions of all our 
Premiums, 1 to 9®, will be sent free 
to all applicants. We have room here 
for only ISTos. 1 to 33. We ask each of 
our Old Readers to kindly call at¬ 
tention to this fact, an 1 either to raise a 
club of subscribers, a: id secure one of 
these useful and valuable Premiums for 
himself, or put some friend or neighbor 
in the way of doing the same. It is 
Light Work for Good Pay. 
