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PICTORIAL CULTIVATOR ALMANAC. 
A SNUG COUNTRY RESIDENCE. 
One of the leading defects in the plans of country residences, in the works already published on this subject, is 
the want of any intellectual provision for proprietors of quite limited means. Hence w^e find the more costly 
houses only, are sup- 
plied with a library 
or study. Now, we 
think the education 
of the mind quite as 
important as the 
manufacture of but¬ 
ter and cheese; and 
that provision should 
be made for the pur- 
suit of useful know¬ 
ledge as well as for 
the pursuit of dimes 
and bank-notes. In¬ 
deed, we find that 
some of the best 
knowledge - stocked 
families are among 
those of slender 
means, and many of 
the most eminent 
men have risen on 
their own labors. 
As an exception to 
this general defect in 
country houses, we 
give a plan, view, and 
condensed descrip¬ 
tion of a cottage from 
the Horticulturist, 
intended, as the residence of a country clergyman, but 
which may be adopted with great fitness by any man of 
moderate means, who wishes to educate his own child¬ 
ren, and make them intelligent, intellectual, and useful. 
The cottage Gothic is given in the view—as adapted 
to rural scenery, and giving more room for its cost than 
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any other style. The rustic veranda and trellis, for the 
support of climbers, and for giving the whole an inte¬ 
resting rural appearance, are made of ceder poles with 
the bark on,—and are thus erected at a very trifling 
expense—and are more appropriate than any elaborate 
carpentry. 
The plan needs but little explanation. A door at D, 
(printed by mistake C in the cut,) opens on the veran¬ 
da, and another at C shuts off the back entry from the 
front hall. The study is fitted with book-cases at B B; 
the living-room has convenient closets so placed as to 
form a kind of bay-window effect, quite pleasing in ap¬ 
pearance. The door be¬ 
tween the child’s bed-room 
and the back entry is glazed, 
to admit light to the latter. 
If desired, the closets be¬ 
tween the entry and bed¬ 
room may give place to a 
door. 
The second - floor plan 
(drawn on a smaller scale) 
shows five good bed-rooms 
with a closet to each. Below 
is added a sketch of the rear, 
showing the back porch, and 
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arrangement of the kitchen-wing. 
The whole may be constructed of wood,—where mate¬ 
rials and labor, are not very costly,—in a simple man¬ 
ner—the inside walls to be whitewashed or neatly 
papered—the first story 9 to 10 ft. high only,—for 
about $1,200. -- 
The Philosopher’s Stone. —Learned men toiled for 
ages in trying to find out what this mysterious substance 
was, which should change the baser metals to gold. A 
dethroned monarch had discovered the secret, and was 
promised his throne again on condition that he would 
reveal it. The preliminaries were settled, and his 
power was regained, when he sent, in fulfilment of his 
promise, with great pomp and ceremony, a Plow! 
John Randolph once stopped in one of his rambling 
speeches, and fixing his keen eyes, exclaimed, “Mr. 
Speaker—I have found the philosopher’s stone ! It 
consists of these four monosyllables, 1 pay-as-you-go!’ >> 
