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I take It to lo a matter generally admitted
t all who have tried on the mask of comic
journalism, that it is no velvet one, but rather
(ggostiTe than otnerwine 01 mat iron visor
tehind which a certain mysterious character
n history was compelled, for so many years,
to pat the best face he could upon circum
stances. Great assiduity is a thing almost
incompatible with humorous writing. The
ttrain of always trying to be witty and epi
grammatic on the surface, without losing
grasp for a moment of the weightier considera
tions involved, is one against which few
jninds could contend successfully for long,
continuous periods ; and hence the desul
tory mode of working bo generally char
acteristic of writers who make a upe
ialty of this kind of literature. Con
tributors to comic papers may le divided
into two classes the brilliant ones, and the
reliable ones; and it is very rare to find in
one person a combination of the character
istics belonging to those respectively. Of all
the writers with whom I have travelled, from
time to time, along the highways and byways
f comic literature, I have known but two or
three really sparkling ones whose aid could be
relied upon, to a certainty, for any given day
or week. The electric sparks thrown out by
Borne of them, when in full glow, seemed to
fall back upon them in ashes, and smother
their too sudden fires. A thorough Bohemian,
for the most part, is the very brilliant con
tributora bird dilfioult to catch and not always
available when caught, seeing that, innine cases
out of ten, his habits are no more under
his control than his moods. And herein
lies one of the chief impediments to making a
xeal success of a comic periodical. The relia
ble contributor, whose principal value lies in
his punctuality, is usually what may be
termed an even writer, seldom rising to the
pitch of brilliancy, nor often sinking below
the level of respectable burlesque; so that,
however valuable he may be as a "stand-by,"
he is unequal, at his very best, to establish
ing an unmistakable prestige for the paper that
takes him for better or for worse, whichever of
the two it may be. Were it only possible to treat
these two types of contributors a the juggler
does a couple of rabbits, roll them both into
one, and then divide them by dozens, the
thing would be complete. Then might the
eomic paper not always remind one of the
famous "down-town" merchant described in
the advertising colums of the of the "serious
journals as the hero of "many sleepless
nights," and the expectant watcher of the
times might reasonably hope for the coming
of a successful American "Punch," a thing so
long in petto that it ought to be very good when
it comes at last.
It has been frequently suggested, that
the most feasible plan for the perma
nent establishment of a comic paper
would be to engage all the world as
leading contributor to it, and, if possible, all
the world's wife and interesting family as well.
There is a certain fascinating massiveness in
this idea, it must be admitted; but as the
writer of one of a bushel of old letters now be
fore me says, in reference to a prolix conun
drum offered by him "Will it wash?" To
this I reply, without hesitation, that it will
OlOt, There is no doubt that useful sugges
tions are sometimes forwarded to editors of
comic papers from the outside world, but ex
perience compels me to state that the hints
for squibs, cariqatures, and articles generally,
whether political or social in tliair bearing,
thus tendered, are, in the great majority of
cases, utterly worthless and impracticable. I
have somewhere read or heard of a story told
by the late John Leech, who used to be
occasionally favored with such hints from
anonymous sources, and who once had a com
munication from a person desirous to map out
his idea for a scorching political cartoon. The
leading object in the picture was to be a rail
way train coming along at a smashing pace,
freighted with certain political characters, and
the artist was to draw another train rushing
from the opposite direction, but (now mark
you this well) not yet in sight ! I will ven
ture to assert that every person who has es
sayed the task of editing a comicpaper has been
pelted, from all quarters of the country, with
scores, nay, hundreds, of suggestions equally
impracticable with the above. Among the
curiosities of this branch of literature which I
received in other times and retained for future
reference, many are of a strictly esoteric and
personal character. "A Borderer" particular
aelvage of civilization to which he belongs not
decipherable on postmark writes to say that
it would be a good thing to extinguish the
postmaster of his place, and, to further
the abolition of that unhappy provincial,
he encloses ten cents, with a copy of verses in
which impeachment for having " robbed a
tnink" is felicitously set to music by -means
of rhyme with the disagreeable epithet
"skunk." Another person, apparently writing
from a place of detention for adults of weak
intellects, forwaids a number of anagrams
one upon the name of Florence Nightingale,
and another upon that of General Lafayette.
une same writer suggests a host of distin
guished persons upon whose names the editor
would ao well to immolate himself anaaram
jnaticauy. .Kossuth figures among these, as
xukBwuie uocb a, njL-ai ciu.en wnose name is
given as rericies w. JSeazley, and who, accord
ing to me suggester, is a personage so tilling
to the eyes of the world that a favorable twist
upon ins name wouki at least double the circu
lation of the paper in which it might appear,
A poetical contributor favors the editor with t
parody upon Hood's "Song of the Shirt," feel
ugiy niuujui uui mm a view oi inuuencing
iue wi uib iiuo ui oi jmiLiuuuir sewing ma
chine, the name of the patentee of which U
ingeniously stitched into the wonderful stuff'
This troubadour modestly states that he does
not look for any pecuniary recompense for his
contribution, but he requests that it mav b
Minted witli his name to it, in full, ani that
twenty-four copies of the paper containing it
may be forwarded to his address. Another
hard sends in a little poem not devoid of
merit, although by no means adapted for
tlie requirements of a comio paper. It has
an old familiar air about it, and consulta
tion with sage pundits reveals the fact that
it originally appeared in a volume of
poems published by a lady about seventy
years ago. To secure copyright upon it, as
Well as to display his acquirements as a lin
guist, the sender has put the refrain of the
aong English in the original into the French
tongue. Wholesale piracy of this kind is very
commonly resorted to by persons aspiring to
he contributors. Ideas for social caricatures
coiae in, copied, almost literally, from pic
tures to be found in old volumes of "Punch"
and other humorous periodicals, so that it is
necessary for the editor to be pretty thoroughly
acquainted with what has been done in that
lanch of literature during past years. I can
pohit out, in volumes that now lie upon my
t&bl sundry scraps sometimes o prose,
hut oftener ' of verse whichj were
frauds upon the editor, being1 slight
yajriatiouft of productions that Lad long pre
COMIC
viously appeared elsewhere as the work of
writers more or less known to fame. One of
our correspondents is apparently a well-broucht-up
yountf man. who disdains the Men
i Of sayinR the thinir that is not. Ha soiidx a.
packet containing fifteen "poems" in manu
script, all of which, he virtuously avows, have
already ap)arcd in the columns of the
"Oranite Playmate," or a paper exulting in
some such name, lie has rewritten them, he
says, and thinks they would make a great hit
if published with iilnstrative wood-cnts by
the artist who does the grotesque head
pieces "with such charming fancy." Then
there is the lady correspondent from the
fashionable watering-places, who begins her
letter coaxingly with "Dear Sir: You who
are supposed to know everything," etc. etc.
and encloses a diagram for an elalorate carU
cature of a flirtation going tin between the
married Major A and the Misses B
and C , who are scandalizing the chaste
bathers on the beach with their "goings-on."
To secure attention, her ladyship also
sends carte-de-visite likenesses of the ob
noxious parties, with a request that the
artist will be very true to them. A common
and very terrible type of the aspiring con
tributor is the one who forwards by express
a great roll of manuscript written upon law
paper, which, on being opened, conveys the
impression of a five-act tracredv. but -nrnvwa
to be nothing worse than a serial tale of
village life, couched in the kind of disrupted
English usually attributed to Pennsylvania
Dutchmen. Collateral to this Dersnn i !
lady who sends in a batch of anecdotes about
the nogroes on her husband's plantation, all
the funny bits of whioh have circulated for a
quarter of a century among the artists in
"burnt cork." But it would occupy more
space than I may appropriate for this article,
to dilate upon the variety of distant corres
pondents who seem to fancy that the fate
of the comic paper addressed is absolutely de
pendent upon the acceptance of their contri
butions. More difficult to deal with than these are the
aspirants who call in person to see the editor,
and brine their "fireworks",with them. Enter
to that arbiter, for instance, an "awful swell,"
who has written a satire in seven cantos, and
wants to read it now, at a sitting. He does
not require compensation for his work, which
he originally intended to publish in pamphlet
form, but would rather see it "set in the coro
net of your brilliant and admirable paper."
The editor politely shirks the reading, but begs
that the manusciipt may be left for his peru
sal. On dipping into it in the still watches of the
ensuing night, and discovering its utter worth
lessness, he returns it next morning, by mail,
to the writer "with thanks." In a week or
so, enter once more the slashing satirist, irate,
yet triumphant, for he has called to crush the
editor by informing him how the rejected
manuscript had since been received with
roars of laughter and applause at "the
club," before which august corporation it
had been duly read and acted by the author
of its being. The crushed editor sub
sides, of course; but, before he has half
recovered his usual serenity of mind, a
sail appears upon the threshold, a Bplendid
three-decker in silk and guipure, followed in
her tinted wake by a bark of lighter tonnage
a tender, in fact, if, to sustain the nautical
metaphor, I may so term her. Uhe stately
craft introduces herself with a little speech,
thickly studded with handsome compliments
to the paper, "a subscriber to which," she
says, " she has been from the first would
not be without it for the world," and a good
deal more blandishment of the same electro
typed stamp. Now she presents the younger
lady, who is her niece, and has developed
a specialty for inventing funny things, ex
amples ot which she has brought with her
in an enamelled portfolio. The fair young
humorist is really pretty. Sweet as nitro
glycerine is she, but fraught with danger, like
that agent, and ready to make havoo of the
stony editorial heart. "Has she designs?"
inquiries the editor, with a desperate attempt
to be w itty in the face of danger. She has
brought a few with her fancies of the comic
Valentine sort, consisting of groups of flowers
very nicely painted on Bristol-board, with the
petals converted by dots and dashes into gro-
tesoue human faces. But the point of each
joke is dependent upon the color of the par
ticular hower, the lines unaer one oi vivia
ultramarine hue, for instance, running
thus:
' 'Why lookest thou so blue, to-day?'
' (). 1 si i pt, hist ninht, 1' the dew,
And the wind blew all my hair away,
And therefore 1 look blew ! ' "
Herein the editor discerns a famous opening
for escape, of which he is not slow to avail
himself. He goes through the whole collec
tion, thouehttullv, passing lavish encomiums
upon the wit, the fancy, the eccentricity, the
ingenuity, and the many other suutie ele
ments discerned by him in each conceit.
"But they can be of no use to us, you know.
We don't print our paper in colors, and
more's the pity, since it debars us from
making use of such charming original ideas
as these. Chromo-lithography, my dear
young lady if you will allow me to (say
so much is yet in its miancy; out
there's a good time coming, and we
may be happy yet." And, having thus ;dis-
Eosed of the matter, the editor recommends
is fair visitant to try her luck with an emi
nent manufacturer of toy-books, to whom he
gives her a line of introduction written upon
the perfumed ollicial note-paper.
The fact is, that at no one time, nor in ' any
country, do there ever exist more than a very
few writers and artists capable of stamping a
comic paper with wit and humor of .he
sharpest and yet most refined quality.
Thackeray, Gilbert k Beckett, Douglas Jer
rold, and others whom it would be needless
to name here, have not been equalled by later
members of the J'unch stall' neither has John
Leech's nlaco been yet acceptably filled.
Of artists, more especially, the remark
made is true. 1 have at hand a letter
received vears aco from a humorous litterateur
then of much mark in the London circles, and
of vet more tironiise. but who has since passed
away. Speaking oi tne uiwcimy oi buiuiiu
ing a good comic paper, even in London, he
. iru'...u.. v ....... 1. 1
said. ii(.ntnir nower is the mine wanted, ui
artists considered as artists we nave a ter
rible surplus: but humor is a much rarer com
modity." What was true in this respect a
dozen years ago is no less so now. There
are not. nt t1i -i.i-Hiit time, in England, six
artists gifted with humor in the highest
degree; nor does France appear to be
a whit more uroductive of the genuine
material, (social caricatures, or rather, views
of real life and character seen through the
medium of an eccentric fancy, are the very
spinal column of a humorous paper, which
ju these days, it may be assumed would be
nothing if not illustrated. But something
more than humorous fancy is necessary to
absolute success. In the texture of a first-
rate comio artist, dramatio power is not to be
dispensed with. His faculty of observation
must be acute and untiring, and he must btf
able to seize upon incidents and situations
as they pass before him, and out of these
to construct, without undue exaggera
tion, scenes of the sparkling comedy sort,
with eplgrAuunnUfl leenda attached to them
to give the point of the story. Then, in addi
tion to this, he must have a falcon eye for the
Subtleties of individual character, and the
power of expressing this upon the box wood
block with the same freedom and dash with
whicli he would throw off a pen-and-ink
sketch upon paper. Execution has been a
treat snare to most artists engaged upon the
best comic papers that have run their brief
and checkered careers in this country, mere
prettiness of drawing being too often looked
npon as compensation for poverty of idea in
the design. The kind of humor generally char
acterized as American, and of which "Artemas
Ward" must be considered as the most success
ful exponent at the present time, is not of a
quality practicable for the pencil; neither
is it, whatever its originality and greatness,
fitted, in any sense, to be the staple of a comic
journal. A spice of it is a capital thing to
have, though, and Such, it seems, is the
opinion to-day of the heads that inspire the
London Charivari.
Taking it altogether, the pictorial depart
ment of a comic paper is the most difficult
one with which the editor has to deal. The
"cartoon," or large illustration embodying
some leading topic of the day, is a feature
now considered indispensable to a publica
tion of the kind. Those who have not
tried can hardly imagine the difficulty
of hitting on, at certain times, a smart idea
for this hebdomadal clincher of current events.
A "congress of heads" is the only means by
which the thing can be managed with cer
tainty and success. It is at the weekly dinner
of J'unch that the important matter of the car
toon is discussed and decided upon; and few
will be so uncandid as to deny that good cheer
is an efficient prompter of wit. But comic
papers have, ere now, been driven over stony
roads, without ever a chance of pulling
up to seek for inspiration at the fes
tive board. Midsummer is usually a dreary
time for the few brains that are left to
invent the mirthful cartoon. Nobody, who
can help it, remains in town during the dog
days. The suggestive contributor and an
invaluable functionary is he is fishing for
trout and blaspheming black-flies by the
margin of some highland stream. The bril
liant paragraphist is usually too much strait
ened, financially, to fly to the rural districts,
but his town engagements with Bacchus,
Silenus, and Company, are of a pressing and
imperative kind, and he cannot be relied upon
in the hour of need. Under these circum
stances feebler spirits have to be conferred
with; but the brunt of the situation has gene
rally to be borne by the editor, at last.
The effects of comic journalism upon the
editorial mind offer a nice little subject for
analysis and dissection. I was acquainted
with one who had had experiences in the
conduct of such vehicles for pleasantry as
those under notice, and he used to relate har
rowing things about the visions that dis
turbed his slumbers on the nights preceding
the days for "making up." Box-wood had
become a deadly upas for him. What the
red-cedar is to the moth, what the black-ash
is said to be to the rattlesnake, such was
the yellow-box to him. His dreams
were horrible illustrations of demon life
and character, drawn upon box. His
phantasm would loom up as a stupendous
funereal pile, composed of layers of box
wood blocks, of all sizes, from the large
ones used for cartoons to the smallest, upon
which initial fancies are usually cut. These
were pencilled all over with grotesque figures
of things hideous beyond human conception;
and the originals of the portraits were there,
too, moping and mowing about the pyre,
upon which they were preparing to immolate
the supine dreamer of the dream.
Few things are more acceptable to persons
anxious to bring, or to keep themselves before
the public, than to have notice little matter
how unflattering taken of them by squib
or caricature in the pages of a comic
journal. A note will come to the editor, for
example, a naughty-looking little billet-doux
with frilled edges, and with it a carte-de-visite
of the correspondent, haply some provincial
actress of the muscular school, who wants to
make a metropolitan sensation, and is anxious
to have a broad caricature of herself in an
early number of the paper. Should no notice
be taken of this, the next thing, in all proba
bility, is a call from the managing agent of
the lady, w ho hints that money can be realized
by the transaction, and, in some cases, even
goes so lar as to prompt the editor to name
his price. 1 have known instances in whicli
good round sums were offered to secure the
desired notice. Sometimes a paragraph bear
ing reference to an individual who believes in
advertising himself or his enterprises tickles
the vanity of that person so greatly, that he
will write to the editor, saying that a box ot
cigars, or a complete outfit ot new clothes, is
at the service ol the writer of the gratifying
pasquinade, if he will only send to or call at
such and such a place for it; and I once heard
a sagacious public character say that a certain
satirical article in which he figured promi
nently was worth at least a thousand dollars
to him.
Were people at large only half as liberal
in subscribing to comic papers as they are
in tendering advice with regard to the best
course to be taken by the directors of them,
success in that branch of journalism would
1 secure. Among the comic editorial expe
riences, the receipt of letters of advice forms
a very prominent item. It is no unusual cir
cumstance for several letters to arrive at the
same time from different quarters, all of them
giving the views of the writers as to how the
J)aper should be conducted to satisfy the pub
ic and insure success, and each one of them
taking up a position diametrically opposite to
some of the others. Could the writers but
hear the roars of "inextinguishable laughter"
wnu vtnicii meir productions are greeted,
while being compared and critii:id lv the
editorial staff, they would donbtlens be
surprised to find how funny they had become,
uukiiuwu w wiemseives. Une writer tells you
that you must let a certain well-known politi
cal character alolie, or else your paper will
-..v, hum njjinn. wHiuii a month.
the next letter opened you liud a recommen
dation to devote at least
leading satirical poet, and your most personal
yvjinb muni, iu me enronio irritation ot tne
individual in question, who is described as
having "a skin as thin as his heart is black
and his moral character revolting." In time
the judicious editor does not trouble himself
with reading letters of advice, but coiisigus
them to their proner limlm .nnmriuir
their drift in the first lines. '
'J'he threatening correspondent is another
scribbler, who sometimes wastes his feeble
ire upon the management of a comic paner.
ur course he writes anonymously, or under a
imii d, Mton, and in a stvh and handwriting
elaborately tortured iv "-guise. He tells
you, in EiigliBh adopt. . , ui lor the nonce,
that you "are geting to iJCrbunal in your re
marks and picturs about A and B, who will be
nZTFii l0?g- after are forgoten."
Then he l ints at violence, and adda that "you
may consider this a idle 'thret, but may find
yourself mistaken by a crowd T.iS into
your office sum day if von .a in th
same track.
I la 5.
J liana em comes from theae Billy flj-ckex.
No satisfactory conclusion has yet been
arrived at as to the reason why a really first
class comio paper has never yet leen suocesa-
nmv esiaoiiKtmd in this country. I will not
attempt to sift the question here, though I
have an idea that the excess to which party
spirit is carried may have something to do
with the matter. As with other journals,
so with that of a humorons character, the
political ingredient is one that cannot lie left
out. Next, it would be impossible for a paper
to take a middle bearing; and if it becomes
partisan, it has, of course, battalions of foes
to contend against. The necessary wit and
humor for comic journalism must exist some
where amid the large and mixed communities
of the country, but they have not yet been
developed by encouragement and culture,
though, like the recreant meteors that failed
to come to time in November last, they may
yet make their appearance in the literary
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112 AND 114 m. THIRD ST., PHI LAD .,
Dealers in all Government Securities.
OLD 0-20. WANTED
IN EXCHANGE FOR NEW.
A LIBERAL DIFFERENCE ALLOWED.
Compound Interest Notes "Wanted.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS.
Collections made. Stock bought and sold on
CommlMiion,
fcttxjelal business accommodations reserved for
lauies. 3 21 am
Jm S. SECURITIES
A SPECIALTY.
SMITH, RANDOLPH & GO.
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
NO. ION THIRD ST.. NO. 8 NASSAU ST.
PMILADKLIHIA. NSW YOUK,
NEW STATE LOAM
FOR SALE AT LOWEST PRICE.
CONVERSIONS MADE OF
7'30s WITHOUT CHARGE.
ORDERS FOR STOCKS AND MOLD EXE
CUTED IN PHILADELPHIA AND NEW
YORK. ii
A U C U G T
SEVEN-THIRTY NOTES.
CONVERTED WITHOUT CHARGE:
INTO THE
MEW FIVE-TWENTY COLD INTEREST
SONDS.
Large Bonds delivered at once. Small Bonds far
nifched as soon as received from Washington.
JAY OOOKK & CO.,
S4tf No. 114 S. THIRD STREET.
7 3-10s,
ALL SERIES.
COlSVlCltXifllJ JLNXO
Five-Twenties of 1865,
JANUARY AND JULY.
WITHOUT CHARGE.
20KSS EELIVEEED iULVEDLATELY.
DE HAVEN &BROTHER.
a, Ro.40 SOUTH THIRD St.
7 3'IOS. SEVEN - THIRTY NOTES
CONVERTED WITHOUT CHARtiE INTO
THE NEW
& - Oh.
bonds delivered at once,
COMPOUND INTEREST NOTES wanted at eiga
market rales,
WM. PAINTER & CO..
8268m NO. S6 SOUTH THIRD MT
p. S. PETERSON & CO.,
No. 3 B. THIRD Street.
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES OP AL
KINDS AND STOCKS, BONDS, ETC
BOUGHT ASO BOLD AT Til
Philadelphia and Hew fork Boards of Broker
COMPOUND INTEREST NOTES WANTED
VRAllSON NEW YORK
Always for sale in sums to soil purchasers II am
RATIONAL
BANK OF THE REPUBLIC
Horn. 809 aud 811 CUESNUT Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
capital, aooo.ooV-ruix paid,
DIKECTORS
Job. T. Bailey, IWilliam Ervlen, Bam'l A. Blspnam,
Kilw, B. Orne. Osgood Welbli, ifrred, A. Hoy I,
Nainan Ullles.llt, Rowland, Jr., Wm. U.Kliawn,
PBXSIDKMT,
WILLIAM H. RHAWN.
CASHIKB
JOSEPH P. MUM FORD. 1 5 1 1m
flJEW STATE LOAN.
Past due Loans ol the Slate of Pennsylvania, wltn
the accrued interest thereon, taken In pnym.nl for
the New blate Loan of Pennsylvania. .
Amounts to suit purchasers, without charge.
For sale by
J. E. R IDG WAY.
BANKER,
1 2 12t NO, 57 S. TUIKP ST., rUILA,
WATCHlS, jewelry, etc.
AMERICAN WATCHES.
W. MV. CAS SIDY,
NO. 1 SOUTH SECOND STREET,
PHILADELPHIA
ASKS ATTENTION TO HIS
VARIED AND EXTENSIVE STOCK
OF
UOLD: AND SILVER WATCHES
AUD
NILVFR-WARE.
Customers may be assured that none but tbebes
articles, at reason able prices, will be sold at his store
A fine asnortment of
PLATED WARE CONSTANTLY ON HAND
WATCHES and JEWELRY carefully repaired. Al
orders by mall proractly attended t. 4 10 wfm3in
HAMONP DFA1 HIS .F. TELERS.
,WAlCaL'3 and JtiWXLEY KEPATBED.,
J02 Chestnut St., Phil,
Have on band a large and splendid assortment
DIAMONDS,
WATCHES.
JEWELRT, AND
SILVER-WAR!
OF ALL KINDS AND PRICES.
Particular attention Is requested to our large stool
Of DIAMONDS, and the extremely low prices.
BRIDAL PRESENTS made of Sterling and Sta
dard Bilver. A large assortment to select from.
WATCHES repaired In the best manner, and war
ranted. 61H
Diamonds and all precious stones bought for cash.
JOHN BOW MAN
No. 704 ARCH Street;
PHILADELPHIA,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
SILVER AND PLATE DWABE,
Our GOODS are decidedly the cheapest in the city
for
TRIPLE PLATE, A NO. 1. g
WATCHES. JEWELRY,
W. W. CASSIDY,
Ho. 1 SOUTH SECOND STREET.
Offers an entirely new and most carefully select
stock of
AMERICAN AND GENEVA WATCHES,
JEWELRY,
SILVER-WARE, AND FANCY ARTICLES
EVERY DESCRIPTION, suitable for
BRIDAL OR HOLIDAY PRESENTS.
An examination will show my stock to be amor.
passed Is quality and cheapness.
Particular attention paid, to repairing. if
JC. RUSSELL & CO.. Jj
NO. S NORTH SIXTH STREET,
Have Just received an invoice of
FRENCH MANTEL CLOCKS,
Manufactured to th';lr order In Paris.
Also, a few INFERNAL ORCHESTRA CLOCF
with side pieces; which they oiler lower than the sam
goods can be purchased In the cllv. 5 2
C. & A. PEQXTIGNOT,
Manufacturers of
Gold aud Silver Watch Cuses,
And Wholesale Dealers In
AMERICAN WATCH CO. '8,
HOWARD fc C0.'8,
And TREMONT
AIHEltlCAlV WATCHES
48
NO. aa SOUTH FIFTH street.
HENRY HARPER,
No. 520 ARCH Street,
Manufacturer and Dealer In
WATcnrs,
FINE JEWELRT,
SILVER-PLATED WARE, AND
81! SOLID SILVER-WAR!
Lfl I Mil t J'Mi a
Large and small slees, playing from 1 to 11 airs, and
costing from to m Our assortment coinorlaea
such choice melodies as
"Coming Thro' the Rye,"
"Room Adair."
"Hock me to Sleep. Mother."
"The Laot Rose or bummer."
"Monastery bells," etc, etc,
Besides beautiful selections from the various Opersa-t
Imported direct, aud for sale at moderate prices It,
FARR A BROTHER, '
Importers of Watches, etc.,
llllHmthtrp No. 824 CHESNUT St.. below Fourtll
HARDWARE, CUTLERY. ETC.
O U T L E H Y.
"n? assortment of POCKET and
paTIrTndtIil
Cheap Store, No. 135 South TENTH Htreet.
11 8 Three doors above Walnnt.
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING.
p A I N T I N C.
THOMAS A. FAHX,
HOUSE AND S1UN PAINTER.
(Late Fahy 4 Bro.)
No. 31 North THIRD Street;
Above Market.
OLD BTtICK FRONTS done up, and made to Inn
- ' - j .. ......... j tinuaBuiititeu, A 1 1
promptly attended lo.
op.
" oy rout
19 ftuw
VESTCOTT & GEORGE.
SCCC1CHSOE8 TO
PHILIP WILSON A co
mPOHTMS AND DKALSRS U,
OUNS, PISTOLS RIFLES, CRICKET, AND
BASE BALL IMPLEMENTS.
FISHINQ TACKLE. SKATira
, wwujirr
ARCHERY, ETC..
KO. 4 CUESNUT STREET.
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