FOlt THE YOUNGJ PEOPLE. What the Sparrow Nui. Cbirrnp apf obirrnp tip, oblrrnp np, What a beantif nl da; to be sure t Jast the weather to flyi Little mateling, good bye, I'm off for a bright early tour. How the warm aummer inn softly shines, And how thankful and happy am I That no barred eage of gold My unfettered wings hold; I'm a sparrow, a bird of the sky. Mr. Bulflnch at hia morning meal, In his gayly decked palaoe I seo Oh, no, thank yon, my dear, I'm in Tery great fear Prison food with my health won't agree t Sir Canary, yon trill it quite noat, In yonr pretty pagoda of red j But I'd muoh rather be Up on high tree, quite free, And chirruping over your head 1 WLat ? ) ou pity me out in the wind At the mercy of storm and of rain, And yon boast of your life Without care, without strife, And a mistress to ease all your pain ! Ah, you know only half of life's Joys, I assure you, you poor little things) In your grandeur and pride You sit lonely; beside Me a sparrow mate sings t We've a wooded and spacious estate, Where we live withoutlocks,bars,orlaws, And our tiny brown neBt I a haven of rest, . Where we care not for worldly applause. We twitter and ohatter all day, And we're happier far so, 'tis true; What are riches and rank Without love? but a blank 1 Ah, 'tis I who can now pity you. Demorest. The Btorr of Itlusbka. "tlx; Mouse." Some Hindoo merchautn were ehat . ting about ,trnde and its chances, when one remarked that there was nothing remarkable in amassing wealth when one started with sufficient capital, and then went on to say that he had done pretty woll, although he had set out with very little. J . "M? father," said he, "died before my birth, and ere long designing rela tives had despoiled my mother of all she possessed. Sue sought shelter with a female friend nearly as poor as herself. In was in her house that I was born. We lived for a long time on the charity of others; but when I began to grow tip my mother.notwithstaudhig her poverty, managed to procure me a little tuition. When I could read, write and cipher, she said to me: "Yoa are the soa of at ewsvitant. You must, therefore, b$.a So sws sorue knowledge of trv'.e. G-.' aval the money-changer, WsiiU; tw i tsfcui r;c. est business ma ia tow, aai I kacw that he likes to ajTsicot" foadi to poor young men who are the son of mer chants and of pure race. Ask him to give you a loan. " I went to the money-changer, but it was only to hear him reply with disdain to me, the son of a merchant: "You see that dead mouse lying there on the ground? Well, a sharp fellow might make a fortune with no other start than that. Now. if I worn fn anA vnn a round sum I fear that I should have to wait a long time for the interest. Per harts vou could not. 1 raised my eyes proudly to the face of the money-changer : I take the mouse, said I; "it is a capital that you lend me." And, after having signed a receipt, I went my way with the mouse, while the old usurer laughed heartily at the sorry figure I cut. Well, I exchang ed the mouse for two handfuls of peas, which the storekeeper gave me, as he wanted it for his cat. I peeled the peas nicely, and taking a jug of water went outside of the city and sat down in the shade on the roadside. Some woodcut ters came along, very thirsty and tired, and I politely offered them the fresh water and peas. Each of them in retnrn g iye me a few little fagots of wood, which I took on my back and went and sold in the market-place. With the money I got for them I bought more peas, and the next day did over again what I had done that day. Thus I perservered for a long time, until I had got together a little capital. Then I bought for three days in succession all the wood that the men brought in. Suddenly there came on a heavy rain season that no one had expected, and the conveyance of wood became impossi ble. Then I sold the stock I had at an advanoe and kept a few cords for myself. With the proceeds I started a small shop, managed my affairs discreetly, and grew rich. Then I had a mouse of gold manufactured, and sent to the money changer, Visikala, as a reimbursement of his loau. He in return gave me his daughter in marriage, and now I am known by the name of Mashka, or 'the Mouse.' So you see I made a fortune out of a little." Ooldea Rales for the Bova and Girls. The person who first sent these rules to be printed says truly if any boy or girl thinks " it would b'e hard work to keep so many of them in mind all the time, just think also what a happy piaoe in wouia mate oi nome n yoa only could." 1. Shut every door after you and wituuui siamming it. 2. Never shout, jump or run in the nonse. 3. Never call to persons up stairs or in the next room; if you wisn to speak to them, go quietly where they are. L Always speak kindly and politely to servants, if you would nave them do the same to you. 6. When toll to do, or not to do, a thing, by either parent, never ask why yon should or should not do it. 6. Tell of your own faults and mis doings, not of those of your brothers and sisters. 7. Carefully clean the mud or snow off yonr boots before entering the house. 8. Be prompt at every meal hour. 9. Never sit down at the tab le, or in the parlor, with dirty hands or tumbled bair. 10. Never interrupt any conversa tion, but wait patiently your turn to speak. 11. Never reserve your good manners .for company, but be equally polite at h ome and abroad. 12. Let your first, last and best friend be your mother. A man saw a ghost while walkiDg along a lonely highway at midnight. The ghost stood exactly in the middle of the road, and the wayfarer, deciding to investigate, poked at it with hia um brella. The next instant he wag knocked twenty-feet into a mud-hole. Moral I never poke an umbrella at a large white mule when its back is turned. Humanity is the peculiar character istic of great minds; little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are inoapable of feeling the exact pleasure of forgiving their enemies. A Surviving Heroine of 1812. There is an interestinur storv con nected with Oedar Point, Soitnate Har bor, Alans. The heroine is Miss Be beooa Bates, now a bright, genial old lady of eighty-fonr, whose memory con tinues remarkably clear. The story, taken from her own lips, can be depend ed upon as thoroughly reliable. Her fattier was uaptain Uimeon Bates; he was light-keeper at the time, and was the first who lit the light, in April, 1811. In the spring of the following year Eng lish cruisers were numerous in Massa chusetts Bay, and on one oooasion the launches of an English frigate were sent in to Soituate Harbor. They set fire to vessels at the wharves, and towed out two, at the same time threatening to de stroy the town if any resistance was offered. After this event a home guard was formed, and detachments stationed on Oedar and Grow points, and in front of the village, with a brass piece. When there was no sail in sight, the guards were allowed to go off to their farms. Nothing to oooasion alarm occurred again until the following September. Rebecca, at that time eighteen years of age, and her sister Abigail, fourteen rears old, and still living, were sitting toward evening sewing with their mother. Captain Bates and the reBt of his large family and the guards were away. Mrs. Bates told Rebecca it was time to put on the kettle. As Rebecca went into the kitchen she for the first time per ceived an English ship of war close at hand and lowe. ing her boats. " I knew the ship at a glance," she said. " It was the La Hogue. ' O Lord I' says I to my sisten. ' the old La Hogue is riff here again I What shall we do ? Here are their barges coming again, and they'll burn up our vessels just as they did afore.' You see there are two vessels at the wharf, loaded with flour, and we couldn't afford to lose that in those times, when the embargo made it so hard to live we had to bile pumpkins all day to get sweetening for sugar. There were the muskets of the guards. I whs a good mind to take those out beyond the light-house and fire them at the barges; I might have killed one or two, but it would have done no good, for they would have turned round and fired the village. 'I'll tell you what we'll do, daid I to my sister; 'look here, says I, you take the drum, I'll take the fife.' I was fond of military musio, and could play four tunes on the fife. 'Yankee Doodle ' was my masterpiece. I learned on the fife which the soldiers had at the light-house. They had a drum there, too; so I said to her, ' You take the drum, and I'll take the fife.' ' What good'll that do?" says she. 'Soare thorn,' says I. ' AU you've got to do is to call the roll, I'll scream the fife, and we must keep out of sight; if they see us, they'll laugh us to scorn.' I showed her how to handle the sticks, and we ran down behind the cedar wood. So we put in, as the boys say, and pretty soon l loosed, ana L could see the men in the barges resting on .their oars and listening. When I looked again I saw a nag Hying from the mast-head of the ship, My sister began to make a speech, and I said, ' Don't make a noise. You make me laugh and I can't pucker my mouth' When I. looked again I saw they had seen the flag, and they turned about so quick a man fell overboard, and they picked him up by the back of his neck and hauled him in. When they were off. I played ' Yankee Doodle.' " Is not this heroine, who saved two ships laden with flour, and perhaps other valuables, from destruction, entitled to a pension ? She has five brothers and sisters still living, the eldest eighty-five, and young est seventy-one. Her grandfather was one hundred years and one month old at the time of his death. &'. O. W. Benjamin, in Harper's Magazine. The Earth Not a True Globe. Our planet is not a true globe, be cause of its former plastic condition before the formation and cooling of the surface. When the globe was soft it was more or less yielding, and then the rotation of the earth to which I have re ferred tended to drive off, as it were, the matter in the equatorial regions ; so that the distance through the center of the earth between the two surfaces as far as possible removed from the poles of rotation, or those parts of the earth which the imaginary axis comes through, is rather greater than the distance be tween the two points where the axis come3 to the surface. The reason of that fact, and that it must have been so, has been beautifully established by several xperiments. That the earth was once hotter than it is now is there fore proved, both by the irregularities of its surface, and by its shape as a whole. We must not imagine, how ever, mar, mere naa Deen but one change. The minor irregularities are au gradually cnanging by inner en ergies and the action of air and water. and it may be that even the largest ones are young, compared with the age of the planet 8 surface. Nor does the change end here ; the equatorial pro tuberance itself may but after all mark a point in a great cycle of change, which has compelled the earth to rotate now about one axis aud now about another, Mathematicians consider it highly pro Da Die mat tne axis of tne eartn may nave been in anoient times very diner' ently situated to what it is at present, and, indeed, that " it mignt nave grad ually shifted through 10, 20, 30, .40, or more degrees, without at any time any perceptible sudden disturbance of either land or water." Thus it appears that nature prevents catastrophes by the very hugeness of the scale on which she works. Norman Lockyear in Good Words. Never Saw One of Them. Two gentlemen from New York, one of whom had been in California nearly a year, and the other lust arrived, were accidentally overheard in the following conversation at the Butter House, Bao- ramento. The new comer was lament ing his condition, when he asked the other if he had a family. " xes, sir, i nave a wite and six children in New York, and never saw one of them. After this, the couple set a few mo ments in silenoe, and then the interro gator again commenced : " Were you ever blind air ?" "No, sir." Another lapse of time. " Did I understand yon to Bay, air, that yon had a wife and six children living in New York and had never seen one of them V " Yes, air ; I so stated it" Another and a long pause of silenoe. Then the interrogator inquired : " How can it be, bit, that yoa never saw one of them V MWov."waa the response, "one of them was born after I left." " O. ah 1" and a general laugh fol lowed. After that the first New Yorker was especially distinguished aa the man who had six children and never saw one, of (hem. The Warrior Wasp. It is curious that in the Isle of France the common bee is not to be found as a native of the woods, while, in the Isle of Brougham, it is common, and furnishes an abundance of wax and honey ' This is explained by supposing that the war riors about whom we are about to speak destroy the bees, and have thus pre vented their multiplying in the island in question. Truly, like the banditti of whom we read in books, these wasps are splendidly attired, altho igh not on the spoils of those whom they have robbed. Their head, chest and body is of a re splendant luster; now green, or, seen in another position, blue, and glistening with all the luster of an exquisite var nish. Their autonnre are black, their eyes of a brownish yellow, and their legs partly bronze colored and partly of a beautiful violet. They are strong and swift of wing, and are possessed of a terrible lance, the thrusts of which even men cannot endure without far more pain and inflammation than attends an ordinary sting. The foe with whom these magnificently-dressed warriors have to contend is a kind of insect allied to the cockroach, wh'ch in our kitchens has acquired the incorrect title of "black beetle." This insect is detested by the inhabitants of the island, for its ravages upon almost everything of value or deli cacy, and is not less hated by the sailors for its destructiveness on shipboard. It is called Kakerlao, and is much larger than cockroaches, which are the plague and terror of our cooks. Imagine that one of these great, old, odious insects is creeping along the highway. The war rior wasp has also been making his ex seditions for prev abroad, when sudden ly his eager eye catches sight of the kakerlao hastening to home new scene of depredation. The warrior instantly alights, and the kakerlao stops, think' ing, perhaps, to intimidata its adversary by its size and iei jcious aspect. uotli insects glance at each other, The wasp is the first to attack, and darts upon he other, seizing it by the muzzle with its strong jaws, then bending its body so as to bring its tail under the abdomen of the kakerlac. The lance, with its charge of poison, is deep- plunged into the body ef the unhappy foe, imbuing a deadly venom into its system. Having made his thrust, the warrior loosens the foe and soars in tri umph a little way into the air, satisfied of a successful issue. The kakerlao, after a few brief convulsions, lies paral lzed on tne ground, unable to stir a step from the spot where it encountered its adversary. Fully aware of this, the vicious wasp, after taking a few turns, as if to proclaim the downfall of the giant kakerlao to the surrounding neigh borhood, returns to the scene where the conflict was fought. The kakerlao. unable to resist the victor, and being naturally, though a great devourer, a very faint-hearted creature, lies immov able, while the wasp seizes the prostrate foe by the head, and. in a sort of tra umphal march, drags it along the road to its nest. Origin of Certain Flowers. Some of our flowers came from lands of perpetual summer, some from conn- tries all ice and snow, seme from islands in the ocean. Three of our sweetest exotics came originally from Peru; the cameiia was carried to England in 1739. and a few years afterward the heliotrope ana mignonette. Several others came from the Cape of Good Hope; a very large caua was lound in cutanea there, ana some or tne most Drmiant geran iums, or pelargoniums, which are i spurious geranium. The verbena grows wild in Brazil, the marigold is an Afri can flower, and a great number are from Ohina and Japan. The little Daphne was carried to England by Captain Ross, from almost the farthest land he visited toward the North Pole. Some of these plants are quite changed in form by cultivation, others i i i i -i .... uuve vuiy oecume larger ana Dngnier, while others, despite of all the care of florists and the shelter of hot-houses. fall far short of the beauty and fragrance of tke tropics. Among improved ones is the dahlia. When brought to Europe it was a very simple blossom, a single circle of dark petals surrounding a mass of yellow ones. Others, with scarlet and orange petals were Boon after trans planted from Mexico, but still remained simple flowers. Long years of cultiva tion in rich soil, with other arts of skill ful florists, have changed it to what it now is a round ball of beauty. A Billion. There are two systems of notations The French, which advances by periods oi three figures, and which is generally used in this country, and the English system, used only by Great Britain and htr dependencies, which proceeds oy periods of six figures. The Amen can and the Englishman write a million in the name way, namely a 1 with six cyphers following it. Add three cyphers and the Englishman calls it a thousand millions; the American says that it is a Pinion. The iiiugnshman says that bilbon means a million million. The row of figures means the same always, there is only a difference in the nomenclature. France, for instance, paid uermany nve miliar lb, much to Bis mark's astonishment and regret that he had not made the sum larger. So there you have three different names for the same row of figures. As written. 1.000. 000,000 means always the same thing, and nearly approaches the circulation of the Jiagle, but 1 ranee calls it a mil lard. England says it is a thousand millions, and America names it a billion. It is entirely a matter of choice; but when English newspapers speaks ef billions Americans should remember that they refer to millions of millions, or a row of figures with twelve cyphers, like this: 1,000,000,000,000. Brooklyn juagie. He Sat with Sal. A Nevada paper Bays : A green-looking couple, evidently newly married, called at a photograph gallery in Vir ginia City and wanted their pictures taken. Just as the artist got his plate ready the man called him aside ana said he wanted to ask a favor. "I was told in Carson you took the best pictures in the State. Now, you see Sal and I got hitched down there last Monday ; now, her folks go a good deal on style, and they live in the States. They never saw me, and if I send my mug back East they'll be dead agin me sure. I'm a blamed sight better than I look, and when people oome to know me they vote me a brick. Now what I want is to get some good-lookin' man to sit with Sal for a pioture. Will you stand in f She's willin'. Them big whiskers of yonrsll catch 'em sure and create har mony. Yon look like a solid capitalist, and they take me for a petty laroeny thief." Mr. Beals enjoyed the idea im mensely, and aat with " Sal " for the, picture, which will doubtless carry joy into the household of the Eastern rela tives, How to Keep a Flano, Otto Brnnning. writing to the Journal de Mutique of Paris, says: " The piano is constructed almost exclusively of va rious kinds of woods and metals; cloth, skin, and felt being need in the mechan ical portion. For this reason ntmos pherio ohanges have a great effect on iL. . i i -1 : i .1 i l iuti quruuy ana aurnuuiijr vi vuo mniru- ment, and it is necessary to protect it from all external influences whioh might affect the materials of whioh it is com posed. It must be shaded from the sun, kept out of a draught, and, above all, guarded against sudden changes of temperature. This latter is a most fre quent cause of the piano getting out of tune, and the instrument should be kept in a temperature not lower than fifty- four degrees and not higher than eighty- six degrees Farhenheit. When too cold the wood, cloth and skin swell, and the mechanism works badly; when too warm these materials shrink and cause clink ing, squeaking, and other disagreeable sounds. Moisture is the greatest enemy of the piano, and it cannot be too care fully guarded against. In a short time damp will destroy every good point in iuo uiBunment, xne tone iwiwinei dull and flat, the wires rusty and easily broken, the joints of the mechanism stiff, and the hammers do not strike with precision, and if these symptoms are not attended to at once the piano is irretrievably spoilt Therefore do not put your piano in a damp ground floor room, or between two windows, or be tween the door and the window where there is a through draught. Never leave the piano open when not in use, and above all when the room is being cleaned. Do not put near a stove, chim ney, or hot-air pipes. Always wipe the keys after playing. Never pile books, musio, or other heavy things on the top. Be careful when using the soft pedal not to thump the notes. Do not allow nve-note or other exercises of a small compass on a piano you have any regard lor. a leather cover should be Kept on the instrument when not in use, an.i removed every dav for the purpose of dusting. A cushion of wadding or a strip of flannel laid on the keys will help to Keep tnetn white and preserve the pol ish. Never leave the piano open after a musical evening or dance. If you are obliged to have it in a damp room, do not place it against the wall, and raise it from the floor by means of insulators, and always cover it after playing. Em ploy the best tuner you can get, and, if a new instrument, let it be tuned every two months during the first year, and at least three time a year afterward. Al ways have it tuned after a soiree if the room has been very hot. Words of Wisdom. If you act with a view to praise only. you deserve none. - - Always be as witty as you can with your parting bow; your last speech is the one remembered. There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt, and puts the stranger at once at his ease, Be careful in your speech. A word once spoken, a ooach with four horses cannot overtake it and bring it back. It will do no harm for us all to remember this. Be charitable. Never refuse even an animal a favor. When you see a mad dog coming along, give him his little bite before turning him away. If we create imaginary wants, why do we not create imaginary satistactionsir It was the happier frenzy of the two to be like the mad Athenian, who thought all the ships that came into the harbor to be his own, than be still tormenting ourselves with insatiable desires. Venerate four characters:- the Ban' guine, who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric, who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic, emerged from indolence and the melancholic, who has dismissed avanoe, suspicion, and asperity. We should always distinguish between taste and fancy. One is a perception of some manifestation of a principle in na ture, the other a mere predilection for works of war. One is founded on the soul as seen through its outward cover ing, the other contemplate only the exterior dress. True taste is the love of the sublime, the beautiful and true. A Costly China Service. An English paper says : A Mr. Clark died ' recently in Australia, leaving to his son a fortune of thirty-five millions of dollars. The young man must have a certain amount of taste, at least for the fitness of dinner things, as one of his first expenditures was the ordering a complete service of ohina, such as would bring the smile of commendation from Mr. Wm. O. Prime aud other ceramickers. Young Clark's first direction was that in execution and design it should be the best ever made in England. The result is: First, a dinner service, the ground being bleu de rol of so gorgeous a tint that, on contrasting it with Sevres blue, the difference was imperceptible; the deco ration of this service is of rich gold, over old Vienna. Secondly, a dessert service of pale French turquoise, re lieved by festoons of gold oak leaves and acorns; in the center of each plate is a landscape exquisitely painted, while the pieces intended for fruit, etc, are sup ported by Cupids, and correspond with the rest of a most delicate service. Thirdly, a breakfast service, also of a pale turquoise ground, decorated with silver and gold leafage and Japanese birds. Fourthly, a tea and coffee sev vice; the oups of the latter resemble a tnerveille old Sevres, and the tea service is so rich, with its deep azure tint and superb miniatures, that when the entire set was exhibited to Her Majesty, she at onoe commanded a duplicate of it. This remarkable service, the most beau tiful of modern porcelain, cost Mr. Clark thirty-five thousand dollars. What He Knew Abont Edison. Editob Hawketh: Can you tell me any thing about the early life of Edison, the inventor of the phonograph ? Alexis. We rather think we can. From a huge pile ot exohanges we learn that when quite a boy, he went into the Western Union telegraph office at De troit, Minneapolis, Dubuque, Cincinnati. Pittsbnrg, Louisville, Memphis, Natchez. Cheyenne, San Francisco, Ogden, Salt Jjake Uity, uhihuahua, Hon Madison, Albany, Be .ton, Vioksburg, Keokuk, Qninov, La Harpe. St. Louis. Kenton. New V drid, Omaha, Denver, Barker's uorners, Uieveland and JTlatbush aa messenger aud learned talegraphv there. but was discharged because he spent so much time experimenting on a plan by which ten messages could be sent both ways on one wire at the same time, in which he was finally successful. His old employer then took him back and raised his wages to eleven dollars a week and find himself. He is now very WAaHUw anJ A 1 L ... - noaiiuj uiiu Buui guu ana three aogs, vurnngton Maw key e. According to Dr'JZ. B. Foote't Health Monthlv. " One of the great causes of ill-health among women and one of the great hindrances to their full recovery when sick is the wearing of garments, and particularly of undergarments, which are prejudicial to health." It is a pleasant thing to see roses and lilies glowing upon a young lady's cheek, but a bad sign to Bee a man's face break out in blossoms. fStandlna the Teat. Farmers have often been lndnood, by plausi ble agent, to purchase farm Implement! whioh have proved unsatisfactory or worthing; but the hundred! of thousands who have bought the Buckeye Mowers and Reapers, built by Adrianoe, Flatt A Co., Poughkeepsie, and 165 Greenwich Street, New York, have invariably found their highest expectations more than realized. Thii firm have for twenty-one years enjoyed the reputation of turning ont from their fac tories machines whioh in material and work manship, aa well as in the simplicity and per fection of their mechanical principles, were of the highest excellence. It is a faot, whioh should have great weight with purohaseri, that the system of construc tion peouliar to the Buckeye Machine is the only one that baa remained nnohanged in principle, while .among the many changes made in competing machines, the only ones that have met with any degree of saocess are those which were copied from t ie Baokeye. A new Single Wheel Reaper, called the "Adhianob," has been lately added to the productions of this firm, and when we say that it is a worthy oompanion to the B ickeye Mower, we have paid it the highest possible compliment. Manufacturers who have done so muoh to benefit and to win the confidence of the farmer, ard the ones it is to his interest to patronize. flnllrlnna ftankftrv. Light, white, wholesome biscuits, rolls, bread, and elegant cake, crullers, waffles, doughnuts, muffins, and griddle cakes of every kind, are always possible to every table by using Dooley's Yeast Powder. - Gee. F. Rowell dc Co'e Newspaper Advertis ing Bareaa, New York. THE OBJECT OF ODB ESTABLISHKKWT. Our Newspaper Advertising Bureau. No. 10 Spruce street, New York, is an establishment intended to facilitate the convenient and sys tematic placing of advertisements in news papers. It is conducted upon the principles which we conceive to be the right ones for se curing the best results to the advertiser, the publisher, and ourselves. We undertake to represent American news papers, not only the newspapers of the city of New Y- rk and of all other American cities, re ligious, agricultural and other claBS news papers, but also the small oouutry journal. We receive regularly and keep on file the news papers of every description throughout the land, whether issued daily, weekly or monthly. CONFINED STRICTLY TO NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING AND TO AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS. We confine our transactions to newspapers and do not accept or undertake the manage ment of other classes of advertising, such as books, sign ooaras, posters, or jod printing. It is our hope that by adherinn toone branch of advertising we may make ourselves masters or it. We also restrict onr dealings to newspapers published within the geographical limits of the United States and Dominion of Canada. TEE BYBTEU OF ARRANGEMENT FOE NEWSPAPER FILES. We have a system of filing newspapers by an arrangement of shelving and partitions, sepa rate space being accorded to each, and Iabled with the printed name of the paper it is hi' tended to accomodate, by means of which arrangement a stranger can find any paper he wisheB to examine witn something like the readiness with which he would a word in a dictionary, a name in a directory, or a book in a library catalogue. THE NATURE OF THE SERVICE WHICH IT IS OCR BUSINESS TO BENDER TO THE ADVERTISER. We undertake to maintain an es'ablish6d oredit with every newspaper, and to have at hand a schedule of the charges adopted by the publisher of each for advertis ng spaoe id itx columns s to be able to quote those rates to an advertiser who wishes to insert an advertise ment in one or several, and to procure the prompt insertion of the advertisement without any extra cnarge ror tne service rendered, wuicn service consists or quoting tne pno printing or writiug as many duplicates of the advertisement as may be required to furniuli one to each paper to be nsed, forwarding the copy for insertion at our own expense for pos tage or messenger sevioe, examining the papers to see that the advertisement appears when an1 in a manner that it ought to, checking each subsequent issue of the advertiement in each paper in a book kept for that purpose, at all timeB subject to the inspection of the adver tiser, ana marking plainly in e acn paper the advertisement as it appears, so that when the advertiser comes (or sends) for the purpose of having the files examined (to see that the service for which his money pays has been actually rendered), the eye mty lieht promptly upon hiB announcement, without the labor of searcmng a wnoie paper or page. If errors or omisBions occur, it is our amy to notify publishers, at our own expense for labor, postage or messenger, and to see to it that the publisher of the paper actually does the specified service for which the advertiser contracted. THE AMOUNT OF MONET TO BE EXPENDED, Persons who have had little experience as advertisers often have a pretty clear under standing of what they would like to do, but are entir-1- ignorant or tne pronauie cost We have made out for such a person a plan of advertising calling for an investment of Co.UOl). and on submitting it tor approval found onr customer dismayed at the magnitude of the expense, he not having ontemplated an expenditure exceeding ft'200 or 300. In such a case laber would have been saved, if at the commencement of the negotiation the question had been asked : " How much money are yon prepared to oevote to mis aaver- Using ?" . THE CONFIDENCE OF OUR PATRONS A MATTER OF PRIME IMPORTANCE. It is a matter of prime importance to us. for the Dnrnose of maintaining our influence with publishers, that it shall oome to be understood among them that our statements about the advertising to be done, or not to be done, are to be relied upon ; and to this end our dealing with our advertising patrons mnst be upou a basis or mutual oounaence ana respect. OUR CUSTOMERS ENTITLED TO OCR BEST SERVICES. Whenever we are doing the advertising for any individual or nrm, we consider mem en titled to our best service!. If they suggest using a paper wmcn we Know to be not tne De.-i ror tne purpose, we aav so and give tne reasons. we otten exDend a eood deal or urae ror verv small advertisers, much more than the profits on their patronage would warrant ; but as they entrust to as what they have to disburse, and influence in our direction the patronage of their friends and acquaintances, we are con tent. OUR PROMISE. We promise those advertisers who entrust their advertising patrenage to our management that we will not allow them to be charged in any instance any more than the publishers' sche dule rates; that we will procure for them the acceptance of any advantageous offer made to tnem definitely oj any newspaper puunsuor, advertiainar asenL or canvasser, of responsi bilitv. Although we are unwilling to do work without a profit, and sever offer to do so, yet la conrormity witn tne promise umh uto, we anmatimea find it advisable. Competitors. anxious to gain a hearing and secure attention, oooasionallv make offers whioh it would ad vance the true interests of our enstomers to accept. In such eases we hold ourselves bound to secure the bargain offered. Eztraot from On Nu York Time, June 11 - . an Ton voara aeo Messrs. Geo. P. Bowell, k Co. established their advertising agenoy in New York city. Five years ago they ab-orbed the business eonduoted by Mr. John Hooper, who iha rat tn sro into this kind or enterprise. Now they have the satisfaction of eontro ling the most oxten-ive and complete advertising eonneotion which has ever been secured, and one whioh would be hardly possible in a iy other oountry but this. They have succeeded in wnrkin? down a complex business into so thoroughly a systematie method that no change m the newspaper syswrai juoid r cape notice, while the widest information upon ii tnr.in inUrastuiff to advertisers Is placed readily at the disposal ox sue yuuua. Starvation In Labrador. A Labrador correspondent of the Journal d9 Quebec gives a heartrend ing account of the condition of the people along the Labrador"ooaat. The fisher ies failed them last fall and the traders who give them provisions in barter for their fish and oil abandoned lb A Writer nnl n Ut tlm the territory, not caring to let the wretched people have goods on credit. Thus before winter set in the whole population was left to starve or subsist nntil summer on fish offal, for crops are impossible on that sterile shore. Whole families have lived through the winter on rotten, half-frozen carcasses of seals driven ashore by the ice-flees. Others have kept body and soul to gether by devouring the nauseous flesh of the black loup marin, a species of seal whioh in prosperous times would be shunned even by the dogs. Many deaths have ocourred from sneer star vation. Of five families containing forty souls, in one settlement, only five survive. Scurvy is epidemic. The women haunt the shore like spectres picking np the dead seal, while the men ana boys eatber sc-a moss or sueii nan. The correspondent says : " I know several families who have eaten not only the salted seal flesh put away for tne winter provender of their dogs, but even the dogs themselves. Those who happened to have a stock of provisions have been compelled to go on short rations and shure with their gauut neighbors. The people have been cut off from the outside world since Sep tember. When they found death starinir them in the face it was too late to make their wants known, for navigation had closed and they were 2UU leagues dis tant from Quebec without any means of overland communication in winter. The lieutenant-governor of Quebec, in answer to this appeal, Has ordered a quantity of provisions to be sent to th coast, and clothing, medicine, etc., will follow immediately. Ocn. filrnnt nt the Pnrln Kxnnhltlnii. A cable dixnaMi to New York Herald May 11th save that Gen. Grant was Disced nnon a qnare, American platform that of the Howe Hoale. The general in f set was weighed and for tne nrst time in his hie "found wanting, hav ing lost seventeen pounds by his Egyptian trip. mother! mother!! mother!!! Don't fail to procure Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Byrni lor au aiseaseB incident to tne rena or leetn ing in children. It relieves the ohild from pain, owes wind oslio, regalates the bowels, ana. bv giving relief and health to the child, gives rest to mo moiner. it is an om ana weii-irieu remeay. OHEW The Celebrated "Matohlkbs" Wood Tag Flng Tobaooo. Tai Pioneeb Tobaooo OostPAin, New York. Boston, and Chicago Many imagine all advertised medicines to be wortniess nostrums, ana lnaiBcnminatelv con demn them; but is it not an injnstioe to the tnousanas or respectable citizens wno give vol untary evidence of benefits received, to thus quention ana donht tueir veracity ana integrity? t arroanK s standard scales are extensively ad vertised. Does it necessarily follow that they are inferior in make, and less accurate than others ? Have they not been demonstrated to be among the best ? Again, is it common sense to suppose that a physician with capital could be induced to hazard it and a hard earned reputation upon a worthless article ? B. V. Pierce, M. D.. of the World's Dispensary and Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., ib a pro prietor of the most popular family medicineB toe maraet. His refutation as a skillful surgeon and physician has been fully eetab- nsnea ror many years, would pnysicians ana clergy, after having tested his medicines thor- L : a i a: 1 1 . UUKUIV. UI1IU) 1U UUUlUltfilUHIK luciu tu iuq m nioted, ir tney poBsessea no merit I Tne under signed laae pleasure in recommending ur, fierce ana bis Family Medicines to all who may neea tnem : O. B. Fairohild. M. D.. Seneca. N. Y.: W. R. Cousins. M. D.. Albia. Iowa: M. J. Mo- Clellan, M. D.. Garrattsville. N. Y.i W. F. Hazleton. M. D.. Hilver Lake. Kan.: F. 8. Mtuer, M. D., Veazie, Nev.; Geo. Dixterlch, M. mo vino street, lialtimoi-n. Aid.: J. tu Hherrod. M. D.. Faoli, Ind.; Geo. B. Chapman, M. D., PWttsmouth, Neb.; T. J. Casper, M. D., Rpringneld, Ohio; James H. Porter, M. D., Gorham, N. H.: D. E. Wells. M. D.. Brixtol, N. H.; J. A. Miller. M. D., Ban Leandes, Cal.; N. camp. si. v.. ltalaoan. Mo.: Jos. H. Burr. M. D., W. Lafayette, Ohio; ltov. E. N. Harmon, Elsab. Ill ; Rev. Isaac N Augustine, Shipman, in.; nev. i nomas uiteiiiy, isenman, nan. Ilev. L. -Weston, Bucklin, Mo.: Bev. L. A. Dawson, Homer. I1L; Bev. W. 8. Long, Graham, N. C; Bev. Andrew Adams, Calhoun, Ga.; Rev. A. P. Moore. 712 Washington 8treet. Boston, Mass.: Rev. I. A. Thayer, M. D., Ba- consburg, Ohio; Rev. I. P. Profflt, Palmvra, III : Mrs. Elizabeth A. B vd. Falls Citv. Pa.: J. Spencer, Unon Citv. Mich. ; Geo. O. Bazzill. nenova i'a. ; Mrs. ai. Herns, 1'almyra, Mo.; Mrs. E. B. Daley, Metropolis, 111.; Samuel Far mer, java. uiiio: Bisters oi unarity. at. Vin cents Asylum, Troy, N. Y. There is nothing so dear as chean medicine; it is dear at any price. This is true of the large packs of condition powder now sold. Buy Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders and you can't make a mistake. The large packs are utterly woriniess. There is no remedy in the world so valuable to uxe In the case of sudden accident or illness as Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. It can be used internally and externally, and its power is truly marvelous. The Greatest Dlaeoverv ef the Aae Is Dr robias oelebrated Venetian Liniment 1 SO rears before th public and warranted to oar Diarrhea. DraesUrr . Oolie, and spaama, taken internally j and Oroup, Ohronia Kbenmatunn. Bar Throat, Oats, Bruleee, Old Bans. and rams In th Limbs. Back sod Oheet, eiternallr il naa nerar failed. Mo famili will ml without it a Oer onoe sirin.it a fair trial. Prlea 4(1 sent. Dr. TOBIAS1 VKNKTIAM HOR8R LINIMBNT, Is Pint Bottle, at One Dollar, is warranted an Deri or to au other, or NO PAY, tor the our of Oolie, Cut. Bralaee, uio oorea. ato. bold bf all Druariau. DepotlO Park rieoe, new York. CLOCKS E. INGRAM AM A- m H (Superior in design. Not equaled In quality, or as timekeepers. Ask yonr Jeweler for them. S10 to $28 sFffl RK mad tn r onr Ohramoa noiare ana Ubro ft. 1 llfi aamDleft a X ..a i a for SA Oenta. I11ntrar4 Oialoni frau J H. BCFFORD'H HONK, Bmnoa. Established 1830, i KILL THE POTATO BUG WITH P.W.Devoe & Co's Paris Green. i..r. "t5T "S- nee, eaaree oor. Pilton as "ll'" N.w York. Manufacturer of Wnit "."i1-" i rnl.n1Jn. nq t-inta aaapT roa caa. ASTHMA. 8s CAT ARRTT . D'- R; W . Road'. Oelebrated A.thma Rlief ie nn- HUUuvw.r warn, nmwir ior aiioiaa ana l : Htnr rfc elief is cuaranteed or purchaa pno refunded Hamples ant free to anrwbo mavdaalre T. .-ai in Is put np in two aiaed paokaaea, and retalla for 0e. aadT I1.S0. Dos. price $8.60 and 7 00 Twl JT . F"ow win nare tne meaiolne promptly forwarded bj retnrn mail. Addrea A. KTHRIDUB. M avn n lailnM s ue.Lnvi as-b aa - war t. Consumption Can Be Cured. Prf-MON A la a euK. , i -.. CONSUMPTION and all diaee of thV L-. and Throat. It inriorate th brain, tone np y.uun, mekea th wak atron. and i. nlum to txke Pnee On Dollar per bottle at Dro((iu or sent br the . ......... ul pr10.. pampntet eootaimns . QSl? UonuinptlM, many eertineatea of aOTUU. ooaas, and full diraotiocs tor nain aooom paniee eeob bottle, or will be mm fr to an addrea OBOAR G. MQ8BB, 1 8 OoVtlendl TsSoot TYorkT EVERETT HOUSE, Fronting Union Square NEW YORK. Finest Location in the City, Eartpsai Fla-Rtstomt UBsmrasssi M.BMXEM th WMA VMM, iVjri.r I Baown'i BaowoBiAi. Taoogwa, for soughs and oM $44 CC a week At horns. Outfit, worth fK, $00 frm. O. D. Pik Oo., Anmita.M. nTTVQ KKT0I,VRKN. Prtee Ltt fr. Addreal UUHO Or, WMt.ni Qua Worts, PltUhnrg, Pi $7- A DAT to Arente eatim.); for th. Flreeld. Ittr, Term and irmm ft.. Anarm flRfiAVK rSliipriSi foio!"ir fi'an. on UalUsailll b.rln. BKATTV, WMhinaton, H. rtii pr sjzoooBir urns. piAnne nifl PAY. With Stcneil Ontflts. Wliat eoH I J I VT 4 ' sells rapi11r for Wet. CU'oirnr. fi! it UPKNOKR, 1 1 1 WMhingtOB Btwwt, Boston. Mentli. Ajpwits wanted. 8ft best s1fr article fn the world. One samnle free. AcMree .1 V BWONHON. rWn.il Mlob. ELECTRIC BELTS. A vsrfeot stirs for premature debility. Bend for etr- enlnr. Da L. KARR, 838 Broadway, New York. f YPH POH ATjTj, t Jio Xiowest X'rlooej, ME N ATION AIj TYPE CO,, Catalogue, el oeote. rniLAUAiiriua, TAKE IT EASY. Common-Sense Chairs and Rockers. VUh or Wilhiml Btadtnf fait. For sale by ths trade. Mannfae tured by F. A. SINCLAIR. Mnttfille, It.Y. Band Stamp for illustrated Price ' Lint. Enrry Chair Stamped anal War- rvnted. LIGHTNING RODS FREE. Are not to cheap aa onr Piva-Ton Waffon Scale at 950. AU Iron and ateel. with bra beam. Delivered, freight paid. Pro money tuked for MIX teited. Send for free Prioe h'nt of all til ttcalee. .TQWB OF WriVOH AMTON, Bma-hamton, W. Y. PATCH Latest Article out and 40 beat Money Making Article in tho World. Free Samples to Azents for 3 cent stamp BLUE tornnstace. 4.BTiae&l.0. 7 Broadway New York HOSPHO-NUTRITINE. The beat vitalizing Tonlo, Relieving Mental and FbTSlcal PROSTRATION, ITBRVOUSNBSS, DBBIKJTiV FIMALB WEATCHBSS. And all impairments of Srala and Nerve System. All Dranuie, Depot. U Flatt St.. If. X. TRA OK MARK. DR. BECKER'S CELEBRATED EYE BALSAM IS A SURE CURE For IS FLA MED.WEAKETES STYES and SURE l.YiTLIDS. . SOLD BY ALL DRUGOI8TS. DKPOT, O BOAVEHY, N. . TST BY MAIL l'Olt 3jo KILL THE POTATO BUGS AND SAVE THE POTATOES, MURK DEATH to the Color . do PoUto Bni la only to bs taftd br tbs ne ol Paris Grn. Prof. Oook inq others f at tnat all otber remedin hare fittled. FN TLUAI. E1UTOH OP TMK "SUN." DM DC DADIC HDCCVl I Ullk I MlllfJ UlleWkll ' Mad h F. W. Dhtm A Co.. can hm ralisd on forth extermination of the Potato Bug and Cotton Worm. . uircuiar on in naa ox cans ureen aininouiea irs on application. F. W. DEVOE & CO'S MIXED PAINTS For the oonvanienoe and economy of con nun-ten of PAINT the well known house of F. V. DKVUK de CO. now prepare PAINTS READY FOR USE FOR FARMERS and MANUFACTURERS. Thar are uniform in shade, and the colon can alwayi be matobel. Any one oan paint with them. No need of a painter to mil it ior von. iNoneeaof a nryer or oiner ingredient. The paint is ready for immediate applica tion San ( titr aamnU nfLrrin ftnnwinar tliffnrant phadea. They have rery superior eovt-rina; propeities and do not, . line me an-canea patent. puniB( ooomiu mnior wir, benzine or alkali. These Paint are in Iomd Form and are sold in Gallon Cans and. Barrels. They are also pnt up in sin til cans of one to nve pounds. F. VV. DEVOE & CO. Manufacturers and Imporle-s of Colore, Wh'te Lead, 7, no While, Vrnihe and Artl tn'M'term! . I ORNKR FUI.TON AND WILLIAM STRRKT8 (OLD 1)1)1 OH OHUROII (JORNKR), NF.W YOrlK CITY. , RED CHEEK FILLS! Price per Box, Try them. Samples free AT ALL DRUGGISTS. Snt Ay mail on receipt of price. If yon are weak, languid, disci ined for any eirrtion : If yonr fond dis ftree with iou ; It yonr flesh is flabhj, and yonr complexion sallow: If yna ie in a ma I rial dis riot: If iron worn down with the oare of children: -If yon have cot the blues : If ron have lieut lata, hours, and lired oontrarr to tha t laws of health: It yoa ued bract- jr and toning np: . TakaUEU IIKbK PII.T.S. EXTRA BED CHEEK PILLS Prlrr, 81.00, If yon hare led a fust life: If you have abused instead of need nature's gift: If you feel old before your time: If life ha beooma a burden, and von have arloAm loreDoainajs: 11 your nanas treraoie. ana yonr eyes nave grown aim i Th EXTRA UttUl'HKKK F1L.L.M will make you young again 1 IlegemuB fc Cs., A sent a for New York City., special Agent wanted for every t wn. Address, DOCTOR FALK, ' 203 Broadway, New Vorh. Tho Jaunty "Cutaway Jacket." TM it style of Coat or Sacqua will have great fa vor this season for Street or Housb It will be popular in Pique, Cloth L.Ik or Cambric. It is appropriate as part of a Suit made of the same goods, or of mate rial to be worn as a general garment. All sizes for 1-3" -t: it: feaaca VS 11 lkT. Pat. with Cloih f Model, 30 cents. r Smith's) Lars INSTRUCTION BOOK" coftUlu eutadratU orU'r an mall FuMse PUtM and Lt4i Toilet artlcltM. Lturei a frinklnaj,M ay Umt. fr.U, vu U Mill U say SiMi-m upna rrri).t of tea WliU (' S tUmjjsi). TH K ( U.UriifcTE, jia it r cit iivm l by woiu-ii. '" l premium at lb CenUoaUl Es'tfttilUMi. Il - tt" ir.ioiipUt and atfit articla g lavdr ea bftv. turning madiaf. marohUrj', glove kirctcli.at, ttc-t " " BP"1 ,l- Thooiand. art bsjtug Mid, a-iving- the great. iaiitacllaat at eoly 50 omi (., post paid. Rift flEEPlH Wsw)llriY.tIwpfm,e Dill UrrCnasndthUPattrBlWi.a C.BU. OR il "Darner and "Pattern" and "Smiths Illustrated Pattern Bazaar" forOne Year-fciiixutprvid.for ONB DOLLAR Peatage stamps taken aa t'an. Addr.. A. BURDsTTK SMITH. BdlSer. P. O. Sox BOSS, New York City. oanaai-wooa A pasUrr. mM) for all dleailn of .th Kid. VHmJmm m.nA 114... - - . ,U maJ i. Ik . steal l'.Bl&inta. It nave, prodaea slekas., certain and pMdi3u Ujatloo, It Is laatUaneraedln . all tbar rmdle. Sixty aprd sort (aCsls or tk oaf. other audtala c do this. B.wrmiw laaltalUBa. lor, awla to It era win. in bar bon egered i so ar o aanies . ou, aaaaiac pile, eU. DOMOAO D1CH Y ;.' mmu Ha) Co. W atMiatein tMI aTa.i-.lwo. tH ml all dru tor. a tor erlr ) frr m I M mm Ul f 04nJ twm mj. 1 vsir M SO eenta. mi i M 1 4
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