f
.ance to-ni;rht
i ..ii i-i-r j
,u bright."
"Only n lock of golden hnir,"'
The iriAidon, smiling sweetly, said,
A she laid it over the back of '"a chair
And went to bod.
A man iu Wisconsin gaved a young
lady from walking off a bridge, and so
far from being grateful for it, she mar
ried hi uk
"If I were unmarried," says tlio
Rev. Dr. Murray, "I would take an
amiablo sinner for my wife, rather
than a jnappy-tcmpered saint."
A little girl, learning for the first
time, that "we are all made of dust,"
said, after a brief meditation, "Then
the black folks are made out of coal
dust, ain't they?"
"My landlady," remarked a man,
"makes her tea so strong that it
breaks the cups." "And mine," said
another, "makes hers so weak it can't
turn out of the pot."
"You wouldn't take rue for twenty,
would you?" said a young lady, who
lookel much younger, to an old bach
elor. "Take you for twenty !" he ex
claimed: "yes for life."
"Why, Ichabod, I thought you got
married more'n a year ago." "Well,
Aunt Jerush, it was talked of; but I
found th girl and all her folks were
opp ed to it, and so I just gave 'cm
all the mitten and let the thing drop."
Two acquaintances meeting on a
wet day, one greeted the other with :
"Beautiful rain, this! Fetching thiugs
out of the ground." Second friend(dis
ccnsolately) : "Hope not, sir ; hope
not. Got two wives there,, sir!"
Little four-year old playing yitb.
her dolls : "Now, you lay there, ray
dear, and you lay there." Mother-
"Why, Edie, you know that j3u't
right; you should say lie. Uh,. no,
mamma ; I m playing they are chick
ens." -N-
"What's tho dcrivation-of the word
Yankee?" asked a principal of the
smart boy on visitor' day. "Why!
whin Johnny Hull tried to yank us
out of our rights," replied the juven
ile, "he acted in the capacity of the
yanker, and the Americans conse
quently became the yankees."
A Boston merchant not long since
telegraphed to Calcutta at five o'clock
in the afternoon ordering the purchase
of merchandise to the value of one
hundred thousand dollars. The fol
lowing morning at nine o'clock a re
sponse to the order was on the mer
chant's table, prices given, 'rates of
.freight, rtc.
A certain young gentleman with a
vermillion uose, was tormenting his
lady love about her age. "Just look
at me," he exclaimed, "don't I look as
though I was just out of ray teens?"
"Yes," she replied, with a look of tri
umph, "if you mean canteens." Since
that time this couple have been . dritV
ing silently away from each other.
A school-boy was asked by his
teacher to give an example of earnest
ness. He looked bothered for a mo
ment, hut his face brightened like the
dew-drop3 glistening ou tho leaves of
f he rose in early morning, as he deliv
ered himself of the following happy
Siought: "When you see a- boy ea
gaged on a ruiuea pie till his nose
touches the middle plum and his ears
troop on 4he outer crusts, you may
know he has got it."
A Fort Madison man went into his
cow stable the other day, and, by mis
take, mixed her up a nice mash in a
box full of saw-dust instead of bran
Tho cow, merely supposing the hard
times had come and they were all go-
iog to enconomize, meekly ate her
supper, and that man never discover
d his mistake until the next morning,
when he milked that cow, and she let
down half-a gallon of turpentine, a
quart of shoe-pegs, and a bundle of
lath. - '.
The sea is the largest of all ceme
teries, and its numbers Bleep without
monuments. All other grave yards,
in other lands, show some distinction
jL-ctwecn the great and the small, the
rich and the poor, but in the great
ocean cemetery the king and clown,
he prince and peisant, are alike un
listinguiehed. The sarao waves roll
verall;tho same requiem by min
frela of the ocean is suns' to their
lonor. Over their remains the same
tortus beat, and the same 6uu.d:iDcs
m . 1 ft . t i i
ad there, unniarKCJ, the weafc aud
owerful, the plumed and the unhon-
red, will sleep on forever.
The way they came by the name o
fuincy was this: Alter old man
.dams not Adam, as it is generally
ritteu was turned out of the garden
J Eden, he wandered about, thia
ighhorhood for some seven or eight
tieaud Years, and as, by that time
t country bad becoma thickly set
1. and cellar doors were invented
old man was wont to sit on one of
m easy seats aud relate to the boy
f,vo or three hundred bis experience
h that apple. After he had told
story a few' thousand times it got
ba a bore to his audience, and they,
retaliation, ued, when they met
i. i .... i ii.., i
j, iu say now uuoui, iuui ijuiuuc,
I the old man would roar out that
a its not a quince, it was an apple,
S feo oil" with the old yarn again,
iuully he came to be called (Jinn
daii.s, and the name has always
l td iu the family, which U one
s,!dw-:t in tho world. Boaton
SQUARE GRAND PIANOS
Retailed at Wholesale Prices.
tGOOfor $280.
630 for $300.
$70Of0r3OO.
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.NO DEVIATION.
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We pay no agents' eommissionH, which
double the prices of all Piano. -
Wo look to tho Tenplo, who want a first
class Piano nt a fair profit over cost of
manufacture. Wo appoint the People our
agents, and giro thorn our Pianos as low
as any agent can buy equally pood Pianos
of any other manufacturer, riving tho
People In a reduced price, what is usually
expended in commissions, rout, freight,
traveling and incidental expenses.
The "Medelssohn" Piano Co. can Kelt
you a 7J octave rosewood case Piano, 6 feet
10 inches long, with front round corners,
carved lops, (serpentine and plinth mould
ins, with improvements, including
Fnllilron Frame,
Over Strung Tlass, ,'
- - ' Agraffe Trebls, and
Vrench Grand Action,
which only accompany tho best Pianos of
me uiost celebrated makers, at tho very
low price of 250, $275 or -$300, according:
to stylo of case, or with four round cor
ners and full agraffe for f'!50, and guaran
tee them in every' respoct equal to any
Piano made of similar style, or no sale.
The "Mendelssohn" Piano is manufac
tured from the very best materials, and
by the most skilled and finished work
men. The manufacture is conducted by
one of the most experienced Piano manu
facturers in tlic'0untrv. This is no new
enterprise, turning out a poor and cheap
piano, '.nado from green wood, and by
ercene'. mechanics. - ' ' 1
Our Piano Is unsurpassed by any in tho
mantel lor us rien ana powerful tones,
and itR adaptation to the human voice in
sympathetic, mellow and singing qualities.
ii np;aKs ior useu.
e are wining to place tt beaide any
other make of Piano on its menu, either
in beautv of caRe, or excellence of tone,
and "at half the money" of equally good
instruments.
"The best tho cheapest"
When it costs the leat money.
All Pianos fully warranted for (lvo years,
Send for our Illustrated and Inscrip
tive Circular. . . ' ' 1
The Mendelssohn" Piano Co.,
Office of Manufactory,
W BKOJLbWAY, 5T. Y,
0J,Y REJIEOY FOIt
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CHANGE YOUR SURROUNDINGS,
All u' ii finrv TT" rnii Vorma . Ac noo t 1 1 Oil
apted to the growth of iho Vine, where it
is an established success ana pavs large
profit. ' The land is also adapted to tho
growth of Peaches, Pears, Apples ana
small fruits: also Grain, Grass and Veg
etables. ... .. .
Manv Iiuii'iretl of excellent vinevnt s,
Orchard and lYJfl3,'e,m ncSAe Seen. I
The lo:ituon is only 34 miles fouth of
PhiUdelplrfa, by Railroad, in a mild, de
lightful climate, and at tho very doors of
the .New York and Philadelphia Markets.
Another iiailrOad ruus direct .to New
York.
Tho place 'is alrea.lv large, successful
and prosperous. Churches, School, and
other privileges are already established.
Also, manufactories or Shoes, Clothing,
Glass, Straw Goods, and other things, at
which different mom bers of a family can
proenre employment. - -It
has been a health resort for some
years past for people suffering from pul
monary anections, catarrh, Ague, ana tie
bility: manv thousands luiTe entirely re
covered. . . .. ... v
A new brick hotel has just been com
pleted, 100 feet front, with back buildings.
four stories high, Including French roof,
and all modern improvement for the tdr
comniodation of visitors.
Price of Farm Land 823.00 per acre.
payable installments, within the period of
tour years. I u this climate, planted out
to vine, iiO acres of hind will count fully
as much ns 100 acres further north.
' Persons unacquainted with fruit grow
ing can bscomo familiar with it in a short
fine on account of surroundings.
Fiva acre, one acre,, and tow n lots, u
the towns of Lan Usville and Vineland,
also for sale.
Whilst visiting tho Centennial Exhibi
tion, Vmelund can bo visited at small ex
pellee. ;
A paper containing full information.
will bo Kent upon application to C HULKS
iv. Ij.VMJIS, inclanil, fs. J., free of cost
The following iu an extract from a dtw
scription of Vineland, published in tho
New York Tribune, bv tho well-known
Agriculturist, Solon Robinson :
All the farmers were of the "well todo"
sort, and tome of them, who have turned
their attention to tnnts and market gard
cninir, have grown ri-h. The noil isioara.
varying from sandy t clayey, and surfa
gently undulating, intersected witb. feaall
streaiyH and ota.sioiml wet incadowi iu
which doH)sts of peat or muck aro stored,
suiiicient to tertuizetlMwiioieupianatiur
luce, alter it has bnvi exhausted of its
natural fertility.
It is certainly ons of the most extensive
fertile trtu-Uj in an almost level jKwition,
and suitable condition for pleasant frm-
ing, that we know of this side of the West
ern prairies. Wc found some of the old
fc.'t farms apparently lust as profitably
prodm:tive as when lirst e'eared of forest
liny or a hundred yearn ago,
Tho geologist woidd boon diecjvtr Iho
cause of this continued fertility. The
whole country is a marine deposit, ud all
through the Koil we found evidences of
calcareous bubstarnes, generally in the
form of indurated calcareous marl, show
jng many distinct forms of ancient sheila
of the tertiary loi inatk.n ; and this marlv
jnibstance is scattered all through tho Huil
in a very coin minuted lorn-., and in the
exact condition most easily assinimilated
by such plants a-. Uic farm w dosircs t-
Cultivate. . rai
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oe in cverv resiicct wliat is claimed tor it.
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