The Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty
$5.00 each, and is certainly worth it. It also tells all about
soap-making at home, so as to make it cost about one-quarter of what bar
soap costs; it tells how to make candles by molding or dipping; it gives
seven methods for destroying rats and mice; how to make healthy bread
without flour (something entirely new); to preserve clothes and furs
from moths; a sure plan for destroying houseflies, cockroaches, beetles,
ants, bedbugs and fleas; all about house cleaning, papering, etc., and
hundreds of other valuable hints just such as housekeepers are wanting
to know. 25 cents.
=HOW TO ENTERTAIN A SOCIAL PARTY.=--A complete selection of Home
Recreations. Profusely illustrated with fine wood-cuts, containing:
Round Games and Forfeit Games; Parlor Magic and Curious Puzzles; Comic
Diversions and Parlor Tricks; Scientific Recreations and Evening
Amusements; The Blue Beard tableaux; Tableaux-vivant for acting; The
play-room; Blind-man’s buff; One old ox opening oysters; How do you like
it? when do you like it? and where do you like it? Cross questions and
crooked answers; Cupid’s coming; Proverbs; Earth, air and water; Yes and
no; Copenhagen; Hunt the hare, and a thousand other games.
Here is family amusement for the million. Here is parlor or drawing-room
entertainment, night after night, for a whole winter. A young man with
this volume may render himself the _beau ideal_ of a delightful
companion to every party. Price, 25 cents.
=HOW TO WOO AND HOW TO WIN.-=-This interesting work contains full and
interesting rules for the etiquette of courtship, with directions
showing how to win the favor of the ladies; how to begin and end a
courtship; and how love-letters should be written. It not only tells how
to win the favor of the ladies, but how to address a lady; Conduct a
courtship; “Pop the Question;” Write love-letters; All about the
marriage ceremony; Bridal chamber; After marriage, etc. Price, 15 cents.
=ODELL’S SYSTEM OF SHORTHAND.=--By which the taking down of sermons,
lectures, trials, speeches, etc., may be easily acquired, without the
aid of a master. By this plan the difficulties of mastering this useful
art are very much lessened, and the time required to attain proficiency
reduced to the least possible limits. Price, 15 cents.
=HOW TO TALK AND DEBATE.=--CONTENTS: Introduction; Laws of Conversation;
Listening; Self-possession; Appreciativeness; Conversation, when
confidential; The matter and the manner; Proper subjects; Trifles;
Objectionable subjects; Politics; Rights of women; Wit and humor;
Questions and negatives; Our own hobbies; The voice, how to improve;
Speaking one’s mind; Public speaking; How to make a speech; Opening a
debate; Division of the subject; The affirmative; The reply, etc., etc.
A really valuable book, and one that every man and woman, boy and girl
should possess. 15 cents.
=LIFE IN THE BACKWOODS.=--A Guide to the successful without the wool or
hair; to skin and stuff birds; baits and hooks for fishing; how to fish
successfully without nets, lines, spears, snares, “bobs,” or bait (a
great secret), how to choose and clean guns; how to breed minks for
their skins (hundreds of dollars can be made by any boy or young man who
knows how to breed minks), etc.
This book is by an old trapper, for many years engaged in trapping in
the Northwest, who has finally consented to publish and disclose these
secrets. Persons living where wild animals exist, with some traps and
the information contained in this book, can make money faster through
the trapping season by giving their time and energies to the business
than they can by seeking their fortunes in the gold regions or in oil
speculations. This is at once the most complete and practical book now
in the market. Price, 15 cents.
=MODEL LETTER-WRITER (THE).=--A comprehensive and complete guide
and assistant for those who desire to carry on epistolary
correspondence--containing instructions for writing letters of
introduction; Letters of business; Letters of recommendation;
Applications for employment; Letters of congratulation; Letters of
condolence; Letters of friendship and relationship; Love-letters; Notes
of invitation; Letters of favor, of advice, and of excuse, etc., etc.,
together with appropriate answers to each. This is an invaluable book
for those persons who have not had sufficient practice to enable them to
write letters without great effort. 15 cents.
=NAPOLEON’S COMPLETE BOOK= of Fate and Complete Fortune Teller.--This is
the celebrated Oracle of Human Destiny consulted by Napoleon the First
previous to any of his undertakings, and by which he was so successful
in war, business, and love. It is the only authentic and complete copy
extant, being translated into English from a German translation of an
ancient Egyptian manuscript found in the year 1801 by M. Sonini, in one
of the royal tombs near Mount Libycus, in Upper Egypt. This Oraculum is
so arranged that any question on business, love, wealth, losses, hidden
treasures, no matter what its nature, the Oraculum has an answer for it.
It also shows how to learn of one’s fate by consulting the planets.
Price 15 cents.
=OGILVIE’S HOUSE PLANS; OR HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE.=--A neat new book,
containing over thirty finely executed engravings of dwellings of all
sizes, from two rooms up; also churches, barns, and out-houses in great
variety.
This handy, compact, and very useful volume contains, in addition to the
foregoing, plans for each floor in each and every dwelling of which an
engraving is given. It has, also, valuable information relative to
building, such as number of shingles required in a roof, quantity of
plaster for a house, quantity of materials required for building a
house, etc., etc., and much other information of permanent and practical
value.
Any one of the plans is alone worth very much more than the price asked
for the book. It is invaluable to every architect, builder, mason, or
carpenter, and particularly do we urge all who anticipate erecting a new
or remodeling an old dwelling to send for a copy, as its fortunate
possessor may save hundred of dollars by following the suggestions it
contains. 25 cents.
=HOW TO BEHAVE.=--Hand-book of Etiquette and Guide to True Politeness.
CONTENTS: Etiquette and its uses; Introductions; Cutting acquaintances;
Letters of introduction; Street etiquette; Domestic etiquette and
duties; Visiting; Receiving company; Evening parties; The lady’s toilet;
The gentleman’s toilet; Invitations; Etiquette of the ball-room; General
rules of conversation; Bashfulness and how to overcome it; Dinner
parties; Table etiquette; Carving; Servants; Traveling; Visiting cards;
Letter writing; Conclusion. This is the best book of the kind yet
published, and every person wishing to be considered well-bred, who
wishes to understand the customs of good society, and to avoid incorrect
and vulgar habits, should send for a copy. 15 cents.
=MISS SLIMMENS’ WINDOW.=--Complete edition in one volume now ready. 16mo,
150 pages. Bound in heavy paper covers, with 13 illustrations. 25
cents.
=OGILVIE’S HANDY MONITOR AND UNIVERSAL ASSISTANT,= containing Statistical
Tables of Practical Value for Mechanics, Merchants, Editors, Lawyers,
Printers, Doctors, Farmers, Lumbermen, Bankers, Bookkeepers, Politicians
and all classes of workers in every department of human effort, and
containing a compilation of facts for reference on various subjects,
being an epitome of matters Historical, Statistical, Biographical,
Political, Geographical and general interest. 192 pages bound in paper,
25 cents.
No more valuable book has ever been offered containing so much
information of practical value in everyday life.
=OLD SECRETS AND NEW DISCOVERIES.=--Containing Information of Rare Value
for all Classes, in all Conditions of Society.
=It Tells= all about _Electrical Psychology_, showing how you can
biologize any person, and, while under the influence, he will do
anything you may wish him, no matter how ridiculous it may be, and he
cannot help doing it.
=It Tells= how to _Mesmerize_. Knowing this, you can place any person in a
mesmeric sleep, and then be able to do with him as you will. This secret
has been sold over and over again for $10.
=It Tells= how to make persons at a distance think of you--something all
lovers should know.
=It Tells= how you can charm those you meet and make them love you,
whether they will or not.
=It Tells= how Spiritualists and others can make writing appear on the arm
in blood characters, as performed by Foster and all noted magicians.
=It Tells= how to make a cheap Galvanic Battery; how to plate and gild
without a battery; how to make a candle burn all night; how to make a
clock for 25 cents; how to detect counterfeit money; how to banish and
prevent mosquitoes from biting; how to make yellow butter in winter;
Circassian curling fluid; Sympathetic or Secret Writing Ink; Cologne
Water; Artificial honey; Stammering; how to make large noses small; to
cure drunkenness; to copy letters without a press; to obtain fresh-blown
flowers in winter; to make good burning candles from lard.
=It Tells= how to make a horse appear as though he was badly foundered; to
make a horse temporarily lame; how to make him stand by his food and not
eat it; how to cure a horse from the crib or sucking wind; how to put a
young countenance on the horse; how to cover up the heaves; how to make
him appear as if he had the glanders; how to make a true-pulling horse
balk; how to nerve a horse that is lame, etc., etc.--These horse secrets
are being continually sold at one dollar each.
=It Tells= how to make the Eggs of Pharo’s Serpents, which when lighted,
though but the size of a pea, there issues from it a coiling, hissing
serpent, wonderful in length and similarity to a genuine serpent.
=It Tells= how to make gold and silver from block tin (the least said
about which the better). Also how to take impressions from coins. Also
how to imitate gold and silver.
=It Tells= of a simple and ingenious method of copying any kind of drawing
or picture. Also, more wonderful still, how to print pictures from the
print itself.
=It Tells= how to perform the Davenport Brothers “Spirit Mysteries.” So
that any person can astonish an audience, as they have done. Also scores
of other wonderful things which there is no room to mention.
=Old Secrets and New Discoveries= is worth $5 to any person; but it will
be mailed to any address on receipt of only 25 cents.
=OUT IN THE STREETS.=--By S. N. Cook. Price, 15 cents.
We take pleasure in offering the strictly moral and very amusing
temperance drama entitled, “Out in the Streets,” to all entertainment
committees as one that will give entire satisfaction. The parts are
taken by six male and six female characters.
=PHUNNY PHELLOW’S GRAB BAG;= or, Jolly Tid-Bits for Mirthful
Mortals.--Josh Billings, Danbury News Man and Bret Harte rolled into
one. It is not too much to say that the book contains the choicest humor
in the English language. Its size is mammoth, containing more than one
thousand of the raciest jests, comical hits, exhilarating stories,
flowers of wit, excruciating jokes, uproarious poems, laughable
sketches, darky comicalities, clowns’ efforts, button-bursting
conundrums, endmen’s jokes, plantation humors, funny caricatures,
hifalutin dialogues, curious scenes, cute sayings, ludicrous drolleries,
peculiar repartees, and nearly 500 illustrations. 25 cents.
=SCIENCE OF A NEW LIFE (THE).=--By John Cowan, M.D. A handsome 8vo,
containing over 400 pages, with more than 100 illustrations, and sold at
the following prices: English cloth, beveled boards, gilt side and back,
$3.00; leather, sprinkled edges, $3.50; half turkey morocco, marbled
edges, gilt back, $4.00.