Howard's Book of Conundrums and Riddles. Containing ..50 cts. Frost's Book of Tableaux and Shadow Pantomimes. Containing a choice collection of Tableaux or Living Pictures, embracing Moving Tableaux, Mother Goose Tableaux, Fairy Tale Tableaux, Charade and Proverb Tab.caux; together with directions for arranging the stage, costuming the characters, and forming appropriate groups. By Miss S. Annie Frost. To which is added a number of Shadow Acts and Pantomimes, with complete stage instructions. 180 pages, paper cover...30 cts Bound in boards, cloth back....... ..50 cts Laughing Gas. An Encyclopædia of Wit, Wisdom, and Wind. By Sam Slick, Jr. Comically illustrated with 100 original and laughable Engravings, and nearly 500 side-extending Jokes, an other things to get fat on; and the best thing of it is, that everything about the book is new and fresh-all new-new designs, new stories, new type-no comic almanac stuff. Price.. ..25 cts. The Egyptian Dream Book and Fortune-Teller. Containing an Alphabetical List of Dreams, an i numerous methods of Telling Fortunes, including the celebrated Oraculum of Napoleon Bonaparte. Illustrated with explanatory diagrams. 1Cmo, boards, cloth back. Price..... ..40 Cts. Ned Turner's Black Jokes. A collection of Funny Stories, Jokes, and Conundrums, interspersed with Witty Sayings and Humorous Dialogues. As given by Ned Turner, the Celebrated Ethiopian Delineator and Equestrian Clown. Price.... ...10 cts. Book of 1,000 Tales and Amusing Adventures. Containing over 300 Engravings, and 450 pages. This is a magnificent book, and is crammed full of narratives and adventures. Price... ...$1.50 ho Game of Whist. Rules, Directions, and Maxims to be observed in playing it. Containing, also, Primary Rules for Beginners, Explanations and Directions for Old Players, and the Laws of the Game. .12 cts. Compiled from Hoyle and Matthews. Price.. 10,000 Wonderful Things. Comprising the Marvellous and Rare, Odd, Curious, Quaint, Eccentric, and Extraordinary in all Ages and Nations, in Art, Nature, and Science, including many Wonders of the World, enriched with hundreds of authentic illustrations. 16mo, cloth. gilt side and back. Price.... .$1.50 Ned Turner's Clown Joke Book. Containing the best Jokes and Gems of Wit, composed and delivered by the favorite Equestrian Clown and Ethiopian Comedian, Ned Turner. 18mo. Price.... .10 cts. Sam Slick in Search of a Wife. 12mo. Paper cover. Price... cloth.. ..75 ots. $1.25 Cards of Courtship. Arranged with such apt Conversations that you will be enabled to ask the momentous question categorically, in such a delicate manner that the girl will not suspect what you are at These cards may be used, either by two persons, or they will make lots of fun for an evening party of young people. There are fourteen question cards, and twenty-eight answers-forty-two in all. Each answer will re spond differently to every one of the questions. The person holding the questions either selects or draws one out, as he pleases. The answer is giv, en by shuffling the answer cards, and then throwing one of them down pro miscuously. It may be a warm and loving, a non-committal, a genial assenting, a cold denying, an evasive, or even a coquettishly uncertain answer -for they are all there, besides others which it is difficult to classity. When used in a party, the question is read aloud by the lady receiving it-she shuffles and hands out an answer-and that also must be read aloud by the gentleman receiving it. The fun thus caused is intense. Put up in handsome card cases, on which are printed directions. Price........30 cts. Love-Making Made Easy. By Love-Letter Cards. We have just printed a new and novel Set of Cards which will delight the hearts of young people susceptible of the tender passion. These consist of fortytwo cards-twenty-one pink, or yellow, and the same number of white ones. Each white card has printed on it a love-letter to a lady, and each of the colored ones has her reply. The letters and replies are all different, and no formality of style, or namby-pambyism, will be found in any of them. All are written in a modern familiar tone, with plain and candid declarations of love-warmly or moderately expressed, or delicately hinted at, as the case may be, and some of them boldly popping the momentous question to the fair recipient. The answer cards are equally terse, candid and to the point. N. B. These cards may be also successfully used for models (either wholly or in part) in writing to lovers or sweethearts. Put up in handsome cases on which are printed directions. Price...... ..30 cts. ........ Fortune-Telling Cards. Solutions of uncertain and intricate questions relative to love, luck, lotteries, matrimony, business matters, journeys, and future events generally, are here given in a direct, piquant, and satisfactory manner. They have been carefully worked out on genuine astrological and geometrical principles, by planetarium, and in figures, triangles and curves, and are so arranged that each answer will respond to every one of the questions which may be put. There are fourteen printed questions and twenty-eight answer cards. If none of the questions should suit your case, you can ask any other you please, and the proper answer will come. These cards will also afford a fund of amusement in a party of young people. Each package is enclosed in a card-case, on which are printed directions for using the cards. Price....... .30 cts. Leap-Year Cards. To enable any lady to pop the question to the chosen one of her heart. This set of cards is intended more to make fun among young people than for any practical utility. There are twenty-one pink or yellow cards, and the same number of white ones-forty-two in all. On each of the colored cards is a printed letter from a lady to a gentleman, wherein the fair one declares her love, or pops the question in a humorously sentimental manner. The letters all differ in style, and in the mode of attack. The twenty-one answers, on white cards, is where the fun comes in. Put up in handsome cases, on which are printed directions.. ...30 cts. Souillard's Book of Practical Receipts. For the use of Families. Druggists, Perfumers, Confectioners, Patent Medicine Factors, and Dealers in Soaps and Fancy Articles for the Toilet. Compiled with great care from receipts now in use by the most popular houses in France and the United States. By F. A. Souillard, practical chemist. Paper cover. Price...... .25 cts. Book of Household Pets. Containing valuable instructions ..50 cts. ..75 cts. Athletic Sports for Boys. A Repository of Graceful Re creations for Youth, containing clear and complete instructions in Gymnas- Bound in boards, with cloth back. Price.. .75 cts. ..$1 00 The Play-Ground; or, Out-Door Games for Boys. A Book of Healthy Recreations for Youth, containing over a hundred Amusements, including Games of Activity and Speed; Games with Toys, Marbles, Tops, Hoops, Kites, Archery, Balls; with Cricket, Croquet and Base-Ball. Illustrated with 124 wood-cuts. Bound in boards. Price... Bound in cloth, gilt side.... .50 cts. ..75 cts. The above three books are abridged from the "American Boy's Book of Sports and Games." The Young Reporter; or, How to Write Short-Hand. A com plete Phonographic Teacher, intended to afford thorough instruction to those who have not the assistance of an Oral Teacher. By the aid of this work, any person of the most ordinary intelligence may learn to write ShortHand, and Report Speeches and Sermons in a short time. Bound in boards, with cloth back. Price... ...50 cts. Barton's Comic Recitations and Humorous Dialogues. Containing a variety of Comic Recitations in Prose and Poetry, Amusing Dialogues, Burlesque Scenes, Eccentric Orations and Stump Speeches, Humorous Interludes and Laughable Farces. Designed for School Commencenents and Amatevr Theatricals. Edited by JEROME BARTON. This is the best collection of Humorous pieces, especially adapted to the parlor stage, that has ever been published. Illuminated paper cover. Price.....30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back.... .50 cts The Secret Out; or, One Thousand Tricks with Cards, and other Recreations. Illustrated with over Three Hundred Engravings. A book which explains all the Tricks and Deceptions with Playing Cards ever known, and gives, besides. a great many new ones-the whole being described so carefully, with engravings to illustrate them, that anybody can easily learn how to perform them. This work also contains 240 of the best Tricks in Legerdemain, in addition to the card tricks. 12mo., 400 pages bound in cloth, with gilt side and back. Price....... .....$150 The American Card Player. Containing clear and comprehensive directions for playing the games of Euchre, Whist, Bezique, All Fours French Fours, Cribbage, Cassino, Straight and Draw Poker, Whisky Poker and Commercial Pitch, together with all the laws of those Games. 150 pages, bound in boards, with cloth back. Price..... Bound in cloth gilt side... ........... 50 cts. .75 cts. The Courtship and Adventures of Jonathan Homebred; or, The Scrapes and Escapes of a Live Yankee. Beautifully Illustrated 12mo., cloth. This book is printed in handsome style, on good paper, and with amusing engravings. Price $1 50 The Wizard of the North's Hand-Book of Natural Magic. Being a series of the Newest Tricks of Deception, arranged for Amateurs and Lovers of the Art. By Professor J. H. ANDERSON, the great Wizard of the North. Price....... ...25 cts. The Encyclopædia of Popular Songs. Being a compilation of all the new and fashionable Patriotic, Sentimental, Ethiopian, Humorous, Comic and Convivial Songs, the whole comprising over 400 songs. 12mo., cloth, gilt. Price...... .$1 25 Tony Pastor's Book of 600 Comic Songs and Speeches. Being an entire collection of all the Humorous Songs, Stump Speeches, Burlesque Orations, Funny Scenes, Comic Duets, Diverting Dialogues, and Local Lyrics, as sung and given by the unrivaled Comic Vocalist and Stump Orator, TONY PASTOR. Bound in boards, cloth back Yale College Scrapes; or, How the Boys Go It at New Haven. This is a book of 114 pages, containing accounts of all the noted and famous "Scrapes" and "Sprees," of which students at Old Yale have been guilty for the last quarter of a century. Price... .25 cts. The Comic English Grammar; or, A Complete Grammar of our Language, with Comic Examples. Illustrated with about fifty engravings. Price... The Comical Adventures of David Dufficks. with over one hundred Funny Engravings. Large octavo. Price...... .25 cts. Illustrated ..25 cts. Anecdotes of Love. Being a true account of the most remarkable events connected with the History of Love in all Ages and among all Nations. By LOLA MONTEZ, Countess of Landsfeldt. Large 12mo., cloth. Price.... $1 50 Tony Pastor's Complete Budget of Comic Songs. Containing a complete collection of the New and Original Songs, Burlesque Orations, Stump Speeches, Comic Dialogues, Pathetic Ballads, as sung and given by the celebrated Vocalist, TONY PASTOR. Cloth, gilt. Price...... $1 25 The Laughable Adventures of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson. Showing where they went and how they went; what they did and how they did it. With nearly two hundred most thrillingly comic engravings. Price ..30 cts. De Walden's Ball-Room Companion; or, Dancing Made Easy. A collection of the Fashionable Drawing-Room Dances, with full directions for dancing all the figures of "The German." By EMILE DEWALDEN, Professor of Dancing. Bound in boards, cloth back.. .50 cts. Popular Song Books, sent Free of Postage. Price Ten Cents each. NEW SONG BOOKS. This list of Song Books contains all kinds of Songs, embracing Love, Senti mental, Ethiopian, Scotch, Irish, Convivial, Comic, Patriotic, Pathetic, aud Dutch Songs, besides a great variety of Stump Speeches, Burlesque Orations, Plantation Scenes, Irish, Dutch, and Yankee Stories, Comic Recitations, Conundrums and Toasts. HARRY RICHMOND'S MY YOUNG WIFE AND I SONGSTER.......10 Cts. FRANK KERN'S PRETTY LITTLE DEAR SONGSTER... THE ROOTLE-TUM TOOTLE-TUM TAY SONGSTER. JENNY ENGEL'S DEAR LITTLE SHAMROCK SONGSTER. BILLY EMERSON'S NEW COMIC SONGSTER.. WILL CARLETON'S DANDY PAT SONGSTER TOM MOORE'S IRISH MELODIES.. BILLY HOLMES' COMIC LOCAL LYRICS.. FATTIE STEWART'S COMIC SONGSTER. ..10 ..10. .10 .10"* ..10" .10 " 10" CHRISTY'S BONES AND BANJO SONGSTER.. GEORGE CHRISTY'S ESSENCE OF OLD KENTUCKY. BOB HART'S PLANTATION SONGSTER BILLY BIRCH'S ETHIOPIAN SONGSTER. THE CAMP-FIRE SONG BOOK THE CHARLEY O'MALLEY IRISH SONGSTER FRED MAY'S COMIC IRISH SONGSTER THE LOVE AND SENTIMENTAL SONGSTER. THE IRISH BOY AND YANKEE GIRL SONGSTER.. THE FRISKY IRISH SONGSTER GUS SHAW'S COMIC SONGSTER WOOD'S MINSTREL SONG BOOK.. WOOD'S NEW PLANTATION MELODIES... |