MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Medal awarded at N. Y. Mate Pair, 1871. 
1‘irril Pimm mi in at WeMeen N. Y. Fair, 
871.—HneciiiI Medal at Honor. Pa. 8fiite 
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“ A little nonsense now and then , 
Ts relished by the wisest men.'’ 
SPARKS AND SPLINTERS. 
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Hard lines—Railways. 
A fast friend—A telegraph. 
The first fall suits—Fig leaves. 
Ligiit-ueaded— A street lamp. 
A Hou.ow mockery—An echo. 
Noah was an ark-ltcct of tlie first water. 
Songs for the deaf—“Came bank to Erin.” 
A tea never indulged In by gossips— Charity. 
The first part of the (fame of Life—Crlbb-age. 
The petroleum men are great bores,but they 
mean well. 
After all, the best safety-match is marrying 
a rich wife. 
•. Home-Stretch—T he stretch across the ma¬ 
ternal knee. 
SriTAui.E apartments for castles in the air— 
Brown study. 
A man ever ready to scrape an -acquaintance 
—The barber. 
When is athief like a seamstress ?—YVhen he 
cuts and runs. 
The latest parlor game—Sitting up. It takes 
two to play it. 
Jonah rashly pitched into the sea and got 
badly whaled. 
J1 1 : each of good manners—For ruin to stare 
you in the f 9 .ee. 
Necessity lias no law, but an uncommon 
number of lawyers. 
Although the milkmaid has passed away, 
the made milk hasn’t. 
Sulphur comes from Vesuvius; therefore, 
it is good for eruptions. 
Bayard Taylor met with a warm reception 
in Iceland. They called him the “Skald” of 
America. 
A good comet for home uso can be made by 
tying a bunch of lighted fire-crackers to the 
cat’s tail. 
The fool soekelli to pick a fly from a mule’s 
hind leg. The wise man letteth out the job to 
the highest bidder. 
Life Beems a great deal brighter to us since 
reading that the Czar of Russia gnaws the corn 
ofT Ivis cob like the rest of us. 
A farmer, while fluggol'ating two of Ills un¬ 
ruly boys, was asked what he was doing. 
“ Threshing wild oats 1” was the reply. 
“ For a young woman to begin to pick lint off 
a young man's coat collar,” is said to bo the 
first symptom that the young man is in peril. 
You do not need to black your boots In Pitts¬ 
burg, says a traveler. You hang them out of 
the window at night, and they are black enough 
In the morning. 
A hratt of one of Mrs. Swelklns' daughters 
gave her a lace collar, saying, “ Dear, do not let 
any one else rumple it.” “ Oh no,” says Melin¬ 
da, “I’ll take it off.” 
Susie Ltuisuty Of La Crosse has thirteen 
lovers, an i every one of them exclaims, “ Give 
me Liberty, nr give me death I" And she's a 
rod-headed girl at that, 
A Western paper chronicles a marriage in 
this suggestive style: “The couple resolved 
themselves Into a committee of two, with power 
to add to their number.” 
A RUDE fellow once told Barnum that he had 
never exhibited anything that was not a bare¬ 
faced humbug. “Yet I have," said Barnum, 
“the bearded lady wasn’t bare-faced.” 
A Missouri paper says: — “ Yesterday we 
c Minted eleven able-bodied farmers whoso 
grass and oats needed cutting, sitting on dry 
goods boxes complaining of hard times." 
A backwoodsman describing a steamboat, 
saidIt hus a sawmill on one side, a gristmill 
on the other, and a blacksmith shop in the 
middle, and down stairs there’s a tarnation big 
pot boiling all the while." 
Josh Billings says, “ Herrings inhabit the 
sea generally; bat those which inhabit the 
grocery alwus taste to incas though they had 
been fat fed on salt. They want a deal of fresh¬ 
ening before they’re eatin, and also afterward. 
If 1 kin have plenty of herring for breakfast, I 
generally make the other two meals out of 
water.” 
A IN- old gentleman of the name of Gould, 
having married a very young wife, wrote a 
poetic U ep stle to a friend to inform him ot it, 
and concluded thus : 
“ So you see, my dear sir, though I’m eighty years old, 
A gin ol'eighteen is in love with old Gould.” 
To which his friend replied : 
"A girl of eighteen may love Gould, it is true; 
But believe me, door sir, it Is Gold without u.” 
The following epitaph on the Earl of Kildare 
is happily conceived: 
“ Who killed Kildare? Who dared Kildare to kill ? 
T> ata killed Kildare who duivi mu whom lie will,” 
That on John Penny is not so good, but has 
wit: 
“ Reader, of cash if thou ’rl in want ol any. 
Dig fourfeet deep, sod thou shait find a Fenny.” 
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A Vegetable Manual, Prepared with 
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for whom lie bus done so much in years past. He 
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Moore's Rural New- Yorker. — With its full 
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year, under the most favorable auspices. It Is the 
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the lady in her conservatory, the matron with her 
household, the farmer in ins fleld, the stock raiser 
among bis animals, ai d the young folks around tbe 
evening lamp.— Laics of Life. 
