DEC. 45 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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8 PARK8 AND SPLINTERS. 
Professor —“ In one evening I counted twen¬ 
ty-seven meteors sitting on my piazza.’’ Class 
expresses great astonishment at the social char¬ 
acter of the heavenly bodies. 
“ Yoc are pretty as a picture," he muttered, 
gazing into her upturned face, “audit would 
have been a great deal cheaper for me if I had 
your picture instead of yourself." 
The editor of a child's paper received a letter 
from a lady subscriber recontly, in which was 
written: “ Our Annie died last week, after read¬ 
ing the last number of your valuable paper." 
Party (about to ask for a subscription): “I 
am so glad to have met Mrs. Chodder. 1 wanted 
to speak to you—ahem—the Idiot Orphans’ 
Fund,”—Mrs. C. I’Dcar, dear ! poor child, did ho 
stray far ? Laws-a-mussy ! Fund, is be then ? 
Why, hi didn't heven know’ he wore lost!” 
A Detroit boy stood an umbrella with a chord 
tied to it, in a publio door-way. Eleven persons 
tl o igbt that umbrella was theirs, and carried 
it with them the length of the string. They 
then suddenly dropped it and went off without 
once looking back or stopping to pick it up 
again. 
It is said that nature intended that persons 
should sleep with their feet to the equator. But 
when your wife comes back from starting the 
fire on a December morning ami deposits her 
cold feet against your equator, doesn't it seem 
as though the intention of nature in this re¬ 
spect must have been misinterpreted ? 
equeha’rianism: in the countky. 
Fabheb. “ I ain’t got no saddle Cap, but if you feel like takin' a ride you’re perfectly wel¬ 
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