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GRACE AND THE MOON. 
Dear little Grace at the window stood, 
Watching, that winter night. 
The great round moon In the far blue sky, 
Where It shone so big and bright. 
Till a cloud swept over its shluing face. 
Then she turned wit h a little pout: 
“I wanted to look at the moon,” she said, 
“Hut somebody’s blowed It out!” 
— Wide Awake. 
Some mens vas alvays like der key hole on 
der back of a clock. Dkey vas bekint time.— 
Neiv Age. 
There is a deutist in a Mich, town, the sign 
over whose door reads: Teeth extracted with¬ 
out eny pane. Lalliu gas (10) cents a Ha Ha! 
—Life. 
Old Man: “If I had 50 cents and gave it to 
you to get changed in order 1 o get a penny, 
what w r ould be left?” Street Arab: “An old 
man!” —New Aye. 
A Troy paper speaks of a dog fight being 
“nipped in the bud ” A dog fight must be a 
very interesting botanical phenomenon.— Som¬ 
erville Journal. 
Some odd dinner customs still prevail. The 
Romans used to recline at their banquets, and 
the habit of lyiug at public dinners still pre¬ 
vails.— Boston Com mereial Bullet in. 
MISTRESS: “Bridget, everything in the 
house is covered with dust. I caul stand this 
dust any longer.” Bridget: “Ho as I do mum 
—don’t pay any attention to it.”— Texas Sift¬ 
ings. 
Miss B.: “Why is it, Mr. A., that whenever 
you refer to a Boston friend you invariably 
use the word ‘fellow?’ ” New Yorker: “Ob, 
because he belongs around the Hub, of course.” 
—Boston Globe. 
Contributor: “Here is a manuscript I wish 
to submit.” Editor (waving his hand): “I’m 
sorry. We are all full just now." Contri¬ 
butor (blandly): “Very well; I will call again 
when some of you are sober.”— Gazelle and 
Courier. 
An inquiring man thrust bis fingers into a 
horse’s mouth to see how many teeth it had; 
and the horse closed its mouth to see how 
many fingers the man had. The curiosity of 
each was fully satisfied.— Town and Country 
Journal. 
An Indian chief who was visiting at Wash ¬ 
ington at Government expense was introduced 
to a Senator recently who lias u very bald 
head. The chief looked at him some moments 
with great interest. Finally he said; “Ugh! 
Where you fight Injun some time?”— Michi¬ 
gan Farmer. 
A little fellow of four years went to a 
blacksmith to see his father’s horse shod, and 
was watching closely the work of the shoeing. 
The blacksmit h began to pare the horse’s hoof, 
and thinking this wrong, the little boy said, 
earnestly, “My pa don’t want his horse made 
any smaller.”— Life. 
Old Gentleman (putting a few questions): 
“Now, hoys—ah—can any of you tell me 
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74 1-3 Bushels of Corn per Acre for Three Years. 
In the recently published experiments 
with fertilizers conducted at the State 
Farm in Rhode Island for three years, the 
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I will insure herds numbering 100 head and over 
against death from disease, 
PROVIDED MY REMEDY IS FED 
to them under my direction, and the hogs prove upon 
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Farmers and Feeders who have used It write as fol 
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1 have used your remedy during the last live years, 
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I would not be without It for double tho price. 
Horace Bliss. Goshen. Imva. 
I w ould tint think of stocking up with six or seven 
hundred hogs, as 1 «ui this full, had I not learned by 
actual trial for rtc- past live years, that when vour 
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by Swine Disease.- C. U. Beutou. Clay Center, Kan. 
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on swine. 
Jos. Haas, V. S., 
Indianapolis, Ind. 
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HILL M'F’G CO , Kuilalo, N. Y. 
what commandment. Adam broke when he 
to«*k the forbidden fruit?” Sjnall scholar (like 
a shot): “Please, sir, th’woru’t no command¬ 
ments then, sir!” Questioner sits corrected.— 
Town and Country Journal. 
Little Danforth has evidently been a 
close observer of t he art of home dressing, for 
the other night he broke out iu an abrupt, 
skeptical way: “Mamma, docs God really 
make all the little boys?” “Yes, Dannie.’’ 
“But where are the seams? He can’t pull a 
whole skin on over ’em when he gets ’em made, 
cau he?”— Babyhood. 
Young Man: “Is it true, Doctor, thatsmok- 
ing cigarettes tends to soften the brain?” 
Physician: “There is a belief to that effect, 
but with all our boasted modern scientific ap¬ 
pliances it can never be verified.” Young 
Man: “Why, Doctor?” Physician: “Because 
nobody with brains ever smokes them .”—Vox 
Poputi. 
A little boy at a village school had writ¬ 
ten the word “psalm” in liis copybook, and 
accidentally blotted out the initial “p” with 
his sleeve. His little sister sitting at his side 
burst into tears over the disaster, but the spell¬ 
ing reformer defiantly exclaimed: “What if I 
did leave him out! He didn’t spell nothing, 
and what was the good of him?”— Pioneer 
Press. 
Some years ago a Miss H. was teaching 
school iu Dixon, 111. One day in the reading 
class they came across the word “magnet.” 
The teacher asked howmuny in the class knew 
what a magnet was, and requested those who 
knew r to hold up their right hands. All the 
class was motionless for a moment, and then 
one little girl rose and put up her hand. 
“Well, my dear,” said the teacher, “what is a 
magnet?” “I don’t know,” said the little girl, 
“as I know what it is, but I have seen ’em at 
home in mother’s cheese.”— American Maga¬ 
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age of 74% bushels and 4,326 pounds of 
O stover per acre, or TEN PER CENT, 
tk MORE corn than was produced by any 
other fertilizer. Equal values of fertilizer 
£> were used in each case. * 
^ At the price at which these manures 
^ can be bought of our local agents this 
o P year, they will be found the cheapest fer- 
c? r? tilizers iu the market, for although cost¬ 
ly ing a little more at the outset, they go much 
further, aud there is less to handle and 
apply. 
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BOWKER FERTILIZER COMPANY, 
BOSTON AND NEW YORK. 
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