ONLY A SERVANT 
BUT OH 1 . How 
A MATCH, SOME. COAL 
and woob 
ONLY A CAM OF 
KtROSEAlE 
AMD oMi-YA crease spot 
v/MBHETHE stood. 
ONLY: A DOMESTIC EPISODE IN FOUR TABLEAUX. 
” Oh, what is so rare as a day in .Time ? 
Asks Lowell. Well opinions vary ; * 
•But the day most rare, we must declare, 
Is the twenty uluth of February. 
—Otawa Journal. 
“ Amos bit me last night.’' “ Amos who ? ” 
“ Amosquito .”—Dansville Breeze. 
An exchange asks : “ Does etiquette demand 
a vest on a hot day ? If it does it can have 
ours .”—Norrislenvn Herald. 
Madame Patti signed an alleged photograph 
of herself with her initials and the words: 
“ Who is it ■?”—Weekly Novypare.il. 
“ How old are you, Miss Emma ?” “ I am 
old enough to know better than to answer 
that question .”—Laconia Democrat. 
Always on top: the hat .—Champion City 
Times. Always under foot: the shoe. Ah, 
ha! We can do this sort of thing, too.— Cin¬ 
cinnati Telegram. 
She; Have you seen the chimpanzees up at 
the Park ? He: No; are they in bloom now ? 
She: Are what in bloom ? He: Why, the Jim 
pansies .—Li fe. 
Ungallant Nebraskans wanted to name 
their post-office “ Old Maid,” but the post- 
office department sensibly squelched the 
scheme .—Toledo Blade. 
“ If women are really angels,” writes an 
old bachelor, “why don’t they flyover the 
fence instead of making such a fearfully awk¬ 
ward job of climbing ?”—Buffalo News. 
“Papa,” said a little five year old, point- 
* ing to a turkey gobbler strutting around in a 
neighbor’s yard, “aint that red nosed chicken 
got an awful big bustle?” —Chicago Rambler . 
An American recently sent a bath tub as a 
——--S. Our latest Importation has arrived from France, and we will be ({lad to see our 
4 k frlcuds and acquaintances and iliose with whom we have benn la eorresnoadence. 
/ \ in fact any and sill who arc in search of ftret-cUss PKKi'HK.KONS und FRENCH 
/ CiTAchkrs, t<i look them ovi r. We have an exceptionally line lot, and our stud 
/ la so large that all uiuy be pleased. IVc offer ibe largest number and greatest 
/ ^ Wjffiw- . yt.TV variety m aehvi from. All our iinportcd stock Is selected by lilt FARNt’M him- 
l IMj Ml ecrsonaily In Fmncc, and he accepts uothlng hut the beat Horses of the most 
w K M Our Home-bred Stock la all the progeny of selected sires and dams of the best 
\ form and most desirable breeding. We guarantee our stock sell on easy terms 
\ * SBV We will be glad to answer all correspondence promptly: but we would 
\ mffgW strongly advise p, rsons contemplating ihe parch,w of a Horse or mare, Percherou 
\ KHr or French Coats, to get on the train aud come aud see us. 
^Catalogues Free, by Mail. 
Savage cfc Farnum, 
PROPRIETORS OF ISLAND HOME STOCK FARM, IMPORTERS AND BREEDERS, 
Address all communications to Detroit, Mich.) C KOSSE ISLE, WAYNE CO., MICHIGAN. 
NEW' JERSEY 
STATE AGRICULTURAL SOGIETY. 
THE 29th ANNEAL EXHIBITION 
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For further information address 
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We build Automatic Engines from 2 to 200 H. P., 
equal to anything in market. 
A Large I ot of 2,3 and 4-H. Engines 
with or without boilers, low for cash. 
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present to a gentleman in Naples He re- 
CHAtLCHQC 5 All OTHERt 
PULVERIZING HARROW, 
CLOD CRUSHER and LEVELER. 
The Beat fool In the world for pf-parlog Wheat 
CrounU and for Summfl fmicmt. 
DUANE S. NASH, Solo Manufacturer. 
Millington, New Jersey. 
Brfcneh Other; MO Soiilli Clark Si., <’hiciq;o. 
ft, B.-“Tillage it Manure" and othertent free 
to partiet who name lhi» piper. 
, THE 
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Company 
EUREKA 
ceived a note from tbe gentleman some time 
later asking wheu the oars were coming.— 
Fond du Lac Journal. 
A crank in Savannah, Missouri, shot at 
the woman who refused him, but the ball 
was stopped by her bustle, made of old news¬ 
papers, and she was uninjured. Now' is the 
time to subscribe .—Minden Gazette. 
A.: What are you readiug ? B.: It is a'very 
useful book for those who dou’t know howto 
swim. A.: How so t B.: If you Call over¬ 
board all you have to do is turn to page 57 and 
read tbe directions, and you are safe .—Texas 
Siftings. 
Master Tommy is sick aud also indisposed 
to take the prescribed remedy. “ Come, my 
precious,” says bis mother, “ you muse swal¬ 
low your raediciue.” “ l can’t.” “ One al¬ 
ways can when one wants to. ” “ But I don’t 
want to . v —Judge. 
“ The dead languages were killed by being 
studied too hard,” said a smart Harvard fresh¬ 
man at the breakfast table the other morn¬ 
ing, but he fell heavily upon his book when a 
young lady opposite replied: “ I guess you 
didn’t have any thing to do with the murder.’’ 
—Boston Globe. 
One day mamma had the ironing to do. 
“ What makes ’ou do vat ?” asked little Nelly. 
“ 1 iron tbe Ldothesto take the wrinkles out, ’’ 
mamma answered. Three year old Nelly was 
silent for a moment;'then she burst forth, 
“ Well, veu, why tau’c ’ou iron out dramma’s 
face ? ”— The Courier. 
A FP.IEND of ours frequently uses the slang 
expression “broke me all up.” My little girj 
had never heard it until the other evening. 
She looked very worried for quite awhile, 
when, w'ilh rather a tearful expression, she 
inquired: “Mamma, can Mr. E- get him¬ 
self mended adeu V— Babyhood. 
St. Paul and Minnie A. Polis are stopping 
this summer with Minnie Sota in the North¬ 
west. St. John will spend a few weeks at 
New Brunswick. Elmira is in New York. 
Elizabeth is in New Jersey fighting mosqui¬ 
toes. Marietta is in the Georgia Highlands. 
Charlotte is stopping in North Carolina and 
Augusta is in the Piedmont region again this 
year. Columbus, whom the world had thought 
dead, is luxuriating in Central Ohio, and 
Cleveland is trying to catch up with New 
York’s Buffalo. We understand that none of 
these will visit each other this year .—The 
Earth. 
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The finest stock of Apple. Standard and Dwarf Pear, 
Plum and Peach Trees ever offered fo the trade. 
AT BOTTOM PRICES. 
Also a full-line of GENERAL NURSERY STOCK. Writ© for particulars stating quantity, 
size, varieties, etc., wauted. Mention Rural New-Yorker. 
Smiths, Powelf & Lamb, Syracuse, N. Y. 
- — *t‘ b-CguLKA. after a trial 
lasting 4 trios, was pro. 
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■11 and to-day stands 
at the head of all 
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Catalogue Free. Address 
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T.AK <•- IDEcTOCK FARM has 
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The only four-year-old that has given 22,602 lbs. lOez.lu a year. 
The only iwo-year-old that has given 18,484 lbs. 13 oz lnaycin» 
The only herd of mature Cows that has averaged 17,166 lbs. 
108 ina year, < 
Thu only hevd of two-year-olds that has averaged 12,46!ilh8. 7 
or. lu u year. 
The only two-year old Holstelu-Frleslan that has made 21 
Thirty -one* Cows lu this herd have averaged 2n lbs. 1 oz. of 
xwlfflftFourteen Cows in this herd have averaged 22 lbs. 1 oz. of 
^ wiP K1U( RECOHO 26021 LBS.2DZ5. IN ONE YEAR. butter 111 a week. 
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OUR'NEW’RE-CLEANER 
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