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MARCH^ 
THE RURAL. NEW-YORKER. 
♦ 
Sponging for a living: The bakers. — 
Prairie Farmer. 
Henry Clay never smoked—not even a 
Henry Clay cigar or a clay pipe.— Puck. 
Nothing will turn a woman’s head so com¬ 
pletely as a bonnet that has passed by.— Puck. 
In a school they have to keep up the 
interest of the scholars in order to pay the 
principal.— Merchant Traveler. 
When a photographer asks if the negative 
suits you, examine it closely before answering 
in the affirmative.— Jackson Sentinel. 
‘•Write foregoes on your slates,” said the 
teacher to the juvenile class in spelling, and 
a little girl wrote, “Go, go. go, go.”— Ottawa 
Journal. 
Did it ever occur to you what a funny thing 
a postage stamp is? Even the Department 
can’t sell it after they cancel it.— Yonkers 
Statesman. 
‘‘Hello, Brown, have you any new facto¬ 
ries going up at Hellebore this fall?” “Yes 
our powder factory went up last week.”— 
Burlington Free Press. 
“What I can’t understand is how he came 
to marry the girl at all. Why, she hasn’t a 
spoonful of sense!” “Ah!” dear boy, but she 
has a cart full of dollars.”—Town Topics. 
“Does it jtay to be good?” asks an exchange. 
All we know is that a minister only gets $2 for 
marrying a couple, while the lawyer gets $200 
for unmarrying them.— Lebanon Courier. 
Nervous wife (to husband who is writing): 
“The squeaking of that pen is dreadful, John; 
what are you writing?” Husband: “A |roem. ’ 
Wife: “I don’t w onder it squeaks.”— Epoch. 
Farmer: “I guess that hog’s too old to eat 
What shall we do with him? Hired Man: 
Too old to eat! Not much he ain’t. He eats 
nrore'n more every day.— New Haven News. 
“I expect the hop crop will be very large 
this year,” remarked Squildig to a Pittsburg 
brewer. ‘ ‘Why ?” was the interested question. 
«‘Because it is leap year.”— Toronto Empire. 
An Irishman, who had on a very ragged 
coat, was asked of what kind of stuff 
it was made. “Bedad, I don’t know,” says 
he. “I think the most of it is made of fresh 
air.”— New Dominion. 
Why she laughs: The girl who has fine 
teeth may not have a keener sense of humor 
than other women, but you can depend on 
her to show all the appreciation she has of a 
joke or a funny story.— Journal of Education. 
“Pa, here’s a piece in the paper about par¬ 
asites. What is parasites, pa?” “Parasites, 
my boy? Why parasites are the people who 
live in Paris. Think you ought to know that, 
and you in the Third Reader.”— Liberty Tri¬ 
bune. 
The flexibility of the English language is 
shown in the reply of an Irishman to a man 
who sought refuge in his shanty in a heavy 
shower, and finding it about as wet inside as 
out, said: “You have quite a pond on the 
floor.” “Yis; sbure we have a great lake in 
the roof.”— Harper's Magazine. 
Astronomy is a beautiful science. A 
scientist tells us that it would take a railroad 
train, traveling day and night at the ra’e of 
fifty miles an hour, 42,000,000 years to reach 
the star Alpha Centauri. The difficulty of 
building a railroad to this star will, it is 
feared, prevent a practical test of the experi¬ 
ment.— Norristown Herald. 
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DEDERICK’S HA 
PRESSES. 
thecustoim r 
keeping the one 
that suits 
Order on trial, address for circular and location of 
Western and Southern Storehouses and Agents. 
p. K. DEDERICK A CO., Albany, N. Y, 
TWO SIDES TO IT. 
ISLAND HOME STOCK FARM. 
Savage & Karnum.Impor. 
ters and Breeders of Per- 
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Horses,IslandHomeStock 
Farm, Grosse Isle,Wayne 
County, Mich. We offer a 
very large stud of horses 
to selectfrom.weguaran- 
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reasonable, and sell on 
easy terms. Visitors al¬ 
ways welcome. Large 
catalogue free. Address 
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Detroit, Mich. 
Fercheron Horses, 
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ESTABLISHED 1832. 
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ROUND, SOLE AND HORSE-SHOE TILE, 
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Our new improved machinery makes superior round 
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THE COLD WATER DIP ( Thymo-Cresol ) is a 
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Diseases of Live-Stock. Used and recommen¬ 
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throughout the world. Send for Circular. 
T. W. Liawford & Co., Baltimore, Md. 
PURINGTON’S IMPROVED FARM BOILER. 
BEST ARTICLE MADE FOR 
Cooking Feed and Warming 
Water lor Stock. 
Needed on every Farm or any place 
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Cooking , Boiling , or Steaming 
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Knuckle Joint and Screw Press¬ 
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etc. Send for Catalogue. 
Boomer & Boschert PressCo., 
118 W.Water St., Syracuse, N.Y 
Striker: (coming home at 11 p. m.): “Biddy, phwere’s me supper?” 
Wife: “Oi’ve struck. Oi can’t worrk twinty-four hours a day whin yersilf won’t x>ut iu'tin.” 
French Coach Horses. 
FERCHERON HORSES. 
More Imported and Bred than by any other Eight Establishments. 
511 PURE-BREDS Now Actually on Hand. 
Experience ami Facilities Combined for Furnishing lies! Stock of Both Breeds 
at Reasonable Prices. 
Separate Catalogues for each breed, with history of same. Say which is wanted. Address 
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HOLSTEIN-F RI E S I A N 8 . 
CLYDESDALE, FRENCH COACH AND HAMBLETONIAN HORSES. 
LAKESIDE STOCK FARM has 
The only Cow that has given 26,021 lbs. 2 oz. of milk in a year. 
• - '■ that has given 23,602 lbs. 10 oz.in a year. 
The only four-year-oltl t-„ „„ 
The only two-year-old that has given 18,484 lbs. 18 oz in a year. 
The only herd of mature Cows that has averaged 17,166 lbs. I oz. In a year 
The only herd of two-year-olds that has averaged 12,465 lbs. 7 oz. In a year. 
The only two-year old Holsteln-Frleslan that has made 21 lbs. 10% oz. of out- 
ter iii & we6k. 
Fiftv-two Cows in this herd have averaged 20 lbs of butter In one week. 
100 Cows and Heifers in this herd average 17 lbs. 1 4:1-100 oz. of butter in a 
week. 
Over 100 Cows in the Advanced Registry. Fine studs of choice highly-bred Clydesdale, French Coaeli and 
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Sent anywhere in the U, S. 
On Three Days Trial. 
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LIFTS 20 TO 50 TONS. 
Five sizes. Price, $35 to $70. 
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