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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JUNE IS 
ijitinovcms. 
The Rural New-Yorker is prepared to 
offer very liberal terms to good , responsible , 
permanent agents. Correspondence solicit¬ 
ed. 
The longest day la In June, they say; 
The shortest in December. 
They did not come to me that way: 
The shortest X remember 
You came a day with me to stay, 
And tilled my heart with laughter; 
The longest day—vou were away— 
The very next day after. 
—The Century. 
In the soup—Well, that’s the cook’s secret. 
■— Puck. 
“Do you enjoy good health?’' ’“Why, yes, 
to be sure, who doesn’t?” — Sa-nitart-y News. 
Young ladies who play croquet are known 
as “maidens all forlawja .”—West Haven Bud¬ 
get. 
Girls who tise powder don’t go off auy 
quicker than those who don’t. —Boston 
Courier.- 
A messenger £oy’s diary—Monday, hired; 
Tuesday, tired; Wednesday, fired— Newark 
Sunday Call. 
“Eat with judgment,” says a learned phy¬ 
sician. Most people, however, will continue 
to use their jaws. —Boston Post. 
“A hen out West, has just laid an egg as 
big as a bowl.” First time we ever heard of a 
bowl-egged hen .—Cleveland Sun. 
She: “How do you suppose the apes crack 
the hard shells of the nuts they pick ?” He: 
“With a monkey wrench, of course.”— Bur¬ 
lington Free Press. 
“I say, Jenkins, can you tell a young 
, chicken from an old one?” “Of course I can.” 
“Well, how?” “By the teeth.” “Chickens 
don’t have teeth,” “No, but 1 have,”—iYcfc- 
Me-Up. • ' . 
* -“You all remember the words of Webster,” 
shouted an orator. “No, I don’t,” inter-" 
ruptefi a man in the gallery. “Do y oil* expect 
a man to remember the whole dictionary?”— 
Farm Journal. 
B£ (who in attempting to get some pond 
lilies has fallen in): “Don’t I look the very es¬ 
sence of woe, Miss Brown?” She: “Oh, no, Mr. 
Jones; you look more like Pond’s Extract” 
—Michigan Farmer. 
“That’s it!” exclaimed Mi's. Bascom at the 
concert, as the singers came out again in re¬ 
sponse to an encore. “Make ’em do it iover 
again until they get the thing right. ”— Bur¬ 
lington Free Press. 
Mother: “One of you boys has been steal¬ 
ing raisins again; I have, found the seeds on 
the floor. Which one of you was it?” Tommy: 
—“It wasn’t me. I swallowed the seeds in 
mine .”—Texas Siftings. 
• 
“Pawn me honah, me deah boy.” Don’t,” 
interrupted his friend, “I beg of you, don’t; 
you couldn’t raise enough on it to buy a cord 
for your eye-glass.” And the conversation 
was not resumed .—Michigan Farmer. 
Accounted For.*— Stranger: “What is the 
matter with this town? Everybody looks hag¬ 
gard and played out. Had a plague here?” 
Citizen: “No. The pigs in clover puzzle struck 
the place last week ,”—Michigan Farmer. 
“Where did you get that cake, Annie?” 
“Mother gave it to me.” “Bhe’s always 
a-giving you more ’n she does me.” “Never 
mind, Harry; she’s going to put mustard 
plasters on us to-night, and I’ll ask her to let 
you have the biggest.”— Life. 
“Oh, Papa,” said a vivacious East Liberty 
girl, “we want a good name for our young 
ladies’ club. Can you think of one at once 
significant and appropriate?” “Well, I don’t 
know,” replied the old man, “how would 
‘Giddy ’uns’ Band’do ?”—Pittsburg Chronicle. 
A Boston woman asked if the late lunar 
eclipse was partial or impartial? That is 
something on a par with the young New Or 
leans lawyer who was taking a testimony and 
asked a witness if certain articles in question 
were valuable or invaluable. —The Hustler 
gtlijscrititneous gutartisinj. 
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A .LITTLE CONFUSED. 
Jack: “ Sis, what is that funny little noise I hear all day ? ” 
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SiS: “ Why, Jack, that’s a cricket 1 You don’t mean to tell me that you don’t know the 
cricket’s song ? ” 
Jack: “ Really ! They never sing when I sit on them.” 
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