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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
OCTOBER 26 
The Rural New-Yorker is prepared to 
offer very liberal terms to good, responsi¬ 
ble permanent agents. Correspondence 
solicited. 
Tint autumn toet doth appear. 
And *nan.v and many a rhyme will weave; 
Of autumn leaves when autumn’s here. 
Some one autumn make him leave. 
— Credit lost. 
The dentist may take root and yet not 
grow .—Troy Press. 
Who kills all the dead letters ? Miss Di¬ 
rection .—New Hampshire Patriot. 
Just think what a monotonous worldful 
of human beings we should be if we were 
all handsome .—Rochester Post-Express. 
Little man (proudly) : “ Yes, sir, I’m 
a self-made man.” Big man : “What was 
the matter, did the material give out.”— 
Time. 
The Toronto Globe tells of a man who 
has cooked his own beefsteak for 15 years. 
He must like it very well done .—Detroit 
Free Press. 
“ Meet me on the corner to-night, and 
dew not fale,” he wrote. And she answered 
him: “There’s no such word as fale.”— 
Lawrence American. 
Merchant : “ You couldn’t get here 
any earlier, eh ? Breakfast at stake, I sup¬ 
pose.” Clerk: “No, sir; it was the steak 
at breakfast.”— Time. 
The boy who was bent on eating the 
green watermelon was in the same con¬ 
dition about half an hour after he had done 
so .—Terre Haute Express. 
Policeman: “Do you have to take care 
of the dog ? ” Nurse-Girl: “ No ; the missis 
says I’m too young and inexperienced. I 
only look after the children.”— Life. 
“There,” said the new lady of the castle, 
“ are the graves of the former owner’s an¬ 
cestors. My ancestors,” she added proudly, 
“are all living.”— Harper's Magazine. 
Miss Boston : “ Papa, I find our profes¬ 
sor of pathology very interesting.” Mr. 
Boston : “ Our what ? ” Miss Boston : 
“ Our professor of pathology—our guide, 
you know.”—New York Sun. 
“Good morning, little orphan,” said the 
com to the oats. “Why do you call me 
orphan ? ” replied the oats. “ Because you 
have no fodder,” chuckled the corn. The 
oats was shocked .—Credit lost. 
Old Bullion (in a lamp store): “ Have 
you got a glass globe ? ” The New Clerk : 
“No; we don’t keep balloohs.” Old Bul¬ 
lion : “ Dear boy, if I were your employer 
you wouldn’t keep your job, either.”— 
Puck. 
On the Eiffel Tower.—M other and Girls 
(ecstatically): “ My! isn’t it high ? ” Father 
(in a gloom that reaches to the base of the 
tower) : “ Well, what of it. Have you seen 
anything in Paris this summer that wasn’t 
high ? ”—Life 
Jenkins (angrily): “ Hey,' boy ! How 
do you dare to get on this weighing ma¬ 
chine with me'?” Boy: “Jus git our total, 
boss, an’ then I’ll jump off, and when I see 
how much you weigh then I’ll know how I 
weigh. See ? ”— Life. 
ETHEL: “Did you go to Italy ?,” Har¬ 
riet: “O, my, yes! We staid there two 
months.” Ethel: “What do you think of 
the lazzaroni ? ” Harriet: “ O, it’s awful. 
I tried some the first night I was there, but 
it doesn’t suit my taste at all.”— Life. 
Bones: “Say, Jones, best chance you 
ever saw ! A piece of property absolutely 
free ! ” Jones : “ How ? What ? Where ?” 
Bones, (pointing to evangelist distributing 
missionary/literature): “Over there: a 
tract of the better land .”—Texas Siftings. 
Ferguson: “So our cook is going, is 
she ?_Well,\n io P e - t b e next one will be of a 
more literary turn.” Mrs. Ferguson: 
“ What do you mean by that ? ” Mr. Fer¬ 
guson : “A more earnest disciple of the art 
of ‘Browning, don’t lyou’; know.’’—Detroit 
Free Press. 
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Fine location for greenhouses. Price, only $4,500. 
Terms easy. Must be sold. J. H. GRIFFITH, 
Care Rural New-Yorker, N, Y. City. 
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Little Dot : “ Oh, ain’t that nice! Come on, Grandpa, let’s try it.” 
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