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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 24 , 1900 
Humorous* 
She had caught him in the very fault for 
which he’d lectured her, 
And woman-like she hastened to hit back; 
So, spluttering with excitement, she ac¬ 
costed him with: “Sir! 
Perhaps you'd better preachise what you 
prac.!" 
—Credit Lost. 
“These dates appear to be new and 
fresh,” remarked the goat; “I think I’ll 
take some.” Thereupon he absorbed the 
1900 calendar with great gusto.—Credit 
Lost. 
“What made Langdon so short? Did 
he stunt his growth by smoking cigar¬ 
ettes when he was a boy?” “No; he 
was brought up on condensed milk by 
his parents, in order to tit the flat in 
which they lived.”—Life. 
Mrs. Chicory: “That detestable Mrs. 
Hashem was boasting to-day about how 
long she keeps her boarders.” Mrs. 
Pruner: “Oh, she keeps them so thin 
that they look longer than they really 
are.”—Philadelphia Record. 
Friend: “What are you working at, 
Professor?” Chemist: “I’m trying to 
devise a method of preventing milk 
mixing with water. Then I’ll organize 
the ‘Waterproof Milk Company,’ and my 
fortune will be made.”—Puck. 
Lord Charles Beresford says that 
the roads in China are bad. When he 
was in that country he complained of 
. them one day to an American resident, 
who replied: “Yes, a mule was drowned 
the other day in the road outside my 
house.”—San Francisco Argonaut. 
First Incubated Chicken: “Do you 
know it is said that our ancestors were 
originally hatched out by ordinary 
hens?” Second Incubated Chicken: 
“Nonsense! I don’t believe in any such 
absurd Darwinian theory!”—Puck. 
City Niece: “Uncle Hiram, what do 
you think of those incandescent lights 
in your room?” Uncle Hiram: “Give 
me tallow candles every time. How in 
tar***ion air yeou going to take them 
thar things down an’ grease yeour boots 
in the morning?”—Credit Lost. 
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.vn, O., May 31, 189D. 
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ful results. (S? 
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time we hot to iur “Success” weeder, aud 
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First 1 used it on my wheat in the spring. I could scarcely see any wheat at all, it was so winter¬ 
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clover on it,” and so we did and then put the weeder on it, and we put some stones on the weeder so as 
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If everyone would work their weeders in their oats and wheat it would pay them big. So many 
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You can count on a big weeder trade from this section next year. Yours, — J. R. Wright. 
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