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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
December 31, 1898 
Humorous. 
He: “Darling, will you share my 
lot? ” She : “Yes, Reginald, if it really 
is a lot.”— Tit-Bits. 
Sympathetic Friend : “ And did your 
husband die peacefully ?” Sorrowing 
Widow: “Oh, I’m afraid not. We had 
three doctors.”— Chicago News. 
Young Bbidk (breaking in at house¬ 
keeping): “What miserable little eggs 
again ! I really must tell the grocer to 
let the hens sit on them a little longer.” 
Tit-Bits. 
Judge : “You say you do not wish to 
prosecute this defendant for stealing a 
kiss?” Fair Complainant: “No, your 
honor. The property has been restored.” 
—Stray Stories. 
Teacher : “In what part of the Bible 
is it taught that a man should have only 
one wife?” Little Boy : “ I expect it’s 
the part that says no man can serve two 
masters. ”— Tit-Bits. 
“ Old Boreas is here ! ” exclaimed Mr. 
Ricketts, as he entered the sitting-room, 
rubbing his hands. “ Oh, dear,” sighed 
Mrs. Ricketts, “ why did you bring some¬ 
body home that I never heard of before ? ” 
Life. 
Dorothy: “Oh! mamma, dear, every 
day when I go to school, a naughty little 
boy will kiss me!” Mamma: “Well, 
darling, you should run away.” Dorothy: 
“ Well, but—suppose he didn’t run after 
me ? ”— Punch. 
Hired Boy (on a farm): “ Kin I go 
fishin’ this afternoon ? ” Farmer : “ No ; 
but be a good boy and work hard, ’n 
mebbe next week you can go to a fun¬ 
eral.” Hired Boy : “Kin I go to your’n ?” 
—Trained Motherhood. 
“I don’t believe,” said the million¬ 
aire’s wife, regretfully, “that our son- 
in-law has any business ability.” “ Busi¬ 
ness ability ! ” exclaimed the millionaire. 
“ Huh ! He married our only daughter, 
didn’t he ? ”— Chicago Post. 
“ I wish now,” shrieked the angry 
young wife, “ I wish now, George 
Whackster, you had married Luce Jones 
instead of me ! That’s what I wish ! ” 
“ I would have married her,” howled the 
equally angry young husband, *• only she 
wouldn’t have me and you would ! ”— 
Credit Lost. 
“ I know the pumpkin pie was rather 
thin as to filling,” said the landlady, al¬ 
most crying, “but 1 don’t think he had 
any right to say what he did.” “ What 
did he say ? ” asked the second table 
boarder. “ He asked me if I didn’t think 
that the piecrust would be improved if 
it had another coat of paint.”— Indian¬ 
apolis Journal. 
Smithers : “ Why don’t you run for 
school director, Abraham ? ” Brown : 
“ Well, you see, sir, there is the farm to 
look after, and the work on the roads, 
the timber to cut, the strong party feel¬ 
ing, my views on the educational ques¬ 
tion, my tax theory, my ideas of the 
money problem ; and then, besides—my 
wife wants to run.”— Harper's Bazar. 
“ I used to have a terrible time finding 
the things I put away,” said Mrs. Smythe, 
“ till recently I have overcome the dif¬ 
ficulty by keeping a note-book, in which 
I entered the place whenever an article 
was laid away.” “ Why, that seems just 
perfect,” twittered Mrs. Tomkins ; “ but 
what’s the matter recently ? ” “Why, 
I’ve put away the horrid note-book, too!” 
— Tit-Bits. 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Dec. 31, 1898 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Use of Muck.878 
Canadian Hay Taxes.879 
Notes from New York Institutes.879 
Fat Pickings from Pickles.880 
The R. N.-Y.’s Method of Corn Culture.881 
What Form of Potash ?.881 
A Paint for Spraying Rough Surfaces.881 
Winter Plowing.881 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Breakage in Glass Bottles.878 
Death to Chicken Lice.878 
A Cement Stable Floor.878 
Carrots for Horses.878 
The Hackney Horse.878 
Why Not Kill Trespassing Poultry ?.879, 880 
Artificial Legs for Farm Stock. 881 
A Tapeworm in a Cat.881 
Feeding the Hen.881 
New York State Breeders.890, 891 
Guernsey Breeders Meet.891 
Bogus Butter.891 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Winter Forcing of Asparagus.877, 878 
Grafting Branches on Apple Trees.878 
Kieffer Pears in Europe.878 
Blackberry Tip Plants.878 
Strawberries and Raspberries.879 
A Maryland Strawberry Plant.880 
Plums'Alternated with Apples.880, 881 
Pruning in Warm Days in Midwinter.881 
Grafting Kieffers; Vegetable House.881 
Chestnuts in Central Illinois.881 
Nursery Christmas Trees.882 
Small Fruits for Northwest.882 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.886 
A Bride’s Cook Book.886 
Ginger-Snap Talk.886 
Dressmaking in India.886 
A Conundrum Supper.886, 887 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Feeding our Friends.878 
Facts About the Grip.878, 879 
The Telephone Monopoly.879 
Ruralisms.883 
Editorials.. • • 884 
Brevities. 884 
The New York Reptile Show.887 
Markets. 888 
, Events of the Week.889 
Among the Marketmen.889 
