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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
December 11, 1897 
Humorous. 
“And angels shining garmens wear,” 
They sang. With joyful tears 
The dominie thought of the good black coat 
He had worn these eighteen years. 
—The Detroit Journal. 
To Get Rid of Aunts. —If they are on 
your father’s side, invite some of your 
mother’s family to visit you, and if they 
are on your mother’s side, reverse the 
process.— Life. 
“ Pai>a, how do the people in the 
weather bureau find out what kind of 
weather we are going to have?” “I 
didn’t know that they did, my son.”— 
Yonkers Statesman. 
“No, thank you, I’ve got some money 
of my own,” said little Tommy, politely 
as the contribution plate passed in front 
of him on the occasion of his first visit 
to church.— Credit Lost. 
“ We sit up very late every night to 
read.” “ Do you belong to so many 
clubs ?” “ No; but if we didn’t read 
nearly all night we couldn’t answer 
Bobby’s questions.”— Chicago Record. 
“I guess there’s something the mat¬ 
ter with our rubber tree,” observed the 
small boy. “ I’ve been watching it for a 
year or two now, and it hasn’t sprouted 
any overshoes yet.”— Harper's Bazar. 
Uncle Si : “Got letter f’om my son 
Bill, at Yale, this mornin.’ Says he plays 
football now, an’ kin plow up a field 
with his nose ’thout feelin’ it. I wish ’t 
he’d bring that nose o’ his daown here 
Thar’s work for it waitin’.”— Harper's 
Bazar. 
“ You must admit,” said the high- 
browed woman, “that many a man has 
gone to Heaven solely through the efforts 
of his wife.” “Certainly,” said the dis¬ 
agreeable bachelor. “Otherwise they 
would be alive yet.”— Cincinnati En¬ 
quirer. 
“I want you to take a couple o’ 
chances on a poor woman’s cook stove— 
50 cents a ticket.” “But what’s the 
poor widow going to do without her 
cook stove?” “Oh, she’s moved into a 
house where they have a gas range.”— 
Cleveland Plain Dealer. 
“A dinner such as we have had to¬ 
day,” said the elderly boarder, “ make6 
me feel like a young man.” “Indeed,” 
was all Mrs. Hashcroft deigned to reply. 
“Indeed. When I think of that lamb 
we had for dinner I feel that if that was 
lamb I must be still a boy.”— Washington 
Star. 
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The Story of a Run-Down Farm.803 
A New Farmers’ Organization.804 
Green Lice on Cabbage.805 
Husking and Shredding Machines.807 
New Plants for California.807 
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Hope Farm Notes.814, 815 
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Earth Reservoir for Irrigation Purposes.805 
How to Test Well Water.805 
Difference Between Portland Cement and 
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