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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MAY 3< 
Humorous. 
Said Gill, the toper, “Once my cheeks were red ; 
Fairer than they, ne’er blossomed any rose.” 
“And If you seek the thief,” a comrade said, 
“ Suspicion’s like to fall upon your nose! ” 
—Pittsburg Bulletin. 
Few men sow their wild oats without 
getting more or less rye mixed in with 
them.— Atchison Globe. 
Father : “ I’m going to tan your hide, 
Tommy.” Tommy: “No, you won’t. 
Hides go free.”— Lowell Citizen. 
- She : “ If capital punishment must be, 
I certainly favor electricity.” He: “Oh! 
that is to say, you prefer currents to 
iraisins. ”— Racket. 
First Housekeeper: “What is your 
idea of the hight of sarcasm ?” Second 
housekeeper: “Calling servants ‘help.’” 
—Somerville Journal. 
Customer : “ Is it customary to fee the 
waiter here ?” Waiter: “Yes, sir.” Cus¬ 
tomer : “ Then hand over your fee. I’ve 
waited for you nearly an hour.”— Racket. 
Garden Sass. — “I never beg at the 
house of a vegetarian,” said the tramp. 
“Why not?” “Because I never got 
nothin’ but sass from ’em.”— N. Y. Herald. 
Guest (to head waiter): “ Is your name 
Tide?” Waiter: “No, sir.” Guest: 
“ Or Time ?” Waiter : “ Not at all.” 
Guest: “ Well, it ought to be one of 
them. You wait on no man.”— Texas Sift¬ 
ings. 
“ You are fined $10,” cried the fair girl as 
the old gentleman poked his head in the 
room where she was entertaining her best 
beau. “ What for ?” inquired pater. 
“ Contempt of court, of course.”— N. Y. 
Herald. 
Owner of fish pond (to man who is tres¬ 
passing): “Don’t you see that sign, ‘No 
Fishing Here ? ’ ” Angler (with an injured 
air): “ Yes, and I dispute it. Why, there’s 
good fishing here; look at this string.”— 
Harper’ s Weekly. 
“ BlBLEURRE, why don’t you stop drink¬ 
ing ?” “ I have often tried to, but it seems 
I can’t.” “ Oh, pshaw I All it requires is 
strong will power.” “Well, it requires 
strong water power, too, and that I haven’t 
got.”— N. Y. Herald. 
“You say the brother of the young lady 
pulled your nose ?” inquired Cholly. 
“ What did you do ? Did you resent it ?” 
“Wesent it!” said Fweddy, the veins in 
his forehead swelling with indignation. 
“ Didn’t I ? Bah Jove, I told him if he 
evah did it again, bah Jove, I’d have him 
ahwested!”— Chicago Tribune. 
Mr. Eloper : “ Darling, 1 find that there 
is no minister in town just at present, ex¬ 
cept a lady Universalist. Shall we have 
the ceremony performed by her ?” Miss 
Eloper: “ Precious 1 I would rather not.” 
Mr. Eloper: “ But why not, sweet ? Tell 
me your reason—come.” Miss Eloper: 
“Because—because, love, I am afraid she 
would insist upon kissing the groom.”— 
Burlington Free Press. 
“ DiNNis, yez can talk as ye’ve a moind 
to, but I can tell yez these Eyetaliaus is 
walking right over us, and drivin’ us to the 
wall. Who’s doin’ all the shoe polishin’ 
now ? Why, the Eyetalians. Who runs all 
the corner apple stands ? Why, the Eye¬ 
talians. Who commits the murders and 
woife batins ? Tne Eyetalians. They’re 
pavin’ our shtrates and fillin’ our prisons, 
an’ it wouldn’t shurprise me in the leasht 
if we ileeled an Eyetalian alderman in this 
very wai’rd!”— Life. 
Advertisers treat ail correspondents 
well it they mention the Kural New- 
Yorker. 
EXECUTOR’S SALE. 
C. II. Ll'KiVGE.XG, Auctioneer, 
Will sell Thursday, Friday aud Saturday, June a, b and 
7, beginning each day at 12 o'clock, noon, tne entire 
magultli em collection of Choice l'lnnls! Bycrder 
of the Executors of S. L. At. BAK-ow, Esy,, de¬ 
ceased, emoraciug the Finest specimens 01 Exotic 
Flams, and consisting of the entire contents or Five 
Ureenuouscs ami Buildings, at the BAKLUW MAN- 
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Poultry, s.c. Mastiff and St. Bernard Dogs. All to 
be absolutely sold to close ill estate of S. E. M. 
BARLOW, Estj , tdeceasedj at Uleu Cove, L. I., N. V. 
Send for catalogue to C. H. LUKNGENE, Auctioneer, 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, May 31,1890. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Sorrel.352 
Rye for Hay. 352 
Fighting the Potato Blight.352 
Help! The Gophers Must Go.353 
Growing Pumpkins.853 
Growing Pop-Corn for Market. 353 
Use for the Hoe. 354 
How Shall We Sell Our Fruit?. 357 
Au Orchard Cultivator.... . 857 
More About Hay-Caps.357 
Self-Binding Rye Thrasher. 357 
Manure Haudliug Made Easy. 357 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Old Dairy Problem—Cream Rising. 350 
Talks and Thoughts About Poultry. 350 
Eggs for Hatching.850 
Portable Hennery. 350 
Trying Some of Those Eggs.351 
Plgeous. 351 
Mr. ltankin Answers Incubator Queries.851 
Hoot Pulpers .352 
Convenient Hog House aud Yard.852 
Breeding Hipped Mares. 852 
Bloat in Pigs. 352 
Lump on Heifer’s Jaw.352 
Dysentery iu Young Chickens.358 
DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT. 
What of Your Girls?.85» 
Appetizing Breakfast Dishes. 85!) 
Plea for Poor Relatives. 350 
MISCELLAT >US. 
California Reservoir.. 1 . 849 
Lifting Gin. cs .. 350 
Are They Educated olT tbejj im ?... 351 
Summer Storage tor Fruit ..351 
Location of a steam Gene 1 or.853 
353 
353 
Suffer. 354 
.354 
354 
' 854, 855 
Tools for Spruylug.., 
Brief Bits. 
\V hy New England Farir 
Mole Friend or Enemy 
Criticism of Professors. 
What Others Say.w _ __ , . 
Telling a Thing or Two a out Trade.357 
Evaporated Vegetable! .357 
How Commission Meiy, il Hay. 353 
Strawberries lu Coin -*< irage.353 
Bummer Outing In North Carolina Moun¬ 
tains. 358 
Chat by the Way JJ. 353 
City Mun’s Farming n* .36J 
Silver Question.. 363 
EDITORIAL. 358 
Brevities.355 
PUBLISHER'S DESK. 350 
News. 360,361 
Markets .36i 
Market Notes.361 
ALMANAC. 362 
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