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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 17, 1908. 
HUMOROUS 
No other name 
To Burbank's fame 
Could ever hold a candle. 
If that wise gent 
Would but invent 
A melon with a handle. 
—Kansas City Journal. 
“Well, Pat, after a year at the auto¬ 
mobile school, I suppose you understand 
everything?” “All but one thing, sir.” 
“What’s that?” “What makes the thing 
go without horses.”—Life. 
“Can your automobile really go more 
than a mile a minute?” “Can she? 
Well, the leading undertaker in the city 
has offered me a half interest in his 
business.”—Baltimore American. 
Nurse (showing new baby) : “John¬ 
nie, where do you suppose mamma got 
you this dear little brother?” Johnnie: 
“Oh, I ’spect he came with some new 
kind of baking-powder.”—Harper’s 
Bazar. 
“What’s the old lady doing now?” 
asked the old stocking in the work 
basket. ‘She’s getting out her needle 
and yarn,” replied the scissors.” “Well, 
well,” exclaimed the stocking, “I’ll be 
darned.”—Philadelphia Press. 
A smart Irishman was leaning 
against a post when a funeral proces¬ 
sion passed. “Who’s dead?” some one 
asked. “I don’t know,” answered the 
Irishman, “but I presume it’s the gentle¬ 
man in the coffin.”—Philadelphia! In¬ 
quirer. 
“I hope you came out of that horse 
trade with a clear conscience.” “Yes,” 
answered Si Simling; “but it kind o’ 
worries me. My conscience is so on- 
usually clear that I can’t help feelin’ 
I must a’ got the wust o’ the trade.”— 
Washington Star. 
“Would you believe it, Jack,” said a 
‘golden youth’ to a friend, “that multi¬ 
millionaire over there is a self-made 
man?” “Self-made man!” rejoined Jack. 
“Then why, in the name of all that is 
wonderful, didn’t he put more hair on 
the top of his head?”—Melbourne 
Leader. 
A couple in a country village took 
their baby to be christened, and on the 
clergyman asking what name they had 
chosen the happy father replied, “Oc¬ 
topus, sir!” “What!” ejaculated the 
astonished divine, “but you cannot call 
a child by so extraordinary a name.” 
“Yes, sir, if you please,” was the reply. 
“You see it’s our eighth child, and we 
want it called ‘Octopus.’ ”—Gentle¬ 
woman. 
“Brother Lastly,” said the spokes¬ 
man, “I have an unpleasant duty to per¬ 
form. There is a report that you have 
said that one of the best and most 
worthy members of our congregation is 
unable to attend service often on ac¬ 
count of not having good enough 
clothes. We have come to ask the name 
of that member. We don’t know of any 
such person, and a report of that kind 
is likely to reflect upon us as a congre¬ 
gation that does not look after its poor 
but worthy members. Will you tell me 
who it is?” “Certainly, brethren,” re¬ 
plied the Rev. Mr. Lastly, with a brave 
attempt to be cheerful, “it’s my wife.”— 
Tib-Bits. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
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ROOFING 
A* FACSIMILE 
AMATITE ROLL 
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Box 7B. Chicopee Falls, Mas*. 
Ghoose Steam 
T HIS advertisement will bring 
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on the market. It will show 
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Amatite is made in one stand¬ 
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