The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-12
E~OOLISHNESS.


a tramp linkened his shoes unto COR
porations because they had no soles.
Gould We lind me The loan Nv q pipe
an tobackyp" SAID Pat; Il have a
match"
"0h, she was a jewell Of q wifel' said
Pat. murning over the loss of his better
half, -she always struck me with the
soft end Of the mop
when you come to put the style on
sister" said a little boy who was com.
PEELED TO eat an orange unnaturally, ut
takes all the fun off"
Clerk of the court: "Owen Dorherty.
Are you Owen Doherty ?" Prisoner:
with a merry twinkle in his eyes)-
Eyes. begorra, I'm OWN everybody"
81 always have sense enough to know
when to stop drinking remarked San
dy. IL thought you generally stopped
because you hadn't cents enough to
keep on" said Zenas.
An Irish soldier, on hearing that his
widowed mother had been married
since he quilted Ireland, exclaimed:
"Murtherl | hope she won't have son
older than me; If she does l shall lose
the estate!"
A California paper. boasting of the
agricultural of the country,
says that mineral wealth is a matter OF
secondary Importance. Yes. mineral
wealth of a country is generally a mat
ter of miner consideration.
A cOlOred girl in Atlanta, Ga, was
knocked over by an engine, and in a
few minutes got up as If nothing I'm.
usual had happened, and looking after
the engine, said: "YOu's got a heap OBJ
p%Oliteness to serve a lady dat way"
Forever and for forever farewell,
Cassius. If we do not meet again,
why, we shall SMILE" said Brutus, and
how pleasant it is to contemplate that
'age does not wither nor cuslome stale"
this delightful habit Of Smiling" when
friends meet.
"No," said the sad-eyed man, 81 never
press a young woman to play upon the
piano. l tried it once to my sorrow
why, what followed" asked a half
dozen eager voices. "She played"
replied the sad-eyed man, II shall new
er forget the lesson l learned that day"
Mrs, Ramsbottom says: II prefer
Shakespeare's historical plays to all
Others, though | like the sentimental.
and rheumatic plays very much" Bul
she says she cannot understand why be
didn't make a play out of the sad story
of Oliver Cormwell and Charles th,
First.
A coneeited young country parson
walking home from church with one o
the ladies Of has congregation, said, i
~allusion to his rustic audience, Il preact
ed this morning to a congregation Q
asses was thinking of that. obserS
ed the lady, when you called them be
loved brethren"
A noted physician says that in no
weather people should eat moderated
and refrain from all work. Most pee
pie who would refrain from all wor
in hot weather would be very lively t
eat moderately. They would have t
unless the neighbors sent somethin
in.
On al East Hartford tombstone
SACRED to the memory of Mrs. Hanna
Smith, second wife of Deacon Nose
Smith; she departed this life May 25tt
1899, i'll the hfIy-thlrd year of her az,
Deacon Smiths executors kept all be
property, and refused to pay any of he
funeral charges, even the sections BIZ
This monument was erected by tn
friends of the deceased.
An Illinois woman recently discover
ed that her husband proposed to elop
with the housemaid. Did she wee
and shed tears and kick up a fussP Nc
bit of il. She just wrote a letter pu,
porting TO arrange for her elopemer
with a neighbor, and let 1t fall into h
hands. Aud it about drove him MAJ
DE fired the servant girl out of tn
house, and sat up.all night with a sho
gun to shoot the villain who was aftt
his wife, and has been since then tn
most devoted husband In Illinois.
You must dip your pen in tears an
roll out touching obituaries when SON
old codger of your town "shuties off til
mortal COIL" when, if you were to gi,
him his just deserts, your effusion wonl
run somethin like this:
Squire Stubs, the greedy old sinner,
He's gone where they don't collect rent;
He took my paper tor over three years,
And never has psid a cent.
But when he'gets to that place down Their
And Satan at him gets a chance,
He'll wish he'd been more manly and squar
And paid for three years in advance.
De education OBJ a man is his silve
but his common sense is his gold. Fo
tune sometimes comes ter de one VIII
least sxpecks it, but it is more apt h
come ter der nan what works fer
De wust boy don't alters turn out T.
be de bes' man. I has know'd goc
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