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The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-05-25
NO. Z.

At full-dress parade or evening dog
tea, some of them are not so much as
covered with revolver and you all
know how embarrassing that would
make you and look to mingle with
such recherche set. Our Indian edi-
tor tells us that party in an Indian
village is a grand affair. lie says that
the stately mansion of some sage bush
resident Is brilliantly lighted with the
candelbra of hog oil IN cove oyster can
with candle wick made of a bombazine
rag,style julius Cesar the 1st This poses
statuesquely upon the escritoire, giving
the stately wlgwam the appearance of
a Chinese lantern. The guests all hud-
die about the fauteuil of buffalo skins
and chat merrily as corps of Egypt
ian mummies.
The young brave Of the family comes
in with his high-necked spurs and his
cavalry sword and the company are
not shocked, for he has U. S. belt on.
His gizird is warmed by agency whis
key and his breath is strong enough to
lariat his bronco. Millinery for these
people is not very expensive and we do
not believe that millinery store would
pay among them. There will be no inn
portant changes in their fashions this
season not already mentioned, Tag is
the favorlte of the eclat Indian society
folks.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-05-25

Il stand pat" she remarked after a
long pause. Say, dear, are four aces as
good as a jackpot"
Certainly" replied Mr. Spoopendyke,
who bad captured an ace, pair of
kings and a couple of tens. "Now. |
open that pot for four chips"
Then open it for four" said Mrs.
Spoopendyke, following her husbands
example.
Il raise you ten," grinned Sp)open-
dyke. Now you are playing like some.
thing. Want to raise me?"
"Of course" giggled Mrs. Spoopen-
dyke, who hadn't the remotest idea
whatraising meant. 81 raise you" and
she shoveled up the checkers with a
trembling hand.
"What have you got?" demanded Mr..
Spoopendyke.
His wife laid down four aces and a
jack.
Mr.. Spoopendyke glanced at the hand,
and then at his own cards. His ace
was only the joker, which he had for
gotten to remove from the pack.
(Which opens it?" inquired Mrs
Spoopendyke, watching the gathering
storm with some trepidation.
Nothing opens it," yelled Mr. Spoop-
endyke, dashlng his cards to the floor.
with your way of opening, it would
take Il ood tested steam oyster knife
to open it How'd ye think it was
opened-with night-key? Got an idea
that it had hinges, haven't We, and
opens widest when it has nothing to
say, like your measly mouth?'
"Must bet my last cent now2" falt-
cred Mrs. Spoopendyke, profoundly i'm
pressed with the idea that the game
was still going on. "I've got four dol.
dollars, but l want one for wiggin.
Shall | bet the other three?"
"Bet 'em!' howed Mr. Spoopendyke,
who, like a.great many men, regarded
the idea of his wife beating him at any
thing as something intolerably bias
phemous. "Why didn't We bet? Bring
forth the speculative three dollars, and
hazard it on the four triuphant aces
Wah-h-h-h!" and the conclusion of Mr.
Spoopendyke's speech flew out of him
too fast for perfect enunciation.
s"Idon't care" murmured Mrs. Spoop-
endyke. as she wound the clock, and
stood scratching her nose with the key
"he told me that four aces were as
good as the Jackpot, and when opened
it, he said was wrong. Another time
III put them in my pocket, and he can
play away at that jackpot until he's
bald before III help him get it open~
And with this riotous determination
Mrs. Spoopendyke crawled into bed, and
dreamed that she had got caught in a
Jackpot with a spring lock to it, and
couldn't get out because she had left
the four aces in the pocket of her new
plum cOlored silk. From brakes Trav-
elers' Magazine.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-05-25
See Distant Friends by Elec-
tricity's Aid.

The most astonishing claim yet made
in behalf of electricity is that it has
been proved possible to convey by 1t vi
brations of light, so that it is practi-
cable not only to speak with distant
friend, but to see him. Accordingly to
the o ago Times, DR.. Guidrah, of Vic
toria, has invented an apparatus, called
by him the electroscope, which accom-
plishes this. The paper In question
says that apubic test of this instru-
ment was made in Melbourne in the
presence of some forty scientific and
public men. Sitting in dark room
they saw projected on large disk of
white FURNISHED metal the race-course
at Pennington, with its myriad hosts Of
active beings. Each minute detail
stood out with perfect fidelity to the
orginial, and us they looked at the won-
derful picture through binocular
glasses, it was difficult to imagine that
that they were not on the course itself
and moving among those whose actions
they could so plainly scan."
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-05-25
What is Dynamite?

Dynamite is nitrO-glycerine mixed
with enough silica to convert it into
powder, which can be handled without
much danger. 1t is not true, as is gen.
orally supposed, that it requires one
skilled in chemistry to manufacture
this formidable explosive. Any person
of ordinary intelligence, and with
slight experience III chemistry, can
compound it. Nitric acid. the prime
ingredient, is nothing but the mixture
of the oil of vitrol with saltpeter.
Glycerine is very simple and harm
less substance, as everybody knows.
Silica. which is an absorbant, is clayey
substance, composed of dead plants
that grow beneath the water, and af-
ter dying, settle in layers upon the bot
tom. Dynamite is made in small guam
titles, and the manufacturing process
consists in mixing sulphuric and nitric
acids, and slowly adding glycerine
while the mass is being STIRRED, and
the vessel kept cold. One pound of
silica will absorb two pounds of nito-
glycerine, and make the solid substance
which is called dynamite or giant
powder. What makes dynamite so de-
structive is the fact that it explodes in
simultaneously throughout its whole
mass. Gun-powderis is of comparatively
slow combustion; otherwise it would
burst a gun when it explodes, and be as
dangerous as dynamite.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1883-02-06
3politss @apit.l.
Cine Qrt bon TelSsuq.

I'm teinem Srauerbauie feblte IS an ,Ses
mano, Der auf cine 10 ld9.rli9e @eiie III
ueinen ueiB, buB CT bic @ebtlus. Der 9lns
oersn fat in llnoronun9 bringt unb nube
Dem llmidlagen in cine Sebeinle Seiterteit.
- Der piiroigite Batter mag iid BEL Der
woblgsmeintelten unb wObl9eipro6eniten
@rmabuuns an ieine erpadiene Godter ia
Oauor in 4dt nebmen, OuB irsenb Elm ions
S.rbar mitbanoelnOer !Sipfel ibm elm bur5s
ouS tOmiI6es 4ni,ben leibe. Grnite DtGns
ucr pom 9rOBten Ssroienlt baben ni6t isls
tn baS t1nsliit 9ebabt, OuB ibre feierli6iten
0anblun9en bur9 ben un9ei6iften 9ifer
zines Nnbdn9ers TAFT wie S9nurrsn aus
lieien. - Wtir 1T, I'M aui OaS GrauerBaus
nod eiumal ,urit;utonunen, Der Sad be-
FAINT, oaB cine 9unie camille am Segrdbs
niBtu9e elmer tbcursn Serpunbten IN bos
ticiite Yeio ein9etau6t nm eiuen Gid ber
p%crIammelt jap, plObli6 ober gu einem ar;
0erli1en uno uupiberitebli6en gadeu fort.
0~eriilen wuroe, neil 9iner, uno 9eraOe Der
S6lu6Senoite, Ia6t cine baumuoueut
gta6tmiite berpOrboltc, bieie li6 auf Den
&opf iebte unO inter berIelben fortfu6r 81
i3lu9,en. 9n unO iir ii6 mar oieie SanS;
lung b09it uerniiniti9, neil CT Sus 9eran:
uaben siueS RbeumutiSmms i'm SOpit
iiiblte uno bemiclben nit Der pGrmeuber
0iQe b~e9e9nen woate. @lei6pobl wirftt
lie in 10 anitOBi9 erbeitcrnoer 98eiie. Gem
cine %baumpOaene la3tmiibe 9ebOrt mn
einmuI ;u Den Siusen, Die unwiOeriteblid
isoen ieierIi6en Grnit SsritOreni
Der netenOe @eiit, pel6er bel alien trii:
ben ooer erbabenen angelsgenbeiten Dec
yebens iein Spiel gu treibem i@eint, BATE
/ G9l. bic Gbnliden Heflerionen i'm u. Stid
pom Ceilings s0ambnrSil6e Sramatlr9ie"
| iber goltaire's yNanine".
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1883-02-06
Sin 6eiitli6er.

Die r@lens Sals on. 81 Sailp Neps",
bra6te Dor Sur;em foi9enoe 6orreiponoeuj ,nis
lben ben Serren sesstt q Suid lno Rep. Batter
Z. y. ct. OnSe: rgSertber Serr! ySIroeu
sic bic Site baben ms mit3utbeilen, Don mel
6em Grfol9e bic anrSenoun9 oes ct. Satobs
Oels, oas Sie BON ms %fauiten, begleitet MARI"
= e!Serren ee9ett & Bui6. Nertbe Strren
Us 1T Don aus9eSeidneter 8irtunS." {. y.
ct. Snae.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1883-02-06
e e Sin Yolisit. g

ct. Safobs Sel.-Weine Irali error ibre SiiBe
lno mar nidt i'm Stanbe, ibre S6ube an,us
Sieben ODER einiSe S6ritte gu seben. SD Ipanbte
oaS ct. Satobs Del am Samita9 abeno OIL uuo
an benz Sonnta9 oaraui mar lie i'm Stanoe CUR
&irde 81 9eben uno frei pom allen S6mer3en.
Gas Ct. Sofobs Del 1T cine munoerbare Uteois
gin uno lit mertb Don alien 9eibenoen 9ebral1t
81 weroen. -9Salter .. Gube, Roli3iit, Dort, Ba.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1883-02-06
Gin Wpotbeter.

Derr cSames Wt. Sarrar, &i6lano, Wo., sibt
III Sol9enoem iein llrtbeil iiber bas ct. SatobS
Del: st. Safobs Del i6reibt senannter 6err,
piro BON %unierer geuOlferlll9 ais ibr 6ausar5t
betradtet. SD babe idon piel pom benz Del per
fault uno bate bellte nod ben eriten un9infti9s
ten Neridt iiber oieieS Wtittel III pe%rnebmen.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1883-02-06
Sin &amtmamn.

Saas aioest @ai.-9srr Siaae 8. Sart, Sus
ten mir iolg.ube Mittbeilun9: SD 9ebraudte
oas ausSe,ei6nete Wtittel, ct. Satobs Del bel
einem i6uereu Qniau pom Rbeimatismus in
melnem arn. Der 9riol9 mar munoerbar.
2le Sdmer;en peri6nanben uno meiu &rm lit
pieoer poltommen ber9eiteut."
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1883-02-06
l6Ortiesung iOl9t,l


~ WfiuiOnen uou Yateten uon OiGs
mani: 6arben iino u~erfauft worben unb ale
iinb auf'S @ini6enswertbeite Musseiaaen.
llebsraQ iin6 oieislben betamnt unb beliebt.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1883-02-06
~: Sin Sebrer. ~:

Serr Yroi. Mireo g. Serr, Nro. SIS Oh
Se6ite StraBe, New Dort, iiberma9te uns fols
9euoe Wittbeilun9: ygSGbreno meines Autents
baltes in Cincinnati, wuroe i6 BON einem l6ne:
zen Aniall Don 0tbeumatismls ~befalen. SD
madte nit benz ct. Satobs Del einen 8erlud.
Gas Neiultat mar 10 suiriebenitelleno, oaB i6,
uugea6tet Der boben Rotten, ueranlaBt wuroe
eiuige 6laiden na9 0euti9lano Su ienoeu.'
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1883-02-06
Sin Yoitmeiiter.

aud i6 bin elmer Der @etreuen, wenu IS iib
INN Den Jtui oeS ct. SatobS Sels banoelt,
l6reibt 0err yS. y. Is. Curtis, Boitmeiiter, yes
poulet, Waii. Plus ei9euer Griabrun9 fam t1
bieiem Wittel bas Nort reoen, benz eS that mir
mebr gut ais ole bic W. O.'S julamneu9euoms
men, welde id I'M saui Der 3eit 81 &atbe lo9.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1883-02-06
ben i6neGen, wirtiamsu
s DIN erjenftffer!
-: Sin Wr5t. =
9ebram6t es,

ct. Satobs Del, briuse aud I'D, beis
lGnfi9 bemerft unter meiuen Patienten, wegen
ieiner treffli6en Wirfiamfeit pieliGlti9 CUR ans
nenoung.-gSm. 0obrmann, DC. O., 53s Srps
ant StraBe, Can Srancisco, Sal.
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Sin Tarmer.

0tein 9tadbar bate es 10 I'M 6reIie, oaB It
li6 ni6t riibret tonnte. Sr fauite ltb cine
6lal6e Ct. SatobS Del, rieb oamit etu hto wurs
be our6 ben @ebral6 oieieS berrli6en Ufttteis
lpieoer pollltdnOig ber9eltelt, 10 l6reibt ms Jr.
Z. Si6irbart, gSbite Nod, Did.
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SsOr 6lai8t st. Satobs Del 1T cine s,uaut ss'
brau6ss auwsiuns in osuti4r, ensIidu, irGuiSHia,r,
ipauii6sr. i5peOiido. bOudnOii4r, oduiiber, bobmtiau.
portusisiiber uuo itaIieutid,r Sprads ~bsissssbsu.
Sine 6laids 2t. Safobs Del tOitst 80 GsRts. dlnf
5laidsu ihr S2.OOJ III In ieOr apotbsts gu babsu ODER pirS
BET Ssiteluusen uou ui6t pmiser ai5 $500 irei mad aatu
lbilen Der Ben. Siaaisn u%srianOt. Nan %aOrciErs:
The Charles A. Vogeler Co.,
CRGdiOIser OOH u, Soseer 4 GO)
Baltimore, Utb.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-11-17
Tricks iss the Markets.

Cut this out and run it over prepar-
atory to marketing:
Oranges are occasionally boiled to
make them larger.
Dried peas are soaked to initiate the
fresh, green article.
Samples of nuts or fruit cracked or
cut and exposed are not at all truthful.
The best O. biggest fruit is always
on the top of the box or basket.
Observe If your butcher allows
your meat to remain on the spring bal
ance scales until the scales have ceas-
ed to culver and the index is station
airy.
The markets are full of these little
tricks Of the trade. They come of
generations of study and practice,
and as a rulein buying any kind of ar
ticle, if you find the dealer putting up
a package out Of sight look out for
some kind of shave.
In the pyramids and regular en-
bankments of oranges the best are al
ways in front, while the dealer fills
your paper bag with the poorer ones
concealed In the rear.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-11-17
The Monkey and the Sugar.

A recent English writer gives the
following Illustration Of the sagacity
of animals. which will interest
young readers, if not their elders as
well
l remember once, in India, giving a
tame monkey a lump of sugar inside a
corked bottle. The monkey was of an
inquiring mind, and it nearly killed it.
Sometime, in an impulse of disgust, it
would throw the bottle away, out of
it's own reach, and then be distracted
until it was given back to it. AT
others, it would sit with a c~ountenance
of the most intense detection, contem-
plating the bottled sugar, and then, as
if pulling itself together for another
effort at solution, would sternly take
up the problem afresh, and gaze into
it.
1t would tilt it up n way, and try
to drink the sugar out of the neck.
and then, suddenly reversing it, try to
catch it as it fell out at the bottom.
Under the impression that it could
capture it by a surprise, it kept rasping
its teeth against the glass in futile
bites, and warming to the pursuit of
the revolving lamp, used to tie itself
into regular knots round the bottle.
Nothing availed, however, until one
day a light was shed upon the prob
lem by a jar of olives falling from the
table with a crash, and the fruit rolling
about in all directions. His monkey
ship contemplated the catastrophe, and
reasoned upon it with the intelligence
of a Humboldt.
Lifting the bottle high in its paws,
he brought it down upon the floor with
a tremendous noise, smashing the
glass into fragments, after which he
calmly transferred the sugar to his
mouth, and munched it with great
satisfaction.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-11-17
SCRAPS,

1t is now thoroughly believed by as
Economical and other scientific persons
that the cyclone epidemic is caused by
spots on the SUM-.
DIR. Brown-Sequard has discovered a
new anesthetic which destroys sens
Utility, but not consciousness or phys
ical activity, for an entire day Or more.
1t is found by the survey of the
Great Lakes that there is a slight tide
in them but not of sufficient extent to
be noticeable without special care, the
amount of rise and fall not exceeding
two inches.
1t is denied by Schmidt Muhlheim
that the formation of part of the milk
obtained from a cow begins with the
process of milking, and that the udder
is too small to give room for all the
fluid to be obtained at one milking.
On the contrary, the most thorough
effort will leave some milk in the
ducts, whence it is driven into the
milk reservoirs by the newly formed
secretion pushing from behind, and
which may be obtained after the lapse
Of an hour from the time the milking
began.
+, The heat from an arc electric lamp
of 100 candle power is from 81 to 158
h%eat-units, that of the incandescent
lamp of equal brilliancy from 200 to
536. The argand gas-burner is the
next best light in point of GOODNESS,
but this is represented by 1850 heat
units, a COLA oil lamp by $500. fiat
wick petroleum lamp by 1900, a paraf-
fine candle by 5000, and a tallow can
die by 900. Light for light, there
fore, the heat of an electric arc lamp
under the most favorable circumstan-
ces is to the heat of tallow candles as
l to 10.
A new explosive has been invented
by NJ. Turpin, a Partisan chemist. 1t
is said to be very powerful, and, un-
like nitro-glycerine, dynamite and gum
cotton, it has the highly important
property of not being affected by con-
cussion. It is made by the conbina-
ton of two liquids, which can be trans
ported like ordinary chemicals, and need
only be mixed when the explosive is
about to be used. It can be employed
in its liquid form, or when absorbed by
silicious earth. Frost does not affect
it. At Cherbourg experiments have
been made with this substance upon
slaty rocks containing quartz, and also
upon old cement-work, and the Qeport
of the engineers praises it very much.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-11-17
the French President at Home.

The French president at Home.
Making jam is INT of the %favorite
holiday recreations Of President Gre
Wy, according to the Paris Figaro,
which tells us that the head of the re-
public may frequently be seen in his
kitchen at Mont-sous-V audrey, envel-
oped in a large blue apron, and skim
ming preserves over the fire. Every
thing iV the presidents country home
is of the plainest description. Sport
ing trophies ornament the dining
room, the drawing-room is ~scantily
furnished in red damask, and even the
boudoir of the presidents daughter,
Madame Wilson, contains no pretty
feminine ~nick-nacks, but is full of fire.
arms, and collections of coins and in
sects, M. CREWS study is hung with
an ugly green paper, and the walls are
covered with books; while the bust Of
Voltaire surmounts the clock. When
not engaged in his favorite pastime Of
shooting, NJ. Grevy strolls about the
neighborhood in an old blue cotton
coat and big straw hat, talks to every
peasant he meets-carefully escheging
politics, however-and delights to take
children on his knee to recite to them
one of La Fontaine's fables.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-11-17
Bravo, Stick

One day in autumn a fine flower
bulb was planted some five OF six
inches deep in the rich brown ground,
and a stick that the gardener had
found lying in the field just outside
of the garden gate was stuck near it.
"Well," said the stick, in a dry little
yoice,a as soon as the gardener had gone,
81 never thought to be brought into
this beautiful garden, at which I have
been peeping through the fence for a
month or more. l wonder if I am to
live here always? / hope So"
eff you do live here always" cried
the flower bulb from her snug resting
place, 81 don't see what good it will
do you. You're only a stick, and a
stick you'll remain. Now land, by
the-bye, if it hadn't been for me you'd
have staid in the field, for you were
wanted only to mark the place where
I am planted shall greet the spring
with handsome green leaves and the
summer with lovely blossoms"
Now it happened, before the winter
was over, a hungry mole burrowed it's
way into the garden, and shifting about
in search of something to eat, found
all the roots and bulbs too bitter for
its taste with the exception of one
the very n that had spoken SO boast
ingly to the stick-and that it speedily
devoured. And SO when spring ar
rived nothing came from the spot
where that bulb had been placed to
greet her.
But, 10 and behold, the stick had
taken root, and was covered with the
prettiest tiny green leaves. The gar
dener, coming that way, looked at it
with wonder. "Why, that's the stick
I picked up outside last fall" said he.
"I'll let it stay there, and see what it
comes to-" And it came to a sturdy
t~reelet, covered before the summer
passed away with fragrant pale pink
flowers. Some chrysanthemums, who
had heard the conversation between
the bulb and the stick when they paid
their autumn visit, cried, "Bravo, stick!
you have done well, but how did you
do it?"
ooh, / tried SO hardv' said the tree
let, in a mellow little voice; land I
never lost heart, no matter how cold
the winter wind and snow. But I'm
sorry the mole ate the poor flower
bulb. Young People.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-11-17
ALI the Time.

Mr.. Jales was talking to his Oldest
daughter about a visitor who was at
their house.
"How long viii he remain {" the
young lady asked.
81 guess he will stay here all the
time"
"Good heavens, we don't want
him !"
"But he told me he was going to
stay"
did he positively say SOP"
"Well, not exactly, but he said he'd
remain until your mother got In good
humor, and if be really meant what he
said. I guess we might as well prepare
for a permanent boarder. At least,
daughter, that has been my experience
for the thirty-fve years I've been re-.
naming"
The Opelousas courier., 1883-11-17
Ape English Picture.

The fish markets at Shrewsbury and
the other cities were full of fine fish
fresh from these rivers. The reason
is that there is a strict system of pres
ervation. There are times when net
ting is allowed, and rod-fshing in the
season is permitted on application; but
the Anne lean method of seooping out
the contents of a river in one year,
and of indiscriminate and improvident
consumption, is not tolerated. At all
the railroad stations in this vicinity
you see fishermen with rod and reel,
and, of course, waterproof oyercoats,
on their way to or from the river.
With all the abundance, however, the
salmon is not SO very cheap. 1t brings
a shilling, OF twenty-five cents a
pound, in the markets, and l regret to
say they do not seem at the hotels to
know how to cook it. AS a rule, they
fry it. When they undertake to boil
it, they stop before it is half done, and
thus save coal, and fish also, for that
matter. This, though, is the only
hasty act ! have yet discovered. AS a
rule, as much time as possible is con
sumed at whatever is done: For in
stance, they pronounce Hereford in
three syllables, instead of two, which
can be accounted for on no other
ground than to use up time.
The place itself, however you pro-
nounce it, is one to be heartily enjoy
ed. Here, for the first time, we put
up at a real English inn-the Green
Dragon. It was neat as wax, and save
for the boot-blaek and porter, Differed
throughout by women. The clerk was
a young woman; the bar was tended
by two neat and tidy maids with
pretty white caps, and the bar-room
was as quiet and orderly as a parlor.
1t is possible thus to pass Judgment
upon it without tasting the liquors,
because with it's flowers, its easy
chairs, its big, open chimney, and it's
opportunity to smoke there, it was the
cosiest room in the house. 1t certain
ly offered a most suggestive contrast
to the bar of an American saloon.
Here there was no vulgar talk, no spit
ting on the floor, no profanity or filth.
One mar after another, and one group
after another, would drop in and order
their drink, oftener whisky than any
other, and would drink it, chat a bit,
and, with a pleasant goodnight, go
out. AT home such a room is a scene
of riot, confusion and profanity, noisy,
and indecent. Perhaps it is better
that it should be SO, but I am only
drawing a contrast and not a moral
English Cor. Hartford, CT, CoUront.