The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-30
NO. 81.
FOOLISHNESS.

I "A scale that rev IOlkS are all0Wed 70
Tun ap-thTee score and ten.
Ohio's first e0lOFed jury fOand y yeF-
dict of mot guilty cause be didn't done
it,"
A sea captain is a gOOddeal of Vaga-
bond when he beats his way up har-
Dor.
The man who was kicked ont Of
seaside restort was caught by the un-
der toe
| Has it ever occurred sobase ball men
that milk pitcher is generally o good
fly catcher.
An improbable story is properly call.
ed canard, because intelligent people
canardly believe it.
1t doesn't follow because surveyor
gets the lay of the land that he has mo-
nop0ized the egg business.
There is man in Pittsburg so fond
of flash" literature that he won't read
anything but powder magazine"
A patent medicine advertisement
speaks of 'humor In the stomach"
THIS indicates removal of the jocular
! vein.
Said he, "Malinda. you are my dearest
duck" Said she, Joseph, your are try
ing to stuff me-" That was too sage
for him.
1t is the fashion now for dudes to eat
dried apples. The are so lawfully
SWELL you know. That is, the dried
apples are.
DR.. Griffin, the stepfather of MISS
Mary Anderson, writes to a Louisville
friend as follows: @Whlle we are boat
ing on the Thames me and Mary is the
syonshure of all eyes.
The proper age: "At what age were
you marrled?" asked she, inquisitively.
But the other woman was equal to the
emergency, and quietly responded, "At
the parsonage"
Cleveland has young lady who had
bullet IN her head for three weeks"
That's nothing. Some society young
ladies, who are found of dancing, have,
their "heads full of balls all winter.
"Ah, Mr.. Slmpkins. we have not
chairs for our company" said a gay lit
tie wife other frugal husband. "Plen
ty Of chairs ducky; but little too
much company" replied Mr.. Simpkins.
One Amelia Fogg has brought suit
for divorce from Reuben t. Fogg, but
the latter says it will be damp cold
day when she gets it, unless he's mist
his reckoning, and don't you Fogg get
it."
At fashionable dinners the game
now comes to the table with the teath-
ers on. 1t is also worthy of note that
butter sometimes comes to the table
with the hair on.
When you see a man without any
visible means of support living quietly
and faring sumptuously without the
sweat of the brow" you may conclude
he has struck a bonanza silver mine or
gets pension.
A California adventurer writes from
Mazatlan: "We all Travelled through
Mexico without passports, and were
all treated very well. except when they
stole everything from us that they
could lay their hands on"
We read IN an exchange of a young
lady having been made crazy by II sud-
den kiss. This should teach young
ladies to be constantly expecting some
thing of that kind, and to be prepared
for it when it comes.
People often wonder why girls are so
anxious to go out and gather leaves in
the fall. They come by it naturally,the
dear things. Mother Eve did the same,
thing, and she gathered them in thef fall
too-or just afterwards.
1t is easy enough for millionaire to
get his family into what is called good
society" in New York. lie advertises
a large free lunch and brings the society
around it, and his family Immediately
becomes as popular as a boned turkey.
Angelina, darling said the dude to
the dudine, ''you're the apple of my
eye "You are hatterer, Adolphus,"
"Not at all, my dear; but when we're
together you're no longer the apple of
my eye." "Why?" Because it takes
US both to make one pair. then. Hal
hal haw ."Yes," growled an old bachel-
or who had heard the conversation, 81
pair of spoons" Cruel man!
In Sweden. if you take wine with a
aeighbor you bow, place the glass to
your lips, sip little. and then bow
again. This may do very well in u
country where they drink wine. but in
this country where they drink whisky
straights man can't take any time to.
be polite. He don't wanb to. stop to,
bow; he gets it down as quickly as
possible and then makes grab for the.
water. He'd drink the water before her
did anything else even IL the house,
WAS oM6re.