The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-02-29
FOOLISHNESS.

81 feel very much out OF place. is
what the man said when he lost a good
situation.
81 notice that / have a remarkably
strong following" remarked the man
who was chased by a skunk.
General Gordon should take a bar
keeper to Egypt with him. He's the fell
low who rakes in the faults profits.
"Smelt fisheries" are on the increase
IN New Brunswick. We thought all
Limburger was manufactured in Ger
many.
An Indian named MAMA fraid-Of-
Nothing" married a white woman in
Montana rencently, and in one week
after the wedding applied to his tribe
to have his name changed.
A darby clergyman who said "there
| will be four days meeting every night
this week except Wednesday after
noOn," understood the force of Ian
gnage about as well as some of our city
officers.
My lord" said Tawmus, you've no
idea what a horror it gives a man to
steal mp behind a girl who is scrbbling,
look over her shoulder and find that
she's idly writing your name, with a
Mrs pretixed."
Light-minded young thing in a bath
ing su%it-"Surely Aunt Margaret, you
are not going to YEA your s%pectaclPs
in the waterY" Aunt Margaret-In-
, deed | am. Nothing shall induce me
+ to take off another thing.
An English paper SAYS Mr., Gladstone
/ is such an expert wOodsman that he
can fell a tree with his eyes shut. Hah!
5 George Washington cut down a nap
:! pie tree with his hat shut. Vive la re-
publique!
! AS two ladies were gazing at the
o large black bear brought into town
4 yesterday, one remarked: "Oh, what
4 nice buffalo robe his skin would
make" The other replied: "Or such
a splendid sealskln sacque."
He was sitting in the parlOr with her
when a rooster crowed IN the yard, and
leaning over he said: "Chantlcleer.'
n 81 wish to gracious you would" sht
IS said I'm as sleepy as | can be" HI
took his hat ard left and hasn't been
;, seen since.
Miss Lulu Hurst. the Georgia won.
der, can PICK up a chair with a man sit
ting on it, carry him across the stage
stand him on his head and pile the
chair on top of him in spite of his fran
tic efforts Miss Lulu is not married
2. S.-She amt liable to be.
"'Hev | seen Paddy O'Brien,' Sc,
III you? No, | hev not: but the other day
J., Oh tue sthrate, thinks | to myself,thatt
}. Paddy O'Brien beyant that | sees. Ant
r. Paddy thinks as how it's me he see
a-cUmin'; but fax, when we come III
,. wild each other we find it is nayther o
us"
A Shabbily dressed woman calle(
$ upon one Of citizens for aid, claiming
that she was IN a starving condition
The citizen looked upon her plethOri'
sc form, estimatingI he advoirdupois of TIL
superfluOus fat, and answered: "Yol
don't look like a starving woman" O.
know it," she whiningly answered, I'm
bloated with grief"
re 1t was the fashion in the south afte
the conscriptiOn grew rigorous TO
cowardly fellows to raise com
panies to keep out Of the ranks. SAT-
d Il person to Judge Lochrane referring
" to one of these evaderS: Il see Per
in simmon is raising a company" Com
pany," said the Judge, that's too soOl
Of raised for him. He's raising a regi
ment."
One more unfortunate: Mamma {
e, widow of considerable personal at
n. t~ractions)-"I want to tell you some
If thing, Tommy. You saw that gentle
ut man talking to grandmamma in tn
other room. Well. he is going to b.
a your papa. Mammals going to MARI.
IS. him." Tommy (who recollects some
u. thing Of the life his old papa used t.
m lead)-"D-d-does he know it yet, nam
ny MAJ"
She read: "A complete piece of must
st for five cents. There" said she, 40
ry the money that you pay for one drlnI
~ " of whisky you could buy me thre
Y nice pieces of music. Its perfect
IS. outrageous. II think SO too" was th
rejoinder. They'd better a plagued
ce sight lower the price of whisky ant
~ double the price of music, and then
- man could get some quiet and comfor
out of life"
re 1t is told of Geo. D. Prentice, ono,
y, editor of the LOUISVILLE Courier.Jour
S, nal, that in a poker game, when tn
ISL stakes ran high, he was accused by hi
he opponent of betting more than III
es hand was worth. "Sir," he replied, a
a. he turned the hand down on the table
81. "lf l were playing with Jupiter at
y star an ante l would darken the ever
a lasting armament on the hand | hay