The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-07
EOOLISHNESS.

A driver of q trotting horse who gets
badly beaten in a race generally comes
in q little sulky.
IL you do not want to be robbed of
your good name. do not have it paint
ed on your umbrella.
"a little more than kin and less then
kind" said the man, as his wife chased
him out of doors with the poker.
Practice makes perfect. True, but a
man can contrive to drop a hot plate
as readily the first time trying as the
second.
The Ohio idea is, at the present time,
hat a yawlboat or "A dugout is better
to have i IA a family than "a piano or "a
velvet carpet.
1t is understood that the girls have
adopted the following as their motto
for leap year: IF you see what you
want, ask for it."
The reason why a woman always
adds a postscript to her letters is be-
cause she's bound to have the last
word, if she has to write it herself.
"What," SAID an inquisitive young
lady, what is the most popular color
for Il brlde?" We may be a little par
ticular on such matters, but we would
prefer a white one.
MOSAIC George Henry, Il didn't go
to court the girl; | only called in 0c-
casionally to pass the time, you know;
but first thing l knew they had me up
for breach Of promise, and so, you see, l
went to court at last"
An exchanges says: "a widow shot
herself in the oil regions the other day
We do hope the day will soon come
when these gjddy females will be more
careful how they act. Too much care
cannot he exercised.
"YeS, sir" said the hungry man, as he
entered the New Jersey hotel, Il want
dinner; | want it bad" From what
we know of New Jersey hotels, we
haven't the intinitesimal atom of a
adoubt that he got it bad.
An English traveller in America ask
ed a captain of a lake steamer the
name of the lake they were traverSing.
Lake Hutton" yes, | know" respond
ed the Euglishman, at is the lake | am
Oh; but what is its name?"
Last year the United States imported
$4,000, 900 pounds of tea. That is it
was all sold under that lame and g.
0O9, 900 of chromos were given away
with it and it is supposed that there
was probably some forty thousand
pounds of it part tea anyhow.
"Ahem! So here am | between two
tailors!' said "A dandy at a public table
where a couple of young tailOrs were
seated. "Very true" said one. ave
are but beginners, and a afford tt
keep only one goose between us"
"What is the chief use Of bread !?
!, asked an examiner at recent school eX
hlbition. "The chief use OF bread" ans
wered the urchln, apparently astonish
ed at the simplicity of The inquiry, 81,
5 to spread butter and marmalade on it,
who is that lovely girl?" exclaimed
The witty Lord Norbury, in compan,
with his friend Grant. "Miss Glass,
replied the learned council. GLASS!
reiterated the facetious judge. 81
should often be intoxicated could
place such a glass to my lips"
A couple of Vassar girls were founC
i by a professor fencing with broomstick
. in a gymnasium. He reminded til,
. young girls that such an accomplish
ment would not aid them in securing
g husbands. 1T will help us keep then
IN" replied Il of the girls.
n He was the fool.-"I don't under
stand why women dress that way =?
, said a man, pointing at a lady wh(
t passed along the street. Il don't eth
It en-" replied a ~hystander. THAT woman,
continued the first speaker, sis dresset
e ridiculousiy. Her husband must be
fool" Il know he is" said the bystand
er. do you know him?" "Oh, YES
n n Pm the mai myself"
y Johnny came home from school tn
other day very much excited. "Wha
!. do you think, pa? Joe Stewart, one o
y the big boys, had an argument with tn,
teacher, about a question in grammar,
What position did Joe take?" Hi
last position Was cross a chair, fac
down."
e We met two of our friends from tn
country, both disabled, one with
. black eye and the other with a lam,
back, and both attributed their miSfor
e tunes to a dream. The first spran,
!, upon an imaginary foe who was abOu
; TO assail him, and ran the bed post int,
his eye, and the other poor fellow, tum
bled I'VE a chair trying to kill a snake
$ One of those ladies who take mucl
5 better care of their animal pets thai
they do of their children, has got a pei
poodle by the name of Fido. Yester
day, Mrs. S~chinkny's little boy Bot
asked his mother: "Shall 1 give Fid,
# this piece Of sugar he is begging for?
mo, my child, it might spoil his teeth