The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-06-13

tAst sats fne3. are heEa blanks
lie Speculation that ruins the EAST
and is speculation that runs tue
clerks.
Girls look upon IN engagement ring
~ = very promising Affair hiladel
phiA Chroniele-Ileral
A felou generally apI~aTs on the end
II the nngefs and thumbs. Sometimes
on tie end Ut rope.
In this Office when = man falls into
the waste basket he drops into poetry
Philadelphia Call.
A young man generally gives a lock
Of hair 10 hls sweet heart before he
marries her. After marriage she some
times HELPS herself.
"rhe best remedy | know for thus
foot and mouth disease" said Mrs.
Blinker els for folks 10 stay at home
more and talk less."-Peck's sun.
An lrishman living In an attic. being
asked what part Of the hnuse he occu.
pied, answered: IF the house was
turned topsy-turyy. Id be Twin on the
inst iure."
A Queen City girl eating sousc.
caught a glimpse Of beautiful mouse.
WHEN the note that she reached. as she
~screeched, whould have drawn a $40.
COO house.
After the hotels were all full a man
applied to one and SAID he'd become I
guest Of the house for a day or two
but the landlord said he guessed not
y. O. Pieayune.
James, who was trying 10 sew on a
button murmured: "They shy there is
a new yacht that makes fifteen knots
an hour. but this thread makes twenty
knots u mlnute.-Frankfort Herald.
Ella Wheeler in her maiden days
having naiyely sang: Il will love the
mai whom my soul reveres, and kiss
him blue with a fiery yearn," The AL.
bany Times somewhat perunently OBJ
serves that by this time the happy Mr..
Wilcox is no doubt yelling for help.
A Dakota lawyer was arrested for
stealing wood but such was the power
of his eloquence that be made the jury
believe that he was walking in his
sleep and that he thought he was plac-
ing flowers on the grave of his first
wife.-Burlingtou Free Press.
An exchange says that in digging a
well in Texas. sharks teeth were found
at Il depth OF forty feet. According To
this, land sharks have been doing bust
ness la Texas for a long time. The
practice OF buryiug land sharks forty
feet dep is alulnat obsolete.
A prominent Bradford attorney was
called TO the witness stand last week
To- testify in IA license case. and wished
to be excused because he WIS an attUr-
ney. I he judge decided the point not
we'll taken, and suggested that 1t WAS
well to make an attorney tell the truth
s0matimes.
what dreadful old nuisance that
woman is" said Maxtield Bean to u
friend at IA party the other night "she
talks me to death" SIR said the
young man, IL will inform you that
that woman YOU speak so disrespectful-
" of is the mother that bore me-
"N ell, I'm sorry; but that's no reason
why she should bore me" said The con-
fused Bean.
During the sermon n of the quar-
tette fell asleep. "Now's Your chants
said the organist to the soprano. "See
If you canticle the tenor" you would
not dare duet" said the contralto, Il
could make a better pun than that as
my name Is Psalm remarked the boy
who pumped the organ; but he said ii
solo that no one quartette.-Life.
A Mrs. Wright, of Atlanta, Ga, died
in u dentists chair. while under the in
luence of chloroform. Another won.
an was waiting to have half a dozen
teeth extracted and rs she took the
chair she SAID, "Come on with your
chloroform. You say ltdon't kill more
than one in a thousand and as it has
just killed oneI guess l won't he the
next"
Bill Arp says Ashyille is the town
and place where they say pegged shoes
were first invented, and it came about
because the town shoemaker didn't
have room enough to pull the waxed
ends out to their full length without
hitting his elbows against a mountain
on one side or the other. and so he in
vented pegs that he could strike up and
down perpendicularly INT have plenty
OF room.
"Yes," said old Mr.. Squaggs, "the
doctors are getting mighty smart now
a.days. Why, they've got instruments
and things made SOS they can see clean
through Won" "Humphl" replied old