The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-21
FOOLISHNESS.
A call to arms-"John take the baby"

A call TO arms-"John take the baby"
Credit is the thing that keeps a man
in debt.
A Chilicoth man calls his wife's
tongue charity, because it begins at
homeas soon as he gets there.
That's a case of booty and beauty
as the lover said while caught kissing
his girl and being kicked by the old
mar.
The next door neighbor of st. Paul
editor is, named Brandy. The good
Christian editor lOyes his nelghbor rs
himself-if anything a little better.
The report that Miss Terry has four
nvlng husbands, is mean, miserable.
d~espicahle Islander started by the ven
omed tongues Of gossip. She has only
three.
A ~facetious swell who danced with a
couple of Chicago girls at a party late
ly, remarked that although he liked
rings ON his fingers, he couldn't stand
bellies on his toes.
whats tea this mornlng?' asked
Fink of his grocer the other day. "Six-
ty cents" Well, amt that too steepY'
"Of course it's to steep, YOU wouldn't
roast tea, would you?'
"There is a specie of lizard that can
throw off his tail at pleasure" In this
it resembles the writers of serials for
story papers, albeit the latter throw of
much longer tails.
A contemporary heads an article
slow is.it?" Getting along pretty now,
thank you. 1t is so we can sit down,
by being cautious, and it doesn't really
bother US any more. We pricked ii
yesterday.
All of our institutions are but copies
of the past. Why, even u national
holiday is not original. When Moses
and the children of Isarel went out
into the wilderness, they celebrated
the glorious forth"
A Boston reporter has been kicked
for telling how many glasses of beer
an alderman drank at one sitting. He
said twenty, and the alderman
brought forward competent witnesses
to prove that it should have been thir.
ty.seVen.
"He stood six feet two in, in his stock
ings, and every inch a man. says an
exchange. Hin! That is seventy-four
inches; EVERY inch a man." would
make se%venty-four men. This must be
the same identical customer who was a
"host in himself"
1t has been stated. and some sports
man will no doubt be sorry to hear it,
that a ishing.pole has been invented
that registers every fish caught. This
will do away with all fish stories, mas
much as the. angler with a pole that
doesn't register will always be regard
ed with suspicion.
During an inquest held by an Arkan.
saw coroner the victim opened his eyes
and SAID "Take a little straight. What
do you mean?" demanded the coroner
Lie down until this inquest is com
pleted. Think We work for nOthing?'
And the mar obeyed, thereby assisting
in rObbing the public treasury.
"Yes," said the southern sheriff, "wt
used to hunt men down with blood
hounds. We do 1t cheaper now. W.
merely send a book agent after the mar
we want, and he's sure to be found il
half the time it would take a blood
hound. Cruel? Yes. it is rather NOR
cruel than the old way but a sheriff
can't permit sentimental considera
lions to interfere with his business"
Two urchins of tender years of tire
and five, they say, sat down. at nurser,
table, for dinner, one bright day, a sing
lie, luscious orange young Samuel quick
ly espied, then watery grew his peppers
and pileously he cried. what ais m.
own, darling boy" the worried moth
er asked; And Sammy, howled loude
yet, his sudden grief unmasked; "I'r
crying. Ma, because (boo-wooD when
get that orange take, 1t will be gone
and there is none for little brothe
Jake"
Probably M of the reasons the Oh
nese are called heathens is the fact tina
on New Years they must settle up a
debts or be declared ba%nkrupts and nc
permitted to continue in business. Sue
a system or custom as that is heather
ish. How are you to have brownston
fronts and millionaires if every del
has to be paid once a year? Such a
example as the Chinese set in this mat
ter of settling debts is outrageous. Tn
Chinese must go.
The Pennsylvania courts have deciC
ed that while you mustn't lie about
directly and openly 1t is perfectly law
1 TT Il