El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-01-18
IoY.RENERAGE

JoY-REvERAoE
lark. Valley Cor. Wagon Mound Pant.)
Mr.. Myer drilled a we'll for Mr.. Joy, Of
this valley, last week and got plenty Of
water.
OR THE DEFENSE?
Estate Record.)
There Is suspicion that the number Of
desirable Jobs In the land office has had
something to do with the attack.
THE ENTENTE league to enforce
peace is going rIgnt on about its bust
ness.
WHILE WALKING along the street
an epileptic dropped in a fit and was
quickly rushed to the hospital. Upon
removing his coat one of the nurses
found a piece of paper pinned to the lin
ing, ON which was written:
This Is to inform the house surgeon
that this is just a case Of plain fit-not
appendicitis. My appendix has already
been removed twice."
TRY 1T!
Just stand aside, and watch yourself
go by;
Think Of yourself as he, instead Of J..
Pick flaws, find fault, forget the man
Is you,
And strive to make your estimate ring
true.
Strickland w. Gillian.
L"
THEY HAVEN'T even laid the egg
that's going to hatch the dove of peace.
HIS CHOICE
When Socrates the hemlock drank
All! do not fleer nor scoff. He
Probably preferred 1t to
The substitutes for coffee.
-Tennyson J. Daft.
"--
YOUNG MAN-So Miss Ethel is your
eldest sister. Who comes after her?
Small Brother-Nobody amt come
yet, but pa says the first fellow that
comes can have her.
MARMALADE is being furnished to
the German soldiers. Heretofore this
deadly form of food has been monopoliz-
ed by the English Tommies.
WV"
THE BARkEEP waits
With hand on knob
To see il he
Must hunt a job
A-switching cars
Or peddIing ice
{Whi!e his thoughts aren't
Very nice.)
WANTED-Some way to keep the dry
pledge without letting the state vote
prohibition.
IRATE BUSINESS Man-You book
agents make me so angry with your con-
founded nerve and %impudence that |
cannot find words to express my feel
ings.
Agent-Then / am the very man you
want. I am selling dictionaries.-Life.
WV"
SOMETHING TELLS us that it's go
ing to COM out after while that Ger
many and the Allies are both licked.
WV"
1T is said, regarding a recent note
to Holland, that the Kaiser wrote like a
Dutch Uncle.
CALLING TO mind the Scriptural
quotation about the leaven that leavens
the whole ~lump-quein sabe? We have
one preacher in the house Of represent
atives.
THE GEAR still has a few more mou-
jiks.
WHEN 1T comes to a war footing,
Wall Street has our army and navy
skint a city block.
+, -vv-v
NO ARRANGEMENTS have been
made to give Woodrow Wilson a tomb
in Westminster Abbey.
OUTSIDE OF that Harry Thaw is a
sane, normal, law,abiding citizen and a
perfect gentleman.
LAWSON HAS been warned not to
give the committee too much OF his
Vanderlip.
WE JUDGE from all indications the
leak must have been a regular exit.
WV"
THE BURRO of Mines calls attention
to the increasing number Of persons
who are ~asphyxiated by breathing poi
sonous fumes of autos in garages. Sure.
1t his prevented this colyum from buy
ing about eighteen different cars. Safe
ty First.
ANOTHER ONE
Anent the ham actor who had such a
time with the line "The Queen has
Swooned," comes one by a local minis
ter who tried to announce a text dealing
with the' late Bildad; the Shuttle.
He began with Shudad the Bilhite.