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Show His Right Tftle. (Fuel.) A traveler in Texas says that he was riding along a cattle trail near the New-Mexico New-Mexico line when he met a rather pompous pom-pous looking native of the region, who introduced himself as Colonel Higgins of Devil's River. "Were you a colonel In the confederate confeder-ate army?" the traveler asked. "No, sah." "On the Union side, then?" "No, sah: never was in no wah." "Belong to the Texas rangers?" "No, sah : I do not." "Ah, I sec; you command one of the state militia regiments." "No, sah: 1 don't don't know nothing about soldiering." "Where, then, did you get the rank of colonel ?" "I'se a kunnel by marriage, sah." "By marriage? How's that?" "I married the widow of a kunnel, sah Kunnel Thompson of Waco." |