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Show Did Not Know New Mexico. Delegate Rodoy of Now Mexico hai been nsfcnlshcd during the fight for statehood to find that a great many people In tho custom states think that New Mexico Is n foreign country. A friend of his who runs a big store 1 the territory was In Now York re cently and went Into a wholesale housa to purchase goods. Ho told a lordly looking attendant that tho goods wers for shipment to New Mexico. "Tho export department Is on tho next Hoor," said tho New Yorker, which so enraged tho would-be purchaser that ho left tho placo after giving tho as-tonlshcd as-tonlshcd attendant a rather sulphurous lesson In geography. |