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Show H WIT AND HUMOR. H A Catnollc priest was ilisplonstul with H what ho considered llio ImeUslldiiii: of H a young girl In his parish, llu mot hur H ono day in a crowd mul thought it well H to robuko her for ncgleutiiiK duty. H Looking nt her soveroly, ho Haiti : j "Good morning child or the ovll H "Good morning, fattier," who an- H swered sweetly. H j A Kansas vapor in speaking of the jH great corn crop In that Htutu, tuIlH n H chopper: "A dnoller down thu rlvur H brings, wu understand, tho liorriblo H news that iv small boy on Frank l.yon's H plttcoonlast londay oliinbed a corn H Btalk to soo how this com wan gutting H nlong, and now the stalk is growing H faster than tho boy can come down and H now ho ia out of sight. llob Shibley H mid several others aro trying to cut thu H stalk down with iixob, but it grows co H Iftbt thai they can't hark twice in thu H snmo place. Tho poor boy ia living on l nothing but raw corn and has already 1 thrown down over, four bushels of colw. PpH It ii to bo hoped that lie will toon be H rescued from his perilous position, but H on Buch fertile lands us sorrotind this H town it is very foolish for any one to H climb oven a fonco pole'. |