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Show The Climax of a Joke. Yesterday while the usual number of back men and hotel runners were lounging around the depot waiting for the 11.40 train, a young man was 1 playing practical jokes on the bystanders. by-standers. With a sun glass he mau-aed mau-aed to burn opots on Bveral hats, coals, etc., and finally concentrated the rays of old Sol upon the back of a man's neck. The victim sprang into the air about three feet, came down, revolved the problem in bis mind for a minute, and finally concluding con-cluding that he had discovered the cause of the pain, there was a climax. The joker wears a patch over bis lett eye, has three stitches in bis under lip and complains of a stiff neck and lame back. |