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Show Amrrltnn Humor, Tho humor of tlm aUgo YanxMliM l-awca awny, Tho next phvo of Amri cntt limnor wni that ilrtlcica In tin ret. All otir later humurliti have Ia-cii of ttila wcotcrn type. 1)111 Njro, M. Quad and Mark Twain aro notablo ex ample, llut thf sthoul, too, nvcins to 'Lo iaMlfi(c away. It Is iwt oi-iwrtnt lliat any now typn of huinor U npmr Icjf to Ulto tho place or thht ucinjillfloil by rtiera now in tho fiet 1. Aro w to liai o no tnoro fun? llut tho (jtqnUUo humor of thMyp m)v tsslnf is in cum .arable, Lincoln liad It ami Tom Cor win lind it It bub bios urir front tho thoughts of men hue known hut (finally huninrints in thnli way. Of tmjAotho- hteKmury fitorrs, of CMcugo, was n inatkcit cxamplr. Jul )y, cartlosa, glfttd, bo wa n tnloal American of tho wrst. Hon, Utile, nearly nlwnjH IniKMjtmUry diflluiltien. When Lord Chlif Jtutko LVUrhljo ltl Atr.eri(.n, Mr. Htorrit (fftvo him n Uiminct in Clilcngo lint n irrnhUnt might haeMt liuiiorcl to shnro. Aa UBunl(Htorra wwiUt'iiin debt, but lit tlo did that trouble his light Unrt. ' .liistasthoilItlngu)slirl jirty wcroto alt down to tho UiiKuet, how over, canto a tlinmtf txlap. The sheriff lev 11 ou thu final Itself. At tho dining- room iloor bo and his tn In Ions stiHd llko n lUinlng anonl fTturdlng tha tntranco totru dine. What was to bo donor Ills high Might incm, Coteridpf, rouU not bo in ml ted, Thu sheritl was implacable rtiuilly puinoot tho inUllonnlru gnets Tira obltgcil to go down intu thdrown jioLkota and haul forth tho tiiomy to satisfy tho man of tho law. Thin ho doi-arUil peaceably and let tho tnorr fcnt kO on. fi'othlntf daunted though wen tho nurry soul of Kinory htorra. In tha very midst of tho illntiiny and conf uslun ho rcmitrkod cooltyi "Tlio shcrliT has norcxerencofor mijboilyor anything, Hu has oven levM on tho Lord's upiKr,1 |