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Show lis eai.l in writing that lie fears to try a) fourth time to tell the joke. because it's good enough to break the bandages. BEST JOKE OF SEASON UNHINGES THE JOKER'S FACE ST. PAUL. Minn., April 22. Locked in the beast of Silver Simpson of Minneapolis Minne-apolis is the funniest Joke of the season. I Rut while the world frets to know it and Simpson is just dying to ull it. the ! owner of the excru. l.itlng tid-hit is re- strained bv the knowledge that if he does : tell It he ay never he able to tell another, j For Simpson almost died in his efforts to let the world in on the Joke. He eatr.e i all tl'.e wac over from Minneapolis to tell it to a f i lend in Wabash street. Hut when lie started to tell it he laughed so j hard that be dislocated his Jaw. He wes taken to police headquarters, where the ambulance surgeons set his jaw and then epr'sse 1 curiosity regarding the Joke that could do such awful things to a man. Simuson started to tell the joke and laughed and pop went the jaw again. Half an hour later he was back. He hud tried to recount his troubles and the cause of them to some friends and ataln the laugh was to much for the Jaw. Tiiis time the surgeons bound his face so tightly that he can only giggle, but |