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Show Mjsplaced Words. A man was brought before .a police-court police-court charged with abusing- his tea'm r and using loud and profane languago-on languago-on tho street. Ono of the witnesses-was witnesses-was a pious old negro, who was sub- mltted to a short fosa-cxamlnatlon. "Did tho defendant use Improper languago whllo ho was beating hl horse?" asked the lawyer. "Woll, ho talk mighty loud, sab." "Did ho Indulgo in profanity?" Tho witness seemed puzzled. The' lawyer put tho question in another way. . ? "What I mean. Uncle Ana, is did Iiq. . use words that would bo proper for your minister to use In a sermon?" "Oh, yes, sun, yes, suh," tho old man replied, with a grin that rovealed tho' full width of his immense mouth, "but doy'd have to be 'ranged dlff'runt." |