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Show gli- ' i- '' HAD POOR IDEA QF FUN Mo3engtr Bos Joke" In Thlt Can? , Wai Connected with Worklnn j Recoil Attachment. AJioy who was until recently cm-ployed cm-ployed as a mewenger at one of the local telegraph oilleps has an overweening over-weening sense of humor, says tho Dulnth News-Tribune. It is p( the penetrating type, which nearly always al-ways furnishes the latii?h for bun alone and regrets for the other fellow. fel-low. In fact, ho recently left the employ of tho company rather unceremoniously un-ceremoniously because of it. Rtisi-ness Rtisi-ness was dull ono day and, overcome by ennui, tho boy in question wen' to the telephone. He colled up the homo of ono o' the other employee and asked for the lattcr's mother. "I am awfully sorry to hao to toll you, Mrs. Blank," ho said, "but your son was just run over and had his leg cut off." Then he hung up. Fortunately tho conversation was overheard and the frantic woman quickly it assured. as-sured. "Why did yon do it?" asked th manager. "ntBt for fun." "Well, I know something funnier than that," said the manager. "You get out of here just for fun and don't come back, just for fun or anything else." |