A Touch Of Genuine California Humor

Ï,L1U,L wu Ifiuniiuui tuujt piU';U LUC Oinei day in an ordinurily Bolemn village in the cow ccuntics. A worthy matron, who hal beun absent looking ifter a vagraut cw, returned home, and pughing againsi the dooi found it obstructed by sume heavy Bubetanoe, whioh, apon cxamiimtíon pi'oved to be Lor hnsbaiid. He had buen slaughtered by gomo roving joker, who had wsought upou hiin with a pickhaiidlo. ïo one of Uis can was pinned a ! scrap of greaey paper, apon whioh were soribblod tho tbllowing sontiinentsin icncil-tracks : " Xho inqulosed boddy is that of oíd Bunker. Step litely, gtranger, foi yerlizeíthe mortal remains of what you must bo sum da. Thers arrest for the weory ! Ef Bunker heddeat a wurkt igiu me l'or Comer 1 weddtnto hed te sit on hitn. Ov setch is tho kingum of hovvun You don't want to movo this boddy til' ímiü siiniiiioiiíj tü liukl 11 ninquest. Or] flesh are graa ? " The ridioulqus pa,rt oi ut' the story is that the lady did not waní t suniiuon the coronel-, but took charge of the ruimiius herself ; and in dragging them towuid the bed shc exploded into her fa gun, whioh had been cunnlngly contrivod to discharge by string oted with tho body. Thua was she punishud for :in in'frattioïi of the la w. The i.t day the particulara were told us by the facatioug ooronor himself, whose jurv ha I rendered a verdict of accidental drowning in both oases. We do not know wli.n we have enjoyed t héartier laugh