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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4721, 23 February 1884, Page 2

When the stranger remarked that he was from Arkansas, one of the passenger* suddenly turned and asked, "You are eh? May be you are from Crittenden country?" "I am that." "Perhaps from Jatne3' Landing ? " " That's it exactly." "Then, may be, you know my brother, William Henry Jones, from Pen Van, this State ? " •• Stranger, put it thar I exclaimed the Arkansas traveller, as he extended his hand and smiled all over his face. "Bust my buttons if I didn t help to hang your brother for cattle-stealing just before I left home/ Says "Ramble" in the Sheffield "Telegraph :—-Parsons sometimes get answers they don't expect, even from children. One of them was questioning & Sunday* school class about the parable of the good Samaritan who helped the man who had fallen among thieves on the way from Jerusalem to Jericho. Bringing the story to a point, he asked, "Now, why did the Priest and Levite, pass on the other side P" A scholar held out his hand. "Well my boy, why did the Priest and Levite pasg on the other side?" "I know/ said the Iv 'j !» Qause tlie m* wan •Iwtdy robbed* •