If you upgrade to at least OH 2.5 M1 you can use chained transformations and use a REGEX to filter out those messages that don’t have the HUMIDITY present and only pass those that do to the JSONPATH. See MQTT 2.5 M1+ How to implement the equivalent to MQTT1 REGEX filters
/var/lib/openhab2/jsondb/org.eclipse.smarthome.core.items.Item.json
You can define your Items in .items files instead of through PaperUI. But you cannot edit Items defined through PaperUI in the OH1 style.