Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1879 — The Death of Tompkins’ Mother. [ARTICLE]

The Death of Tompkins’ Mother.

The gentleman of this city who was so absent-minded that he put his umbrella to bed and stood in the corner himself all night has furnished another illustration of mental wool-gathering. He came home late the other evening and his wife asked him where he had been. “Been down to Tompkins’house; his mother is dead,” said he, sleepily. This was accepted as a sufficient excuse at the time, but was hardly regarded as such the next morning at the

breakfast-table, when the wife alluded to poor old Mrs. Tompkins. “What’s the matter with her?” said Dream thorp, pausing, with his coffee-cup half raised to his month. “Why, she’s dead, you silly fellow,” answered his vis-a-vis. “Is she?” replied the unoonacions husband. “Whenaid she die?"— Exchange.