Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1879 — A Poor Memory. [ARTICLE]

A Poor Memory.

A painter of celebrity in Paris, when his first wife—he has now married another —was sick unto death, was informed by her of her great fear of being buried aiive, and thereupon promised to make an incision in her neck when he thought her dead. He, however, failed to recollect it. Some months after he was dining with a friend and paying court to the one he wished to make successor to the deceased one. Out of a brown study, he suddenly exclaimed, “By Jove! I forgot to out my wife’s throat.” It needed long explanations before the other took him.