Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1881 — His Little Mistake. [ARTICLE]

His Little Mistake.

Merimee, in his “Letters to Panizzi,” tells a good story of Mrs. Caroline Norton and Lord Suffolk, whom she had bantered at a charity fair to purchase some trifle at an exorbitant price. “Don’t you know,” said his Lordship, defending himself feebly, “that I am the prodigal son?” “No,” was the answer; “I thought you were the fatted calf. ” • A Chicago editor got hold of a map, and presently exclaimed; “Bytunket, the Mississippi river ruift?*by St? Louis, doesn’t it I” And then he wrote a paragraph referring to the Mississippi as a miserable brook, — Boston Globe.