Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1882 — An Objectionable Tenant. [ARTICLE]

An Objectionable Tenant.

An elderly gentleman in Paris, in search of lodgings, and noticing a card “To Let ”in the window of a house in the Rue Lafayette, inquired at the parlor’s lodge what might be the rent of the vacant apartment, and of how many rooms it consisted. Eyeing him up and down with a scornful glance, the concierge gruffly replied: “Four thousand five hundred francs.. But it won’t suit you.” “Why not?” retorted the applicant; “I want a lodging in this neighborhood, and I am prepared, if necessary, to pay as much as five thousand francs rent.” “I tell you again, it won’t do for you,” growled Cerberus. “Is it so high up, then?” “No; only on the second floor. But it won’t suit you, I say.” “In the fiend’s name why, not?” “Well, any one can see that you are in a wretched state of health, and you must know that there is nothing to which my employer objects so strongly in his house as a funeral?”