Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1883 — Grandmother Against Grandfather. [ARTICLE]

Grandmother Against Grandfather.

When Albert Wolf and Villemesant together conducted the Paris Figaro, Wolf once left on a tiff, and afterward, desiring to return, wrote a brilliant article for its columns, which was not inserted. Meeting the editor, he asked when his contribution would appear. “Never,” roared Villemesant, in a rage. “Fve sworn so by the memory of my grandmother.” “And I,” said Wolf, “have sworn that it shall by the memory of my grandfather.” But Villemesant was inexorable. “See now,” said the brilliant journalist, “if we cannot arrange this. We have known each other for fifteen years; why quarrej. for the rest of onr lives ? We both are bonnd by an oath. Let ns stake the memory of your grandmother against that of my grandfather and play it ont in a rubber of piquet.” The cards were brought. The grandfather won, and next day Wolf rejoined the paper. The stock raisers of California estimate the aggregate value of tber flocks and herds at $5,000,000. Tim number of horsos and cattle is placed at 2,250,000.