Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — Reportorial Consolation. [ARTICLE]

Reportorial Consolation.

: A man who was about to be hung for murder was conversing with a reporter about his approaching end. “I have but one fear,” said he. “What’s that, ” asked the reporter, in the gentle tones characterizing these Worthies on such occasions. “It is that the man I killed will not meet me kindly in heaven.” “Don’t worry about that, my friend, i don’t worry about a little thing like; that; you are not going in that direc-J tion at all, and you might as well think ] of something nearer home.”— Merchant and Traveler. ' Victor Hugo has always prided himself on his aristocratic ancestors, but « French writer who has been looking the matter up finds that his grandfather was a joiner, and that before him the Hugos, as far as can be ascertained, were ordinary farmers. _