Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1883 — Sad Result of a Joke. [ARTICLE]

Sad Result of a Joke.

There is a lady in London, the daughter of a nobleman, who is conspicuous for her affection and devotion to her husband, who has lost one of his eyes. The story is a sad one. During their courting-days the gentleman used to spend his Sundays at her father’s villa, not far from London. One Sunday morning the lady went to church without him, and on her return saw him sitting at the open drawing-

room window nodding over a newspaper. For a joke she threw her prayerbook, intending to hit the newspaper and so waken him, bntshe missed her aim, and the sharp corner of the book entered his eye, depriving him of the sight of it forever.