Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1883 — A Mighty Fall. [ARTICLE]

A Mighty Fall.

A Cincinnati man, while on a visit to Richmond, Va., asked the hotel clerk where he was stopping to shpw him around the city, The clerk very politely acceded and took him everywhere, ending the trip at the Capitol. As they were looking at the partraits the clerk was telling about his high lineage and ancient pedigree and pointed out several portraits as those of his ancestors. “Ah,” said his visitor, when so much ancestral talk had become monotonous, “you are then of high descent?” “Yes, sir; I am proud to say that I am, ” he replied in a satisfied way. “Well, sir, I should think that your neck would be broken. ” “I don’t understand what you mean.” “Why, it seems to me that a man of such lofty birth, who had dropped clear down so sudden to hotel clerk would have his neck broken in spite of all he could do. Possibly, however, you came down on a fire escape.”— Merchant Traveler. An old butcher way out in Missouri, With neuralgia, he suffered like fury, St. Jacobs Oil banished The pain which all vanished —- And prevented a Coroner’s jury. A cranky old man named Blake, Says St. Jacobs Oil “takes the cake," He gave it one test, And says it’s the best Cure in the world for backache.