Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1888 — Worse than She Thought. [ARTICLE]

Worse than She Thought.

One of the hardest things in the world is to condole with anybody in a misfortune or a bereavement. If it were not that the matter is generally serious, a great many funny stories could be printed about the condolence people offer to the bereaved. But up at Sacramento some time ago a hardworking Irishman fell out of a fourthstory window and broke his neck. His wife was, of course, in great distress. After the funeral a neighbor called to offer her sympathy and condolence. “It was a very sad thing, indeed.” “Indeed it was, To die like that—to fall out of a fourth-story window. ” “An* was it as bad as that?” asked the visitor. “Sure, an’ I heard it was only a thfrd-story window,”— San Francisco Chronicle.