Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1891 — A Great Pity. [ARTICLE]

A Great Pity.

How it was that the village church caught fire no one ever knew, though there were many theories as to the origin of the disaster. Suffice it to say that the sacred edifice was gutted. In spite of the gallant efforts of the firemen nothing hut the bare walls re--maiiied, and gfenhral regret \tfaS_expressed that the fine argariM—presented -by the ladies Only a -few Sionths previously—had been destroyed. ' "It’s a great pity losing the organ so soon after getting it,?* remarked an elder who was discussing the untoward event: • r • “Yes, it is,” replied .one of his friends: “but it was almost an impossibility to save it; you see the engines couldn’t jplay on it.” And then the speaker wisely went away.

Tanole —Hang it all, Maria! that confounded poodle of youta has bitten a piece clean out of my leg. Mrs. Tangle Oh, how very annoying, Henry, when poor JFida is sick and the doctor said that he mustn’t have a bit of moat for at least two ’weeks.