Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1891 — Became Gray. [ARTICLE]

Became Gray.

Jaw son, who is an inveterate yarnspinner and a bore of the first magnitude, had been retailing to his friend some harrowing- story of a woman whose hair had turned gray in a single night. “Fact, I assure you; I knew the party,” he concluded. “If you say you knew the lady in qnestion, I can quite believe your story to be true, ” commented the friend in a tone which made the story-teller feel rather uncomfortable. “Of course I know her,” was the testy answer; “and it’s not such an uncommon occurrence as you seem to imagine. I knew a man also ” “And his hair turned gray, too?” interrupted the victim. “Well, I don’t wonder at it in the least.” This made Jawson a little sulky, but he speedily became interested when his friend remarked: “Your stories remind me of a lady I used to know, but she became gray in a single hour—in less than an hour, in fact.” “Some terrible shock, I suppose,” remarked Jawson. “I daresay it would be,” continued the friend; “at anvrate, it happened while she was getting mariied.” “Oh, I understand,” said Jawson, sagely: “the inan would have another wife alive; it would all be discovered at the eleventh hour; a terrible scene would ensue, and all that sort of thing.” “lou’re not within a mile of it, Jawson,” was the unfeeling answer. “This lady I refer to married a fellow named Gray, and she of course, became Gray as soon as the knot was tied.”

Birds are the only animals which can be taught distinctly to articulate and . utter sentences, which, though of, course not understood by the birds themselves, are none the less supriaing to listen to.