Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1892 — A Broad Rebuke. [ARTICLE]

A Broad Rebuke.

One day, it is related, a noble count of the old French Parliament was trying to make a speech, and a very prosy speech it was, while all the other members were either chatting or resting. Presently the president of the body rapped slightly with his baton. “If those gentlemen whc are talking to each other,” said he, “would kindly make no more noise than those gentlemen who are snoring, it would be much appreciated by those gentlemen who are trying to listen!” A woman down South who sued for divorce on the ground that the marriage ceremony was performed on a railway train and was therefore illegal failed to secure a decree. The car-coupling held.