Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — Joked at a Menace. [ARTICLE]

Joked at a Menace.

During the year 1883, threatening letters were sent to many public men in England. Among others, Lord Salisbury received a letter from the Chief Constable of Hertfordshire, informing him that his life and that of the late Mr. Smith, First Lord of the Admiralty, were to be attempted the following Monday. This letter Lord Salisbury sent to Mr. Smith, with the accompanying grimly comical little note: “My Dear Smith: The inclosed may interest you. I am afraid I am, in point of superficies, the biggest mark of the two. —Salisbury. ”