Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — Coal Mine Fatalities. [ARTICLE]

Coal Mine Fatalities.

One thousand and sixty persons were killed in coal mines in Great Britain, during last year, and sixtyfive persons in metalliferous mines, both numbers being above the yearly average. Little Emile, (as his sister Elli enters the room with an apple in her hand) —Let’s play Adam and Eve, sis. Elli—How? Emile—You tempt me with the apple, and I eat it— Fliegende Blaetter. A pretty girl can usually forgive a man for staring at her, but you wouldn’t think i-o to hear her tell the folks about it after she gets home.— Somerville Journal*