Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — Why Nothing Happened. [ARTICLE]

Why Nothing Happened.

Once a careless man went to the cellar and stuck the candle in what he thought was a keg of black sand. He sat near it drinking wine, until the candle burned low. Nearer it got to the black sand—nearer and nearer, until the blaze reached the black sand; and as it was nothing but black sand nothing happened. The people one enjoys meeting three times a day don’t seem to be bound for heaven, and are not of the kind that are going to hell.