Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1902 — He Hatched a Joke. [ARTICLE]

He Hatched a Joke.

Dr. Theophilus Leigh, some tkne mas* ter of Balliol College, would be remembered, If only for the fact that he was 1 Jane Austen’s great-uncle. In addition to this distinction he had an Indefatigable wit—humor ran in the’ family—which kept alert until his death. Two days before he died he showed! himself an incorrigible punster. Onej might look for a casual relation, If bls’ age. 90 years, were not enough to ac-‘ count for his death. Some one spoke of an old acquaint-' ance as having been “egged on to matrimony.” “Then may the yoke rest easy on’ him,” said D_r. Leigh.