Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1904 — Who Nero Was. [ARTICLE]

Who Nero Was.

In the days when Sir. Charles Gavan Duffy was a leading figure in Victorian politics there sat in the Melbourne parliament a wealthy but not well informed butcher. The chief secretary of the day was deprecating the attitude of the leader of the opposition, whose conduct was, he declared, worse than Nero’s.

“Who was Nero?” interjected the knight of the cleaver, with equal scorn and sincerity. “Who was Nero?” replied the delighted chief secretary. “The honorable gentleman ought to know. Nero was a celebrated Roman butcher.”—London M. A. P.