Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1911 — Rough on the Joker. [ARTICLE]

Rough on the Joker.

They were two subeditors and, meeting in Fleet street, began to talk of their mutual friends. “What’s this 1 hear about old Jox, the humorist?” asked one. “They say he's gone to a hospital or home.” "Yes,” said the other sub sadly. "He’s worked himself into a terrible state of nervous prostration. Afraid It’s incurable.” _ “Hard lines! But how did he come to do lt?’ “Well, you see,” said the sympathetic sub, “six weeks ago he got a fine answer to a riddle—‘one’s a chauffeur and the other’s a fur show’—and he’s never been able to sleep since, trying to find the conundrum it would make a good answer to.’’—London Express.