People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — A Brief Census. [ARTICLE]

A Brief Census.

There was an energetic landlady, a widow, in a large boarding house in New Hampshire, and her brother, who was a widower, joined her in the business enterprise. It so happened their first guests were a young widow and her father, who had recently buried his second wife. The “Associated Charities” sent out an agent to investigate a case of distress in that neighborhood, and it chanced this was the first house she hit upon. “Of whom does your family consist?” she inquired of the mistress. “All remnants!” was the prompt reply.—Youth’s Companion.