Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1883 — How Her Husband Died. [ARTICLE]

How Her Husband Died.

An Irishwoman can always manage j to tell a disagreeable truth in a very ; agreeable way. “How didyour husband ! die?” asked the Judge very sternly, j “Well, sir, very sudden like,” was the j reply. “But what was the matter with him?” “Why, I believe, air, be fell out of a window, or through a kind of cellar door, or something of that sort. ” “How far did he fall?” “Not more that five or six feet, yer Honor.” “And how could such a fall as that kifl him ?” “You see, sir, there was" a bit of stliring or cord, or that like, and it got round poor Mike’s neck, and he never spoke a word after it.”