Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1884 — Died of a Fit. [ARTICLE]

Died of a Fit.

Byron’s good sayings have been in all men’s months—in the months of some who have claimed them as their own. Many were admirable puns, others had a better claim to remembrance. The last time 1 met him—long time ago—l sat next him at dinner. “So Poole, the tailor, is dead!” remarked onr host “Indeed! What did he die of?” “Of a fit,” said Byron, at once; “what else could a tailor die of?” London World. y „ Tbs fan-palm, of which there , are plenty in the Singapore gardens, is shaped like a fan, of the palm species. It looks like the fan of some mighty giant, which has been stuck into the ground by its shapely handle.