Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — Startled. [ARTICLE]

Startled.

Near the door of the reading-room of a college for women stands a blackboard, upon which are posted not only college announcements, but Important items of news taken from the morning papers. • * During the semi-annual examinations some years ago, a nervous freshman was startled to see upon the boards, the words, “Mrs. Harrison’s condition is considered serious.*’ “Mistaking the first word for “Miss,” and forgetting, in her absorption in college work, that the wife of the ex-Pres-td'ent of the United States liad been ill, the anxious student hastened to an up-per-class girl and asked tremulously:' “Do they always announce that yfm haven’t passed in this public manner?"