Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1899 — A Regular Polyglot. [ARTICLE]

A Regular Polyglot.

A gentlemail in a rural district drew down upon his head a storm of adverse criticism by marrying a second wife shortly after the demise of his first Two of those good ladles who look generally upon the surface of things, and who are over-ready with condemnation, were discussing the disgraceful affair. “Why, my dear, there’s his poor wife hardly cold in her grave, and he goes and marries another.” “Dreadful P’ declared the other; "I never heard of such a thing.” “I should think not indeed,” went on number one angrily. “Marrying wife after wife like that—why, the man’s a regular polyglot!*—Cornhill Magazine.