Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1902 — He Hatched a Joke. [ARTICLE]

He Hatched a Joke.

Dr. Theophilus Leigh, some time master of Balllol College, would be remembered, If only for the fact; that he was ‘Jane-Austen’s great-uncle. In addition to this distinction he had an indefatigable wit—humor ran in the family—which kept alert until his death. Two days before he died he showed himself an incorrigible punster. One might look for a casual relation, If his age, 90 years, were not enough to account for his death. Some one spoke of an old acquaint* ance as having been “egged on to mat* rlmony.” “Then may the yoke rest easy on him,” said Dr. Leigh.