Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1905 — A Comprehensive Answer. [ARTICLE]

A Comprehensive Answer.

Diner—How comes this dead fly in my soup ? Waiter—ln fact, sir, I have no positive idea how the poor thing came by its death. Perhaps it had not taken any food for a long time, dashed upon the soup, ate too much of it and contracted an inflammation of the stomach that brought on death. The fly must have had a weak constitution, for when I served up the soup it was dancing merrily on the surface. Perhaps —and the idea presents itself only at this moment—it endeavored to swallow too large a piece of vegetable. This, remaining fast in the throat, caused a choking in the windpipe. These are the only reasons I can give for the death of that insect.