Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — Something Pathetic. [ARTICLE]

Something Pathetic.

Lady (at bookstore) —I want to get a good novel to read on the train — something rather pathetic. Salesman—Let me see—how would “The Last Days of Pompeii” do ? Lady—Pompeii? I never heard of him. What did he die of? Salesman —I’m not quite sure, ma’am—some kind of an eruption, I’ve heard.—Harper’s Weekly.