A man died in Oshkosh who was over eighty years of age. After the funeral
the minister who conducted the services, said to the son of the deceased,
"your father was an octogenarian." The young man colored up, doubled up
his fist, and said to the minister that he would like to have him repeat
that remark. The minister said, "I say your father was an old
octogenarian." He had not more than got the word out of his mouth before
the young man struck him on the nose, knocked him down, kicked him in the
ear, and when pulled off by a policeman, he said no holyghoster could call
his dead father names, not around him. The minister said he couldn't have
been more surprised if some one had paid a year's pew rent, than he was
when that young man's fist hit him.