Little Deaths

By Felix Feneon, from Novels in Three Lines. In 1906, Feneon, who was born in 1861, wrote 1,220 brief items under the rubric News in Three Lines for the Paris daily newpaper Le Matin.



Scheid, of Dunkirk, fired three times at his

wife. Since he missed every shot, he decided to

aim at his mother-in-law, and connected.



In the vicinity of Noisy-sur-Ecole, M. Louis

Delillieau, seventy, dropped dead of sunstroke.

Quickly his dog Fido ate his head.



At the Trianon Palace, a visitor disrobed and

climbed into the imperial bed. It is disputed

whether he is, as he claims, Napolean IV.



Standing on her doorstep, modiste Rudlot, of

Malakoff, was chatting with a neighbour. With

an iron bar, her wild husband made her shut up.



There is no longer a God even for drunkards.

Kersilie, of Saint-Germain, who had mistaken

the window for the door, is dead.