SORRY HE WASN’T THERE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 690, 9 July 1875, Page 3

SORRY HE WASN’T THERE.

—o — I have referred in my hook to that coroner of ours who seized an Egyptian mummy that was brought into town, summoned a jury, held an inquest on tho mummy, brought in a verdict of “ Death from causes unknown," and charged the county with the usual fee, with compound interest from the time of Moses. Well, that coroner is still in office, and he is still enthusiastic about his profession. Last Sunday night he was at church. The minister preached a very solemn sermon upon Noah’s flood, and after it was over 1 met tho coroner in the aisle, and said to him “Very impressive.discourso, Mr Whcolcr wasn’t it!” “ Beautiful, sir ! beautiful !" replied Wheeler. “ And yet it seemed to be kinder mournful, too,” “ Indeed ? why, it didn’t strike me in that way. It was solemn, of course; hut its tendency certainly should ho to fill the heart of every truly good man with cheerfulness and hope.” ‘‘Oh!l don’t know all that,” said AVbeelcr ; “but didn’t he say that them were several million people drowned in that flood ?" “ I believe he did.” “ Well, then, 1 say that, when , I think of all that mortality, and [remember that 1 wasn’t coroner then, and ain’t likely to he when there’s another such a freshet, it ’makes me sick. Therehiin’t nothing cheerful about such reflections. I feci as if I hadn’t been treated right; as if I’d been robbed.—Max Adeler.