SORRY HE WASN'T THERE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2006, 9 June 1875, Page 3

SORRY HE WASN'T THERE.

I have referred in my book to that coroner of ours who seized an-Egyptian mummy that' was brought into town, summoned a jury, held an inquest on the mummy, brought in a verdict of " Death fromcaujei 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 pyer-I met the coroner in the aisle, and said to him:—

.?M<Very. 'impressive discourse,, Mr Wheeler, wasn't it ? " '

•" Beautiful, sir! beautiful!" ' replied "Wheeler.

■ "And yet it 'seemed.; to be kinder mournful, too."

"Indeed? Why,-itldidn't strike me in that way. It was solemn, of course 1; but its tendency certainly should be to fill the heart of every truly good xnan with "cheerfulness and hope." " Oh I I know all that," said Wheeler ; " but didn't he say that there were several million people drowned in that flood ?" '• I believe he did." "Well, then, I say that, when I think of all that mortality, and remember that I wasn't coroner then, and ain't likely r to be when there's another such a freshet", it makes me sick. There ain't nothing cheerful "about such- reflections. I feel as if I hadn't been treated right; as if I'd been robbed.-^-Max Adeler. '