Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-20
A Coroner Who Understood.

lFrom the New York Sun.
 They had lifted the body out of the canal and dozen of us stood around it when the coroner came. He glanced at the face, asked who first saw the body, and then said:
 'I have expected this for 8 year or more. Poor fellow! No inquest will bs necessary"
 "But isn't it case of suicide?" asked one of the crowd.
 Certainly"
 "And shouldn't you investigate the causes which drove him to the rash acta'' CT know them already. He was clerk in hardware store next to my office. Last summer he got charge of the refrigerator de- pertinent. A hundred times did hear him repeat:
 "A refrigerators Certainly, ma'am; step this way and be seated. Now, then, our Peerless refrigerator is built entirely on scientific principles. This, as you will ob. serve, is the ice chest. The cold current passes from the ice down these air pipes to the right, circuiates along the racks, passes up through those pipes to the left and es- capes out of that ventilator in the end. There l is always constant current of air, not only preserving the articles placed on the racks, but carrying the odor away. We guarantee | that you may place onions and butter side by | side for one week, and that one will not | taste of the other. Inside this zinc lining is | a layer of charcoal two inches thick. Our refrigerator is cooler with five pounds of ice | than any other with twenty. The circula- l tion is on scientific principles, you will observe. No bellows are needed to create
 the current. There are no cog-wheels to get out of order-no springs to give way. Ac- I tual experiments have demonstrated that there is an actual saving of 50 per cent. of ice during the season. The racks are gall vanized, as you will observe, and the trims
 mings are of the latest and best patterns. 1 We sold these right along last year at SIS,
 but, having secured all the hardwood lumber
 in the country, and having g monopoly on
 the supply of ice in the United States, we
 have decided to reduce the price to $15' "Day after day for three months, and sometimes five or six times a day, he
 repeated this statement" said the coroner,
 ''and knew that it was only question of
 time when the end would come. The 1st of
 October they changed him into the coal stove
 department, and then, day after day, he 1 sang this song:
 l "A base-burnera Certainly ma'am-right
 this way. Presume you saw our advertise 1 ment last Sunday. The climax in base
 burners has at last been reached. Here it is,
 ma'am-our Acme. Isn't it beauty
 Everything, outside of the grates and win
 dows, made of solid nickel and warranted
 not to turn black. It's as handsome as a 1 phlutluS, duu lOls ol pSOplo WHO Chn'G AuOIQ
 piano are buying these stoves simply as l parlor ornament What would our grand | fathers and grandmothers say if they could
 step from their graves and behold a picture
 like thisa We have ladies come in here and
 ask permission to sit down and criticise the stove as work of art, the same as they
 would piece of statuary or painting. And | now for the interior. This is the frepot, as 1 you will see. As soon as combustion takes place the hot air is drawn down | through these hues, passes twice around the base, aseends to radiate around the top, passes over the live fire to be relocated, and l 6nolly escapes by the fue when it has no 1 further value as heating power. Economicals That's our strong point ma'am. We claim | that this stove will heat four times the | surface with one ton of coal than any other will with three. It feeds and regulates itself Any child can run it. No gas can escape when the stove is closed. All its parts are
 handy to be got at, and by no possibility can l any accident occur. It lights room so that no lamp is needed, saves enough in coal to buy all your meat and potatoes, and when not in use as stove we have music box to go inside of it.
 "Poor fellow 1" sighed the coroner, as he bent over him in pity. "These were the l songs he was compelled to sing to earn his l daily bread, and we who were near him knew that the end must finally come. It has come. He did not want to live any longer, and none of us can blame him. ] l will turn the body over to the undertaken The jury could only find that he had died of l Q broken heart"