Connecticut western news., 1890-01-01
A Coroner Who Understood.

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:
 s'I have expected this for year or more. Poor fellow! No inquest will be necessary"
 "But isn't it a case of suicide" asked one of the crowd.
 Certainly"
 "And shouldn't you investigate the causes which Sdrove him to the rash act?''
 s'I know them already. He was clerk in hardware store next to my office. Last summer he got charge of the refrigerator department. A hum dred times did hear him repeat:
 "A refrigerator? Certainly, ma'am; step this way and be seated. Now, then, our Peerless refrigerator is built entirely on scientific principles. This, as you will observe, is the ice chest. The cold current passes from the ice down. these air pipes to the right, circulates along the racks, passes up through those pipes to the left, and es- capes out of that ventilator ill the end.
 There is always a 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 layer of charcoal two inches thick. Our refrigerator is cool CT with five pounds of ice than any other with twenty. The circulation is on scientific principles, as you will ob- serve. No bellows are needed to create the current. There are no cog-wheels to get out oe order-no springs to give way. Actual experiments have de- monstrated that there is an actual sav- ing of 50 per cent. of ice during the season. The racks are galvanized, as you will observe, and the trimmings are of the latest and best patterns. We sold these right along last year al SIS, but, having secured all the hard wood lumber in the country, and hav- ing a monopoly on the supply of ice ill the United States, we have decided to reduce the price to $15.
 sDay after day for three months, and sometimes five or six times day, he repeated this statement," said the a 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 sang this song:
 "A base-burner? Certainly ma'am right this way. Presume you saw our advertisement last Sunday. The climax in base burners has been reach ed. Here it is ma'am-our Acme. Isn't it beauty? Everything, outside of the grates and windows, made of solid nickel and warranted not to turn black. It's handsome as paint ing, and lots of people who can't af- ford piano are buying these stoves simply as a parlor ornament. What would our grandfathers and grand mothers say if they could step from their graves and behold a picture like this! We have ladies come in here and ask permission to sit down and criticize the stove as work of art, the same as they would piece of statuary or painting, and now for the interior. This is the tire-pot, as you will see. GAS soon as combustion takes place the hot air is drawn down through these flues, passes twice around the base, ascends to radiate around the top, passes over the live fire to be re- heated, and finally escapes by the fue when it has no further value as heat ing power. Economical? That's our strong point, ma'am. We claim that this stove will heat four times the sur- face with one ton of coal that any oth- CT stove will with three. It feeds and regulates itself. Any child can run it.. No gas can escape when the stove is closed. All it's parts are handy to be got at, and by no possibility can any accident occur. It lights room so that no lamp is needed, saves enough in coal to buy all your meat and pota- toes, and when not in use as 8 stove we have music box to go inside of it."
 "Poor fellow!" sighed the Coroner, as he bent over him in pity. 'sThese were the songs he was compelled to sing to earn his 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 died of broken heart"