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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13850, 9 November 1918, Page 6

In reply to piredictions 1 of doom and death for the National Ca.binet,; the Honi. G. W. Russell siaid in the House last week that those prophecies! reminded him of a rSoent cable message reporting! a remark attributed''to -the KaSsei* (in aniswer to abdication mmj oui'Si) that it was rather tedious io discuss a funeral in the presence of • the corpse." (Laughter and applause from the Labour benches.) Mr Ruseell added that the predictions about the impending 1 death oT the NationaT ! GoTteirnnaenit also reminded hiim about an incident which happened (so; ' it has been alleged) at Chrastchurch yoars ago. A very energetic undertaker had called at a house where a imam wasi eick, and had asked the wife how the husband was. When, tike visitor was informed that the man was still ill, he i-temiarked: "I hea.r<i jhe was dead. While I ana here I had better measure him-." He KmmedjLaitiely wentiimto the sick i"oom and ran the tape over the man, but the patient did not die. "Threatenied men live long 1," concluded tihe Minister, in the words of an old proverb. •