NEXPECTED HUMOUR.
Certificates of death are not documents where one usually looks, for humour, but there is frequently to be found in them much of the unconscious variety. Here, for instance, is how the' cause of death is stated in the cas-e of a. ■ labourer : "Died from injuries received through a bull accidentally kneeling on his chest." The consideration shown for the feelings of the bull is _ fine touch, and suggests grave questions on the moral responsibility of the lower animals.
• Again, a man is stated to have died " from the effects of injuries received after being run over by a railway train in motion, owing to a "misunderstanding between deceased and an engine-driver." This description of a rather ordinary railway casualty, is excellent ; it, too, is so bender towards the feelings of ihe living.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7543, 28 October 1902, Page 1
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