Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1901 — That Corpus Was Fully Dead. [ARTICLE]

That Corpus Was Fully Dead.

A story is told of a man who had a quantity of Limberger cheese to ship; It seems that the express agent would not accept it on account of the odor. The fellow purchased a rough ooffi n box of an undertaker and then shipped it as a corpse. When it was being unloaded an Irishman assisted in carrying the supposed coffin from the car. The smell was terrible and the Irishman asked the shipper who was in the box. The man told him it was his brother. After a moments reflection the Irishman said, “My friend you have tha consolation of knowing at least that your brother will not be buried alive.”