Show r ii tl l to c ono of tho most funeral paraphernalia ever Invented nays I tho News of that city It Is a burglar bur-glar and flro toot coflla With BO many JBtrango adjuncts that a person teeing it for tho first time would throw up his hands In holy horror at the audacity of tho inventor and the admirable nerve of a manufacturer that will place suck an article on tho market Despite the many ghastly features in connection VlUi tho < Cold tiro almost I blasphemous talk of tho enterprising agent this city has j roved to be n lucrative Cold for him to work and now a number of citizens lire equipped with the strangest burial appliance of tho docado Tho description of tho coffin as given by the agent Is as follows fol-lows Primarily tho coffin Is flro and bur jlarpvoof The case la J made out of boiler Iron harJanud wtit old bono sprnco bark and leather which forms an cnamul that cannot be penetrated bj chisel or drill It Is put together with angle Iron and flush rivet The locUs nro all on tho Inside so constructed con-structed with hooka and staples with a spring behind them that when a pin la drawn out from tho outside tho bolts spring down and lock automatically and the coffin Is then locked so that it cannot bo one nod from the outside The only person who can unlock tho I strange coffin is the person inside i There are two grades of cofflns those for vaults Bud those to be in tarred In graves The coffin to bo placed In a vault is equipped with ifr > ouoos that can bo exploded from tho iusUdo The theory of this is that in inno a person la burled alive ho can throw back tho bolts explode the torpedoes tor-pedoes and warn tho sexton and thus escape Tho coffin to be placed in a grave has attached a strong spring and arm In cruio tho person inside finds that he ishos to got out all ho has to do is to throw back the spring and this arm is thereby released and cuts its way to tho top exploding a torpedo and warning tho keeper of the graveyard grave-yard These coffins aro cold at so much per pound and the first purchaser does not have to pay anything down Ho simply gives a 1 written guarantee to the manufacturer that he will pay for tho co ill n from his estate within fifteen days after death or failing to do this the manufacturer can claim his body w do what ho may wish with it The coffins wore originally invented at Vpsllantl Mich and the invention wns duo to necessity At the time that the company gained its inception Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor and other Michigan towns were being overrun with grave robbers It was to counteract the effects ef-fects of this that the cofllns were made The scare had become so bait th < e that the peoplo had Cut > sth I 1i l atuUut1t1bjuZ aucustlutrylJ viv It it wa thls company began operations |