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Show QUEER MISTAKES. If the doctor is to believe all the statements made to him by applicants for life insurance, certain families have been distinguished by their strange happenings. A few of the most amusing for the large series of blunders follow: "Father went to bed feeling well, and the next morning woke up dead." x. "Grandfather died suddenly at the age of 103. Up to this time he bid fair to reach a ripe old age." "Applicant does not know the cause of mother's death, but states that she fully recovered from her lost illness." "Applicant has nevor been fatally "Father died suddenly, nothing serious." seri-ous." "Applicant's brother, who was an infant, died when ho was a mero child." "Grandfather died from gunshot wound, caused by an arrow shot by an Indian." "Applicants fraternal parents died when he was a child." "Mother's last Illness was caused from chronic rheumatism, but she was cured before death." British Medical Jorunal. |