Hand in his pocket

At Grenofen, near Tavistock, aged 47, the Rev. Jonathan Philips Carpenter, formerly incumbent of South Sydenham, Devon. His death affords an awful lesson of the uncertainty of human life. He had breakfasted, read the customary morning prayer, and had been playing with his children. It was his custom after this to read the newspaper, and while reading, to put one hand into his pocket; when Mrs. Carpenter left the room, in which they were sitting, he was in that posture. On her return (hardly a quarter of an hour had elapsed) she found him lying on his back on the floor, his feet on the chair, quite dead — his hand in the position stated, which would show that is death was instantaneous, and without a struggle.