ASNAKEIN A GIRL’S STOMACH.

Dunstan Times, Issue 498, 3 November 1871, Page 1 (Supplement)

ASNAKEIN A GIRL’S STOMACH.

Hattie M. Cole, aged ten years, daughter of Mr. John P. Co'e, of Biickiiuham, Wayne County Pa. is, ami has keen for a long time troubled Avith a living creature in her stomach What if is no one can tell fur a certainty, hut physicians in Oswego N.Y where she has been taken recently for treatment, think there is no doubt of its being a snake. By putting the linger on the stomach, where the creature can lie distinctly seen to lie, it, quickly changes its position,and even when the finger is within an inch or so of the stomach it will as quickly move away. All these changes produce pain t«> the girl. She recently got hold of the create e with her hand in her throat and had to let go to save herself from strangling. It then returned to her stomach. A medical electrician operated on the girl at Oswego widi his battery, but was obliged to desist, as it caused the snake to squirm and throw itself about so as to cruse the subject, the most intense agony.

Lord Brougham was fond of telling the following story; —A bishop, at one of his country visitations, complained that the church was badly kept, and in bad repair, pointing out that the rain evidently came through the roof and adding, with some warmth, an expression he was horrified at finding in the local paper next day reported thus; “I shall uot visit the d— old church again till it is in better order.” The bishop’s secretary thereupon wrote mildly suggesting that what his lordship said was that, he would not visit “this damp old church again ” But the editor, in a foot-note said that whi’e gladly giving publicity to the explanation, he had every confidence in the accuracy of his reporter.

Professional View of Things. In 18.53 there lived at, S.dnev, New Smith Wales, n gold broker, named Knapp. When "old was discovered in that conntrv, be w, la a ticket-of leave man. and like many others of his class had made a fortune l>y Ihe dhcovei v. His fortune was reckoned at 200,000f. An American said to him one day, “You might to be eternal 'y "rateful to the Britnh Government for sending yon here frpp, and putting you in the way f f heaping up riches” “'I he British Government,” replied the ex thief, with the frankness of a Greeley, “ l>e condemned. In London my business was breakingopen jewellers’ safe-’, and if the Bri ish Government had not interfered with it, 1 would hj ive been worth a million pounds to-dav.”