A Singular Story.
A recent California paper contains a letter from Frederick Lichtenber^er, M.D., who states that a companion named Krnest Fluchterapiegal, while prospecting *or gold in the neighborhood of Frazer River, found some " geodes," which are masses of quartz, containing half a pint of fluid called the " waiter of crystallisation," which was drunk by the unfortunate n>an, with a jesting remark, and soon after he complained of great weight and pain in his stomach and bowels. In a short time he died, and his body instantly became rigid, and in a few hours petrification took place, the whole body, flesh, blood, heart, liver, intestines, <fee, becoming stone. Thus, by drinking half a pint, the poor fellow became quartz. The body has since been been sold by a speculative jeweller, who is reaping a rich harvest by working up »he various organs into ornaments for watch pendants and earrings, which meet with a ready sale at enormous prices.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 39, 4 September 1883, Page 3
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158A Singular Story. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 39, 4 September 1883, Page 3
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