A SNAKE IN A LADY’S CHIGNON.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 178, 4 January 1875, Page 3

A SNAKE IN A LADY’S CHIGNON.

A letter from Genesse to the Syracuse Standard, dated September 24th, relates the following : —“ Yesterday on the train of the Erie Railway, which runs from Rochester to Danville, and reaches here on 10 a.m., a most singular circumstance occurred. When approaching this village the passengers in one of the coaches were alarmed by the singular actions of a lady who gave her name as Mary P. Rhoads, of Adrian Mich., and a relative of the Rev. C. T. Seibt, of Olean, N. Y. She was leaning over a seat uttering the most piercing cries. A gentleman rushed to her and asked the trouble. She made no answer but continued to scream the louder. When the train reached the village she was helped into the wait-ing-room, and a gentleman present procured a glass of brandy, which being given to the lady she appeared to recover. A lady standing near at this juncture gave a scream, and pointing to the head of Miss Rhoads, fainted. On examination, a large stripped snake was observed coiled round the chignon of the lady. How it came there was a mystery, and only explained by the theory that it had got into the car and took refuge under the cushion of the car seat. Miss Rhoads stated she felt something crawling up her head, but could only give vent to her feelings in screams, and until it was taken off did not herself know what the matter was. The snake was killed, and the affair produced no little excitement for the time.”