A MAN WHO ATE A BLANKET.
JfcHD 'A POST MORTEM WAS HELD. Melbourne, August 22. A human ostrich has just departed ibis life at Wendouree Asylum. A pmt mortem examination discovered the fact that the man had eaten ninety fir© pieces of blanket, averaging six by three ineh.es. He had, also a great appetite for meals of pebbles and other hard substances; but blankets were his undoing, iaflaniation of the bowels, from wiuek fas died.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 103, 25 August 1896, Page 3
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75A MAN WHO ATE A BLANKET. Hastings Standard, Issue 103, 25 August 1896, Page 3
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