Unclaimed Corpses.
There is one standing "horror chat any one who crosses the Great St. Bernard Mountain may ace. In one of the rooms at the famous Hospice are stored the bodies of the persona whom t c monks and their dogs have lound m the * snow, and who have not been claimed by their friends. What makes the scene more weird is, that by an ingenious contrivance the bodies are all standing upright, and are clad m the very clothes they wore when found. You may walk around them, mingling with the group as if they, too, had a moment ago been strolling around and had with one accord stood still. So dry and ratified is the air up there tbardecomposition is apparently indefinitely postponed ; both figures and faces are strikingly lifeolike. A visitor to this chamber oi horrors says : "It is some time since I was there, but I can recall quite distinctly the features of one of the men, and he had been dead 30 years when I saw him."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 39, 21 March 1883, Page 2
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173Unclaimed Corpses. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 39, 21 March 1883, Page 2
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