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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1966, 23 April 1875, Page 2

Shot in Bottles.—A cleargyman,who says his early training was for the medical profession, write* to the Times :—" Many years ago my father, who was a physican, and whose meclical pupil I then was; was called to see a farmer's wife who case baffled the usual medical attendant. My father pronounced it to be a ease of lead poisoning JAminute inquiry was at once instituted iato water, food-cooking utensils &c. ? but nothing was discovered .which could in any wap corroborate my father's assumption- Mhe poor woman had- been ill a week or two before! my father ."was in, she lingered some little time after, and died. We attended the funeral, and after the funeral he". husband signified a wish to see my father, as he had something to show him. It was a bottle, of cider which had been half emptied, and which he had found in the oupboard, and of the contents of which his wife had partaken just before she was taken ill. and which fact he had entirely forgotten until he had.seea.the bottle in the cupboard the day before the funeral. The mystery was solved. At the bottom of the bottle^was a quantity of shot all crusted over the by action of the ■cider, and the cause of death at once was , ; made evident." . -....:

A Ekat, Fun) Case, (the rough's ;)ast wion»),— Liverpool nilfiin ; (< 'JEre's a «o ! a man 'aflged f°r kickjn' hit wife. to dentli! 1 shall 'are to take my boots oil" .'"--Punch.