A PETRIFIED BODY.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 818, 30 May 1871, Page 3

A PETRIFIED BODY.

The body of a lad, aged five years, son sf J. M. Brown, formerly clerk of Treadwell & Co, who died January 20th, 1865, says the Marysville " Standard " of the llth inst., was disinterred a few days ago for the purpose of sending it to an uncle of the deceased (the father and mother being dead.) The coffin being very heavy, the lid was broken open in lifting it from the grave, when the body was discovered to be in a remarkable -state of petrifaction. The head, face, neck, ears, and hands all remained intact. One eye was as natural as when first closed, with the eyelashes undecayed. The hair of the head was also long and firmly attached, our sextons, who have disinterred many bodies, remark the case as singular and unprecedented. The body is shipped by the Governor Dana to-day to P. Craig & Co, undertakers, San Francisco.

G-ood.—A long-winded Scotch clergyman had discoursed at great length, when one of his weaiy but witty hearers whispered to a friend, " His tow's dune langsyne, but he'sspinnin' awayet!". Captain Travers,of Rochester, New York, has made a wager of 25 dollars that he will, at the distance of 36 feet, with a pistol, shoot from the top of a wine bottle a cork, on which is placed a a bullet, dropping the bullet into the bottle and not breaking the bottle. He has twelve shots, and engages to perform the feat four times. Fitz Hugh Ludlow in his narrative of travel in "The Heart of the Continent," tells of an eccentric genius who improved on the old yarn to the effect that " the weather would have been colder if the thermometer had been longer," by saying he had been where " it was so cold that the thermometer got down off the nail." A Nevada paper bids good bye to the Legislature, asserting tha'; a majority of the members of the fifth session of the Nevada Legislature have proven themselves to be as graceless a set of scoundrels as ever sold their votes to the highest bidder in a deliberate body. An lowa school teacher has been dismissed for kissing the big girls. The girls say the school board had no right to interfere with their studies that way. A muskrat made a hole through the dam of a Wisconsin farmer's trout pond, and 1300 trout escaped therefrom. The owner has been damming the pond—and the muskrat—ever since.