Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1894 — Couldn’t Swallow the String. [ARTICLE]

Couldn’t Swallow the String.

A woman went into a jewelry store in New York and asked to see some diamond rings. As she was looking at them she directed the clerk’s attention another way for a moment, and popped one of the rings into her mouth. She did not notice beforehand that the ring had a tag attached to it by a long string, and when the clerk turned to her' he was surprised to see the tag hanging out of her mouth by the string, which she was making the most extraordinary faces in her efforts to swallow. The string had gotten tangled in her front teeth, and refused to go either way. The clerk disentangled it for her, and also disentangled several pocketbooks which were found in her pocket.— [New Orleans Picayune.