Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1890 — Carried Water in a Skull. [ARTICLE]

Carried Water in a Skull.

That is a terrible story coming from North Queensland about a man who was lost in the bush. He used up all his water and then dropped his “billy” in the agony of his thirst. By and by, fortunately,” he came to a water-hole . txhara he slaked, hie thirst and found the road again. He had still some thirty miles to go, however, and he had nothing whatever to carry water in. Of course it would be madness to attempt to travel thirfy mlles on foot under a North Queensland sun without any water, so his ready invention came to his aid. He had been horrified a short distance back by the skeleton of a man who had evidently been dead several years. He went back and got the skull, plugged up the eyeholes with clay, and tilled it with water. He then tramped that thirty miles on the water contained in the skull. Can any novelist imagine a more gitastly and fright- r ful idea than this, for which we can vouch?—Pall Afall Gazette. “Who will punish you it you /ett a lie?" asked a London police magistrate of a small child the other day/ •‘Nobody," answered the little gfcl, com i, fidenlly. . J