Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1874 — Lire Lizards In the Stomach of a Woman. [ARTICLE]

Lire Lizards In the Stomach of a Woman.

Oa Wednesday Mrs. Mitchell vomited the third live black lizard from her stomach. She is the wife of Mr. John Mitchell, who resides in Cumru Township and is employed as a machinist in the I'lni.i...delphia dS Heading Kailroad Company's shops, and yesteriiaC’ morning her husband brought the reptile along to ihi> city, when he came to work, and-pre-sented it, in a bottle to i>r. Dunddre, who is preserving it alive. It is four inches in length and is dark on the back and spotted, very similar to a trout, on the stomach. Last spring when returning home from this city in a carriage she vomited something alive whilst she was leaning over the side of the vehicle, but did not stop to examine it. About two weeks ago she felt a choking sensation and threw up into a basin at home a live lizard about four inches In length, and on Wednesday another Outs. About—an hour thereafter she felt a choking sensatioA again in her throat, which led her to believe that there are piore lizards in her stomach. Mrs. Mitchell is. about thirty-three years of age, weighs about 200 pounds, and if in good health, excepting that occasionally she is afflicted with weak spells and » choking sensation, but these are of short duration. One evening last summer, a year ago, she drank water from the spout of a pump and remarked to her husband at the time that she believed ghudraitk something alive ydth 'om drug to destroy theTeptiles in her stomach. — Reading (Pa-) Eagle.