Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1899 — Peculiar Cases. [ARTICLE]

Peculiar Cases.

A orank came running into the office of an up county exchange and said that a man had swallowed a two-foot rule and died by inches. The editor started up at once to learn farther particulars of the death, and meeting the doctor told him about the case. The doctor said that’s nothing, he once had a patient that swallowed a thermometer and died by degrees. A couple of bystanders then chipped in. One of them said it reminded him of a fellow down in Kansas who swallowed a pistol and went off easy. The other fellow said he had a friend in Kentucky who took a quart of apple-jack and died in good spirits.—Ex. To which we may add: A Nubbin- Ridger drank out of a pond, and swallowed a bull-frog, and immediately afterwards he croaked. A Rensselaer boy felt so bad because his mother sent him after a pail of water that he kicked the bucket. A Remington tinner trying to get on a roof, fell off a ladder and then went up the spout.