The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-04-27
SWALLOWED A SNAKE.
A. Snake Lives q Year in Woman's
Stomach.

The heroine of this remarkable occur
renee is Mrs. Sarah Linderner, who
lives on Reserve street, Voncouver. She
came there in September last, from Camp
Bidwell, Modoc county, California, where
she had previously resided with her hus-
band on q ranch. She relates the story
substantially an follows: One day in the
month of March, q year ago, she had
been washing during the day, and when
night came was tired and thirsty. Not
having any water in the house she took
a cup and repaired 10 a spring, or hole in
the ground, where her husband had sunk
a barrel near q small creek. The dusk
Of evening had faded into darkness, rem
. dering it impossible for her to see what
might be;in the cup when she drank
She drank a deep draught from the cup
and felt something wiggling down her
throat, seemingly about the size of q
horse hair, and two or three inches long.
She attempted to raise it, but could not,
and thinking it would, if an animal, be
unable to live in her stomach, for the
time being dismissed the subject from
her mind. Three or four months there
after she began to manifest symptoms
similar to aggravated dyspepsia, terrible
burnings and pressure in the stomach,
and constant cravings for food and yet
tape worm. She was treated from time
to time for her troubles, but for a
long time would not think she had a
snake in her stomach. She came TO Van
couver with her husband last fall, in the
meantime her troubles increasing. and
for the past three months assuming the
most frightful symptoms. She could feel
the animal moving about in her stomach
clearly manifesting its presence by un-
mistakable evidences, such as biting her
stomach severely and rendering her al
most beside herself with pain and hor-
ror. The animal would seize hold Of the
lining of her stomach and bite until some
sort OF warm food or drink was admins
tered to the patient, when it would sub
side and be quiet. The poor woman was
kept almost constantly eating and dosing
for the benefit of his snakeship, and il
may easily be imagined that her life was
one round of unmitigated horror. Des-
pairing OF n cure she wrote to Dr.Jaynes,
Of California, who sent her O prescription
which was simply to starve herself and
drink nothing but brandy. Friday NOR
ming of last week, March IL, after having
suffered fearfully the day previous, she
began the new regimen. Building up Q
hot fire che dosed heavily with the liq
uor, and reclined on the floor. with heI
face close to the fire. Along in the fore
noon she became deadly sick at the sto
mach and vomited violently. After sew
eral severe retchings she felt the snake
coming up; it's head was so near hel
mouth as to impede her erbreathing, when
rising to her feet in agony, and leaning
her head against the mantle-piece, direct
ly over the fire, she thrust her fingers
down her throat, stretching it to its wild
est tension, and the snake glided from
her mouth and fell into the hot Goals o
the FIRE below and was burned up. A
this moment there was no one in thu
room but girl twelve years old, and sh
did not dare to take the animal from tn
fire and the woman tainted away. Tn
snake 10 described as closely resembling
q common garter snake and was abou
sixteen inches in length. 1t thrust it
tongue from its mouth as il came fortl
and squirmed in lively manner whei
10 fell into the fire. One or two of tn
neighbors were called in, and they sa,
the coil of the snake was plainly visibl
in its entire shape upon the Goals of fire
The woman, who has pined away from
$50 pounds to living skeleton, feels
wonderful sense of relief in getting ri
of the loathsome reptile [Vancouve
(0regon) Independent.