The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-05-11
HARD TO DIGEST.

After Trying for Year to Dispose of 1t In
Tbat way, wyoming Woman VOmits up
a Snake.
The heroine of this remarkable ocur-
renee is Mrs. Sarah Linderner, who lives
ON Reserve street, Vancouver. She
came there in September last from Camp
Bidwen, Modoc county, CAL, where
she had previously resided with her
husband on a rancho. She relates the
story substantially as fellows: "One
dav in the month of March, a year ago,
she had been washing during the day,
and when night came was thirsty. Not
having any water in the house, she took
a cup and repaired to spring or hole IN
the ground, where her husband had
sunk barrel, near a small creek. The
duskof evening had faded into darkness,
rendering it impossible for her to see
what might be in the cup when she
drank. She drank deep drau9ht from
the cup and felt something weighing
down her throat, seemingly about the
size of a horse hair and two or three
inches long. She attempted to raise IL
up, but could not, and thinking 1T would,
if an animal, be unable to hive IN her
stomach. for the time being dismissed
the subject from her mind. Three or
four months thereafter she began to
manifest symptoms similar to aggravated.
,7vspepsia. terrible burnings ani press
uTe in the stomach, and constant crav-
ings for food and yet never satisfied,
like one afflicted with tapeworm. She
was treated froca time to time tor her
trouble, but for a long time would not
think that she had snake IN her stom-
acb She came to Vancouver with her
husband last fall, in the meantime her
troubles increasing, and for the past
three months assuming the most fr1ght-
full symptoms. She could feel the AMI
NAL moving about in her stomach, clearly
manifesting its presence by unm1stakaole
evidences, such as biting her stomach
severely, and rendering her almost De-
side herself with pain anc horror. Inc
animal would seize hold OF the lining or
her stomach and bite until some warm
food or drink was administered to the
patient. when it would subside and be
quiet. The poor woman was kept con-
stantlv eating and dosing for the beneht
of his snakeship, and it may easily be
imagined that her life was one round OF
unmitigated horror Despairing OF
cure, she wrote to California physician,
who sent her a prescription, which was
simply to starve herself and drink moth
ing but brandy. Friday morning OF last
week March ~, after having suffered
fearfullv the day previous, she began the
new regimen. Building up hot fire,
she dosed heavily with the liquor, and
reclined on the floor, with her face close
to the fire. Along III the forenoon she
became deadly sick at the stomach and
vomited violently. After several severe
retchings she felt the snake coming up.
It's head was so near her mouth as to I'M
pede her breathing, when, rising to her
feet in her agony, and leaning her head
against the mantelpiece, directly over
the fire, she thrust her fingers down her
throat, stretching it to its widest ten
sion. and the snake glided from her
mouth and fell into the hot Goals OF tlre
below, and was burned up. At this mo-
ment there was no one present but a girl
twelve years old, and she did not dare to
take the animal from the ire, and the
woman tainted away. The snake Is de-
scribed as closely resembling common
garter snake, and was about sixteen
inches in length. It thrust its tongue
from it's mouth as it came forth, and
squirmed in o lively manner when it fell
into the fire. One or two OF the neigh
bors were called in, and they say the coil
of the snake was plainly visible in its
entire shape upon the Goals of fire. The
woman, who has pinned away from 100
pounds TO living skeleton, feels a won
dertul sense of relief in getting rid OF
the loathsome reptile. - Vancouver
CIV. 70 Independent.