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Show A Marvelous Case of Almost the youthful , bride complained of excessive pain in the stomach, and she began to realize the rashness of To the Editor of the Son; her action. A messenger was seut . ... rn C xuere inave Deen so many in haste ojk. for her. husband and mycomiueuts in the papers, and I re- - self. Haller'a office being near Mr., so many letters which it is im we received the instant l'etrifaction. possible tor ukj to answer, in refer ence to the" curious case of petrifac hou which recently came tinder my notice, that I am constrained to "write au account of the whole affair, giving at the same time my hypothesis as explanatory of the rationale :' "t CI Mr. Frederick Haller is by profession a lawyer. lie early acquired, however, , quite a . fondness for the natural sciences, especially geology, lie has perhaps the largest and most complete geological cabinet in Louisiana. Whenever he wishes to re lieve himself from the dry details of , I. I i i i j iaw ue wunaraws nimgeit into nis I "Rock j Study," f as he 'calls the apartment where he keeps his cabinet and books relating to science, and there passes many hours in experiment, i reading, and in manipulating the geological and paleontolo-gica- l collections which through a period of nearly thirty years, he has ' ' drawn together.. Having married early in life, some five years ago he lost his wife and gave up his household affairs, to an elderly maiden sister. Something over a month ago he married again, taking as his bride a beau tiful and charming young girl of sixteen. As physician to her father's family and an intimate friend I was an honored guest at the marriage ceremony. I am sure I never saw a more beautiful and happy bride. No one could have dreamed of the strange fate which awaited her. On the morrow after the wedding Mr. Haller took his young bride to his residence, a splendid mansion in the suburbs of the village. She was accompanied by a number of friends who were to--' spend the day with her, while he, having. business of importance at his office in town, promised to returntts speedily as he could dispose of the business.. The bride, being installed in her new home, cared to take little notice of household matters for this first day of matrimonial life, preferring to amuse herself with the friends who had come over with her, knowing that the domestic affairs were in good ' hands. At about one o'clock she and some three or, four ef her most inti'mata friends went into Sir. "Rock Study," already men tioned, to look over the cabinet of jguriosities, where they amused themselves In frivolous gayety, sueh as young end thoughtless girls would indulge in, harmless and innocent to all appearance. Among the curiosities which Mr. Haller had gathered were several round boulders brought from Arkansas, These .boulders pn being broken present in the eentral epace a crystallineformat'on, and are usually not much larger than the double fists.. One,of,these, however, was unusually 'large, measuring twenty-inches in circumference. Freone quently the internal surface, always Tiollow, contains water," or rather a concentrated solution of silica in water. This fact was known to one of the young ladies, who mentioned it. At, once they all began j;o won-!dwhether there was water in the large boulder. Two of the smaller ones had' been broken, showing in the , centre large crystals, and had contained water,' according to the assertion of the yonng lady who had gained her information & some other time in a previous visit! At once it was proposed to break the large one, and several ineffectual ' 'attempts were made by them with a hammer always present. geological They called to their aid a colored man, a servant on the place, who was requested to break open the rock, as they called it. He readily assented, being willing to thus render his first A service to the new mistress. the underneath pitcher being placed boulder as r the ; man held it, one ' sturdy blow of his stalwart arm cracked it, and the fluid within ran out and was collected in the pitcher, scarcely loosing a drop, there being half a pint of it. t A few additional blows opened the boulder, presenting large,' fine, tranaparent crystals of quartz. These were much admired, and other friends were called from the parlor to look at the novelty. The bride, without ever giving it a thought, conceived the notion of drinking the water from the boulder. She poured most of it into a glass tumbler, nearly filling it, and lifting it to her lips 6he drank first to the health of her husband', then tc that of the unmarried friends in the room, wishing them shortly to be happy brides like herself, and drained the glass, all being done 'ao quickly that no one had time to interfere or to think that any consequences : ' ; her-femal- ' 1 ". . Hal-.ler- 's -- . " er ' 3 . 5 'iniiht follow. At first it was thought that no my own, message almost simultaneously, and we rapidly drove together in my, buggy to his house. When we arrived she was dead, a period of fifteen minues having elapsed after taking the fatal draught to the time of extinction of life. They were just laying her ut on our arrival. To mv sur. prise I found that she had grown in that short period so rigid 88 to render it difficult to etraisrhten her limbs. In the course of three Quar ters of an hour her entire bodv became as nam and inflexible an bone. .;; I pass over the erief and con sternation of the husband and the family as something too sacred for remark, conuning myselt exclusively to the scientific facts. It was plain that somethins akin to ossifi cation had, taken place.". On more minute examination and inouirv I found that the dissolved silica she had taken into her stomach had been absorbed and transmitted bv the chylopoietic apparatus and blood vessei8 througnout tne system, and that hei whole body was a petrifi " cation. t. STOCK! - Xouvcautcs, 5 Corded Alpacas, Jacqnards, $ Delaines, - Flannels. - A Full Line of IS74. IN THE BOOTS AND SHOES, OF THE LATEST STYLES FOR 1874. 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