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Show A Living Skeleton. A living skeleton, who rivals some of those who figure in the museums, was found by the police in a garret in Allegheny. Alle-gheny. He is six feet high and weighs but forty-five pounds. He can't account for his loss of flesh. He declares he feels all right, though very weak, and has had no serious illness. He is a foreigner and unable to speak English. About two years ago, he says, he first noticed that he was getting thin, but as he felt well he paid no attention to it He continued, however, to lose flesh, and the past spring, finding himself nothing but "skin and bone, he went to the country, but neither the change nor doctors did him any good, and about a week ago he returned re-turned to Allegheny. Being without relatives, he went to the garret to await death, but neighbors hearing of the case directed the attention of the police to it, and the man was removed to the station house and subsequently to the city home. Philadelphia Ledger. |