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Show ROOM FILLED WITH SKELETONS. Grewsome Discovery Made In an An-dent An-dent Monastery at Carlentlnl. For nearly 3S jears tho monastery at Carlentlnl, Italy, has been abandoned, aban-doned, although tho chapel connected with it has remained open for pub'le worship. Behind tho sacristy Is a door which has nlwas been shut r.ad was btHloved to lead Into ono of t-o rooms of the monastery. The other day the syndic decided to make usa of this room, so ha had some workmen open tho door. A terrifying spectacle met their gnzu for the room wns plied full of human skeletons, reaching almost al-most to the celling. Tho svndlc or-deied or-deied tho bkeletons, some of which were more or less mummified bodies, to be taken out and burled In tho Campo Santo. They numbered a fow over -1,000. Naturally, a tremendous sensation was caused by theso dls-ovcrlcs, and tho wlldebt conjectures given olco to. According, however, to tho oldect Inhabitant of Carlentlnl. thb facts aro ab follows: When mon'.ts inhabit" 1 tho monasteiy, n certain sum waspnll them foi the privilege of sepulture In thu chinch. The church, however, was small, and when tloio wns no room foi an niuie corpbcj, tlio monks, rather rath-er than lose ni Imptitut source of Income, continued to receive bodies fo- l.iilr!, but li ad of depositing them bem-th the Moor of tho church, cast them Into the rooms behind the sncilsty, or Into the pavilions close bj, wheio they have JiiBt been discovered. |