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Show ROOM FILLED WITH SKELETONS. Grewsome Discovery Made In an An-clent An-clent Monastery at Carlentini. For aearly 38 years the monastery at Carlentini, Italy, ha been abandoned, aban-doned, although the chapel connected with It has remained open for public worship. Behind the sacristy is a door which has always been shut and was believed to lead Into one of tho roomB of tho monastery. The other day the syndic decided to make use of this room, bo he had some workmen open the door. A terrifying spectacle met their gaze for tho room was piled full of human skeletons, reaching almost al-most to the ceiling. The syndic ordered or-dered the skeletons, some of which wero more or lets mummified bodies, to be taken out and burtd In the Campo Ban to. They owebered a few over 4.000. Naturally, a trernrtc:us sensation was caised by th9 discoveries, and the wildest conjecture given voice to. According, however, to the oldest Inhabitant of Carlentini, tho facts are as follows: When monks inhabited th monastery, a certain gum was paid tnem for the privilege of sepulture In the church; The church, however, was small, and when there was no room for any moro corpses, the monks, rather rath-er than Iob &n' important source of Income, continued to receive bodies for burial, but instead of depositing them beneath the floor of the church, cast them into4 tho rooms behind the sacristy, or into tho pavilions close by, whero they have just been discovered. |