Show A mouse leaps down a CI illda throat anil the child it is commonly that can be nothing new under the sun an J this may be correct but an occurrence which 13 so rare that ono in a million over hears of it is here given by the laramie boomerang of july ath did you ever hear of anyone swallowing a mouse was the question put to the reporter this morning the reporter solemnly averred that he never did and taking from his pocket a look of incredulity placed it upon his features and prepared to hear a startling fiory it was no story however but alic plain and waa enough to make anyone shudder to think of the narrator then proceeded to say that on the day of june ida the little year old daughter of air frank pickard an en gincer on the union pacific and residing on K orth sixth street was playing in a clothes press when suddenly her mother heard her screaming as if frightened almost to death mrs pickard ran to lier and found her convulsively clasps ing tho bosom other dress and crying out that a mouse was in her clothe her mother instituted a rapid search amid alie shrieks of the little one but upon getting them all off could find no mouse the little ono still continued to scream and press her hands to her sides declaring that the mouse was still on her and af length became eo seriously worked up that dr foster was sent for and on his arrival found ida baill in the same state he could scarcely believe that she had swallowed the mouse but she persisted in saying that she had and the doctor after giving her something to quiet her nerves left instructing the parents to watch for a few days as if the mouse was in the childs stomach it was undoubtedly dead before it reached there would be digested and nature itself would give the necessary relief the little girl was still pressing her sides and naturally half scared to death he noticed she pressed her right side more often than A few days ago the watching was rewarded and distinct proofs seen that the child had really had a mouse in her stomach aad digested it the only way in which she is still troubled is by nervousness resulting from aba and from which she is easily startled and cries out something about the mouse it is hardly possible that the first leap made by the little animal could have been into tho childs mouth she was in the press the most reasonable theory is eliat it first ran under her clothes and that she really felt it as she stated to her mother at the first alarm while iier clothing was being searched and she was screaming it is possible that it was brought in close proximity to her mouth in the folds of the dress and seized tho first opportunity to escape by leaping down her throat at all events i was a terrible experience for so little a girl in fact it would bo for any one but it is little lees than a miracle that she was not choked to death tho parents were greatly alarmed for her life for some time and feel greatly relieved at finding her no lingerin lon gerin danger it ida curious case and hs few ifancy parallels |