Child Swallows Mouse

Auburn NY Daily American Saturday Evening, January 2, 1858

   A broad streak of sunshine shot out  beneath a sky-full of clouds this morning, glowing upon the spires of churches and other lofty buildings, giving the city the appearance presented by a large conflagration at night.
   NEW YEAR DAY passed off very quietly indeed here yesterday. There being no snow, and no merry jingling of sleigh bells, there were scarcely any riding parties. Friends from the country did not come in to anything like the extent they usually do on this festive day. The holiday custom of New Year calls was almost entirely dispensed with, many not receiving a dozen who have hitherto received 75 or 100. So the day wore away with Sabbath-like quiet and unwonted dullness. It is difficult to root out the fallacy that today is not Monday
   The Spiritualists of this city meet in Corning Side Hall on Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. U. Clark, and others will speak. Free.
   The county of Monroe contributed, in 1857, thirty two convicts to the State Prison here.
   A Mouse in a Child’s Stomach. ---A few days ago a child named Tomlinson of Green Lane, N.Y. died after a lingering illness. It appeared that in May last the child passed a full grown mouse, minus its head. The mouse had run down the child’s throat while playing in a field near Stone Ferry, where its parents then resided. After that the child continued ailing more or less until its death.---Exchange.
   We never tried it, but we reckon it would bother us considerably to swallow a mouse; still we “kinda guess” it would trouble us more to even attempt to swallow the above quoted paragraph. Bear stories and even wolf stories we take for granted, as a general thing, no matter how “tough” they may chance to be; but this mouse yarn is “a sticker.”