Queer Place For A Worm

Henry R. Funk, of Allentown, has, for eome time, been the victim of a disease which he believe;! to be consumption. He wasted away under his besetting malady until there was hardly anything left ou his bodily frame save the skin, and he had aboufc made up his mimi that it would be best for him to prepare for the inevitable. Ho had for a considerable time experienced at intervals qneer se.nsations in his windpipe, as if there was sorne crceping thing in it, acd frcquently remarked these experiences to his family, bnt was as often talked out of it as being the natural results of his sickness or mere imagination. On a recent day while seated in a. rocker the sensation again presented itseif. It feit exactly, he says, as if some reptilo. was endeavoring to crawl up and cvn of his traene, and, bciug about the same time taken with a severe conghing tit, he, to his great surprise, as well as the utter astonifihment of hi? family, expelled a curious worm about two inches in lenijth and thi.-k in its middle as a straw slem. It was of a whitish color, and so transparent that the blood in its vitáis, and wliich it liad absorbed from its victim, could be elearly discerned. The worm's head was sharp as a needie and its hinder part flat and stumpy. It was remaikably active and worked its head with great energy. How it came to the man or iu what manner it originated is a thing altogether inexplicable, his doctor, to whom tho worm was given, and who has it preserved in alcoliol, never havirg heard of a like case before. The man has since experienced a change for the better, and feels po muoh imjiroved that he is inspired with confidence that iie will eoon again be a well man. - .