A Grim Discovery

A Grim Discovery.

  A singular discovery was recently male in Styria. Some woodcutters felled a venerable oak in the forest of Drommleng.  It was found to be hollow and was soon brought to the ground with a crash. A human skeleton, in excellent preservation, was disclosed. Even the boots, which came above the knee, were almost perfect. By its side was a powder-horn, a porcelain pipe bowl, a silver watch, on which was engraved the name "H". von Krockowitz, 1812"  The teeth were perfect. It was the skeleton of a man between thirty and forty years of age. It is conjectured that that while engaged in hunting, he climbed the tree for some purpose and slipped incautiously into the hollow trunk, from which there was no release, and he probably died of starvation.