Killed by a Mouse

It is generally imagined that a man who is afraid of a mouse entertains a groundless apprehension, but the other day a mouse, which is now in the London Hospital, not as a patient, but in spirits of wine, did actually kill its man.

The man was trying to catch it, and it ran up his sleeve and on to his neck, and then in its extreme terror, leaped into the poor fellow's open mouth, and down his throat. Curiously enough, it was not suffocated.

The mouse, it seems, can endure being without air longer than any other animal, and finding itself, as it were, in prison, tried to gnaw its way through the wretched man's chest and throat, who presently expired in great agony. This is perhaps the strangest death that has ever befallen a human being.