The Lancaster Ledger

Chandelier of Human Bones.

In the centre of the arched roof of All Saints' Church, Sedlitz, in Bohemia, hangs a chandelier constructed entirely of human bones. The church in which this remarkable object is suspended is decorated from the floor to the ceiling with the blanched bones of human bodies.

Garlands of bones stretch across the walls and hang from the ceiling. Pyramids, topped with golden crowns, are artistically reared from the ground with these withered remains of the dead. The altars are literally covered with skulls, among which are hundreds of those which had been pierced by bullets or crushed by murderous blows from swords and other weapons, denoting that these grizzly relics of humanity have been gathered from adjacent battlefields.

Tradition says that these piles of human bones were gathered by a blind friar of the Cistercian Order, who stored them in a corner of the church. As they were fast changing into their original elements, a man named Rint devoted himself to the task of cleaning and arranging them in the church.

Prince Carl, of Schwarzenberg, took a strong personal interest in the restoration and arrangement of the church, and ordered all the repairs to be done at his own expense.--New York Telegram.