The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-12-18

4 strange Case-One Of those fnys'erio"
cases that occasionally startle community nus
lately broken in upon the quiet and cain Vi oai
fusuaIlv undemonsrative town, and ls aheaoy III
frII bloom as q "Nine days wonder" We VIII
not call names, though the parties most interested
are very far from desiring to keep the wonder u
obscurity. The case is this.
Some six or eight weeks since the family OIL
former citizen of this place now residing IN the
nothern portion of the State were startled by
singular phenomenon little girl Of tue lalh'iy
of come ten or eleven summers and witha a pretty
and intelligent child, suddenly, one cay com
planned Of having something IN her eye her
mother on examination found piece OF leat as
cust IeaC-we believe N the ball Of the eye I'M
she took our. but thought little of the incident
tbougb the little girl insisted that she could not
| tell how it came in her eye. Soon after anothdr
| leaf or piece Of a leaf was taken from the same
eve, and still the child insisted that she could not
tell how the articles came there. These two leavs
were thrown away, but they were coon followed BY
other small substances, and Mrs thought the
case y rs so strange that she preserved the pieces
extracted
Iron this time. for a period of several weeks
all sorts of eubstances-bits of leaves sticks Oh
wood, some of them three fourths OF an inch III
length pieces of hazelnut shucks. portions oil
burrs. wads of tow, pieces of almost every con
ceivabIe substance were taken from that eye
And all that time the child declared that she
could not tell how these Things came there, ana
her mother believed ana believes still, that they
ere never put there by any human agency
The girls eye was but little affected by this ae-
cumuIation OF articles.-A little watery and a
L. lie red, when they came out, the eye was
but it coon regained its natural look
These strange discharges continued increase, and
we understand that in one day, one hundred and
s;,ty sir! substances or articles above mentioned
none of them of very delicate proportions, were
taken from the childs right eye. In short so
frequently did they appear that the neighoors
we're called in, and then the doctor, TO relieve the
mother in taking them out
Mrs-has several relatives and many friends in
this city and in her perplexity at this strange phe
nomepon. che came on visit here with the
child, partly with Sbe object eff obtaining medical
aid or advice, in this very singular case Since
she has been here, the substances ofvarlous KINGS
and various sizes have continued to be taken
from the child's eye, aud several of our clt2en
nave witnessed the phenomenon without BENG
able TO account for it. The natural conclusion
would be- that tie child for some uuacountabie
reason and by some sleght of hand, put the things
into her eve, but both she and her mother, mos
persistently and Indignantly deny any such thing
The accumulation of bits that have been taken
from her eye up to this time, is about tea cup full
of all sorts and kinds of substances. We have seen
two pits of pine sticks splinters that were
taken out by DIR Gri1ley. They were each, fully
half an inch IN length, and of size to be very
painful to an ordinary eye At times the removal
of these substances is painful operation for the
child, but most genarally they are taken OUT
without much PAIN and the eye soon assumes ito
normal appearance.
or course we do not pretend to account for or
exrlain this case We are too practical. and too
much OF a materiGlst te believe that ell these
natural and varied substances come from nothing
or are grown or produced by the eye; or that they
are put into the eye through some supernatural
channel, in some supernatural way But we shall
leave the mystery to be solved by time, or by the
doctors and sages veuturing to suggest however
that when it is explained it will be a simple affair,
and of the same kind with several other cases thai
we have heard or read OF,