The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-20

l injured that she could hardly en-
l dure the travel necessary to reacl
home. She wakes only tyelyI
r times for five minutes during every
/ twenty-four hours, which is ont
| hour every day. She wakes frs
at sun up, or 6 O'Clock in the NOR
ming; then every hour until l.
noon. Alter this she wakes first
at 3 o'clock in the evening; sec.
ond at 6, then at 10, and again al
II o'clock midnight. From this
time she wakes at and 6 O'Clock
in the morning, thence every
hour until y o'clock noon, which
she has continued to do for TWEEN
ty-four years. The time of her
wakings, as before stated, are
regular, even to a second; and
every Wednesday morning pre-
cisely at 10 o'clock she has a Sc
we're spasm, lasting a few minutes.
during which she requires several
persons to hold her.
Her diet consists of coffee, lit
tie rice, bread and milk, the two
last articles of food being eaten
at u o'clock. Another peculiar
feature of her condition is, that
has never had an appetite since
her prostration, and her food is
always suggested by her mother.
| Owing to the total denial of exer-
else, her system SECURES but lit
tie food, which is never relished.
Her beauty is of no mean type.
She has singularly sweet coun
tenance, clear complexion, pene-
tTated with blueish veins. Her
nose has nothing distinctive in its
shape or expression. 1t is well
shaped and, in fact, the whole con-
figuration of her face is pleasing.
Her eyes are large, and while they
do not sparkle with that intense
brilliancy which flashes from those
of the maniac, have rather the
calm, soft beam of resignation
and piety which we would expect
to find in a Magdelene. But there
is glance of intelligence in those
eyes which once seen will not soon
be forgotten.
Her hair is a dark brown color,
and she takes great pride in hav-
ing it combed and nicely arrang-
ed. At one time her locks were
of glossy luxuriance, but came
out last summer in consequence
of fever. Though shut out from
the beauties, the joys and pleas
ures of life, she is not exempt
from ordinary diseases to which
others are liable. She has had
the measles, and also the whoop-
ing-cough Violent as were the
unnatural citations of the CLOTHS,
they were not sufficient to disturb
her sleep, during which state the
coughing was not so violent as
when awake. Her usual weight is
ninety-five pounds, though recent
neuralgia affections have reduced
this fifteen pounds. Her age is
thirty four. but her face looks like
that of q maiden of sweet sixteen.
During her state of insensibility
she lies on her right side, and no
effort can change this position. If
turned by physical violence to the
left, her muscles Immediately re-
bound her like coiled springs to
the other. Instantly upon awak
ening, she turns on her left side
as if TO rest. In consequence of
retaining the same position so
long, her left arm is paralyzed up
to the elbow, and is destitute of
sensibility, though above this the
limb is sensitive. All of her func-
tions are regular in their opera
tions as those of q well person.
Awaking, she instinctively catches
her right wrist with her left hand
as she turns on her back, and
rests the right hand on her breast.
Since her atfiiction her finger nails
and toe nails have never grown,
and are the same as if petrifed in
her early girlhood. This pecul-
iarity is all the more strange
when it is remembered that her
hair has grown as luxuriantly and
regularly rs a healthy PERSONS,
and also that she has grown
since the fatal period of her life,
being how five feet in length.
Length, we say, not height, as she
has never been able to stand since
the fatal August.
Her hands are of pearly white
ness, the right one being clasped
because of the paralytic stroke,
though it can be opened after sew
ere rubbing, the friction, as it
were, causing restoration of cir
culation. Her hands are small
and we'll shaped, the fingers taper
ing so finely that they seem suited
for the welding of Phydian grace
itself. Despite the fearful ordeal
to which she is subject, her mind
seems in vigorous, active, and per-
haps precocious state. Owing to
the early date of her misfortune,
she was debarred the advantage of
a good education, and is unable to
read and write. This girl is singu-
larly good natured, rarely shows
any irritability. Her wants are
easily supplied, as they are but
few, and in this respectjshe wants
but little here below, nor wants
that little long" Every feature
in her disease is anomalous in
character, and its given condition
is SO strangely distinct, yet every
act, thought, desire, sentiment,
emotion, sensation and operation
are regulated by natural laws, to
the requirements of which they
conform with astonishing exact
ness. She is, perhaps. the most
remarkable phenomenon ever wit
messed, and before the mysterious
nature of her Affections the high
est of human science pause with
wonder, doubt and confusion.
SIeeping-ever sleeping-her very
life's avenues blocked with silent
insensibility and the wrecked
loneliness of joy and light, heI
existence comes nearest, in its
strange helplesness to realizing the
grandly pathetic lines of the poets
mournful seedlings of philosophy
in his mockery of mans estate:
, Born but to die, and reasoning but t.
err,
Great lord of all things, yet prey t.
ali;
| Sole judge of truth, in endless erro
Il hurled
| The glory, Jest and riddle of the world
, - -
q The Milwaukee board of ednca
> ton has placed the German Language
E upon nearly the same footing as tn
FnnIfeh in the nuIlIIc schools o
: that city. This is not very remark
able, considering that its Germal
: inhabitants are said to be in tn
\ majority. The proceeding, howev
: er, has awakened not little indig