Sharp County record., 1878-08-23

-,-orcas sbe vas noticed to be IN very
low sDirits. and at last burst INTO tears.
I'M hainp asked the oauSe OF her tears
-ba said she could see her Oetrothed N
T.oudon flirting with another 9ifI.
JbnrrIr after came q letter from nef
7uardian with such accounts oI me
Touug mans behavior with the S-I- oI
1rbom Lillian mad been Jealous, mat the
euuagenent was broken OH.
She told most OF Our fortune n her
5jeeD: bur in my case, Lam Dounu 70
confess. without success. Whether shs
was more correct in regard to herself, H.
ia 1or know. She fOTetOld that she
rrn-1Id he killed bv fall from her horse
at-he ava Of 30. But il seemed unlike
r. she would live to that age II her SOM
1anbuiism continued, IS after these
frances shg often mad the most fearful
illness. both heart and brain being IL
fe-rpd nv them. One Of the worst on
these came on after trance she laU
fallen into NJ church; she walked, stlll
azjeeD. out with rs afterward. out IN
IucEifr woke in the Champs Elysees,
and was so terrified that il was with dlI-
fcultv we got her home. When at
1euurh we did 50. she mad terrible III
uass. from which she was scarcely eX-
Decred TO recover. She had the best
Dbvsicians in Paris, and they one ana
All. declared hers TO be the most Won
derfuI case Of somHambulism heard OF
in the present generation, with one eX-
ceptiOn-that Of q Young man, the par
ticularsof whose story, however, l. 10
not know.
The disease for such it.re2llT was)
was accounted for 5v them as the re-
suIt Of an over amount OF brain. caus-
. ing consequent pressure. She may be
ssid to have had a brain for waking
. Dl1rposes. and one that acted when she
was asleep. What one brain knew, the
other did not. Evidently the sleeping
brain was the cleyeTest. The waking
hrain lacked intelligence. While the
sieeDinr brain was active, she was III
state OF sonnambulism, .and could do
things that could not possibly nave
been attemptedi in her waking moments.
Her condition was, OF course, unnatur-
al: it was diseased-veTv curious and
unhealthy. The cleyeTest doctors IN
Paris who were consulted could 10
nothing for her.
What became OF this extraordinary
girl after she left school do not know.
[ quite lost sight Of her, and have done
so for q quarter OF a century. But still
her portrait often reminds me 01 her
Itisi in water c0lOrs, somewhat cOarselV
ont ciererLv drawn, and gives a good
idea 0f her. Her massive Dralds 0I nalr
il especially exhibits to perfection; she
wore il in q cgTOHet over leT head N q
style peculiar to herself The picture
has. however, q disagTeeaOle impression
upon those who look at It, from the tact
that the eyes seem to ollow you Wher-
ever YOU go. T.
. For ourselves at school, / can not say
i whether wa fe!t most a&s2ar Of our, ,unusu-
qI 7cho1l.selloW OF lh6st ou122o6sEET' -1CtU1Trr-
her. q curiosity which we were always
. able to crafty in her sleep. She was
conscious herself that she often said
things in these frances which she would
not have said when awake, and used to
BEG us not to repeat to her any OF the
thlngs she had said to Us, which, now
ever. our natural sense OF honor would
have forbidden us from doing; nor, IN
deed. did we take any Unfair advantage
. OF her peculiarly, only when she was
inclined to talk in her sleep we were
content to listen, and to gather some
portion Of her unusual history.-Cham-
bgTs'S Journal.