Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-08-29

now felt in my shoulders. The sick person
seated herself, and said that she was ILL.,
also said that 1 was unwell, and that must
sit down. Now violent beating of my heart
came on me, and there was a heat in all my
body. This condition lasted until the next
morning, then had headache again. and a
twittering in all my limbs, still not so vio-
lent" The somnambulist, curiously enough,
was affected in almost in the same manner.
On another occasion spider let itself down
from the ceiling on Kaspars head. Directly
il touched him he felt chill and an excessive
degree of cold on his forehead without know
ing the cause. Suddenly putting his hand to
his face he crushed the spider on his under
lip. Hereupon he felt for more than a quar-
ter Of an hour, a burning pain, which passed
away with tremor. When he retired to bed
the burning sensation returned During the
night the lip swelled, and there rose on it
several small blisters, out of which there was
a discharge of white matter in the morning.
The chill occasioned by the spider was of
long continuance.
But it was not only by the sight Of and con-
tact with living creatures that Kasper was Wis
IDLY affected, for we are told that one day he
happened to see particularly fine flower.
and on his attempting to pluck it, the same
feeling as that caused by the spider came up
on him. On another occasion, after eating
ripe grape, he Immediately became strangely
affected, and was compelled to sleep of the
effects of the, TO him, potent juice
Although for long time Kasper's body
was considerably in advance of his mind, yet
by degrees he began to overcome many of
his pecuiarities. Still he could never forget
the hardships he had suffered, and the fact of
his being inclined to brood over them tended
to retard his mental progress
About four years after his first appearance
in Nuremberg, Kasper was fortunate enough
to come under the notice of Lord Stanhope.
This nobeman conceived the idea of adopting
the strange youth, and having prevailed upon
the inhabitants of Nuremberg looked
upon Kasper as their adopted sou--to give
him up, he placed him under a tutor at Ans
patch, previous to removing him to England
But unhappily these benevolent intentions
were frustrated, for the same mystery which
sbrouded his birth hung over his death. On
the 18th of December, 1888, Kasper Hauser,
while returning from his official duties at
midday. was accosted in the streets 10y
person who promised to impart to him the
secret Of his origin if he would meet him in
the park Of Anspatch Castle. without in
forming his protectors Of this circumstance,
Hauser imprudeutly kept the appointment
The stranger was at his post lac took Kasper
aside, and without speaking n word plunged
a dagger into his breast, and instantly disap-
peared. Hauser had sufficient strength left
to reach the residence of his new tutor into
whose apartment he rushed, and had Just
breath enough TO utter two or three indistinct
words. when he Immediately tainted, and af-
ter relating the circumstances of his assass-
nation, died on the l7th of the same month.
Every expedient which the police could in
vent was adopted to discover the murderer,
but without success. The secret, which it
cost so much crime to preserve, has never
been divulged.