STRANGE IF TRUE.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9366, 16 March 1896, Page 4

STRANGE IF TRUE.

If we may trust ia the matter tha Warsaw Courier, an extraordinary incident has occurred in that city. A lady engaged, through the medium of a domestic servants' agency, a young girl as a3sistaut children's maid, her particular charge beiug an infaot of eighteen month-. Mariana i. a quietlooking, respectable g rl of sixteeu years of age. At the drat sight of tlie new nurse the infant was seized with a paroxysm of fear. The lady reported the matter to her husband, who was entertaining half a dozan gentlemen, and he sent for the girl. Mariana had scarcely entered the room when a standard lamp blazsd up to the ceiling, three large oil paintings fell to the floor with a simultaneous crash, a, tiui-piec? sprang from a sideboard, and a large wall barometer was hurled across the room and shattered. The only person who remained placidly unmoved by the manifestation was the maid. Before dismissing her the master of the house questioned the girl, who acknowledged that such inexplicable incidents had frequently occurred in her presence. The girl uerself is described as being of a quiet and amiable character and disposition and of blameless reputation. She is slenderly built and of pallid appearance, aud has always suffered, more or less, from insomnia. She has been handed over to the care of the Warsaw psychologist, Dr. Oohorowicz.