AWFULLY MYSTERIOUS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3523, 23 October 1882, Page 4

AWFULLY MYSTERIOUS.

The Paris correspondent of a contemporai'y relates the following : —' Another event that eclipses Egyptain affairs is the sleeping beauty in an hospital. Seventy-five days ago, a pretty young woman, aged twentyfive, was found at midnight by the police, asleep on one of the seats of an external boulevard. She was conveyed to the station us being drunk and incapable. On being searched a scapular was found around her neck, and two religious medals. As she did not awake next morning she was conveyed to the hospital, where she has since lain, in all the attitude of death, save that she respires rapidly. She has been fed on soup. Doctors from far and near came to peep at the phenomenon. It was discovered she was two months enciente when addmitted, and a few days ago she was permaturely confined o£ a still-born infant. But the pains of child-birth never roused her; she slept all the same. The famous Dr Charcot, the highest authority of the day on nervous diseases, was called in. He recommended a cold douche. The first bath produced no effect; the second, however, did, and she

promises in a little time to wake up, like Rip Van Winkle. Attracted by the accounts published, a strolling player called, and recognised the young woman as her daughter, whom she had not seen for seven years. The patient appeared to know her mother-, as she put out her hand and cried, but never uttered an intelligible word. The prodigy when a child experienced the first attack of lethargy when the Prussians bombarded the capital.'