THE SLEEPING BEAUTY OF NEBRASKA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7567, 20 February 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY OF NEBRASKA.

SHE AWAKES FROM. A TRANCE OF

SIXTY'S EVEN DAYS. The news has reached Columbus, Nebraska, from the Dishner Farm, some distance northeast, that Minnie Dishner, Nebraska's sleeping beauty, recovered consciousness on tbe third of January, the sixty-seventh day of her trance sleep. The roads have been impassable until the present time, and news of her recovery could not be received before. The girl fell into a trance, from which she has now revived, on October 6 last. During this long interval she has lain, to all appearances, a lifeless being, with the exception of respiration and pulsation. When Miss Dishner awoke her mind was apparently clear and unimpaired, and her appetite and general feelings good, but her arms and lego were paralyzed. She says that she was conscious during the whole time of the protracted trance, but although she exerted ber utmost power to evince her consciousness, she could not move a single muscle. She says she had no physicial pain until the fortieth day of her sleep, when an electric battery was applied. Siace then she has suffered a thousand agonies of body, and at times it seemed as though her miud would give way under the strain, and she now complains of terrible physical sufferings in consequence of the shock to lior system. The doctor in attendance sayn, however, that she will recover in, a short time, and will also regain the full use of her limbs.