ELECTRIC GIRL.

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 522, 20 May 1880, Page 3

ELECTRIC GIRL.

After the fasting girl, and the twoheadeq “ nightingale, ” comes the electric girl. There is one in Canada. She is said to bo just 1U years old, has been side two years, but is'now well. The doctors could not tell what was the matter with her, but since her recovery she seems to he like a walking battery. Unless visitors’ nerves are very strong, they cannot shake hands with her, nor can, one place his hand in a pail of water with hers. I3y joining hands, she can send a sharp shock through 15 or 20 people in a. room, and she possesses all the attractions of a magnet. If she attempts to pick up a knife, the blade jumps into her hand, and a ,paper of needles will hang suspended from one of’ her lingers. She cannot drop any article of steel she may pick up. On entering a room, a perceptible-influence seizes eveiy one present; and while some arc affected with sleepiness, others are ill and fidgetty until they leave. A sleeping infant wifi wake at her approach, but with a stroke of her hand she can coax it to slumber again. Animals are also subject to her influeme, and a pet dog of the household will, we are told, lie for hours at her feet as motionless as death. —♦ Mr Macandrcw addressed his constituents last Friday. The Afghan War is expected to cost four millions more than the estimates. Tin has been discovered near Brisb anc Mr. Uorert Lowe has been raised to the Peerage, in lien of entering the new Ministry. Goi.d ix Waikato.—Auriferous quartz is said to have been found in Waikato, within five miles of Ngaruawahia. Axti-Chixese Protest. —At a meeting held, at the Temperance Hall Sydney, 800 persons present, a resolution in favour of t)>q. exclusion of. the Chinese the colony was unanimously carried. Mr. Vivian Melville, the newly-eicctcd member for Northumberland, participated in the proceed ings, and denounced the Sydney Morning Herald as hostile to the working classes and the Evening News as a toady of the inen in power. He declared his intention to “ stonewall ” day and night in the assembly when the immigration vote and Chinese question camejon,