182 DAYS' SLUMBER.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15346, 9 April 1920, Page 2

182 DAYS' SLUMBER.

SLEEPING SICKNESS VICTIM WAKENED BT MUSIC.

Having slept 102 days and nights, Mrs Dora Muntz, 29, a resident of New York, was wakened by the music of a violin, says the "Daily Mail." She is suffering from the disease known as encephalitis lethargic (a form of sleeping sickness), and except for a few minutes she has been plunged in a deep sleep, from which nothing could apparently waken her. All the resources of medical science were employed in vain, till as a last effort it was decided to try the effect of music in rousing the dormant nerve centres, as the woman had been an enthusiastic concert-goer. A young violinist named Hoffman was engaged to play by the bedside of the sick woman. After playing a Hungarian rhapsody without effect, the musician changed to Schubert's "Serenade." After * few minutes the . patient opened her

• eyes and nodded her head, and after ; -nearly an hour of the music the woman j was fully awake. : i The doctors state that there are,, no I signs of her relapsing into slumber, and ! that as soon as she regains strength she will foe able to leave the hospital. She was attacked by the strange sleeping malady a few days after she had apparently made a complete recovery from influenza. „ i ' *■ I ; The largest sheet or pane of glass in the world is set in the front of a building on Vine Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. It was made in Marseilles, France, and measures 186 in by 104 in. j The "Herald" records unusual procedure in the Auckland Divorce Court, the Solicitor-General (represented by the Hon. J. A. Tole, K.C.) asking for an adjournment of the hearing of four petition for divorce to enable further in.quiry to be made into the circumstances connected with tne cases. The petitions in question were to have been presented to the Court last year. In each case adultery was the ground of the ! petifion. The respective respondents were stated to have made statements ■ confessing tlieir guilt, but refused to. I give the name of the co-respondents, i i These circumstances were regarded by 1 the authorities as unusual, and the i Solicitor-General intervened. j

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Thirty Auckland bowlers leave by the Ivlaheno on the 29th inst. to .play a series of matches in New South Wales. Over 9000 tons of- coal, arrived in Auckland during tli© week end from Newcastle Tho Canadian Raider brought 4000 tons, tho Jiatoa carried about 3300 tons, and the Ultimata has 2000 tons.

Calculating ocean depths by means of sound is tho purpose of a new invention, tho marimoter, which sends a sound to tho bottom to bo returned as an echo. . Tlie lonegst warship constructed and soon to go into commission is the British battle-cruiser Hood, which is 900 ft long and 42,000 tons of full-load displacement.