GO SLOW.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 8, 17 November 1887, Page 2

GO SLOW.

There is a young woman a Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania who according to American papers, is so charged witlx electricity that a hairpin wliich she wore in her head (? hair) all day was magneticed enough to hold 69 needles by their points. When the young woman’s hair is stroked in the dark it emits sparks, and 1o touch her is to receive a shock as from a magnetic battery. Mod mm Light and Heat, in speaking of this remarkable phenomenon, says “ AVe do not doubt the accuracy of the report, hut we are amazed at the temerity of the experimenter who stroked the young woman's hair in the dark. This is a most dangerous thing, and should never bo attempted by any man with a weak heart. The condition at Heaver Falls may be peculiar, but we have generally thought that it was the sparks that caused the stroking of the hair, not the reverse. To touch her seems dangerous too. AA 7 o have heard of cases where close proximity to young women has caused (possibly from the cause of magnetised steels) severe shocks, even though a non-con-ductor, such a* a coat-sleeve has been

interposed, Ihe discharge has generally taken the form of a severe blow on one side of the face, similar to a shock from a static machine, accompanied by a stinging sensation ; in other cases, whore tho attractive influences have been greater, the effects have been noticed more especially in tho lips. Tho phenomenon, then assumes more the form of the insinuating thrill of an induction 'coil, tho feeling being rather pleasant than otherwise. The after effects are, however, generally more serious in the latter ease. In exceptional oases, the young woman herself professes to be shocked also, j this, However, rarely happens. The whole subject is one of considerable interest, though fraught with some danger to even the ezperi* ewed esperiawater,’’