AN ELECTRIC GIRL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2220, 29 April 1880, Page 3

AN ELECTRIC GIRL.

—— Our most amusing stories come from America. The latest relates to an electric girl, who, wo hear, is a resident of London, Canada. She is said to be just 19 years old. She has been sick two years, but is now well. The doctors could not tell what was the matter with her, but since her recovery she seems to be a walking battery. Unless your nerves arc very strong, you cannot shake hands with her, nor can anyone place his hand in water with hers. By joining hands, she can send a sharp shock through 15 or 30 persons 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 fingers. She cannot drop any small article of steel she may pick up. On entering a room, a perceptible influence seizes everyone present; and while some arc affected with sleepiness, others arc ill and fidgety till they leave. A sleeping infant will wake at her approach, but witli a stroke of her baud she can coax it to slumber again. Animals are also subject to her influence, and a pet dog of the household will, we arc told, lie for hours at her feet as motionless as death.