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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 17, 16 December 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

A SiNfi'Ji.Aii Cask ov Suptoskd Dkatii. — A woiiiiin, supposed to iie di:ad, was a few days buck removed to the hospital of Bildah, in Algeria, for tile purpose of l)ein# subjected to n post mortem examination, her disease having appeared inexplicable to llie medical men who had attended her. As the surgeon was about to make use of 'he scalpel and commence her dissection, the supposed corpse littered ft loud shriek and sat up. She h< r i<l been in a stale of lethargy and awoke only just in time. It will lie remembered thar. Abbe J'revost, the author of " Manon Lesniuf,"' was less fortunate ; it is known that he. died from wounds inflicted by the di secliny knife under similar circumstiinees. Somebody once remarked that the Knj;lishman is never happj' but when ho is miserable ; the Scotchman is never at home but wh'n he is aluoifi ; and ihc liisbnirin is nevvr at jicace but whc:i he is iighli;.'u y