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Southland Times, Issue 1158, 14 May 1869, Page 3

A most curious study in pyschology has been furnished by the case of a German at New Orleans. George Nicken, a youth of about twenty, was all but killed some months ago by a fall from a platform. For seven weeks he was deprh ed of the use of every sense, as well as of consciousness. At the end of that period he recovered his senses, and could use his tongue freely, but his mind was a complete blank as to everyone and everything that he had known or experienced prior to his fall. Persons, words, and things were all strange and new to him. His mother was a new acquaintance, and he retained no glimmer of recollection of any word either of his native German or of English. His faculties, however, seemed acute and bright, but he had to learn the elements of language just like an infant, and his progress was almost as slow. The famous Grand Duchess de Gerolstein Schneider received a bracelet valued at 15,000d015, from an English lord during her late visit to Baden-Baden. The donor's name and title were set in diamonds. " What a pity," exclaimed the actress when she received it, " that I he is not a Spanish nobleman — his name would have been so much longer."