AN ELECTRIC GIRL.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3561, 26 May 1880, Page 2

AN ELECTRIC GIRL.

An electric girl 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 dootors could not tell what was the matter with her, but since her recovery she seems to be like a walking battery. Unless visitors' nerves are very strong, they cannot shake hands with her, nor can one place his hand in a pail of water with hers. By joining hands she can send a sharp shock through fifteen or twenty people in a room, and she possesses all the attractions of a magnet. If she attempts to pick up a knife, the blade jnmps into her hand, and a paper of needles will hang suspended from one of her fingers. She cannot drop any artiole of steel she may pick up. On entering a room, a perceptible influence seizes every one present; and while some are affected with sleepiness, others are ill and fidgetty till they leave. A sleeping infant will wake at her approach, but with a stroke of her hand she can coax it to slnmber again. Animals are also.subject to her influence, and a pet dog of the household will, we are told, lie for hoars at her feet as motionless as death.