THE DEAD HOUSE OF PARIS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue II, 2 January 1869, Page 6

THE DEAD HOUSE OF PARIS.

A Paris correspondent writes thus of the dead house or La Morgu,e the most popular lion of the city. This sad refuge receives on an average one pen&ionnaire daily. Of the 365 admitted during a year — about 240 are men, 50 women, and 75 infants from one day to ten years old. Suicide brings some 170, accidents 120 bodies. During the lust GO years, only two unexpected resurrections have occurred — one of the survivors is now in his seventieth year, and thus relates his simple and terrible story. At the age of twenty be was p-fHicted with a nervous disease, resulting often in syncope. Ouc day he went to the Champ de Mars to witness tho celebration of some fete, an A overcome by the heat, the excitement of the fireworks, &c, he fainted. Transported to a neighboring apothecary's shop, a passing physician felt his pulse, applied the ear to his chest, shook his head, pronounced the opinion 'he is dead " — and signing the certificate to this effect, directed the body to be conducted to tho Morgue. All this the patient heard. He remembered nothing more at the time, and senso rciurnimg, ho opened his eyes, and found the place as dark as Erebus. Soon he felt the icy coldness of the " situation," and with cause, for he was naked on a sloping marble

The public papers have denounced it as a fraud, but ridicule the people who are thus taken in, saying, ' The as;ent has been too smart for you.' Many a tall fellow who came out in our ship has reason to regret bitterly the day he ever left the colonies, and many passengers are ready to return by the next vessel for Sydney. The distress of these, poor people was so urgent that the JBritisn Consul called them together, condemned the trick played upon them, and promised to exert himself for their employment,, and several have been sent on the works up the country for a time." The writer concludes by urging his friend to use his influence to prevent persons leaving the colonies for California.

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