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Show A Pathetic Story. The London Hospital tolls of a seamstress who, like Hood's pathetic horolne In the "Song of the Shirt" workod till tho stars shone on the roof. Her eyesight failed, and tho story goes on: "She saw at tho same time four hands, four needles, and four seams. She at first treated them as an illusion, but at the end of somo days, in consequence conse-quence of weakness and prolonged mental anxiety, she imagined that she was really sewing four seams at once, and that God, touched by her misfortune, misfor-tune, had worked a niiraelo in her favor. |