Show THE mir N NEEDLE F E DLE SWALLOWER A correspondent correspond elit of the join journal nal de quebec supplies sonic some information of a remarkable r markab lct young canadian women priscille Priscil lc levesque who is in in the habit of swallowing 0 needles the case is a true one woman was for sonic some days exhibiting hei herself self in st johns and for a few pence each tile doubts and curiosity of hundreds were gratified A needle was swallowed owed with evident pleasure before every little thiron throng of visitors and needles in great numbers could be felt aud and their position seen under the skin about the i neek neck arnis arms etc priscille L laves eve s quo was born at divere du loup near three rivers she is 28 years old lias has always been poor pool and for many ciany years in service she lias has indeed the mania of siv swallowing allowing needles and the wonder is that she keeps alive but to assort assert that the practice lias has not injured hex her and is followed with impunity 1 is not ti true uc on oil the C contrary ont she is liable to violent spasms and convulsions and lias has already reached a state akin ahin to idiocy the needles after a while work vork their way w to the surface of the system where filere sonic some may maybe be seen or felt tilis this dangerous n mania iania if not promptly checked cannot fail soon to deprive her of life and therefore lier her case a although though 0 a rare one and highly 0 remarkable as a medical fact I 1 should riot not be allowed to be made a matter of speculation to encourage lier her to eat needles for the satisfaction of public curiosity curi sity while charging 0 0 a price for the awful sight is an act bibich aich cannot be too strongly ugly deprecated we have seen an affidavit 0 o of addle levesque taken under oath before a magistrate in which she states that when she first swallowed needles she did it under an all indescribable impulse which it was painful to resist desist she swallows them under unde illic ini im that it will cause her h er death and yet the tl temptation proves irresistible when deprived of them a few days slie she feels perfectly wretched for many ill an y years yeal s she invested her savings in buying p papers apers of needles to satisfy lier her morbid appetite ip petite slie takes from freih 15 to 20 a da day Y ind and swallowed once as many as in ono one day slie does docs not think she alic would livo live 30 80 d days ays deprived by bv force from ft om her ber favorite el enjoyment the publication public atio 11 of this affidavit 1 dij is evidently i intended n ti ded to justify a public exhibition exhibit io i i 1 being made of lier |