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Show SELKCTKI). lllli ULlbDliV(i .UtU til-' I1A1.N-I I1A1.N-I Al'Iil. . ! Wo lmvo lint a surfeit ol' Cislinp girls unJ proijlii'sying girls, but lluiu-ault, lluiu-ault, a liitlu town in Belgium, lurn i.-hes a new i-ensalion in a "bleeding girl." Her nutuo is Louise Luteau, and rilio Lloeds in a nianner nut only inconipreliensiblo to the public but to skilll'ul physioiuus who havo carel'ully examined her. 11' the phenomenon had happened in this country tho girl would, no doubt, belbre this, have been engaged to accompany iiarnuui'B great traveling show, but they do tilings diff.TOutly iu Belgium, aud the priests aro making a miiacle out ol her. The story goes that i'or the first .-eventeen yearj ol her hie Louise wa an uncommonly good girl, and iio one ever knew her to lib, pilfer, or even to flirt, in 1SC8, having i'or a bhort lime been out to service, the fell into ill health, h'or a month she seemed on ihe verge of the grave. At this junciuro begun her exiraordiuary per-Ibrniiinces. per-Ibrniiinces. One Friday morning a slender rivulet of blood began to trickle tiom her left side. Alter a while it ceased, but on the next l'riday blood oozed fiouithe upper .surlaco of hti leet. On ihe ihird l'riday it came -imultaueously l'rom side, feet ami hand. A few months alter blood also came from her head; aud now, by the la est accounts, '"she' presents eveiy Friday and on Fridays only a sort ol image of the bleeding form of Christ on the Critos." Cataleptic symptous accompany this exhibition. The young woman goes at, 8 o'clock in the moru-.ng moru-.ng into a species of trauce. In this, -he buys, she beholds in a vi.-ion the ceue of the Passion. Tears roll down tier cheeks, but now and then she -miles in etsiacy.- She ia insensible to all outward sights or sounds, and remains re-mains unmoved by even very strong electric shocks. 1 Until 5 in the day she remains iu couia, blood appearing constantly con-stantly as described. She then leaps up with a bound, falls into a coid -weat, has a rattle in her throat, and an imperceptible pulse,, and seems on (he point of Ueath. jS'everthele.-s, she ncuveis iu about tifteeu minutes, and tben remains in her u-ual state until tbe following Friday. It throws some doubt over tbe evidence of the phy.-i-cians who . havo examiued her, thai tbey weie called by the priests, but it seems certuin that the most eminent local practitioners have examined the case and proless not to be able to explain ex-plain it or. to discover any trickery. Oue ductof,' whose experiments have been numerous, says ho sciutiuizej tbe places Ireiu which the blood exuded with a micio-cope, and found lhat on those places the epidcmU is very thin, so that the true skin can beseeu through it. When the bleeding is going to begin, a little bladder appears on the spots, rilled with a tran-paMut, reddish fluid. A rent pre-eutly takes place in the cuticle.the serous fluid escapes, and the blood begins to ooze from the surface of the exposed pappillre within. The quantity of blood often amounts to nearly a quart. Pending its flow, tbe doctor repeatedly tickled Louise's nose with a feather, made her smell ammonia, ammo-nia, pricked her with a needle, and passed a strong electro-magnetic current cur-rent along her arm. All tnis the girl -invariably bore without the least sign of uneas.ne.-s or even of feeling. I)r. Liiebore carefully wrapped hoi bauds in strong, well-stitched leather gluves, drew them tightly at the wrists, sealed the strings, aud then watched the result. re-sult. This was. simply, that the gloves, when taken off, were filled with blood. In brief this physician and others feel totally unable,- however awkward may be any d iff rent assumption, to declare that the girl is con-eiously au impostor, j Perhaps some of our scientific men . who have examined the Cardiff giant might throw some light on the case, it opportuuuiiy were given them. Ex. |