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Show Thoiij-ht Her llulmnd U' m Hone. A will case recently tried at Vouvray, ; France, brought out some remarkable ) facts n(-ardiu the devisor. IJer name Wiis Muie. Brochard. aud she waa an ad-; ad-; lierent to the doctrine of meteiupsycho- ! sis. From the evidence adduced it ap-! ap-! peared that the lady, who was a widow, ( believed firuily that her husband's soul had passed into the body of an omnibus horse, and the animal in question was ' accordingly tho object of her special j veneration and even affection. She had ! also visions of the jieriodieal descents from heaven of one of her relatives, whom she thought to he engaged in fulfilling ful-filling the humble but useful functions of a postman for the celestial hierarchy. Muie. Brochard had a special cult for j great men of the past, whose spirita she j frequently evoked, held imaginary con-j con-j versations with them, and wroto from I tueir dictation several profound trea- tises. Other eccentrio actions wero revealed. re-vealed. The will was broken. |