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Show Laughed Herself to Death. Bertha Pruett, aged 20 years, laughed herself to death the other night. She was entertaining a number of friends, one of whom, a young man, is noted as a wit. One of his remarks threw Miss Pruett into a violent fit of laughing, which lasted some minutes, when it suddenly sud-denly changed to a cry of pain, and she fell to the floor. Blood gushed from her nose and mouth, and medical assistance was summoned, but before anything could be done to relieve the young girl she was dead. The young man who cracked the fatal joke is prostrated with arief. Philadelphia Dispet-i |