A Sleeper Of 213 Days Wakes At Last, But Speaks Not

Jor. N. Y. Times. In Docomber last, lvo days before Christmas-, Sherman W. Platt, residisg twenty-threc miles distant from Bridgcport, "Ot., foll ableep.aftorrotiringearly, aa was his habic. Had ho avraked with aext morniug's huu, the circumstanoe weuld havo attracted nu attention, but from Christmas UU March ho scarcoly moved in bed, and lookno nourishmont saTO what was forced into bis ruouth Witb lengthening days ho cxbibited signs of returning animatiou, but not till tbo arrival of May dld bo move from bis recumbont position, uttor an intelligent syllable, or open bis oyos. In June bunger assertcd itsolf, and during his brief wakeful mouicnts be daily found bis way, unassistod, to tbo pantry to appoaso the same, his eyos all the while closcd, attd rcturninff to bis cbair, resumcd sloop. Thufl bo (.ontinued until July 10, wbon, to lbo surprise of his faruily, ho strodo to lbo front veranda. Scated in a rrstic cbair. ho heaid B passing toamster addresshi cattlcand, as if in mimicrj', sano; out "Wboa!" the first oxclamation bo 'had made during 213 daye. On Monday nigut laat week bo ivent to hls room asousual. Duriug tbo night ho left it stoalthily, and, ciad in nis thin iarments, slippers, au apology for a bat and uo moncy, startcd to walk to Bridgcport. Tbero, various expodionts woro adopled to extort words from Mr. Platt. Ho danced, walkcd andsmoked a pino whon asked to do so, but eshibitedno inclination or desire to speak, and, it is assorted, did not utter a word while in Bridgeport. Mr. Wenzai' Platt, his fathor, was notifiod, and bo convoyed the bevo of the longest nap heard of by railroad traiu. to bis homo. Abigail Dodgo (Gail Haniilton) bas mado Washington lier winter headquartcvs bccauso sho is a cousin of ox-Secrctary Blaine, and inadc bis house her home. She is a plain, brown-eycd lady of tho most unpretending type, as truly great minded peoplc usually aro. Of that much malinsred class, the spinster, she furnishos another proof of tho advantao gaiued by womon of talent in choosmg a single lifo. If Gail had inarriod wo might novcr havo had her niatchlessdisquisition on the avt of rearing children, publishod in Harper's Bazar BGTcral years apo, which, like the the newspaper recipe, roads botter than it cooks. She did not oven tako Mnio. Glass' ]rccaution and advicc: "First catch your hare." Tho inost fashionablo wuniun now endoavor to niako each of thcir letters in writing an inch in Icugth and correspondingly broad. Tho waiters at tho Thousand Island Park Hotel aro girls mostly froni the Oswcgo Normal School. Miss Jauo Welch, of Buflalo, is assistaiit editor of the Modera Age. A Boston womau has hired orators tor a sories of lectures to l)oys and girls, in the Old South Church, haring for tbcir object nothing clsc than to "excito in the minds of tho young tho proper lovo of froedom, of their country and thcir city." Miss Amelia B. Edwards fiimished thearticleon "Mummy" for tho nest volume of the Encyclopsedia Britannica.