Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-03-18
Singular Tastes and Antipa-
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Several illustrious men have evinced a
marked prediction for certain days in the
year. We know that Napoleon felt such a
disposition for the twentieth of March.
Charles " said Brantome, was partic-
ularly fond of the festival of ST Matthias,
(twenty-forth of Febuary) and sanctiiied it
beyond all other days, because on that day
he was elected emperor, on that day
crowned, and on that day, also, he took
king Francis prisoner, not himself, but
through his lieutenants.' Brantome adds,
also, that the emperor was born on the feast
of st Matthias, (twenty-forth of February,
1900 that on the same day, in 1927, his
borther Ferdiand was elected king Of Boz
hemia, and that on she twenty-forth of Feb
ruary, 1906, he abdicated the throne.
The first of January was TO Frances >,
what the twenty-fortli of February was TO
Charles V. Born on the first of January.
| it was on the first Of January that the
prince lost his father, that he became
king, on which his daughter was married,
and that on which Charles V. made his
entry into Paris.
Sixtus v, born on Wednesday, (thir-
teenth of December, l52l,l made his pro-
fession as Franciscan friar on Wednes-
day, was promised cardinalship on a
Wednesday, was elected pope on Wednes-
day, and exalted to the dignity the follow
ing Wednesday.
Louis KILL, some hours before his death,
Thursday, May fourteenth. l643,) called
his physicians and asked them if they
thought he could live until the next day,
saying that Friday had always been to him
fortunate day, that he had on that day
engaged in enterprises which were uniform
ly successful, that he had ever gained bat
ties on that day, and that having always
considered it bis happiest day, he wished
he might die on it.
One of the Spanish kings could not en-
dure any one in his presence who had taken
tobacco. He had, besides, the mania of
feeling incensed at any mans demanding
the age of women, unless he had intentions
of marriage.
Nothing could exceed the timidity, or we
might rather say, the poltroonery. of the
celebrated moralist Nicole he dreaded
travelling excursions on the water, and to
the end of his life he never went into the
streets without trembling, in ineessenr fear
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lest tile should fall on his head He
dwelt for a long time in the Faubourg Saint
Marcel, because he said, the enemies who
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Saint Martin, and would be obliged, conse-
quently, to traverse the whole city before
they could arrive at his house."
Henry III, who had so decided passion
for little dogs, could not remain in the same
room with a cat. The Duke d'Epenon
tainted at the sight of leveret. Marshal
de Breze, who died in 1850, swooned at the
sight of rabbit, as related by Tallemant.
Marshal d'Albert got i'll at repast where
either a sucking pig or a wild boar was
served. Erasmus could not even smell
fish without getting feverish. ScagIier
trembled all over at seeing water crosses.
Tycho Brahe felt his limbs failing when he
encountered a hare or fox. Bacon fell
into fainting fit during an eclipse Of the
moon. Bayle got convulsions when he
heard the sound of water issuing from a
spout. Lamothel lie Yeyer could not endure
the sound of any instrument. Fovorit, an
Italian poet, who died in 1852. could not
bear the odor of the rose.-hfsh Quarter
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