The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-12-10
Nitlrmuah Qispatth.
MON DAY MORNING.. ......... DEC, 10, 1900
MORBID NxRvousSxss.-The morbid ner.

Mcpptp NKRvousNYss.-The morbid ner-
Sou.ness of the present day appears in severai
WAYS II brings q IMAM sometimes TO that STAR
tlex state that the sudden opening of door.
The clash OF the falling Are irons, any little
accident put "a him IN fiutter. How nervous
the late Sir Robert Peel must have been when,
few weeks before his DEATH he Went to tne
biological Gardens. and when a monkey SUD.
denly sprang upon his arm, the great ana
worthy man faintedi Another phaze OF ner-
vousness is, when a man is hrongat 10 that
state that the least noise or cross occurrence
seems to jar through the entire nervous sys-
ten--to upset him. as we say, when he cannot
command his mental powers. except In perfect
stiffness or in the chamber and al the writing
table to which he Is accus toned; when in short,
he gets fidgetty, easily worried, full OF whims
aud fancies, which must be INDUCED and con-
sidered, or he is quite ont of sorts, Another
phsZe of the same morsid condition is when a
human beipgis oppressed withsague underlined
fears that things are going wrong, that his IN
come will not meet the demands upon IT, that
his child's lungs are affected, that MS mental
powers are leaving him-a state OF feeing
which shades rapiaiy of in to pos tive insanity,
Indeed when matters remaining tong In any
OF the fashions which have been described, 4
suppose the natural termination mast De as
ease of the heart or Il shock of paralysis, or
insanity in the form either OF mania or toiocy,
Numbers of commonplace people who could
feel yery acuteIy, but who could not tell what
they felt have been worried into fatal heart
disease by prolonged anxiety and misery
Every one knows how paralysis laid its hand
upon Sir Waiter Scott always great lastly
heroic. Protraotes. anxiety how TO make the
ends meet, Wiz a large family and an uncer-
tain income, drove Southey's first wife into
the iuratic asylum; and there is hardly
more touching story than that of her fears
ana foTebodipgs through nervous year after
year. Not less sad the end OF her overwrought
husband, in blank vacuity, nor the like end Of
Thomas Moore. And perhaps the saddest in
stance OF the result OF an overdriven nervous
system, In recent days, was the end OF that
rugged, honest. wonderful genius, Hugh Mil
leT.-RecfeaftoHs Of Country PaFSc-,
POVERTY OF THR lUREN's FATHRR.-1n a
sketch OF Queen Victoria, alluding 10 the pow
erty of the Duke CT kent, previous to the birth
of his royal daughter, it is stated that he was
anxious that his offspring the present q ueen)
should be born in the country which she night
be destined 10 rule; but he was absolutely
without means necessary for the Journey. He
was residing at Amorbach, small town in
Germany, and from there wrote 10 his Tela-
tons and friends in England fer the remit
tances. In one OF his letters he wrote thus ::
" The interesting situation OF the Duchess
causes me hourly anxiety and you who 80
well know my views and feelings, can easily
appreciate how DESTROYS l am 10 hasten our
departure for Old England. The event is
thought likely TO occur about the end Of next
month. My wish is that it may take place
about the 4th of June, as that is the birthday
OF my reverend father-and that the child, too,
like him. may be a B-iton born"
These royal and noble friends to whom the
Duke had applied fer assistance, declined al
kordlng 1t ne was indebted for the means Of
reaohtng his country TO persons Of compare
wife at kensing,on Palace in time for his
daughter 10 see the light upon British coil on
The n n OF May, 1919, his first aud only child,
Ale&andrina Victoria, was born.