Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-15
Autipnthie. and Fears.

1t is difficult matter to account for the
dislikes some persons have been known to
entertain. Yet many instances are upon
record of unaccountable antipathies, SO
deeply rooted that no exertion of the mind
was capable of eradicating them.
Of this we have a striking instance in
the brave Marquis de la Roche Jaquelin,
who, though he was undaunted in the
field of battle, yet could never help trem-
bling and turning pale at the sight of the
harmless squirrel. He was the first to
laugh at his own weakness, but his ut
most efforts were never able to overcome
this involuntary terror.
Cardinals Cordona and Caraffa, We
netian nobleman Of the family of Bar
ba1azi, and Lady Heneage, one of the
maids of honor to Queen Elizabeth,
swooned at the mere sight of rose.
There was once family in Aquitaine,
which entertained so great an aversion to
apples, that the mere sight of one set theiI
noses to bleeding. "' s
The very least particle of olive oil in
troduced in any dish, and however well
disguised, was so obnoxious to Count OF
Darmstadt, that he was Immediately seized
with fainting fits. .
We are informed by Bartholus, that he
knew a man, of bold and courageous
disposition, who could not see a dog, no
matter how small, without Immediately
shaking with apprehension, and being
seized with convulsive trembling in his
left arm and in his hand. .....s.. .
Weinzithius mentions a person of
noble family, who was not able to bear
the gaze of an old woman, and being
once drawn out by force from his supper,
into the presence of one, what was only
intended as merriment for his friends,
ended in death for him, for he fell down
and died on the spot. The terrors felt
by some persons at the various phenomena
of nature are less unaccountable.
Augustus was so much alarmed at me
teors that he carried about him the skin
of calf-then thought to be an excellen,
guard against lightning; and during Q
thunder storm, according to Suetonius
he sought refuge under ground, in vaults
or cellars. a...
CauIuld, WHO
fears, whenever it thundered, wrapped hi!
head up in some covering-or if he was in
bed, leaped out of it, and hid himself un-
derneath. ...". ......-
A Bishop of Langres, Charles d'Escars
always tainted at the beginning Of lunal
eclipse, and remained insensible as lont
as it lasted. This weakness proved event
ually fatal to him, for, when old and in
firm, having tainted, as usual. at the time
of an eclipse, he was too weak to recover
and expired. .a. -- ..
In the year 1874 French soldier wa
obliged to quit the service because h,
could not overcome his violent repug'
nance and disgust towards animal food.
DR.. Prout knew person on whom NUT
ton acted as a poison. "He could no
eat it in any form. The popularity wa
supposed to be owing to caprice, but tht
mutton was repeatedly disguised, ant
uniformly produced the same result-vio'
lent vomiting and diarrh9a." an. ,..
Hahn relates of himself that seven o
eight strawberries would produce eonvul
sions. |-a
Many are unable to eat eggs, and cake
or pudding having eggs in in their compo
sition produce serious disturbances in the
health of such persons if they are induced
to eat them without knowing it.