Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-26
VOLUME XXVI.

there is said to be wise fools. At any rate,
| we often find considerable method in the
madness of some "clouded intellects."
A game keeper and an inmate of an asy-
lum at Meath, England, happened 10 meet
on the lawn in front of the building.
Inmate od-morning toyou. That's
fine horse you have; pray what Is ne
worth ?"
Game keeper This horse cost my
master sixty pounds.
Inmate" And what may that gun have
cost which you have?"
Game-keeper.-"T This is one of Westley
Richards's, and consequently is expensive; /;
it cost twenty pounds"
Inmate" And what are these dogs
worth ?"
Game-keeper-"T These dogs are worth
about twenty pounds
basket?"
Game-keeper.-"A A snipe."
Inmate" And what is that worth" ?"
Game-keeper-" About siXpence."
Inmate-Well, should recommend you
to ride off as fast as you can, for IL our
governor were to know that any man ex-
pended hundred pounds to procure six.
benny bird, he would Immediately seize
him and put him in his asylum"
We have heard of a remarkable instance
of shrewdness on the part OF two lunatlc
lovers Some years ago there were In
Colney Hatch young man ana young
woman who made each others acqualnt-
ance at one of the monthly balls given for
the amusement of the inmates Deranged
though this couple were, they carried on
an Innocent courtship, and despite the
vigilance of the officials, managed written
correspondence Both recovered, and after
their discharge, having renewed their
courtship, married happily. So far as is
known at the asylum, neither has had
relapse of insanity. Though the lamp OF
reason burned dim, the affections and
sympathies still continued undiminlshed
in warmth and power. Many interesting
things might be told of the mechanical in
genuity and artistic taste of some of these
clouded intellects.
The worst examples of frenzied guilt
howl and fret away their days and nights
behind thick iron gratings. Their faces
are hideous, their voices inhuman, degra-
ton is exhibited in their every action and
gesture But there are others whose
Condition is less terrible. and far more
hopeful-men of less criminal and more
cultivated natures, whose right hand has
not lost its cunning, though in other re-
tional. These melancholy captives write
poetry, play on musical instruments, make
sketches, and execute works of sculpture,
construct models of steam engines, ships,
etc., and thus beguile the tedium of the
"long, weary hours" and render their
condition less unbearable to themselves
and to those around them
In very many cases such efforts, as
might be expected, exhibit some droll
irregularity or funny feature, Which suffi-
GENTLY marks the mental condition of their
authors The popularity of a late clever
and well-known artist, who during his
confnemsnt in an asylum, painted large
number of pictures, was that he always
added devils tail to his figures. He did
not consider that his portraits of either
ladies or gentlemen were finished without
the caudal appendage.
On the other hand, the writer lately
saw in Scotch asylum series of most
beautiful and perfect diagrams to illustrate
course of lectures on the Infusora, the
artist being an inmate who was more mad
great deal than any March, hare.-Har-
Ders WeekIy.