Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-01-27

there is said to be wise fools. At any rate
we often find considerable method in tn,
madness of some "clouded intellects."
A game keeper and an inmate of an asy
lum at Meath, England, happened to NEE
on the lawn in front of the building.
Inmate. -" Good dmorning you. That
a fine horse you have; pray what is hi
worth ?"
Game. keeper" This horse cost my
master sixty pounds"
Inmate" And what may that gun have
cost which you haveS"
Game-keeper -" This is one Of Westley
Richards's, and consequently Is expensive
it cost twenty pounds"
Inmate" And what are these dogs
worthY"
Game-keeper. These dogs are worth
about twenty pounds
Innate" And what have you in that
basketS"
Game-keeper.--"A A snipe."
Innate" And what is that worthP"
Game keeper" About sixpence."
Inmate-Well, 1 should recommend you
to ride off as fast as you. can, for if our
governor were to know that any man ex-
pended hundred pounds to procure six
penny bird, he would Immediately seize
him and put him in his asylum"
We have heard of remarkable instance
of shrewdness on the part of two lunatic
lovers. Some years ago there were in
Colney Hatch a young man and young
woman who made each others acquaint-
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
xtfrr 10 Nft th,
correspondence. Both recovered, and after
their discharge, having renewed their
courtship, married happily. So far as is
known at the asylum, neither has had a
relapse of insanity. Though the lamp of
reason burned dim, the affections and
sympathies still continued undiminished
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. s.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-
spects they are childish, helpless and IRA
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
81 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-
ciently marks the mental condition of their
authors. The popularity of late clever
and well-known artist, who during his
confinement in an asylum, painted a 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 a Scotch asylum series of most
beautiful and perfect diagrams to illustrate
a course of lectures on the Infusore, the
artist being an inmate who was more mad
a great deal than any March hare.-Hdr-
per'S Weekly.