The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-05-22


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An undertaking rule is to require Five Dol
hrs In GdpGgce for. the announcement OF every
Queer People
aIt takes all sorts of people to make WORLD"
saws the old adage, and truly there are great
many varieties of queer nen and women ana
queer societies ndqueer Communities scattered
al over the earth, when ole takes the trouble
TO look them up, as curious lnvesIgasoIs 90
now and then. It is said that Dickens knew
a,, ORIGINAL for every one of his characters, and
that he copied them pretty closely, too, in his
!. delineations. If this be true, he must have
known some very rare oddities, indeed And
vet almost everybody mees now end then with
people quite as oddly made up as any OF these.
MrNenwnrth Dixon found more than dozen
sects in Russia, whose hundreds of members
were risking both liberty ,lnd life for the sake
of the most utterly absurd faiths imaginable.
Similar bodies exist in other lands. There is
within % days journey Of London, place
known as the Agapemone, or Abode OF Love,
In which dwell number of people who be-
lieve that their leader--a man named Prince
died some years ago and again became alive
that he is now incapable Of SHINING, and fnal-
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to be. And this Abode Of Love is not an in
sane asylum either. We have in our country
the Shakers on the one hand and the Oneida
Communists on the other, while some parts OF
tha West and South have sects far qheerer of
doctrine than either Of these. We can readily
understand how one "crsInky" man or woman
can take up the odd noions on which these
curious sects are based, bit that scores of 9TH
ers should follow such leaders seems marvel.
Our purpose, however, Is to speak Of singular
individuals rather than OF singular sects or
communities, and almost every neighborhood
furnishes at least one oddity. We remember
an old man with mania for litigation, whose
favorise amusement was suing his sons and.
daughters on all imaginable pretexts. Once in
suit no matter how small the amount at issne
unighS be- he would spare neither money nor
time 70 push the litigatio, just as far as the law
vonld let 10, and that loo in spite of the fact
chat lii all other matters he was as penurious rs
n rnisar. We knew another man once who, In
r;ding on horseback, would always sit with his
hack towards the animals head, because he be-
leged it a sin for anybody to sit otherwise on
horseback since Baalams time. Another,
neighbor of this one, would always go ont
without his hat as soon t.s rain began, and
would walk thus for houls over his farm, re-
turning only when the rain ceased or the night
ssE IN. Another would not allow on his table
sweet pickles or any salad-dressing in which
vinegar and sugar were mixed, even though he
WAS abundantly supplied with pickles or dress
ING to his taste. In the same neighborhood
lived land still lives, we belieye) q gentleman
who has belonged to seven different churches,
and whose oddities Of other kinds are innumer-
able.- For many years he thought walking the
enly proper mode Of locomotion, and SO he
walked everywhere, even to the city, forty
miles away. Suddenly he became convinced
that walking was NOT the proper thing, and
ceased to walk altogether outside the house.
Somewhat less strange than these vas the
csssEof gentleman of high culture and court
ly manners, who would never, on any account,
bid any one adieu, even when the separation
was to last but a day. BE would lay deliberate
,,lans to avoid this without seeming guilty OF
discourtesy, and rarely ever failed to accom-
Dish his purpose. Batin any event he posi-
tyely would not say good bye; end il he could
not eyade it by taking French leave or in any
way, he would abruptly turn his back upon his
friends and leave without word. lie went to
Europe once for q journey OF many months,
and gave no notice whatever OF his intention TO
90, even with his OWE family. he left the
house without baggage apparently TOR q ten
minutes walk, and sent back e note 6y ser
yant, saying that he would wait in New York
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A good many pecnliarities, of which we are
tpo apt to make sport, are the result Of nervous
disease. Several cases of the kind have come
within cur own knowledge. One Of them was
that Of . young man who would be seized with
an irresistible impulse to touch, with hand or
foot, some object within sight. he would rise
from his desk, when writing, and cross the
Office to touch particular spot on the wall or
the leg of particular chair. When walking
along the street he would feel bound to touch
post here and tree there, so that his progress
was often seriously impeded by the nervous me-
eessity. Sometimes the impulse would seize
him after he had passed the object, and he
would be compelled to return to it. His first
meeting with the lady. who afterwards became
Bis wife st party where, seeing her, astranger,
en- the opposite side of the room, he was sud-
denly impelled to cross the floor for the pur-
pose of laying his finger on her nose, pro-
eeeding which friend of both had to explain
and apologize for in an interview with the lady
the next day. The explanation led to an &C,
ouaintance which ripened into friendship and
ended in marriage. But if any novelist had
told this, life-story in o book, who wouldn't
have though. it an utterly improbable one?-
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