Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-11-12
ANTIPATHIEs.
Anecdotes Of Prominent Persons who Had I'm

The Secretary of Francis I. used to
stop up his nostrils with bread if he
saw dish of apples, to prevent on
otherwise inevitable bleeding at the
nose. A Polish King had an antipa-
thy to both the smell and sight OF this
wholesome fruit, and family of Aqui-
tame had an hereditary hatred of it
A Flemish damsel was sadly troubled
by an unconquerabie aversion to the
smell of bread. Cheese, mutton, musk
and ambergis have been so repugnant
TO some nasal organs, as to send their
owners into commissions. Getry, the
composer, could not endure the scent
OF the rose neither could Anne of
austria. The mere sight of the queen
OF flowers was too much for Lady
| Heneag, bed-chamber woman to
| Queen Bess; indeed Kenelm Digby
records that her cheek became blist-
| cred when some one laid white rose
upon it as she slept. Her ladyship's
| antlpathy was almost as strong as
| that OF the dame who tainted when
her lover approached her wearing an
| artificial rose in his button hole. A
violet was thing of horror in the
eyes of the Princess de Lambele;
tansy was abomlnable to an Earl of
Barrymore; Sealiger grew pale before
the water-cress; and soldier who
would have scorned to turn his back
on foe, fled without shame from a
sprig of rue. A poor Neapolitan was
always seized with fit upon attempt
ing to swallow morsel of flesh meat
OF any kind, and nature thus con-
demned him to vegetaranism, a sorer
affilctlon than that suffered by Guia-
nerlus, whose heart palpitated violent
ly If he INDUCED in pork dinner, or
by the lady who could not taste udder
OF beef without her lips swelling to un-
comfortable dimensions. DR.. Prout
had a patient who declared honest
mutton was as bad as poison to him.
Thinking this was all fancy the Doc
tor administered the obnoxious meat
under various DISCUSSES, but every ex
pertinent ended in severe vomiting
hi. Another unlucky individual al
ways had fit of govt few hours aft
er ealing fish; ard Count DARN
stadt never failed to go off in a faint
If he knowingly or unknowingly par
took of any dish containing the slight,
est modicum OF olive oil A still
worse penalty attached to lobster
salad in the case of lady, for if she
yentured to taste it at dancing par
ty, her neck, before she returned to
the ballroom, would be covered with
ugly blotches, and her peace of mind
destroyed tor that evening. Accord |
ing to Burton, melancholy Duke of
Muscovy fell instantly i'll If he but
laQllRlked JNna4s aIwIQ4ap.. .aad ANOTHER
under similar provocation; while one
Weinrichur tells of nobleman who
drew the line at old ladies, which did
not prevent him losing his life in con-
sequence of his strange prejudice; for,
being called from the supper table by
some mischevous friends, to speak to
an old woman, he fell down directly
he beheld her, and died then and
there. What an old woman did for
this odd ha.er, an eclipse did for
Charles D'Escaro, bishop of Langres
1t was his inconvenient custom always
to faint at the commencement of lu-
mar eclipse, and remain insensible as
long as it lasted. When he was very
old and very inirm ar eclipse took
place The good Bishop went off as
usual and never came to again. Old
John Langley, who settled in Ireland
in 1851, cherished an antipathy quite
as obstinately, but had no idea Of dy-
ing of 1T. BY his last will and tesla
meut he ordered his corpse to be
walked by FIFTY Irishmen, for each OF
whom two quarts of aqua vitae were
to be provided, in the hope that, get.
ting drunk, they would take to killing
one another, and do something to-
wards lessening the breed Cham
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