The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-03-05
SOME CURIOUS ATERsIoNs.

The secretary of Francis I. used to stop
up his nostrils with bread If he saw dish
of apples, to prevent an otherwise inevitaoie
bleeding at the nose. A Polish king had
an antipathy to both the smell and sight OF
this wholesome fruit, and q family OF Aqui-
tand had a hereditary hatred OF IL. a
Flemish damsel was sadly troubled by an
uncomfortable, aversion to the smell OF
bread. Cheese, mutton, musk and an Der,
grif have been 80 repugnant to some nasa
organs as to send their owners into convol-
sioue.
Gretry, 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 Heneage,
bed chamber woman to Queen Bess IN
deed, Digby records that her cheek became
blistered when some one laid white rose
upon it Is she slept. Her iadyships an
tipathy was almost as strong as that OF the
ed her wearing an artificial rose In MS
button hole.
A violet was thing of horror to the
eyes of the Princess de Lamballc tansy
was abominable to an Earl Of Barry more !;
Scaliger grew pale before the water cress /;
and soldier, Tho would have scorned to
turn his back upon foe, fled without
shame from a sprig of rae
A poor Neapolitan was always seized
with fit upon attempting to swallow q.
morsel of fresh meat of any kind, and ma
ture thus condemned him to vegetarianism
"a sorer In Fiction than that suffered by
Guianerius, whose heart palpitated Vio-
lently if he INDUCED in pork dinner or
by the lady who could not taste udder OF
beef without her lips swelling to uncom-
Portable dimensions. DR.. Prout bad pa
tient who declared honest mutton was all as
bad as poison to him. The doctor, thinking
this was all fancy, administered the obnox-
lens food under various disguises, but
every experiment ended in a severe fit of
vomiting.
Another nnlucky individual always had
fit of the govt a few hours after eating fish
and Count d'Armstadt never failed to go
OFF in faint if he knowingly or unknow-
ingy partook of any dish containing the
slightest modicum of olive oil. A still
worse penalty attached to lobster salad,
in the case of lady, for if she ventured to
taste it at a dancing party, her neck before
she returned to the ball room would be
covered with ugly biotches, and her peace
of mind destroyed for that evening.
According to Burton, melan choly Duke
of Muscovy fell instantly if he but looked
upon woman and another authority
was seized with cold palsy under similar
provocation. We learn from Weinrchur
of nobleman who drew the line at old
ladies, which did not prevent him losing
his life in consequence of his strange pre-
JUDGE for, being called from his supper
by some mschievous friends to speak to
an old woman, he fell down directly when
be beheld her, and died then and there.
What an old woman did for this hater, an
eclipse did for Charles discard, Bishop of
Langres 1t was his inconvenient custom
to faint at the beginning of a lunar eclipse,
and remain insensible as long as it lasted.
Wken he was old and very infrm an eclipse
took place. The good bishop went off as
usual, and never came to again.