The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-05-31
Curious AvsrsIons.

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The secretary of Francis T. used to
stop up his nostrels with bread if hesaw
a dish of apples, to prevent an other
wise inevitable bleeding at the nose A
Polish king had an antipathy to both
the smell and sight of this wholesome
fruit, and a family of Aquitaine had q
hereditary hatred Of it. A Flemish dam
sci was sadly troubled by an uncomfort-
able aversion to the smell of bread.
Cheese, mutton, musk and ambergris
have been so repugnant to some nasal
organs as TO send their owners into con-
vulsions.
Gretry, the composer could not en-
dure the scent of the rose, neither could
Anna of Austria. The mere sight of the
queen of flowers was too much for Lady
Heneage, bedchamber woman to Queen
Bess indeed, Kenelm Digby records
that her cheek became blistered when
some one laid white rose upon it as she
slept. Her ladyship's antipathy was al
most 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 to
the eyes of the Princess de Lambelle,
tansy and abominable to the Earl Of
the water-glass, and soldier who would
have seorned to turn his back on a foe
fled without shape from sprig of rue.
A poor Neapolitan was always seized
with fit upon attempting to swallow a
morsel of flesh meat of any kind, and
nature thus condemned him to vegeta-
rianism, sorer infiction than that was
suffered by Guianerius, whose heart
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pork dinner, or by the lady who could
not taste udder of beer without her lips
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DIR. Prout had patient who declared
honest mutton was as bad as poison to
him. Thinking this was all fancy, the
doctor administered the obnoxious meal
under various disguises, but every ex-
pertinent ended in severe vomiting
1T.
Another unlucky individual always
had a fit of the gout few hours after
eating fish, and Count d Armsadt never
failed to go off in a faint if he knowingly
or unknowingly partook of any dish
containing the slightest modieum of olive
oil. A still worse penalty attached to
lobster salid in case Of lady, for if she
ventured to taste at dancing party, hel
neck, before she returned to the ball
room, would be covered with ugly
blotches, and her peace of mind de.
stroyed for that evening.
According to Burton, melancholy
duke Of Muscovey fell instantly i'll if he
but looked upon woman, and another
authority was seized with cold palsy
under similar provocation. Weinrichul
tells of a nobleman who drew the line al
old ladies, which could not prevent hin
from losing his life in consequence o.
his strange prejudice; for, being called
from the supper table by some mischiev
Gus friends to speak to an old woman
he fell down directly behind her, ane
died then and there. What an oil
woman did for this old hater, an eclips,
did for Charles discard, Bishop o
Langres. It was his inconvenient Gus
tom to faint at the commencement of
lunar eclipse, and remain insensible o.
long as it lasted When he was very oil
and very infirm, an eclipse took place
the good old bishop went of as usual
and never came to again. Old JOIN
Langer, who settled in Ireland in 1861
cherished an antipathy quite as obsti
nately, but had no idea of dying of ii
By his last will and testament he ordere,
his corpse to be walked by fifty Irishmen
oreach of whom two quarts of aqu
vita were to be provided in the hop
that, getting drunk, they would take t
killing one another, and do something
toward lessening the breed.