The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-19
Curious Ayersions.

The Secretary OF Francis /. used to stop
up his nostrils with bread If he saw dish
of apples, 3" prevent an otherwise incvita-
BILE bleeding of the nose. A Polish King
had an an!ipathy to both the smell and
sight OF this wholesome fruit, and n family
of Aquitaine had hereditary hatred of it.
A Flemish damsel was sadly troubled by
an uncomfortable aversion TO the smell of
bread. Cheese, mutton, musk and amber
girls have Seen SO repugnant to some nasal
organs rs to send their owners into con-
vustlOns.
Gretry, the composer, could not bear 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; in
decd, Kenelm Digby records that her
cheeks became blistered when some one
laid white rose upon it Us she slept.
Her ladyship's antipathy was almost as
strong as that of the dame who tainted
when her lover approached her with an
artificial rose in his buttOnhOle. A violet
was a thing of horror to the Princess de
Lambelle; tansy was abominable to the
Earl of Barrymore; Scaliger grew pale be-
fore the water-cress, ana q soldier who
would have scorned to turn his back on q
foe fled without shame from a sprig of
rue. r,i- i-1-sz
A poor NeapOlitan was always seized
with fit upon attem oting to swallow q
morsal of flesh meat of any kind, and na-
ture thus condemns him TO vegetarianism /;
sorcr affiictiOn than that suffered by
Guianirius, whose heart palpitated viz
lently if he indulged in pork dinner, or
by the lady who could not taste beer
without her lips swelling tn uncomfortable
declared that honest mutton was as bad as
poison to him. Thinking this was all
fancy, the Doctor administered the obnox.
ious meat under various disguises, but ev-
cry experiment ended in severe vomit-
ing fit.
Another unlucky individual always had
| fit of the gout few hours after eating
fish, and a Count d'Armstadt never failed
| TO go off in faint il he knowingly or un-
knowingly partook of any dish containing
the slightest modicum of olive oil. A still
worse penalty attached to lobster salad in
the case of q lady, for if she ventured to
taste it at dancing party, her neck, before
she returned to the ballroom, would be
covered with ugly blotches, and her peace
of mind destroyed for that evening.
According to Burton. a melancholy
Duke of Muscovcy fell instantly i'll if he
but looked upon woman, and another
authority was siezed with cold palsy un
der similar prOvocations. Welnricher tells
Ol u uODiCLuou WIN uECW TIC l.uC Ut Olu
ladies, which did not prevent him from
losing his life in consequence ofhis strange
prejudice; for, being called from the sup
per table by some mischievOus friends to
speak to an old woman, he fell down di-
rectly he beheld her, and died then and
there. What an old woman did for this
old hater, an eclipse did for Charles d'Es-
caro-, Bishop of Langres. Itwas his incOn-
venient custom to faint at the commence
ment of lunar eclipse. and remain in
sensible as long rs it lasted. When he
was very old and very infirm an eclipse
took place. The good Bishop went off
and never came too again. Old John
langley, who settled in Ireland In 1851,
cherished an antipathy quite as obstinate,
but had no idea of dying of It. BY his
last will and testament he ordered his
corpse to be walked by fifty 1rishmen, for
each of whom two quarts of aqua vite was
to be provided, in the hope that getting
drunk, they would take to killing one
another, and do something toward lessen
ing the breed.