The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-26

name and occupation, says the physl-
clan; he looked at me aud answered,
nv faith 7 I insisted, bat in spite o.
his efforts, he only shook his head with
an impatient gesture, exclaiming, BY
the Christen' name Of my heart I As ]
wished to find out how many words he
had at command / asked him, Are you
rom a Northern Province 2 He re-
peated like an echo, Northern Prov
lnce.' What's your naFne?' North
ern Province?' Your profession? North
ern Province But your name is Mar
tin?' Yes, sir You are sure it is
MARTINI Yes, sir. What part of the
country do yon come from?' Martin.
No. that's your name. But with an
an impatient gesture he exclaimed, By
the Jhristen name of my heart!
UNABLE TO WRITE.
In other cases the power OF writing and
spelling is very much impaired, whilst
that of speech isaffected only toa trifing
extent After series of epileptic fits a
young man first lost, but afterwards re-
covered, his powers Of speech. And his
great trouble was in writing. His PEN
manship was excellent, but lie could not
readily find the proper words and spelled
them badly. He was able to copy cor
rectly from printed book, making only
one or two trivial errors; but in writing
from dictation could not spell at all. He
could repeat perfectly the most difficult
sentences when they were read 10 him,
but when he attempted to read them
alond himself he could not succeed ct all
wrongly pronouncing almost every word
OF two or three syllaI1les. Perhaps the
difficulty which some very intelligent and
well-educated person find in spelling cor
rectly, arises from ain imperfectly deyel-
oped visual word sense.
USING THE WRONG WORD.
An elderly gentleman was stricken
with paralysis which made him com
pletely deaf, but did not interfere with
his powers Of motion or his vision. But
IN speaking he used wrong words. SO as
to be unintelligible. He recognized the
Doctor and was glad to see him, but in
trying to call him by name spoke only
gibberish. He did not comprehend
writing. He looked at the sentence.
Are you Iii paint" and exclaimed: Good,
good, God. He attempted to write let
tiers; the address was written two or three
times at the head of the sheet but "My
dear sir" was written correctly. The
sheet was filled with writing, but no word
except wife was Ineligible, the rest be-
ing utterly meaningless. Some letters
were correctly formed, but no words I'M
til the end, where his name was signed
with steady hand and in his usual man
ner. In April remittance being due
him he was greatly excited, vainly trying
to make himself understood. At length
the letter announcing the remittance
was shown him, aud it pleased him, but
he was not quite satisfied until the money
was brought and counted before
him. In asking for a bottle of
liniment he said: Bring the cord"
In speaking Of pills chad been taking,
he said he had been taking potatoes.
There was often an association between
his ideas and words, as when he saw them
moving his vest with his watch in it, he
said, "Take care of the break fall" An
other patient, an old lady, spoke words
very distinctly and exactly, but the words
either had no application or were ludi-
crously Inappropriate She would rise
very politely to receive a visitor, and
kindly motloaing to chair, say: "You
pig, you animal, you nasty beast, mean
ing by this that they were to take a seat:
and was wholly unconscious of her in
sulting words.
In another instance man insisted on
calling his bed his garden, and not until
the words were written out could he be
made to understand his mistake Still
another, after al attack of paralysis, al
ways transposed the letters Of word, as
in calling the word flute tuAe, puc for
cup, gum for mug. A woman could
write London with her left hand, but
not scat or "dog even after hearing
them pronounced, though she could spell
them very well. In case of gas in-
spector, after an acute attack, he wholly
lost the power of writing and reading
even a gas-meter probably. If any fa-
miliar Object was shown him he could
not call it by name, though il it occurred
in conversation he pronounced it with
out hesitation Asked for the color of a
card he could not give it. els it blue?'
ono" Green?' mo" "Red?''
"Well, that's more like it. "Orange?"
Yes, orange" A square and circle
were shown him, and he could not name
either; but when the circle was called a
square, he said, pointing to the square,
No, but that Is. !"
MAN WHO SAID YES TO EVERYTHING.
An Englishman who had been able to
transact some business very intelhgently
went Into a saloon for beer, and to his
establishment found hecould rot speak.
Otherwise he was as well and strong as
even. On arriving at home lie could say
only "oh, dearl oh, dear" This contin-
ued fortnight, after which he gradually
regained his speech, but was still unable
to write. An intelligent. cheerful old
gentleman who could preside at dinner
eat with his left hand, give signs to the
servants to pass various articles, and
play an excellent game Of cards, could
only reply ''yes" to anything asked him
"How old are you?" eyes" elbow
long have you been I'LL" eyes" He
was not satisfied. however, with these
replies, and made impatient gestures
looking pleased when questions to which
yes could be properly answered were
put to him. One day lady picked up
his handkerchief, and he said to her, in
a loud and distinct voice, "thanks r
His friends all thought he had recovered
his power of speech, and he was i'm
plored to say the word again. It was re-
peatea te him aloud, and he tried, but it
was all in vain. He never succeeded in
saying that or anything but Eyes" again.
WRITING WRONG.
Another person, on being asked to
write his name, wrote twas, was, was. :"
He knew perfectly well this was not what
he wanted to write, and was much an
noyed, but on being asked to write the
name of his birthplace, wrote only
alone, alone, alone" A woman in a
hospital, afflicted after this fashion,
wrote her name and address thus:
La'pan Siclaa Satreni,
SltneSt Nat is MeU tim
Tam
This bore no resemblance to her real
uame and address.
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