Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-11
Singular AversiOns.


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The Secretary of Francis 7. used
to stop up his nostrils with bread il
he saw dish of apples, to prevent
an otherwise 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 Aquitsine had q
hereditary hatred of it. a Flem-
ish damsel was sadly troubled by an
aversion to the smell of bread.
Cheese, mutton, and anbergria have
been so repugnant to some nasal
organs as to send their owners into
convulsions
Gentry, the composer, could not
bear the rose, neither could Annie of
Austria. The mere sight of the
queen of of flowers was too much for
Lady Henage, bed-cbamber woman
to Queen Bess; indeed, KeneIm Dig
by records that her cheeks became
blistered when some one laid a
white rose upon it as she slept. Her
ladyship's antipathy 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 to the eyes of the Princess of
de Lambelle, tansy was abominable
to an Earl of Barrymore. Scalier
grew pale befors the water-cress,
and soldier who would have
scorned to turn his back on q foe
fed without shame from a sprig of
rue.
A poor Nepolitan was always
seized with fit upon attempting to
swallow a morsel of flesh meat of
any kind, and nature thus con-
demned him to be n vegetarian, a
sorer intliction than that suffered by
Guianerious, whose heart palpitated
violently if he INDUCED in pork
dinner, or by the lady who could
not taste udder of beef without her
lips swelling to uncomfortable di-
mensions. DR.. Prout had patient
who declared honest mutton was az
bad as poison to him. Thinking
this was all fancy, the doctor admin
istered the obnoxious meat under
|sxAsiess disguises, but every axpsri-
ment ended in a severe vomiting fit.
Another unlucky individual always
had q fit of the gout few hours
after eating fish, and Count d. Arm.
stadt never failed to go off in faint
if he knowingly or unknowingly par
took of any dish containing the
slightest modicum of olive oil. A
still worse penalty attached to lob
ster salad is the case of lady, for
if she ventured to taste it at dam
cling party, her neck, before she re-
turned to the ball room, would be
covered with ugly blotches aud her
peace of mind destroyed for that
evening.
According to Burton, q melan-
cholly Duke of Muscovy fell instant
ly i'll if he but looked upon woman,
and another authority was seized
with cold palsy under similar pro-
vocations. Weinricher tells of a
nobleman, who drew the line at old
ladies', which did not prevent him
losing his life in consequence of his
strange prejudice; for, being called
from the supper table by some mis-
chievous friends to speak to an OLD
woman, he fell down directly when
he beheld her, and died then and
there. What an old woman did for
this old hater, an eclipse did for
Charles discard, Bishop of Lam
gree. It was his inconvenient GUS
tom to faint at the commencement
of a lunar eclipse, and remain insen-
sible as long as it lasted. When he
was very old and very infrm an
eclipse took place. The good Bish.
op went off as usual and never came
to again. Old John Langley, who
settled in Ireland in 1861, cherished
all antipathy quite as obstinately,
but had no idea of dying of it. BY
his last will and testament he ordered
his corpse to be walked by fifty
Irishmen, for each of whom two
quarts of aqua vitae were to be pro
vided in the hope that, getting
drunk, they would take to killing
one another, and do something
towards lessening the breed.
The human eye can express more
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