The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-08
STRANGE
People Entertain Dislikes for Which
They Can Give No Good Reason.
London Standard.

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Like the hysterical patient who suffers
pain without any apparent cause. the man
with an antipathy can render no firm rea-
son why he dislikes the particular thing
which he does. 1t may be, perhaps, that he
is unable to abide a gaping pig, perchance
he shows a marked disinclination to re-
main in the same apartment with the harm
less necessary cat, or the music OF the
bagpipe is more than he can stand. Yet
no matter what shape the antipathy takes
it is usually a genuine dislike, and one that
causes a considerable amount of mental
suffering and physical pain to the person
who is afflicted in this particular way.
Great, indeed, must have been the annoy
ance which James / suffered on account
of his inability to get over the weakness
of being unable to look on a naked sword.
So great an aversion had he to cold steel
that Sir Kenelm Digby relates that when he
was knighted at Hichenbrooke, near Hunt
ingdon, the King, in order to avoid seeing
the sword, turned his face away and nearly
wounded him. Pennant, the eminent tray-
eler and explorer, had a great aversion to
t trans to the wearer Of the OFFENDING
headgear for the time being. Once, in the
presence of the Mayor of Chester, who was
wearing a high-powdered wig, Pennant was
observed to grow quite excited and nervous.
After making strong remarks about the
lost all control over his feelings, and. rush
ing at the unfortunate Mayor: pulled off
his wig, and ran with 1T out of the house.
functionary, to the great delight of the
populace. From this curious race sprang
the local expression. The Mayor and Mr..
Pennants tour through Chester"
Peter the Great, though he wrote a
treatise upon things naval. and laid the
it is said, bear the sight or sound of rum
min water. This antipathy was so strong
that he could not walk in the palace gar
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River Mosera. while he would not ford over
the smallest brook, nor even cross over a
were closed, and even then he suffered from
cold perspirations. Flowers and fruit, it
would seem, have affected some people in
Uladeslaus. King of Poland. that he could
not bear to see apples; while Chesne. secre-
on seeing this fruit. Greby, the composer,
and Anne of Austria could not stand the
sight of roses, and Amatus Lusitanius men
lions the case of a monk who always faint
ed when he set eyes on a rose, and never
quilted his cell when these flowers were
blooming e. zimmerman 1adn whn co, 5ne NOT naf bsar t.
touch silk, satin or the velvety skin of the
peach. One of the Earls of Barrymore con-
sidered the innocent pansy an abomination:
the unfortunate Princess Lamba)le looked
upon the violet as a thing OF horror; Scalie
ger, the critic, turned pale at the sight OF
could ever touch milk.
La Mothe de Veger could not endure the
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he was fond of thunder while it was said
of Cardan. the Italian jurist and physician.
that the mere sight OF eggs made him feel
i'll. and that when those cOmestibles were
placed upon the table he was forced to get
up and leave the room. Boyle. the philoso-
ciety, declared that the sharpening of a
knife or the tearing of brown paper in his
presence never failed to make his gums
bleed. and the same indisposition attacked
a gentleman of the court of the Emperor
Ferdinand whenever he heard a cat new.
The author Of the HTIrrkiSh Spy'f uEaI 7 n
say that. provided he had a sword in his
hand, he would rather encounter a lion in
the deserts of Arabia than feel a spider
the above was the case of William. Mat
thews, son of one of the governors OF Bar
to psu spiid eno' One day the the I DIXIE sseat of fn atISoies.
thinking that Matthews's dislike to the
armies spider was, for the most part,
friends convers.ng together in a room and
returned in a few minutes time with his
hand closed. Matthews imagined that the
Duke had a spider concealed there. and,
thinking that ne was about to be made the
subject of a practical joke. lost his temper:
by his friends from doing the Duke an in
jury: Nicander says that Hippoerates
flute. Henry III when he saw a cat and
the Duke d'Epernon tainted at the sight OF
a %leveret, although a full-sized hare had
Brahe. the astronomer also swooned when
he saw a fox, the same thing happening to
upon a pig. Ambrose Pare. surgeon to Hen
ry Ill OF France. gives us an account of
a woman who fell i'll on seeing an eel. while
Hanover. who had hunted most game, wild
bears included. had TO run from the table
The Universal Magazine of october. l7ss.
a somewhat extraordinary account Of a
woman who on handling iron OK any kind
piration. although never otherwise affected
In this way. From the same periodical we