The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-29
CURIOUS 1NrIPATHTEs.
Examples Taken From Different Nation
 alities and All Conditions of Life.

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 Like the hysterical patient who suf- fers pain without any apparent cause
 the man with an antipathy can render no firm reason why he disllkes the par l ticular thing which he does. It may be, perhaps, that he is unable to abide gaping pig, perchance he shows a marked disfnclination to remain in the same apartment with the harmless ne- cessary cat. or the music of the bag pipe 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 physi- cal pain to the person who is afflicted in this particular way. Great, indeed, says the London Standard. must have been the annoyance which James I. 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 related that when he was knighted at Hinchinbrooke near Huntingdon, the king, in order to avoid seeing the sword, turned his face away, and nearly wounded him. Pennant, the eminent traveller and explorer, had a great aversion to wigs, which unfor- tunately was always transferred to the wearer of the offending head-gear for the time being, Once, in the presence of the mayor of Chester who was wear ing high-powdered wig, Pennant was observed to grow quite excited and nervous. After making some strong remarks about the mayor to a compan- ion, he appears to have lost all control over his feelings, and, rushing at the unfortunate mayor, pulled off his wig and ran with 1t out of the house and down the street, pursued by that civic functionary, to the great delight of the populace. From this curious race sprang the local expression, "The may or and Mr. Remnants tour through Chester"
 Peter the Great, though he wrote treatise upon things naval, and laid the foundation of a Russian navy, could not, it is said, bear the sight or sound of running water. This antipathy was so strong that he could not walk in the palace gardens because they were wa tered by the river Mosera, while he would mot ford over the smallest brook, nor even cross over a bridge, unless the windows of his carriage were closed, and even then he suffered from cold perspirations. Flowers and fruit, it would seem, have affected some people in remarkable ways. Thus, it is report ed of Uladeslaus, King of Poland, that he could not bear to see apples; while Chesne, secretary to Francis l., always bled at the nose on seeing this fruit. Greby the composer, and Anne of Aus tria could not stand the sight of roses, and Amatus Lusitanius mentions the case of monk who always tainted when he set eyes on "a rose, and never quilted his cell when these flowers were blooming. Zimmerman, the naturalist, speaks of a lady who could not bear to touch silk, satin or the velvety skin of the peach One of the Earls of Barry more considered the innocent pansy an abomination; the unfortunate Princess Lamballe looked upon the violet as a thing of horror; Scallger, the critic, turned pale at the sight of watercress, and neither he nor Peter Abono could ever touch milk.
 La Mothe de Veger could not endure the sound of any musical instrument, although 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 philosopher, one of the founders of the Royal Society, 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 indisposltion at tackled a gentleman of the court of the Emperor Ferdinand whenever he heard a eat mew. The author of the Turk ish Spy" used to say that, provided he had a sword in his hand, he would rather encounter a lion in the deserts of Arabia than feel spider crawling on him in the dark. Similar to the above was the case of William Ma thews son of one of the governors of Barbadoes, who likewise had great antipathy to spiders One day the Duke of Athole thinking that Mathews dislike to the harmless spider was for ! the most part affectation, suddenly left him and some friends conversing to- gether in a room, and returned in a few minutes time with his hand closed. | Mathews imagined that the Duke had a spider concealed there, and thinking that he was about to be made the sub- ject of practical joke, lost his temper | drew his sword, and was only re- strained hY his friends from doing thei