The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-29
NEW HAvENMoRN1NG JOURNAL AND COURIER FRIDAY

] duke am injury Nicander says that Hippocrates swooned whenever he heard the sound of a flute, Henry ILL, when he saw cat, and the Duke Of | d'Epernon Tainted at the sight of a | leveret, although full-sized hare had
 no effect whatsoever upon him. Tycho | Brahe, the astronomer, also swooned when he saw a fox, the same thing hap pening to Marshal D'Albert whenever l he set eyes upon pig. Ambrose Pare, l surgeon to Henry III. of France, gives
 us an account of woman who fell i'll
 on seeing an eel; while Herr Vaugheim, the great huntsman of Hanover, who
 had hunted most game, wild boars in cluded, had to run from the table If he saw a roasted pig.
 The Universal Magazine of October, 1762 gives a somewhat extraordinary account of a woman who on handling
 iron of amy kind was immediately bathed in profuse precipitation, al- 1 though never otherwise affected in this
 way From the same periodical we read an account of lady who invari- ably tainted whenever she heard bell
 ring; while in "Hone's Table Book" one
 reads of a gentleman who resided in
 Alcantara, named John Role, who on
 hearing any one pronounce the word
 llama" (wooD went off in a dead faint. Johann Fehr, the German physician
 and medical writer, in his Academy of the Curious" tells us of a young wo-
 man, native of Schelestadt, who for sixteen years exhibited such an aver sion to wine that she could not touch anything of it's nature without perspir- ing greatly, although she had previous ly been accustomed to drink 1t. Sweep
 ing, it would appear, has a peculiar ef- feet upon some peoples nerves. Thus,
 John Peachman, a learned divine, ney- CT heard the floor of Q room being swept
 without feeling uneasy and experien- cling sensation of suffocation. The sight of brush so upset this reverend
 gentleman that he would run away and
 even jump out of 8 window at the mere sight of this implement of cleanliness.
 Another gentleman with an aversion to
 the sound of sweeping is mentioned in
 Kings "Ten Thousand Wondrous
 Things" and we are told that this young man was in the habit of faint ing whenever he chanced to hear the maid-seryant plying the brush.
 A Roman Catholic magazine called The Lamp is responsible for the follow ing story of a monk, who had a strange antipathy to the crayfish. One even- ing, when he was dining with some friends, a dish of crayfish was placed before him. Immediately he changed color, growing pale, and staring fixed
 ly at the dish while the precipitation poured down his face, and he appeared so weak that he almost fell from his seat Pierre de Lauore, who wrote and f1ourished in the seventeenth century, when dealing with the subject of cour> age, mentions some remarkable antipa- thies. An officer, who on the field of battle was as bold as Ajax. was so frightened of a mouse that he could not look upon one without a sword in his hand Another military gentleman fled at the sight of boiled rabbit, while a cold shoulder of mutton inya- riably routed another son of Mars whenever he set eyes upon that dish It is not often that any one exhibits an antlpathy to a whole sex, though this appears to have been the case with Hannah Murton, who some fifty years ago died at Gray's Almshouses, Taun- ton, at the ripe old age of eighty-two. She was maiden lady, and had such a horror of the male sex that early in life she made VOW that no "he-fellow"-- as she expressed it--should touch her alive or dead. Accordingly, some ten years before her death she purchased coffin, to which, on the slightest symp- tom of illness, she retired; and 1t so happened that she died one evening when lying in her coffin, thus obvia- ting the necessity of her dead body be- ing touched by the deflling hand of the undertaker's ''he-fellows"