The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-25
CURIOUS ANTIPATHIEs.
Examples Taken From Different Ma
tiOnaIities and All Conditions OF
Life.
From the New York Post.

run the new 1 DIX Post.
Like the hysterical patient who suefars
pain without any apparent cause, the
man with an antipathy can render no
firm reason why he dislikes the partic,,ls~
thing which he does. 1t may be. .perbane
that he is unable to abide a gaming ~,
perchance he shows a marked disinclina-
ton to remain in the same apartmen+
with the harmless necessary cat. or the
music of the bagpipe is more than he can
stand. Yet, no matter what shane stbe
antipathy takes, it is usually a genuine
dislike, and one that causes a considera-
bic amount Of mental suffering and ply
seal pain TO the person who is afflicted
in this particular way. Great. indeed
says the London STANDARD, must have
been the annoyance which James l. suf-
Tered on account of his Inability To get
over the weakness Of being unable TO l0ol
on a naked sword. So great an aversion
had he TO cold steel that Sir Kinelm Digbv
relates that when he was knighted -
HichinbrOoke, near HUNTINGTON The lxfnsr
IN order 10 avoid seeing the sword. turned
MS race away, and nearly wounded him
remnant, the eminent traveller and ex-
plorer' had great aversion TO wigs.
which unfortunately was ALWAYS trans,
zerred to the wearer of the offendina- bssd-
gear for the time being. Once in the pres
ence OF the mayor of Chester, who was
wearing a high-powdered wig, Pennant
was observed to grow quite excited ana
nervous After making some strong re-
marks about the mayor to a companion.
ne appears to have lost all control over
his feelings, and. rushing at the unfort1-
nate mayor, pulled off his wig and ran
with II out OF the house and down the
street pursued by that civic funetionary.
TO the great delight of the populace. From
this curious race sprang the local express
SION, n ne S, mayor and Mr.. Pennants tour
Peter the Great. though he wrote a
treatise upon things naval, and laid the
Foundation of a Russian navy could NOT
1t is said, bear the sight or sound Of rim,
ming water. This antipathy was so strong
that he could not walk in the palace
gardens because they were watered bV the
river Mosera, while he would not ford the
smallest brook, nor even cross over
0rl1se, unless the windows Of his carriage
We're closed, and even then he suffered
from cold Preparations. Flowers and
fruit; II would seem have affected some
people IN remarkable ways. Thus IL IS
reported of uladeslaus. King of Poland
that he could not bear to see apples: while
Chesne, a secretary to Francis l.. ALWAYS
bled at the nose on seeing this fruit Gre
by. the composer, and Anne of Austria
could not stand the sight of roses, and
Amatus Lusitanius mentions the case of a
monk who always tainted when he set
eyes on rose, and never Quilted his cell
when these flowers were blooming Zim-
norman, 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 Barrymore considered the inno-
cent pansy an abomination; the unfortu-
nate Princess Lamballe looked upon the
violet as a thing of horror; Scaliger, the
y
cress and neither ne nor Peter Abono
could ever touch milk.
La Mothe de Veger could not endure the
SOUND OF any musical instrument, al
though he was fond of thunder: while il
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
6oyle the philosopher, one of the found
ers Of the Royal Society, declared that the
sharpening OF knife or the tearing of
brown paper in his presence never failed
70 make MS gums bleed, and the same in
disposition attacked a gentleman of the
court of the Emperor Ferdinand when
t ever me. ne 9eard a cat NEW. The author of
the turkish Spy used to say that pro
Vided he had a sword in his hand he
would rather encounter a lion in the des-
erts OF Arabia than feel a spider crawling
on MN IN the dark. Similar to the above
was the case of William Mathews, son
~ one or the governors of Barbados, who
SIkeWlse mad "a great antipathy to spiders
one day the Duke of Athole thinking that
Mathews dislike to the harmless sDider
was, for the most part affectation. sudden
~ left him and some friends conversinas
together In 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 subject of a
practical joke, lost his temper, drew his
sword, and was only restrained by his
friends from doing the duke an injury
Nlcander says that Hippocrates swooned
whenever he heard the sound of a flute
Duke d Epernon tainted at the sight of
a leveret. although a full sized hare had
no eHect whatsoever upon him Tycho
crane une astronomer, also swooned when
ne saw a fox. the same thing happening
TO Marshal d'Albert whenever he set eyes
upon pig. Ambrose Pare surgeon to
Henry III. of France gives us an account
or woman who fell i'll on seeing an eel:
while Herr Vaugheim, the great hunts
man OF Hanover, who had hunted most
game wild boars included. had 70 RIM
IRON the table If he saw roasted pig.
Inc universal Magazine of October 1862
gives a somewhat extraordinary account
OF woman who on handling iron of any
KIND was Immediately bathed in profuse
perspiration, although never otherwise
affected in this way From the same ne
Tlod1cal we read an account of a lady who
invariably tainted whenever she heard
O Dell ring; while in Homes Table Book
one reads of a gentleman who resided in
Alcantara, named John Role, who on hear
ing any one pronounce the word lana
wood went off in a dead faint Johann
Fehr the German physician and medi- |
cal writer, in his Academy of the Gu
rious, tells us of a young woman, a native
or Schelestadt, who for sixteen years ex-
hlbited such an aversion to wine that She |
could not touch anything of its nature
without perspiring greatly, although she |
mad previously been accustomed to drink !
IL. Sweeping, it would appear. has a Pc
culiar effect upon some peoples nerves |
mus, John Peachman. learned divine |
never heard the floor of room being |
swept without feeling uneasy and expert |
encing a sensation of suffocation. The
gentleman that he would run away ana
even jump out of a window at the mere
sight of this implement of cleanliness. An
other gentleman with an aversion TO the
sound of sweeping is mentioned in King s
Ten Thousand Wondrous Things and we
are told that this young man was in the
habit of fainting whenever he chanced TO
hear the maid-servant plying the brush:
Roman Catholic magazine called The
Lamp is responsible for the following
story of monk who had a strange an
tipathy to the crayfish. One evening,
when he was dining with some friends,
dish of crayfish was placed before him.
Immediately he changed color, growing
pale, and staring fixedly at the dish, !
while the perspiration poured down his
face, and he appeared so weak that he al
most fell from his seat. Pierre de Laucre, /
who wrote and 1ourished in the seven
teenth century when dealing with the
subject of courage, mentions some re-
marlable antipathies, An officer, who
on the. field of battel was as bold az
Ajax was so frightened of a mouse that
he could not look upon one without
sword in his hand. Another military
gentleman fed at the sight of boiled
rabbit while a cold shoulder of mutton