The age-herald., 1901-10-19
DEFECTS OF FAMOUS MEN.
rnyslcal Faillnes of Celebrated
 People.

From Tid-Bits.
 The face of Oliver Cromwell was d,N- ngured with moles, pimples and warts. ne must nave been very proud of them, 'o"eVer' Tor when his portrait was being painted by Sir Peter Lely he swore he would not pay for it unless all of these racial disfigurements were quite clearly shown.
 fhosarth' the famous painter, had a prominent scar on his forehead. which was the result of an accident in his early o@ys. lie had this appear still more prom iiienely Tn portrait of himself which he painted with his own hand.
 The great Napoleon was sub,ect to or,- leptic seizures, one of which f. has hao.. said lost him the battle of Waterloo. al- 'noush most people believe his defeat was accomplished by the Duke of We'll ington.
 Aoro Nelson lost one of his eyes. and ms ieft arm had to be amputated as tbe result or wound sustained in ono of bis numerous engagements. These deformi- tles do not appear to have affected tba great admirars ability, and on one fa- nous occasion he found his blind eve nar- ticularly useful.
 Viscount Wolsely, the late cornmsndo,- in-chief, has the use of only one of ,,tu eyes. He was deprived of tbe s,oh+ oe ,le o'her Ill the crimean war a few days DeIore the capture of Sebastopol.
 AS IS well known, Emperor William of erinany suffers from semi-paralysis of the left arm, and his father, the Emperor freoerick, died of a chronic affection of the throat.
 rev people are aware of the curious throat trouble from which Lord Rroug- ham, the eminent lord chancellor was a constant sufferer. At the back of bis throat there was a kind of pouch-lilxs cavity, which not only diverted the food rom It's proper channel but also caused him infinite pain.
 Loro Byron, who was otherwise a mag. nifcent specimen of man, had a club foot or which he was anything but proud. If however, 1t detracted from his appearance ana hindered locomotion. it did not ham, per his genius. Byron was possessed of morbid fear of going out of his mind
 Indeed, all poets are said to be more or less mad. Cowper was certainly suh- Ject to its of 1unacy, as was likewise Chatterton who killed himself in a fit of arrangement. The same is true of Rous- seau' Cervantes, Southey and Swift.
 Alexander Pope was a hunchback. with very caustic tongue, which once result- ed in his being as good as told that he was "a crooked little thing and asked impudent questions"
 Throughout his life Sir Walter soo++ could only walk with limp. As a how he was afflicted with paralysis, which left him permanently lame
 The late James Payne, the nove1is+ was extremely deaf in which respect ba resembled Edison, the world-renowned electrician and inventor.
 Milton was totally blind when he pro duced the masterpiece of his marvellous genius. From his youth up he suffered acutely from gout, which was the pri- mary cause of the loss of his eyesight.
 As anybody could gather from his works, Thomas Carlyle was a chronic dyspeptic. A state of irritation appears to have been his normal condition, and although In the absence of his peculiar aiment he might have been a far more amiable being, his writings would cer- tanly have lost some of their most promi- nent characteristics.
 Perhaps the most famous of European surgeons was also the most nervous. This was Billroth of Vienna, whose hands were subject to violent trembling. But he operated with celerity that his hand had no opportunity of trembling.