The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-08
SOME HUMAN FREAk..
Cases of Extraordinary Indiv,du.Is Who Mystify Scientists.

Cases of Extraerdinary IndIv,d,.,. Who Mystify scientists.
 Detroit Free Press.
 A very strange lady Is Miss Evatjna Tardo. who was born on the Island of Trinidad some thirty years ago. From childhood she has never experienced the sense of touch, and medical men are of the opinion that there is no con nection between the sensory and motor nerves in her body, and she Is, there- fore. utterly devoid of physical feeling Doctors have thrust needles In her limbs, and under her nails. applied red hot irons to the soles of her feet, and cut her flesh with a jagged knife; yet all she felt was a slight jar.
 Miss Tardo can control the beating of her heart. stopping it at will and then permitting 1t to beat again. She Is proof against poison and disease. and consumption. diphtheria and typhoid germs have not the slightest effect up- on her. Altogether she is veritable wonder
 young lady of Narbonne possesses the strange gift of being able to see with the naked eye as if with X-rays. Her wonderful achievement has created a furore in scientific circles. and she has been found very useful by surgeons in diagnosing fractures and examining
  Ferroul. of Narbonne, and pr. Grasset of Montpelier, who have examined her, declare that she can see through opaque bodies as clearly and penetratingly as if her eyes generated Roentgen rays.
 In a farmhouse near the Delaware River. in Hunterdon County, New Jer- sey, resides a family of chronic laugh CTS. The parents and their children have an affection of the muscles of the mi nd fhraaf haf fhan1 n give vent to apparent merriment at frequent intervals during the day. The malady first appeared in the father. While seated at the dinner table one day he, without an apparent cause, burst into a loud 1t of laughter, and laughing for several hours. Doctors were consulted, but they were forced to admit that the malady baf- fled them completely.
 Some weeks later Susie. the young est child. burst into a similar fit during one of her fathers attacks. From that time inward she laughed without cessa- ton for four or five hours at a stretch. One by one the remaining member of the family fell victims to the strange complaint. Charles, the eldest son. had his first attack while proposing for the hand of a girl at wilkesbarre. The maiden accepted him, nevertheless. and her children were taken with regular attacks at the same hours as their father.
 The entire family. including the grand children, have laughed incessant- ly for years, and this has had a strange effect on their voices Both men and l women talk in the same tone, resem- l bling the voice of an alto singer.
 A wellknown publican of St. Louis l is living chalk man. His whole body | has become thoroughly impregnatcd 1 with chalk as the result of bad attacks l of gout. His fingers have turned to | chalk. and when he was visited by del- egates of a surgical society he actually l wrote his name on a slate with one of | his little fingers.
 Herman Harms. of St. Charles, in | the State of Minnesota, has been asleep 1 for over a decade. He fell asleep after l supper one evening and since then he | has scarcely ever awakened of his own | accord. When he began his remarkable l period of rest he turned the scale at 1 182 pounds, but within three years all | his flesh vanished, and he Is now a liv | ing skeleton. weighing only s4 pounds. |