The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-03
SOME HUMAN FREAKS.
Cases of Extraordinary individuals
Who Mystify Scientists.

A very strange lady is Miss Evatina
Tardo, who was born on the island OF
Trinidad some thirty years ago.
From childhood she has never exper-
fenced the sense of touch, and medi-
cal men are Of the opinion that there
is no connection between the sensory
and motor nerves OF her body. and she
is therefore devoid Of all physical feel
ing. Doctors have thrust needles into
her limbs. and under her nails, applied
redhot irons to the soles of her feet,
and cut her flesh with a jagged knife;
YET all she said she could feel was a
Slight jar.
Miss TardO can control the beating
Of her heart, stopping il at Will and
then permitting ii TO beat again. She
is proof against poisons and disease,
and consumption, diphtheria, and ty-
phOid germs have no terTors for her.
Altogether she is a veTitable wonder.
young lady of Narbonne possesses
the strange gift OF being able TO see
with the naked eye as If with A-raysS
Her wonderful achievement has Great
ed a furore in scientific circles, and she
has been found very useful in dag
nosing fractures and examining the in
teriors OF patients bodies. DR.. Fer
roul Of Narbonue and Dr. Grasset OF
MONTPELIER who have examined her,
declare that she can see through opa-
que bodies as clearly and penetrat-
ingly as if her eyes generated Roent-
gen rays
In a farmhouse near the Delaware
river, in Hunterdon county. New Jer-
sey. resides a family of chronic laugh
ors. The parents and their children
have an affection of the muscles of the
mouth and throat that compels them
70 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 any apparent cause,
burst into a loud iii of laughter, and
continued laughing for several hours
Doctors were consulted but they were
forced to admit that the malady baf-
fled them.
Some weeks later Susie, the youngest
child. burst into a similar fit during
/ Que of her fathers attacks. From that
time onward she laughed without ces-
sation for four or five hours at a
stretch. One by one the remaining
members OF the family fell victims 10
the strange complaint. Charles, the
, eldest son, had hi first attack while
] proposing for the hand of 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
| grandchildren, have laughed inces-
/ sanity for years, and this has had a
/ strange effect on their voices. Both
men and women talk in the same tone,
/ resembling the voice OF an alto singer,
A well known publican of St Louis is
a living chalk man. His whole body
/ has become thoroughly impregnated
with chalk as the result OF bad attacks
! Of govt. His fingers have turned tc
| chalk, and when he was visited by
/ delegates of a surgical society he ac-
tually wrote his name on slate with
one of his little fingers.
Herman Harms, OF st. Charles, ir
the state Of Minnesota, has been asleeT
for over a decade. He fell asleep after
supper one evening and since then he
has scarcely ever awakened of his OWL
accord. When he began this remark
able period of rest he turned the scale
at 1S2-pOunds. but within three years
all his flesh vanished. and he is now
a living skeleton. weighing only 81
pounds.