The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-12-14
Some Human Freaks.

very strange lady is Miss Eva
tina Tardo, who WIS born on the
island OF Trinidad some thirty years
ago. From childhood she has never
experienced the sense Of touch, and
medical men art OF the opinion that
there Is no connection between the
sensoTy aud motor nerves Of her
body, and she Is therefore devoid OF
all physical feeling. Doctors have
thrust needles intD her limbs, and
under her nails, applied redbot irous
do the soles OF her feet, and cut Der
flesh With Jagged knife; yet all she
said she could feel was slight jar.
Miss Tsrdo can control tie beating
Of her reart, stopping IL at will and
then permitting IL 10 beat again.
She Is proof against poisofs and dis
ease. and consumption, diptheria,
and typhoid germs have no terrors
for her. Altogether she Is serit-
able wonder.
A young lady OF Narbonpe possesses
the strange gift OF being able to see
with the naked eye an II with X-rays.
Her wonderful achievement has ere
ated q furore In scientific circles,
and she has been found very useful
In diagnosing fractures and examin-
ing the interiors OF patients bodies.
DR.. ferroul, OF Narbonne. and DR..
Grasset. OF Montpelier, who have ex-
ainined her, declare that she can see
through opaque bodies as clearly
and penetratingly an II her eyes gen
Grated Roentgen rays.
In farmhouse near The Delaware
river, In IIunterdoD county, New
Jersey, resided family OF chronic
laughcis. The parents and their
children have an affection Of the
muscles OF the mouth and throat
that compcls them TO give vent to
apparent merriment at frequent In
tervals during the day. The n.aiady
first appeared In the father.
While seated at the dinner table
one day, he. without any apparent
cause, burst into loud tit Of laugh
ter, and continued laughing for sew
eraI hours. Doctors were consulted,
but they we're forced TO admit that
the malady baffied them.
Some weeks later Susie, the young
est child, burst into similar ut dur
Ing one OF her fathers attacks
From that time onward she laughed
without cessation four or five hours
at a stretch. One by one the remain
ing members OF the family fell VIC
Tins To the strange complaint.
Charles, the eldest son, had his first
attack while proposing for the hand
OF a girl at wilkesbarre. The maid.
en- accepted him, nevertheless, and
her children we're taken with regular
attacks at the same hours as their
father.
The entire family, Including the
grand. children, have laughed incess.
antly for years, and this has had a
strange effect on their voices. Roth
men and women talk In the same
tone, resembling, the voice OF an
alto singer.
A well known publican OF st,
Louis IL living chalk man. His
whole body has become thoroughly
impreanated with chalk as the re-
suit OF bad attacks Of govt. Ills
fingers have turned to chalk, and
when he was visited by delegates OF
surgical society no actually wrote
his name on slate with one OF his
little fingers.
i Herman Harms, Of st, Charles, In
the state Of Minnesota, has been
asleep for over decade. lie fell
asleep after supper one evening and
since then he has scarcely ever awak.
ened OF his own accord. When be
began this remarkable period OF rest
he turned the scale at ls2 pounds, but
within three years all his flesh van