A STRANGE HORROR.
From Vienna comes intelligence of the death of Count Emeric Sommisco, a Hungarian magnate, who was known in society for his extraordinary hatred of horses. This aversion amount to a real hippophobia, and it obliged the count many years ago to throw up his commission in the army. The count died at an advanced age on his estate in Sclavonia. He was a distinguished agriculturist, an excellent landlord, and on all subjects but that of horses, asses, and mules, a man of sound judgment. He would not allow any animals of the equine kind to come upon his lands, so that visitors who rode or drove to see him had always to alight at his park gates. He himself for many years used a vehicle drawn by trained deer, but latterly he went about his estate in a carriage with a team of oxen. Uis horror 'of horses is said by the Times correspondent to have been innate, as there was no accident in his life to account for it.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2149, 17 April 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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173A STRANGE HORROR. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2149, 17 April 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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