Singular Antipathies.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 14, 3 April 1902, Page 10

Singular Antipathies.

The antipathies of the human mind are very extraordinary, and their effects are involuntary, irresistible, and unaccountable. Out of the almost innumerable cazes of this affection of the nerves on record, we here subjoin a few of tho most remarkable. Uladislaus, King of Poland, used to become almost frantic if apples were put in his sight. Henry 111 of Franco could not stay in a i uom where there was a cat ; yet this king was at the time so absurdly fond of clogs that he would often walk about his palace with a basket of young puppies dangling by a piece of ribbon from his neck. Scaligor could not look at velvet without a violent shaking of his whole body Boyle used to fall into 'convulsions at hearing water running! from a tap. M. la Moite do Vayer though he could not bear music, yet was. delighted to listen to the roar of thunder. James I m could not bear the sight of a drawn sword , and Sir Knowles Digby relates that his Majesty shook so violently in knighting him that he would have run tho point of the sword into tho c.H 1 of the knight-elect had not the Duke of Buckingham guided it across his shouldei .