Their Peculiar Aversions

Most people have aversions of some kind or other, and some very strauge ones. The sighf of a set of false teeth makes John L. Sullivan siok at the stomach. Napoleon did )iot like to see a white dog. Agaasiz could not bear to touch polished steel. The sight of the rising moon, when it was full, always made Mme. de Stael ill. Barefooted children made Louis XIV nervous. Dean Swift has said that Bolingbroke would ' ' act like one beref t should he cast bis eye on a poor, harmless toad." Disraeli had an attack of vértigo when he saw anybody chewing gum. Dickens never liked 4a stiff shirt bosom, and Buffon would fly into a rage if any one pnt an egg on the dining table at which he sat.