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ouuet mat naa gone in Deiween myeyes.’’—New Orleans Times-Demo-crat _A Singular Man.The Hon. Henry Cavendish was a mathematician, astronomer, geolo gist, alchemist, recluse and—eccentric. Mr. Cavendish was intensely shy. He had quite a diseased aver sion to all and especially to female society. The only way to get him to speak was never to look at him. Talk, as it were, into a vacancy, then it was not unlikely that he might be set going. Nevertheless men were a trouble to him and womon an intolerable nuisance. We mention this as an eccentricity, but there are doubtless many men who share his prejudice. He avoided communication with his female housekeeper by depositing notes on the hall table.A female servant he would never see. If an unlucky maid showed herself she was instantly dismissed. In his villa at Clapham he had a second staircase built so that he might prevent the almost inevitable encountersl e A * A 4 vwith the hated sex. To Mr. Cavendish’s town house in Gower street few visitors were admitted. The favored ones who crossed its threshold reported that books and the necessary apparatus for a science student were its chief furniture. —Temple Bar.
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Coronado Mercury
Coronado, California, US
Thu, Oct 11, 1894
Page 7
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