her
head. " Yes, my life, and soul, I am," replied her husband, dropping on
his knees, and pouncing with kitten-like playfulness upon a stray
sovereign; " I am here, my soul's delight," " upon Tom Tiddler's
ground, picking up the demnition gold, and silver." The title " Tiddler
" was probably first used as signifying " Th'Idler " (the idler).
A
specimen nugget of native Silver, weighing more than five
hundredweight, is to be seen in the mineral collection at Copenhagen.
It
has now become a recognised, and established fact, as demonstrated
several years ago by Professor Charcot, before the assembled medical
savants of Paris, at the Hotel Salpetriere, 1877, that the nervous
systems of all sensitive persons display either a sympathetic
attraction, or an unmistakable physical repulsion, with respect to
certain metals ; even when the same are only externally applied; and
this phenomenon occurs according to the particular idiosyncrasy of each
of such individuals, for, or against, this, or that special metal.
Similarly Paracelsus, of old, had a ring made from a variety of
metallic substances ; which ring he named " Electrum." If it were put
on by a patient during the night when an epileptic attack was
imminently threatened, or actually commencing, it would straightway
stay the attack, or terminate the seizure.
Again,
Cotta relates a " merrie historie " of some such an approved spell;
this time for sore eyes. " Tt was for a long time worn as a Jewell
about many necks, never failing to do sovereign good when all other
helps were helplesse. But no sight might dare to reade, or no hande to
open it." At length, while a patient, wearing the same, slept, a
curious mind ript open the
