Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1874 — A Curious Pair. [ARTICLE]

A Curious Pair.

I was once sitting, writes a correspond ent of the Popular Science Monthly, in a cool underground saloon at Leipsic, where without people were ready to die from the heat, when a new guest entered and took a seat opposite me. The sweat rolled in great drops down his face, and he was kept busy with his handkerchief, till at last he found relief in the exclamation. “Fearfully hot!” I watjhed him attentively as he called for a cool drink, for I expected every moment that he would fall from his chair in a fit of apeplexy. The man must have noticed that I was observing him, for he turned toward me suddenly, saying, “ I am • curious sort of person, am I not?” “ Why?” I asked. “Because I perspire only on the right side." And so it was; his right cheek and the right half of hi forehead were as hot as fire, while the left side of his face bore not a trace of Srspiration. I had never seen the like,* d, in my astonishment, was' about to"

enter into a conversation with him regarding the physiological curiosity when his neighbor on the left broke in with the remark: “ Then we are the opposites and counterparts of each other, for I perspire only bn the left side.” This, too, was the fact. So the pair took seats opposite to each other and shook hands like two men who bad just found each his other half.