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Show VICTORIA'S HALLUCINATION. For Year She Shrank from Stcpplncr Ont of Her Carriage. Victoria has not been exempt from the taint of insanity which is hereditary in her house, and at the death of her husband, 33 years after their marriage, mar-riage, she continued for several years in retirement, which was not wholly that of mourning, for during -that time she was subject to hallucinations. On hallucination took possession of her every time she alighted from a carriage, car-riage, says the Chicago News. No one but a sturdy old Scotchman, John Brown, a footman, was able to convince her that she was not stepping into the deepest abysses, and it was his strong and reassuring hand and "Na, na, yer majesty, there is na goolf there," that would quiet her fears, lie was during those years ti special attendant, at-tendant, and the ignorance of the masses as to the real condition of Victoria gave rise to the "John Brown scandal," wherein the names of the two were coupled. Her mental malady has reappeared at intervals, taking the form of despondency despond-ency and moroseness, but as years have' intervened since her great grief she has been more and more free frornits touch. |