Show TOLD OK MEN curiola incidents handed down by biographers ij or on abe eve of a battle Bl able Pre cooty biord field and hi some of the grea generals whose names are familiar to us had a wonderful power of sleeping for a few moments avenon the battlefield battle field the dukek wellington just before the attack on L sebastian in spam found that the breaching batteries would not be ready toa open the attack for two hours the wo can do he said is to sleep and slipping off his horse into a trench he was asleep in an instant Ka at the very crisis of the important battle of bagram wagram ordered up ha reserve which he never did except in great confident that tho would be carried out and would insure the victory he ordered bis bearskin bear skin to bo spread on the ground and in a moment he was in deep sleep ho slept for twenty minutes and his staff began to be alarmed but waking he issued further orders without asking any if he had not slept Lord Chesterfield was universally regarded as one of the most polished gentlemen in the english court in the last century his manners were faultless and the grace of his bearing was inimitable but be gives comical account odthe first party be attended he was thoroughly uncomfortable knowing nei to do or sayat length growing desperate and feeling that something must bo lone he addressed a beautiful lady near ty and added force to the question quest lon by energetically clasping both hands find it very warm tonight to night it was not a promising beginning for the man who became tho first nit of his ago historians always stop to describe tho dying of wolf andr Montcalm tha two opposing commanders in the battle of quebec were simply heroic compared with tho christian death ot about on the day of his death he was told that he had two hours to live and he answered feebly but firmly very good it is all right A few moments before he died ho crieda hisa delirium ordera P hill to prepare for action pass the infantry to the front rapidly tell major hawks then stopped sentence unfinished presently a smile of ineffable sweetness spread itself over his pale face and then he said quietly and wibb an expression of relief let us cross over tho river and rest under tho shade of the trees and then without pain or the least struggle his spirit probably mozart was tha greatest musical genius the world ever saw and some of the stories of his precocity seem almost supernatural at four he could retain in memory the brilliant solos in tho concertos which he hearland hear dand his father began half in sport to give the musical faculty seems mohave been intuitive in him for in play he learned to compose ac the same time his own nature dis covering to ahlm some important secrets ina melody rhythms symmetry and the ar of setting a bass to learn a minuet he required half an hour fora longer piece an hour and having once mastered them ho and in exact time ills soe reat thatah f OUT earlier ho corn r posed ittle pieces pio ces which hiar father wrote down for him later in music he astonished his tp acher riot so much by an avidity for information as by the impossibility him any thin that he did noi know before at the age of six the effect of sounds as notes and had overcome the difficulty of composing unaided by an instrument com with recourse to the clavier his powers in mental music constantly increased and he soon imagined effects of which the original type existed only in hisT irain the earl of was called the first gentleman of his ago if was a cardinal point of etiquette with him never to exhibit ill temper in company 0 bo re courtesy to any guests but he was sometimes sorely tried by the rude and awkward manners of his stanhope ahem ho tried in v aln ta educate to gentlemanly habits j Philip Was glutton and not restrain his appetito even in company onona occasion wh en his fath er had invited a large number of titled elegant was provided one ot the rare dishes was a platter of b abed gooseberries goose berries snowed over cream philip had been helped bountifully by lady chesterfield who know his weakness but when a servant was taking out the dish in clear table philip beckoned to him and taking in his hand began to lap up greedily the rich cream lord ches teofiel ter fiel was disgusted but without a change of face or voice to indicate the tempest said in a calm tone to his servant john why do you not fetch a strop and razor you see your muster is going to philip 8 greediness was checked for that meaL |