Show I I WHIMs OF GREAT MEN ElJ Celebrities Who Been Victims of Foibles Kansas City l Star the private lives of at nIl all truly truty great men both present and past It lEI it not dIfficult to determine that all of oC them to a greater or less degree furn furnI furnish I ish h materIal or of Ute odd and eccentric kind Cardinal found plea use ure and amU amusement ement in jumping arid and with bo boys s Oliver sometImes cast aside hIs big PurItan gray grav Ity and played at bun bull with his hta and attendants Henri Quatre delighted to go o about In dis disguise Jut guise the p peasantry Cowper oc occupied occupied a great grent deal ot of his time In n malt mak makI J I g bird cages and In feeding reeding and car carIng lag Ing for his hares harE Dr Johnson was so fond ot of his cats that he would even go out himself to buY oysters for them servants be beInS beIng InS Ing too proud to do so Goethe de despised eC dogs but he kept a 3 tame snake Gray expressed the wish to be at 01 wa ways s on a sofa reading new novels nOels and Fenton the eminent scholar died from sheer Inactivity he rose late and 1 when he had rl risen n sat down to his books and A oman who waited upon him in iii his raid eald that he would lie abed and be fed with a 0 spoon Contrary to was the example ot of Sir Walter Valter Scott who wrote all his finest works before break breakfast ta fast L delighted ht d to set spiders fight fightIng lag Ing and would laugh immoderately nt at beholding theIr insect and Authony the famous ii 11 to the Duke of Tuscany took tooka a great Interest In the spiders whIch thronged his ap and while sitting among his of oC books would caution rs not to hurt ray my spiders i When lie he r Jt he needed a little activity greit lOGician Samuel Clarke would leap over ta tables le and m nd Jt was not infrequent that the had to be callea in to repair damages mages learned would twirl his chair five minutes at the end or of h t two hours hous finding Iti In this TYcho Brahe diverted himself wIth for spectacles Former dent dont Cleveland would quit ta talking Ing pol Hies any time to g gO fishing and ad so It was gs with Paley t 1 author or of Nn Na Natural tural Theology Theolog wio was so o much given to angling that ha e had bad his par por portraIt traIt painted with rod and l line ne Iri In hand Louis XVI of sad memory amused hImself while Salvator In extempore come comedies comedies dies takIng the character er of a bank in hi the tree ot of Rome Charles Irs meet innocent t amuse amusement amusement ment consisted In t the ducks in St p rk arid and In rearing num numbers numbers bers of those beautiful l sp which still bear his name It Jv avas difficult for Beethoven to be free from a cold from the fa faCt t that he delighted In splashing In cold eold water at all timeS timer or of the da day swamping hloi hL chamber until the water oozed through the I to the rooms b beneath He would also walle out In Inthe tb the dewey fields without stockings or shoes Shelley could spend in an entire day pa on any water he chanced to be near nearA Poor G GOldsmiths oddities and ec cc eccentricities were chiefly and of his peach blossom coat Is known the world over r Montagne had sn n aversion for or FrI FrIday Friday day anti while lie he odd num mm hers bets he would not sit ait down to a table with ith thirteen peoPle Friday ay was al waye a bla blak k day In Byrons cal calendar lInt Bron believed In Omens dreams supernatural tural appearances appall apparItions presentiments arid and all s such ch He sue suc succumbed before the we kest prejudices and afforded proof that even the strongest have always their weak eak rIde Voltaire whom one Would suppose devoid of fear mocker ot of re and an beliefs was made sick when hearing rooks in th the country countr Hobbes did not believe In God but he kept a light burning In his bedroom all night being afraId the dark Rous was another who Was frId ld or of ortho the tho dark an and the approach 0 of night brought only terror to t him Before re at af night Sir Samuel Romilly would always look Wider under the bed to see It If anyone was conce concealed led there He dreaded to see e night come Great war warrIOrs warriors have been heen afraid of thunder Caesar wad t thrown Into convulsions si ms by It and St Thomas Aquinas suffered red greatly great lb thunderstorms Queen Elizabeth and oth others ers ens could not bear th tha word death uttered In their presence Ma Sate Saxe who w armies fled aeO at sight of n acaL t |