Show VAGARIES OF GENIUS macaulay liked to smash the wine glaue glasses macaulay the historian always i to eat his sunday dinner alone and at i a restaurant when he had finished I 1 he generally built up a pyramid of I 1 wine glasses which he delighted to see topple over says an exchange I 1 when he left the restaurant he used I 1 j to pay liberally for the broken glass I 1 1 i as well as for the dinner cowper ithe the poet was a great had for pets at I 1 I 1 one time he possessed a squirrel a eat cat I 1 two dogs several canary birds a I 1 ing a jay a magpie two guinea pigs I 1 i ethree three hares and five rabbits whenever the soldierly duke of I 1 eisaw saw a hare it made him sick and once 1 ahe he kept his bed for a week after one bof of these little animals touched him 1 ait it is said that rembrandt the great i artist loved his pet monkey next to i imaney money that he shed tears when the creature died and painted a portrait of I 1 lit it from memory tradition has it that philip the duke of burgundy devoted I 1 much of his time to contriving trap I 1 doors in his h house use and grounds for the purpose of sousing cousing unwary strang strangers ers in water holes underneath them cardinal richelieu loved cats as much a a ahe he hated children when fie ae died big favorite angora eat cat refused to eat and iksoon soon died also when traveling handel the composer used to or order dinner iner for three if very hungry for five I 1 and then eat the whole himself pigs I 1 were the favorite pets of harris the I 1 poet he used to teach them to follow him about and one of anu unu unusual S ual intelligence he taught to drink beer out of a mug |