Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-12-14
The Hobbies of Famous Men.

ed the following:
Joseph Jefferson Of Grip Van
Wrinkle" fame is not only a great
actor hut very good artist.
"Billy" Florence, his distinguished
confrere, is an expert angler. His
chief hobby though appears to be
practical joking.
Edwin Booth is an enthusiastic
player of whist as well as the fore
most player of tragedy in America.
George Bancroft, the historian, is
passionately fond of roses, and has
some of the finest specimens in the
country.
Robert Bonner devotes all his time
and attention to his horses. His
mania is to own the fastest horse on
the trOtting turf.
George w. Childs, the Philadelphia
journalist and philanthropist, is fond
Of collecting authors manuscripts,
china and brica-brac.
William Il rl; rller is an admirer
of fast horses. He owns Il three
quarter mile track ut which he treats
his friends to races between his own
horses.
Cooper Hewitt, son of eX-Mayor
Hewitt, has one of the best collec>
tiOns of musical instruments in
America and knows how to play on
nearly all Of them
John ID. ROckfeller's hobbies are
churches and charities, and he de-
votes all his spare time to further
ring the interests of the Methodist
church. He is also fond of horses.
Henry Willard the railroad mag
nate, is passionately fond Of music.
He is Il good performer on the violin
cello, and is thoroughly posted on all
the doingS in the operate world,
Russell Sage is an enthusiastic chess
player. After solving the problems
Of the bulls and bears, and puts and
calls on Wall street, he goes home to
solve problems IN the chess board.
Mrs. Harrison is very good pain
ter. Nearly all the pictures in the
Harrison homestead were painted by
her, and many of them are really
works Of art. The president takes
great deal of interest in his wife's
work.
George Gould is Il philatelist. He
has one Of the finest collections of for
eign stamps in the world and devOtes
agr@t deal ofh spare timein arrang-
ing them and sticking them in al
buns according to their classification.
Another hobby is his baby.
Brayton Ives Of Wall street, has
perhaps the finest and most valuable
collection of old manuscripts, misSals
and rare books in the country. He
attends all the sales and frequently
sends commissioners to the book
sales that take place in Europe, and
considered well-posted bibliOg-
rapher.
John Wanamaker, the POSt-mas-
ter-General has been Il busy man all
his life. His only hobby is the Sun
day-SchOol which is connected with
Bethany Church in Philadelphia. He
is 50 wrapt up in the success of this
Sunday-school that he is frequently
caught neg Letting his business to dis
cuss Sunday.school matters.
Charles A. Dana finds recreation
among the flowers. His flowers have
taken prizes at the flower shows in
this vicinity for a number Of years,
and always form one of the most at
tractive exhibits at the show. He is
especially fond of chrysanthemums
and has thousands Of varieties Of
these beautiful plants in his garden.
JAY Gould's hobby seems to have
been collecting dollars; but in addi-
ton to this very interesting collec-
ton, which now numbers several
millions, he is very fond Of flowers.
He has, perhaps, the finest conserva-
tory in the country, and he works
among his flowers and rare plants
in this conservatory just as his gar
dener would.
happened to be on board a Unit
ed States man-of~War at shutdown
during the call for colors. When the
bugle sounded the first call the band
gathered at the stern of the vessel on
deck, and at the second call the Off
GERS stood with their caps off facing
the flag as it fluttered down into the
hands of the sailor who manned the
halyards, while the band played
Hail Columbia The gathering
shades of evening, the martial sur.
roundings, the attitudes of respect
and the Stirrin y strains pf tho n1usi,