The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-12-31
FADS OF THE PRESENT.
AL Classes and Ages Busy Over
Their Collections.
From the King on Ills Throne to the
Urchin on the Street All Are Eagerly
Intent Upon Some Particu-
lar Craze.


Intent Upon Some Particu-
| lar Craze.
There probably never was time
when the mania for collecting useless
things afflicted more persons than it
does to-day All classes and ages are
making collections of some sort. News
boys are collecting cigarette pictures,
and other people are collecting spoons.
knives and forks, postage stamps
stones, shells, pipes, coins, autographs
| and buttons. The czar of all the Rus
sias, says the Chicago Herald. divides
his time between hanging nihilists
and collecting postage stamps and the
eggs of birds of prey William of Ger
many. like the kings Of Roumania and
Sweden, has n passion for collecting
autographs. The remarkable vitality
of Queen Victoria has given her son,
the prince of Wales. ample leisure in
which to make fine collection Of pipes
and to smoke them somewhat. The
queen of Italy is gathering in all the
shoes and gloves she can that have GOV.
cred the feet and hands of royal person.
ages past and present. She is literally
waiting for dead mems shoes She has
in her collection of superannuated foot
gear the shoes of Marie Antonette, of
Mary Stuart, the Empress Josephine,
Queen Anne and the Empress Catherine
OF Russia. The latter were the present
of her son, the prince of Naples, who
brought them last year from St,
Petersburg. Her collection will not
Ia witt 90. el,
that have been worn by Chicago girl.
just to show by their diminutive pro-
portions to what an extent the young
ladies of the worlds fair city have been
slandered. A New England spinster
has made collection of thimbles used
by famous women She has inherit
ed, purchased, begged or received as
gifts over thirty gold, silver, brass or
steel thimbles worn by actresses.
artists, philanthropists. abolitionists.
poets, etc. Another eastern woman
has made q vast collection of teapots,
having made a journey to Japan and
China for the purpose of securing rare
specimens of that article. Some men
are making collections of more pre-.
tentious nature. Robert Bonner is col.
lecting equines that can trot a mile in
less than 2:1O, while Jay Gould's ac-
quisitivcness is turned toward securing
all the trunk lines of railroad, and the
Standard Oil Company sgratifying it's
passion for possessing all of the petro
leum springs in America
Lovers and sweethearts are collect
ing locks OF hair. photographs, neck
ties, gloves and other bric-a- brac that
breathe of love and moonlight and is
redolent with romance Girls are col.
lecting dolls and boys are collecting
marbles, while misers are adding to
their just as useless to them, collec.
tions of shiny gold pieces. Women are
collecting pearls, diamonds and other
precious stones All the world is MAX.
ing collections that death or the |
auctioneer's hammer will scatter to the |
four winds. When the craze for max
ing collection of any particular kind
strikes person that person at once be.
comes slave to it's influence. Nothing
but the article sought to be collected
possesses any charm. The rest of the
earth becomes dull and commonplace
and the thoughts by day and dreams by
hiS Nv III oiC uHCCOlOH Ills Is
a popularity of human nature. but it is
not new one. The craze for making
collections is as old as the history of
men. Leicestershire clergyman,
when he died in l77G, left behind him
thirty gowns and cassocks, Cne hun.
dred pair of breeches, one hundred
pair of boots, four hundred pair of
shoes, eighty wigs (although he never
hid his own hair with one), eighty
wagons and carts, fifty saddles, thirty
fifty dogs, two hundred
and forty razors, and SO many walking
sticks that toy man paid his ex.
ecutors eight pounds sterling for the
lot. An old man died in an attic in
Paris who left little behind him save
heap of coriss, souvenirs of happy times
he had spent in more prosperous days
1t had been lifelong custom with him
to preserve every cork drawn for the
delectation of himself and friends and
inscribe upon it the date of drawing
and the particular occasion upon which
the bottle was opened, so that the cup
board of corks was actually a record
Of his life. The fad of making collec-
lions will go on as long rs there is life
among men. Even death is busy col.
Letting men into the graveyards of the
and.