The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-16
RECREATlONS OF GREAT MEN.
Tavern Drinking, Pedestrianism, Fish
ing and Hunting.

Tavern Drinking, Pedestrianism, Fish.
ing and Hunting.
Among famous devotees of tine rod and
line may be noted Walton, Herbert,
Paley and Dryden. the latter quite cele-
brated for his fishing parties. Thomas
Wharton. author of 1.-THE History Of
Modern Poetry" was often to be found
drinking in the taverps-a taste which he
shared with Turner, the painter. Charles
amt was an ednlrer of London and
never wearied of wandering about the
streets. Without London he considered
Lie would scarcely be worth living;
he would not exchange the dirtt-
est drab-irequeuted alley for Skiddaw
and HelvelIyp." johnson was another
eulogist of the metropolis, and it was
down Fleet street that he took his daily
walk, which, owing to the series of tasks
he made compulsory on himself, was a
really curious performance, First, every
post required to be touched as he passed
ii: next IL was q point of honor to step
exactly in the middle of each paving slab.
and, lastly, as he approached his destina-
ton, Il series Of graduated strides had TO
be employed in order to reach the door
with one particular foot. Godolphin. the
In the cockpit. Pope, like William ILL.,,
sas fond of landscape gardening. Prior,
one of our best minor poets, whiled
away his evenings at O low public house
i'll Long Acre, talking with an old soldier
aud his shrewish helpmate. Burke. when
at his country estate, Beaconsield, trans
formed himself from a politician into an
enthusiastic farmer, and sthe reader'-
here Hygiene Quotes from the works OF
John Morley-"may smile as he recog-
nizes the ardor, the earnestness, the fer
vid gravity of the political speeches in
| letters which discuss the merits OF car
rots in fatteniDg porkers and the precise
! degree to which they should be boiled.n
Wordsworth, Dickens and Lonefellow
were immense pedestrians. Wordsworth
did the major part of his writing in the
open air: a visitor who called to see the
| poets study was shown a small room, the
home Of a few tattered books. sTnis,"
said the servant maid, sis masters
library, but his study is out Ct DOORS"
Dickens liked the sights Of a London
| walk and was also fond of a tramp on
the sea downs. Carlyle invariably coy
cred several hours before beginning work
and enjoyed riding inside an omnibus,
while Victor Hugo preferred the outside.
No weather could. detain Buckle from
his fifteen minutes constitutional be-
fore breakfast. and Macaulay was like
wise a great walker. always accompanied.
however, by a volume of some sort.
Shelley used TO sail paper boats on
the Serpentine, and took as much
interest as a child in their safety. Sir
Walter Scott's chief pursuits were riding
and coursing; his dogs and be appear in
the same piece of sculpture. testifying to
his habits. Later in life he p~atronized
gardening, In which the American his
torian. Bancroft, has since borne him
company. Milton sought relaxa-
zion in the companionship of
the "pealing organ." and Byron
amused himself by shooting at
a piece of money fixed in a stick, and
practiced this more persistently than be
ever did anything else. OF present celeb
rifles Mr.. Chamberlain is an amateur
horticulturist, Sir John Lubbock passes
the flying moments in studying his ents
and bees, Mr.. Black enjoys yachting
among the Hebrides, and many of the no
bility have a pronounced fancy for horse
MISUNDERSTANDING Tribune.