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says: "Whle Satan lrages, will laugh at
| him, ard enjoy my Creator in the garden."
An ingenious writer has observed that Ga gar
den just accommodates itself to the perambu-
lations Of scholar, would perhaps rather
wish his walks abridged than extended''
In Pope's letters thers is Characteristic &C
. count OF the mo lein which men uf learning
take exercise. 81, like poor squirrel, am
continually in motion indeed, but it is about
| cage of three foot; my little excursions are
like those of a shopkeeper who walks every
day mile or two before his own door, but
minds his business all the while." Archbish.
op Whately was seen to most advantage at
Redesdale, his country seat near Dublin, gar
dening, tree-cutting grating, and romping
with his children and dogs.
With him, as many eminent men, Bismark,
Sir Waiter Scott, Hogsrrh, Rrbens, Henry Ir-
wing, and others, dogs were great favorites.
One especially, which he possessed at Oxford
was noted for his climbing performances; and
it was the great delight Of DR.. Whately to ex
hibt his feats in Chri st Church meadow. On
the very morning on which he had received
the letter OF Lord Grey Offering him the see
OF Dublin, visitor who was q stranger to him
was asked out 10 see the feats of his climbing
dog. The animal performed as usual; and
when he reached the highest point of ascent,
and was beginning his yell of wailing, Whate
Iy turned toward the stranger and said:
"What do you think of that?" 81 think
that some besides the dog, when they find
themselves al the top of the tree, would give
the world if they could get down again." A
striking remark just then for one who was not
aware of the offer Whately had just receiv-
ed.
Another great prelate, Bishop Thirlwall,
amused himself in the same way. When the
mind was jaded over one of his elaborate
charges, or some abstruse pathological prob
lem, he used to take stroll in his garden al
Abergwii, book in hand, or surrounded by
his domestic pets. We all know how the
poet Cowper cheered his melancholy hours
many time with the gsmbols OF his pet
hares, "Tiny, Puss, and Bess."
While Kepler worked ont the secret of the
heavenly bodies, 'going over his calculations
sixty times" he now and then turned aside to
write almanacs for his daily bread. SO the
weary worker took his recreation.
Addison in his later years used to retira to
the picture gallery of Holland House, called
afterwards the Long Room. There he sought
repose and the soiace of strong waters. The
tradition is that he placed bottle and.a glass
at each end oft, an ! 80 alter nately exercised
his lips and his legs. Now and then, by way
of change, he would stroll to coffee house
at kensington to drink his solitary glass, and
thus endeavor to forget awhile public busi-
ness and domestic troubles. 1t used to be
pet amusement with Moliere, the French
dramatist, to esconce himself In the corner of
barber shop and there silently watch the air,
gestures, and grimaces of the village politi-
clans, who in those days, before coffee houses
were introduced into France, used to congre-
gate in this place of resort. The fruits of this
study may be easily discerned in those oripI-
nal sketches of character, from the middle and
lower classes, with which his pieces every
where abound, and which make his plays so
'op,'" en'"g his countrymen: "Courage,
NoIlerr, crteI AL old man from the pit;
this is genuine comedy" And the success
II The poet vindicated the critical wisdom of
the old man.
The only relaxation of Kant, the celebrated
German philosopher, allowed himself was .
walk which he invariably took during his life
at Konigsberg at about the same hour every
afternoon. His usual stroll was along the
banks fthe Pregel towards the Friedrch's
Fort and in these walks he was always care
full observer of the phenomena of nature. He
told his friends one day how. as he passed .
certain building in his daily walk, lie had no.
ticed number of young swallows lying dead
upon the ground.
On looking up he discovered, as he fancied,
that the old birds were actually throwing
their young ones out of the nests. 1t was q
season remarkable for the scarcity of insects,
and the birds were apparently sacrificing some
of their progeny to save the rest. "At this"
added Kant, "my intellect was hushed; the
only thing to do here was to fall down and
Worship Another great philosopher, 3ish-
op Butler, used to take his recreation, accord
ing to one Of his chaplains, in : somewhat sin
gular manner; he would walk for hours in the
little garden behind his palace At Bristol .'iu
the darkest night which the time of the year
could Afford
1t may be mentioned that some lea, ned men
have found amusement in composing works
on odd objects. Seneca wrote q bur.esque
narrative of Claudian's death; Pierius Vale
rianus wro enlogium on boards; French
author has in modern times composed with
due gravity and pleasantly learned treatise,
entitled "Eloge de PeTuques" CA Eulogium
on Wigs. Gaspar Tsliacotius, of whose
feats ofsurgical skfll Butler in his .'Hudibras'
gives an amusing account, wrote treatise in
Latin called '.Chirurgia Nota," in which he
teaches the art Of migrating noses, ears, lips,
and other members of the human body with
proper instruments and bandages-a book
johnson somewhere observes that it seems to
have been in all ages the pride Of art to show
how it could exalt the !cw and amplify the
little. To this ambition perhaps We owe the
frogs of Homer, the bees Of Virgil, the butter
fly of Spenser, the quincnnx of Sir Thomas
Browne, and the "little celandine" of Words
worth.
The confidence that people have in Ayers
Sarsaparilla as blood medicine is the legiti i.
mate and natural growth Of many years. 1t
has been handed down from parent to child,
and is the favorte family medicine in thou
sands of households. .-sA