The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-03-01
How and Why Distinguished Poll
Sometimes Suffer.
POPULAR SCHOLARS OF OLDBH TlnB.
vanity Rutned n Few, Poverty
Wrecked a Good Many. and Ex.
cessive Drinking aud Eating DEE
stroyed several.

julius Caesar had weak digestion and
was subject to epi!eptic fits.
Milton was blind in his old age and
often lacked the comforts OF life.
Peter the Great was half crazy most Of
his life through drink and rage.
Gibbon had the govt. He became 90
stout that he could not dress himself.
Mohammed was an epileptic and his
visions were those Of diseased mind.
Bacoa was svaririous, and his greed
for money finally led to his disgrace.
Tasso was mserably poor most Of his
days. His mserics finally drove him
mad.
Byron was club footed and the foot was
a source Of constant misery to him all bis
life.
Dante passed most Of his life as an ex.
lie from the only city in which he cared
to live.
Coke was quarrelst me, and passed his
life in almost continual war with his
associates.
Edward |. OF England, was annoyed
by his grea, height. His subjects dubbed
him Long Shanks.
George ". vas greatly vexed for years
by carbuncles on his face, caused by
secret drinking.
Mary Queen Of SCOTS became bald in
middle life and was forced to hide the
blemish with wig.
Haydn had scolding wife. He finally
was compelled to leave her in order to
secure little peace.
Charles XII. of Sv eden, was ungovern.
ably rash. Heoften regretted his impetu-
osity, but never reformed it.
Churchill was very FESTIVE under crit.
cism, and was constantly in rage about
some hostile notice of his poems.
Socrates was greatly annoyed by the
Islander of his enemies, who accused him
of being possessed Of the devil.
Calico suffered imprisonment on &C.
count OF his devotion to science. His old
age was darkened by great poverty.
Bunyan passed twelve years in jail and
during that time supported himself while
writing Pilgrims Progress"
CorneilIe would have died OF want had
not Louis XIV. aceidently heard Of his
condition and sent him sum Of money.
Henry VIII. was for years troubled
with constantly recurring carbuncles.
Their number and virulence finally killed
him.
Dsraeli, the author OF "Curiosities OF
Literature" ruined his eyes By his indie
fatigabe studies and became almost
| blind.
Louis XVIII. was very fat, and much
ashamed OF his infirmity. rs he knew 1t
subjected him to constant ridicule in
Paris.
Handel became blind in his old age,
but the fact did not prevent bis continu-
ing the series OF oratories that made him
immortal.
Mozart, in spite OF his wonderful ge-
Mus, was often in great poverty. He
literally died of want and was buried in
the potter's field.
Philip lie Bel, of France, was one OF
the ugliest men of his time and was con-
scious of the fact. The name was APP
piled to him in ridicule.
La Fontaine found his heavy, coarse
appearance a great disadvantage. He
once said: ~ do wish I looked like q
gentleman"
Queen Elizabeth was annoyed by red
nose. Her attendants were accustomed
to powder it every few minutes to keep it
presentable.
Sir Robert Walpole's greatest vexation
WAS the fact that he did not have enough
holidays. He spent them hunting and
carousing.
Sir Walter Raleigh felt bitterly the in
gratitude OF king who put him to death
for carrying out the instructions that had
been given him.
Mary Morley Montague was always
much annoyed by her large size and
masculine voice. She often expressed
the wish that she were small.
Addison's greatest misery was his in
durable diffidence. He never overcame
it, but to the end OF his life was silent
and embarrassed when in company.
Napoleon suffered for years with cancer
If the stomach. The disease was heredi-
tary in his family, several relatives hay
ing also died Of the same cause.
Carlyle WAS the victim Of his stomach.
His 'spepsia was contracted by re-
ligious excitement that lasted for weeks
and left him physical wreck.
Queen Anne was fond Of liquor. par
tirularly Of brandy, and was always put
in fury whenever she learned that her
subjects called her Brandy Man."
Baxter. he of the Saints Rest" was
accustomed to imprisonment so that it
gave him little uneasiness. His greatest
misery when in Jail was to be deprived
If his books.
Goldsmitb's improvidence caused him
great annoyance. He was more than
once compelled to dodge his creditors,
and on at least one occasion was locked
mp for debt.
Louis XVI. was an sbominable glutton.
HE unpopulsrity while in prisoa ives In.