The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-15
SOME CURIOUS monnIns.
Queer wilkins of Minds Given to Con,
temDIsting Important Matters.

templHunB Important Matters.
From It'd Bits.
A very peculiar hobby was that OF an
old woman who had been employed at
court in the capacity Of nurse, and who
had a most extensive collection Of pieces
of wedding cake. The cakes TO which the
fragments belonged had been cut at the
marriages Of the highest In the land. The
place of honor was given to portion Of
queen Victoria's wedding cake, and near
~ every royal marriage that had occur
red since the accession Of William ". was
represented in this curious collection.
Lord Petersham, a noted dandy in his
day, had hobby of walking sticks and
also for various kinds Of tea and SNUFF
All round his sitting room were shelves,
those upon one side laden with canisters
of SOuchong, Bohea, CongOu, Pekoe, Rus
sian and other varieties of tea. The
shelves opposite were decorated with
handsome Jars, containing every kind of
snun. while snuff boxes lay here, there
and everywhere. Lord Petersham prided
himself upon possessing the most magni-
hcent array of boxes to be found in Eu-
rope, and was supposed to have a fresh
box fer every day in the year. When
some one admired a beautiful old Hight
blue Sevres box he was using, he lisped
out, Yes, 1t Is a nice summer box, but
would not do for winter wear"
Count Henry Won Bruhl, a famous Ger
man diplomatist, busted himself In collect
ing boots. shoes, slippers and wigs OF all
shapes, sizes and fashions. This curious
hobby was rivaled by that of a late King
of Bavaria, whose collection of hats was
unique.
A king of Wurtemburg boosted the pos
session Of above 1900 copies Of the Bible;
and nicotine-loving American reveled in
a treasury OF pipes, which he could
count 36j specimens In meerschaum, brier
glass, china and clay
The Duke of Sussex. brother of King
George H., had a pair Of hobbies that were
wide as the poles asunder. He was an
indefatigable collectors of Bibles and of
cigars.
Pope Plus TX. was a collector of Slip
pers. He always had twenty-four pairs in
his wardrobe, made of red cloth embroid-
cred with gold, and ornamented with
solid gold cross his chamberlain being
strictly enjoined not to part with a single
pair however well worn they might be,
to any Of the many devout applicants for
them.
Wigs and walking sticks were the spe-
cial vanities of Mr.. william Evans, some
time principal clerk in the prothonotarys
Office for Anglesea CarnavOn and Merio-
meth, and so highly did he value Them that
he bequeathed one of each to three differ
ent maiden ladies' for whom he had in
turn felt a tenderness in early life. An
other gentleman had a hobby for scarf
pins. He is said to have kept a book
containing as many pages as. there are
days in the year. in each OF which a differ
ent pin was stuck Every mornig he fas-
tened into his scarf the pin which occupied
oil m haf nj Jaf
returning it to its place when he I'M
dressed at night.
NJ. Nestor Roqueplan, a Frenchman OF
letters, was a collector Of warming pans,
and devoted a gallery in his house to this
article Of furniture, where visitors might
enjoy the privilege Of beholding the iden-
teal warming mans that had aired the
beds Of such celebrities as Queen Mary of
Scotland, Catherine de Medici, Gabriel
distress Catherine de Poitiers, Nine
Pompadour, Marie Antoinette, Mile. de
Fontage and other noted personages. An
other eccentric Frenchman was a bean en-
thusiast He wrote book upon the his
tory of haricots and their influence upon
humanity, and rejoiced in collecting beans
from all quarters of the globe and care
fully labelling and arranging them. Some
Of the specimens were very valuable, hav-
ing cost as much as 500 francs. His death
was hastened by the mysterious disappear
ance of some japanese beans, upon which
he set especial value
A European lady living in Japan ac-
quired no fewer than 700 teapots Of various
patterns and kinds. Another lady had a
hobby for collecting bonnets. She made a
rule never to part with one she had worn,
and, when she died, left behind her a Won
derful collection of feminine head adorn-
ments.
elliott, the founder of the word-renown-
ed steel pen business, had a passion for
Cremona fiddles, although he was abso-
lutely without musical knowledge A Lon
don BARRIERS hobby was the collecting of
dressing cases-a hobby which he pursued
with such avidity that on his death 300 of
these articles came into the hands of his
executors.
The Queen of Italy is said to be an en-
thusiastic collector Of boots and shoes
Her collection includes shoes of Marie
Antoinette, of the Empress Josephine,
Mary Stuart, Queen Anne and the EN-
press Catherine of Russia