The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-04-04
GREAT MEMS WAYS

given that song to the world.
| GREAT MEMS WAYS
Little Odities They Indulge In Like
| Other Men.
| Greatness in men is no bar to the indul
gence OF little foibles and human weak
nesses and harmless fads and fancies that
at first glance, seem inconsistent with
high station Julius Caesar for instance
the ruler of an empire and the mightiest
man of his day was sensitive Of his bald
ness. All the learned men of all the Ro-
man empire could not restore his hair.
So much did this worry Caesar that he
became ill., and dread Of eventually be-
coming totally bald was the constant men
ace to his happiness. When the day came
on which Caesar discovered that there was
no remedy, he set about to find means to
conceal his aff1iction. He had a crown
made that covered the entire top and back
of his head, but it was torture to wear it.
| Daniel Webster had a curious fancy for
| painting the faces Of cattle. One week
! the poor beasts would walk around with
blue faces and the next would appear
with red ones. On his farm he kept many
| head of cattle, and some of them became
so fond of the great expounder that they
would follow him about like dogs. Among
the number were several that resented his
friendliness, and in order to punish these
and distinguish them from the rest he
painted the face of each beautiful blue
The effect was so novel that it pleased
him, and from that time forth he chang
ed the color whenever he had few min
utes to spare, and would laugh heartily at
the astonshment of his friends when they
saw the queer looking beasts on his prem
Uses.
! Napoleon occupied all his idle moments
in making up puzzles and indulging in
| intrigues. He said it relieved mans
mind when tired. He would sit for hours
trying to devise q puzzle that his COM
rades could not solve. When tired of This
he loved to fight mimic battles and be-
came angry when he lost. He had his
garden constructed in the form, Of a min
| iature field, with forts. trenches, water
! ways and dummy soldiers, by means Of
which he fought sham battles with his Of
fcers
Peter the Great had fashion for being
carried about in a wheelba1row, and when
not fighting would allow himself for hours
at a time to be wheeled around his estates.
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campaign he would return home with a
number of guests and al ONCE order wheel
barrows to be got in readiness. Peter on
more than one occasion visited the large
cities in this strange equipage.
William the Conqueror said he derived
more pleasure watching dogs fighting
than anything else besides winning a but
I tie: His subjects all over the Kingdom
sent him dogs by the hundred. From
these he would select the fiercest aid sit
for whole days watching the fights. He
had a. special retin1le of servants and at
tendants who did nothing but arrange the
contests.
George Washington's principal diver
sion was training baby foxes. He was
fond of fox hunting and would pay we'll
for a litter Of young Reynards He took
the animals home and trained them in all
kinds of tricks, which he often exhibited
to friends He used to say that the fox
had more brains than any other animal.
Francis Bacon was so fond of fine
clothes that he spent all his odd time in
trying to devise new styles and features
of dress. During his life ne made some
200 drawings Of freakish costumes. All
were drawn at night, after his labors Of
the day. He invented shot with spring
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feet when he walked. He also invented
stockings with padded calves, for the use
Of poorly formed men at court functions,
and shirts with immense frilled bosoms
When he could not get anybody to wear
them, he hired number of men to don
the grotesque attire and to promenade the
streets for his pleasure.
President Cleveland likes to paint the
chiidren's toys and little odds and ends
OF household furniture. This is not ar
tistic. to be sure, but more than one pater-
familias knows how much real diversion
here is in working with paint pot and
brush. Seated on stool, with the
youngsters of the White House around
him for hours embellishing their toys in
the liveliest shades
Gladstone employs his spare time in
wood carving, and he is said to produce
some very fine work. He learned the art
when a boy, and has as complete a wood
carving shop as any carver in England.
Some of the decorations of his home are
his owG work, and if he made business
of It he would be success
Kaiser Wilhelm finds more amusement
in curling his mustache than in almost
any pastime. On every appearance In
public his mustache has d1lerent curl
All Of these are original, SO much so in
fact that before his admirers in the Ger
man empire have "caught on to the new
style he appears with another