Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1896 — Some Men Are Frivolous. [ARTICLE]

Some Men Are Frivolous.

The Emperor Dondtlan occupied his leisure in catching flies. Cardinal Richelieu amused himself with his collection of cats. Uowpcr was at no time so happy as when feeding his tame hares. Maznrhi employed his leisure in playing with an ape. The Marquis de Montespnu amused himself with mice when occupying the gilded apartments of Versailles. The mice were white and bad been brought to him all the way from HUx’fin. Latude, in i lie Bastile, made companions of twenty»ix rats which occupied his ceil.