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CONTRADICTORY TRAITS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 7, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 27.

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CONTRADICTORY TRAITS.

A MIGHTY man of war, Julius Cæsar, was remarkably afraid of thunder, and is said to have donned a laurel wreath to protect himself from lightning.
Marshal Saxe, the great French soldier, like Lord Roberts, fled at the sight of a cat, and could not refrain from a scream of terror should one brush against him.
Peter the Great, the Russian czar, could on no account cross a bridge. Often and often, it is related, he strove to master the antipathy, but never succeeded.
Byron, the poet, cherished a superstitious antipathy to salt, and would leap from his chair if any of the article happened to be spilled on the table.
Dr. Johnson and Thomas Carlyle could never enter a room or set forth on a journey with their left foot foremost. Strong-minded man and remarkable as Lord Chancellor Bacon was, every eclipse of the moon threw him into a fainting fit, while the philosophical Boyle, from boyhood upward, turned cold and miserable at the sound of running water through a pipe.—N. Y. Telegram.