Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-08-24
THE ODD FELLOW.

THE ODD FELLOW.
Your odd fellow, is one who viii co
nothing like the ref Of the world. There
was, few years ago remarkable illus
,ra;ion OF this character in one White,
man Of a iinaIl independent. fortune, who
lived in tie borough Of SoutI,ar!k, Eng
land this man atted wholly: upon the
principles of contradiction Ga Sunday
he always wore the wort clothes, and ted
on the WORT food he conld ge,, becauic
Others both eat and wore the belf: Oh
Monday, hec-ale it is kind Of holli-
Gay, he uid to employ himtelf in la~e iors
Of work from morning till night he
ref of the week he kept holiday, dref-
Gng h;mse.f juf decent on a Tueiday, be'-
ter on Wednesday, het,er itill en- Thuri-
day, and 70 on till by Saturday evening,
when other people were bufy and undrei-
fed, he was the idlef and beh drefed man
in the pari(h he uied to make point O.
diningon goote on shrove Tuefday, and
on pancakes on Michaelmas day: He ted
upon oyiiers as long as the weather cent?.
nued hot, but left off eating them as icon
as there was an R. in the month; he al
mott ltarved himIelf on Chriamas day, and
eat like glutton, when there was pub
lie proclamation for fat; when it rain
ed hard he went without his waifcoat
or great coat, but would button him
fs,f up cloie and warm in the hotteit
day in fummer; he wrote with Kew
er cut into the form Of a pen, and ialtened
his letters with pate; he confantly iet
on iow table, and eat off chair; he
{ept in his kitchen, breakfaGcd in his gar
get, dined in the cellar and eat his fup-
per all the year round in the paaage lead
ing to the freet door; ne married three
wives and lived witt, neither of them;
he would frequently pay a waterman TO
take his boat, and attend him on the
banks of the Thames, but never got into
, it and once month he hired coach, but
always rode will, the coachn,an he feme-
times called for pot of purl at an alehoufe,
and always drank it at the door he fhav-
ed himfelf with penknite, and combed
his wig with a. clotheibru!h ; he fome-
times went to church and aaid the
whole fervice, but never Fat down -
when in company, he never fooke word,
but when alone he was always talking to
himfelf when he was dck he fent for the
butcher, but often when in health he con-
iulted the apo,hecary; he paid his houfe
rent in the middle Of the quarter, and al
ways before it came due when he died
he owed no man ihilling, and took fuf-
!icient care that no man lhou!d ever owe
him tixpence.
You've and MANLY, ions Of St. Cr:E-
pin, in Philadelphia, announce great and
important Improvement in their art-thae
is, to make boots and floes in conformity
to the hspe Of their cuGomers' legs and
feet They promiie to attend to the
anatomical formation and various Aexions
Of each leg and foot, and their component
parts. This being heretofore unattended
TO by she craft, no wonder, they fay, that
the complaints ofmis6t:irg have been ge-
neral. But the genius Of Griffin -
length difcovered sha. rnea have rtgb' and
lift feet and has purified his refeaEches TO
the operative cauiss Of freedom, and cafe.
and equal prehure. Stand at egtI IS the
word. Corns, .wifted heels, and !acerat-
cd inaeps, are thus prevented, by each
cunomer having lf or lalts made TO
fuit the particular anatomical formation OF
each foot, and rsfered foley for his ufe. "