The Nevada journal., 1857-02-20

AN Eccentric GENIUS.-There is a
mah in this city, his name is immaterial,
but he lives near the oldl toll gate on
Pa citic street, whose course of life for
tho last five years has developed one of
the most extraordinary phases of eccen-
trieity that we have ever heard of. He
is we'll informed and thoroughly edura.
ted has read books and seen the world,
is buick in perception and prompt in
| Judgment, a close reasoner and ready
con yersationalist = and yet this man,
fitte ed in all respects to adom the higher
wal ks of society-has, for the past five
vel hrs immured himself in little brush
| hotse-about two feet and half high,
six feet long and three feet wide When
it rains he is wet, and he smokes the
stump of cigar philosophically, and is
satisfied. Like Diogenes il his tub, he
is at peace with himself and the rest of
mankind, but by what process of reason-
ing he restrains his sensibilities, and alb
stracts himself from his duties and rela-
tions to society and the world, he alone
can tell-we can find no excuse for
such an unnatural effort to be singular.
But to our description During the five
years that this human curiosity has
played the hermit, he has worked but
three weeks, and then only to earn some
clothes which he has worn for the last
two years and half For food he
walks down to the wharves-fills his
pockets with the droppings of sacks of
potatoes, boils them in an oyster can, or
roasts them in ashes, and eats them
without salt. This he calls good living;
and as for smoking, he provides for that
luxury by picking up cigar stumps of a
certain length, and puffs away on them
with all the gusto Imaginable. He is
fond of exercise, and gratifes his desire
by placing two stakes at distance of
one hundred yards apart, and walking
from one to the other for four and five
hours at time; while engaged thus, he
carries with him large number of small
twigs one Of which he drops at each
turn he mai es while walking. He
reads books, and his volumes in his little
kennel cannot be found elsewhere in
this city.
We have described this eccentric spe-
ciman Of humanity not to excite NOR
bid feeling of sympathy for his singular
Ity, but to show what ridiculous sacri-
fees Of sense and propriety he has made,
probably y in order have his name han
| ded down to posterity like that of Ne.
! phlstophocles or Diogenes, as that of a
strange and unfathomable being too bad
to mingle with the benighted iphabi-
tants Of this lower sphere, and living in
/ n Cnrtp pf TO-. + L.
Well, he willlive and die and pass away
and what good will he be either to him
self or any one else VIII he give forth
any new and original thoughts upon
any subject calculated to enlighten man
kind Will he advance the interests
OF morality, Of science, of philosophy p
None of these while he exists as he does
now, sacrifice to his own selfshness.-
Yet he has talent to make himself useful
in his day and generation-and, like the
man in the parable, will be held respon-
sible for their abuse.-CaL Chronicle.
A MARRIED MANS FERoCITY. "A
lady who had been in bathing ma
chine at South End, left behind a gold
watch worth S125, and a massive gold
chain, neither of which had been recov-
cred"
Married Man-' Of course she did |
A woman would leave her head bebiad
her, if she had one and was loose.
Besides, what do they care for val
liable property They don'tpay for it
zee are the victims "
. Recover | should think not. It
was left in woman's machine, and a
woman followed her.
Perhaps it's all falsehood Of the
woman and she sold watch and chain
to pay some milliner's bill which she was
afraid to show her husband. Won't she
plague his soul out till she gets new
ones !
tAnd serve the blockhead right. Anv
man who would let a woman have a
watch worth so much deserves to be
served out. What does a woman want
with watch, indeed They only de-
sire to look fine, and cheap gilt think
will do that. A chronometer at five
hundred dollars would not make them
punctual.
believe the whole story's a fam
Woman look a deuced deal too sharp
after their trumpery ornaments, which
are the breath of life to 'em. If it had
been her husband most valuable private
papers, or her gold watch and chain, |
| could have understood it.
Women dressed in that style won't
90 to South End, where there is only
health and fresh air: they drag YOU to
large cities, where they may stare, show
their clothes, and be cheated, and cheat
you, and"
Here he became utterly unbearable,
and was very properly turned out of the
room.I
PRINTERS PRovERBs.-Never inquire
thou OF the editor the news, for behold
1t is his business, at the appointed time,
to give it unto thee without asking. II