The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-08-08

MrluDg minute Aketchea OF our pup
lie men. how thoy live. move aud hav
their sprceing, when they 90 TO boo
when they get up, what they eat an
drink. what they read, what they say
SC. Ben. Wade was put over th,
course a whilo ago by correspondent
Of ono Of cur city dailics, and NOR,
recently Thad Stevens received simi
lar attentions from reporter for
Now York daily. The sketches ar
copied 60 extensively, and road witt
such svidity, that We arc constraine,
20 try our hand at il. We accord
ingly sent correspondent 10 hun
up the illustrious philosopher, J. n
Free, more widely known as Til
Immortal J. ~" lie is a public mar
enjoying a national reputation. II
has stood the "prcssure North an
South, aud has serious intentions o
going to Mexico to sec what he cal
do for that torn aud distracte,
land. Tho following is what ou
correspondent has to say about
TnR IMMORTAL ~. N. AT HOME.
The frst difficulty encountered in
hunting up the great philosopher,
wns in finding whore his home was,
but after diligont inquiry / ascertain
cd that he icas At home dayi1bere He
is citizen Of tho world and. /
may add, that the world has produc-
cd moro great men than any other
place in Ohio, except Shoboygan ---
81. n" makes himself perfectly at
homo wherever he may chance TO be
at the timo. He differs from the
man who wrote, "There's no place
like home" for every. place Is like
home to him, and all homes are alike
found him at length, sitting in tho
Office Of the Bungton Weekly You.
Dct entirely at homo. lIo occupied
the chair Of the editor, who was re-
spectfully standing by his side listen
ing TO the words Of wisdom which fell
from the lips Of tho philosopher, one
of whose feet reposed on tho desk,
among unfinished editorials, and the
other on tho imposing stono. He
semod entirely at home. reminded
him Of an invitation he extended to
me more than year ago, to yisithim
at home, and / told him had come
TO do il.
Ho said | needn't look any further,
for he was rs much at home In one
place as in another, ifnot more so.-
He then commanded the editor ofthc
You Bet TO bring me stool, which
being done he ordered mo TO bn scat.
cd with an imperious wave Of his
hand. accordingly sat down. |
found that here the immortal philos
opher spends a large portion of his
time that no spends here; aud tho cd.
itor prints many Of his wise sayings in
his weekly, You.Bet.
The fearless and immortal philos.
opher had book in his hands which
he had been perusing. saw at
glance that il was "0ld Mother
Goose He has learned every line
oft by heart, and says he can beat
Bon. Wado repeating It. I took a
look about the room where 81. NJ
is accustomed to making himself so
very much at homo.
The walls we're hung with war
maps, cobwebs, Fourth ofeJuly post.
ore, newspapers, auction bills, old
clothes, &c. | asked %, NJ what
were his favorito books, aud no point.
ed to a shelf on which woro displayed
volume Of Patent Office Reports,
tho Congressional globo for 500, two
volumes of Public Documents, work
on tho Ohio Canal aud tho annual
Report of the asylum for Idiots
Someid idea Of the massive vent Of this
mans mind may be gathered from
this.
~. n" has keen appreciation of
humor, and consequently is n great
admirer Of Tnpper's provorbiNl Phi.
losophy. lie reads it TO the Editor
OF the You. Bet, because, he says, ho
"don't like to laugh alone.H lie
hasn't 4 very high opinion of Gree
Icy as a comic writer, but says he
does just such foolish things as any
of them. Although 81, NJ" iSnt
much on war, he prides himself on
understanding C@sar's campaigns,--
He is familiar with every fight Gao.
sar had, having read full reports OF
them in the New York Clipper as they
occurred.
The philosophers habits are pecu.
liar. lie mover dresses himself be
foro he gets up In the morning, and
he don't dross very much then. Ho
rarely washes himself, as il consumes
valuable time that should be employ.
cd in philosophical reflections.
His breakfast is very light usually
sometimes confined TO picking hi
teeth with a broom spliut. Ate
breakfast he takes walk, which il
gauged according 10 the distance {,
the next town. He takes grea
many papers, all, in fact, that any cd
itor win permit him to carry away
He hasn't eaten dinner for twenty
years, il the hotel keeper could kcoT
him away, which he can't do very oft
en-. All the rost of tho family do al
they please about dinner lie uses
knife a good deal in cutting his yict-
uals. He can not endure any liquo
in his whisky. Some one Attempted
TO put some gin in bis cocktail once
when his back was turned, but he de
teeted i. immediatoly-and called fo
some more.
He lakes a walk after suppeg-th'
length depends on how far he has t,
walk after Il.
His invariable custom is to retir
early; he acquired tho habit while OF
bis tour through the South, whore,
Ia feared, he wasn't altogether under
stood. In every place where he at
tempted 10 make speech, he wa
compelled to retire early. lie say
he don't mind hens eggs, but the