The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-07-25
VOLUME XXI.
[From the Cincinnati Times.
",J. N" at Home.

| uC - Va thO PAN heSNO
recently turned their attention to
writing minute sketches of our pub
lie men, how they live, move, have
their spreeing, when they go to bed,
when they get up, what they eat and
drink, what they read, what they
say, &c. Ben. Wade was put over
the course while ago by a COR
respondent of one of our city dailies,
and more recently Thad Stevens re-
ceived similar attentions from a re-
porter for a New York daily. These
sketches are copied so extensively,
and read with avidity, that we are
constrained to try our hand at it
We accordingly sent a correspon
dent to hunt up the illustrious phil
osopher, j. N. Free, more widely
known as "The Immortal j. NJ
He is public man, enjoying a ma
tional reputation. He has stood the
''pressure" North and South, and
has serious intentions of going to
Mexico to see what he can do for
that torn and distracted land. The
following is what our correspondent
has to say about
THE IMMoRTAL"J. N" AT HOME.
The first difficulty I encountered
in hunting up the great philosopher
was in finding where home was, but
after dilligent inquiry l ascertained
that he was sat home any where
He is a citizen of the world, and /
may add, that the world has produc-
ed more great men than any other
place in Ohio, except Sheboygan.-
u. N" makes himself perfectly at
home wherever he may chance to be
at the time. He differs from the
man who wrote, There's no place
like home" for every place like home
to him, and all homes are alike. /
found him, at length, sitting in the
office of the Bungtown Weekly You
Bet, entirely at home. He occupied
the chair of the editor, who was re-
spectfully standing by his side, list
ening to the words ofwisdom which
fell from the lips of the philosopher,
one of whose feet reposed on the
desk, among unfinished editorials,
and the other on the imposing stone.
He seemed entirely at home, / re-
minded him of an invitation extend
ed to me more than year ago, to
visit him at home, and / told him
l had come to do it.
He said / needn't look any fur
ther, for he was as much at home in
one place rs in another, if not more
so. He then commanded the editor
of the You-Bet to bring me stool,
WHICH being done he ordered me to
be seated with an imperious wave of
his hand. accordingly sat down.
Ifound that here the immortal phil
osopher spends large portion of
the time that he epcnde hero and
the editor prints many of his wise
sayings in his weekly, You-Bet.
The fearless and the immortal
philosopher had a book in his hands
which he had been perusing. He
has learned every line Of it by heart
and says he can beat Ben. Wade re-
peating it. , I took a look about the
room where -. n" is accustomed.
to making himself so very much at
home. The walls were hung with
war maps, cobwebs, Fourth of July
posters, newspaper files, auction
bills, old clothes, DC. / asked y.
NJ what were his favorite books,
and he pointed to shelf On which
were displayed a volume of Patent
Office Reports, the Congressional
Globe for 1860, two volumes ofpub-
lie Documents, work on the Ohio
Canal and the Annual Report of the
ASYLUM for Idiots. Some idea of
the massive bent of this mans mind
be gathered from this. g =
81. N" has keen appreciation of
humor, and consequently is a great
admirer of Tupper's Proverbial
Philosophy. He reads it to the ed
itor Of You-Bet, because, he says,
he, ,"don't like to laugh alone" He
hasn't very high opinion of Greely
as comic writer, but says he does
just as foolish things as any of them.
! Although ID. N" isn't much on war.
| he prides himself on understanding
! Caesars campaigns. He is familiar
with every fight Caesar had, having
read full reports Of them in the New
York Clipper as they occurred.
The philosophers habits are pc
culiar. He never dresses himself
before. he gets up in the morning
and he don't dress very much then
He rarely washes himself as it con
sumes valuable time that should be
employed in philosophical refec
tions. His breakfastls very light
usually, sometimes confined to pick
ing his teeth with aabroom splint.
After breakfast he takes a walk
which is guaged according to th'
distance to the next town. He take
a great many papers, all, in fact, tina
any editor will permit him to carr,
away. He hasn't eaten dinner 70
twenty years, if the hotel keepe
= could keep him away, which he can
do very often. All the rest of tn
family do as they please about din
ner, He usesta knife a good deali
cutting his yictuals. He can not en-
dure any liquor in his whisky
Some one attempted to put som
+ gin in his gin cocktail once, whe
his back was turned, but he detecte
it immediately-and called tor som
more. ..,. 9,1..,- a.
He takes walk after supper-th
length depending on how far he ha
to walk after it. a
His invariable custom to retil
T. early; he acquired the habit Will
on his tour through the South, whel
I. it is feared, he wasn't altogether. III
derstood. In every place where b
= attempted to make a speech, he ws