Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-08-15

customed 10 making himself SO uiuon Nv
home.
The walls we're hung with war maps,
cobwebs, Fourth Of July posters, news
papers, auction bills, old clothes, &c, |
asked 81. NJ what were his iavorite books,
and he pointed TO a shelf on which were
displayed volume OF Patent Office re-
ports, the Congressional Globe for 1860,
two volumes of public 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 may
be- gathered from this.
81. NJ has keen appreciation of hui
NOR, and consequently is great admlrer
of Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy He
reads It to the editor of the You Bet, be-
cause he says he don't like to laugh
alone He hasn't very high opinion of
Greeley as comic writer, but says he
does Just as foolish things as any of them.
Although 81. ~ isn't much on war, he
prdes 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 very pecu-
liar. He never dresses himself before he
gets up in the morning, and he don't dress
very much then. He rarely washes him
self, as it consumes valuable time that
should be employed in philosophical re-
| Elections.
His breakfast is very light, usually
sometimes confined to picking his teeth
with broom splint. After breakfast he
takes walk, which IS gusged according
to the distance to the next town. He takes
great many papers, all, in fact that an
editor will permit him to carry away, He
hasn't eaten dinner for twenty years, if the
hotel keeper could keep him away, which
he can't do very often. All the rest of the
family do as they please about dinner
He uses his knife a good deal in cutting
his victuals. He cannot endure any liquor
in his whisky. Some one attempted to
put gin in his cocktail once, when his back
was turned, but he detected it Immediately
and called for some more.
He takes a walk after supper-the
length depending on how far he has to
walk after it.
His invarable custom is to retire early;
he acquired the habit while on his tour
through the south, where, it is feared he
wasn't altogether understood. In every
place where he attempted to make speech
no was compelled to retire early. He says
he don't mind hens eggs, but they employ
goose eggs down there.
| read him report of one of his
speeches in the south, reported in the Dog
gond "Rsview," and be laughed and sale
it was garbled. Said he:
4 didn't say that labor-saving nipple
ments shonld be allowed to vote, and tina
thrashing machine was better than any
other man. Neither did | declare mysel
to be in favor of an equal Distribution o
the infammatory rheumatism in the Uni
ted States among the people, for IN fiv'
years it would be in the hands, feet elbow
knee joints, ETC., Of few again, Blu
what did say was that moving machine
do not digest as readily as the common
scythe among the working classes, an
that steam saw-mills are not as healthy
summer beverage as when worked b,
hand
l then asked him, ought he not to COZ
rect the erroneous reports of his speeohe
through the columns of the Bungalow
You Bet, as they might injure his pros
poets of being candidate for the Ian;
tic Asylum; but he only laughed, an
said it was contrary to the establshe
usages of his life to contradict any thin
or pay a cent.
then asked him, in view of the col
tllct that is going on between labor an
the rheumatism, what was to be done ?
He was thoughtful for moment, res
ing his massive brow upon the point of
steel pen, and then he replied: Il don
know, unless you lend me half dollar
His remark made such an impressio
upon me that | abruptly took my depa
ture. Yours, geographically,
FAT CONTRIBUTOR.