Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-11-19
rThs Private Habits q Horace GIreeIey,

Nr. Gfoeloy gets up az tn1eo o CLOCK N
the morning; for it is one Of his fayorite
maxims that only early rising can keep the
healtl-uuiInuniT0llI Ilud the bum iRofuuA.
He then wakes up all the household and
assemblies them in the library, by CANDLE
light, and, after quoting the'beautiful lines
"Early 10 bed and early 10 risol.
Maize man healthy, wealthy and WISE"
he appoints each individuals task for the
day, sets him at it with encouraging words,
and goes buck to bed again. | mention
here, in do faalt-fnding spirit, but with a
Difference Justly due q man who is older
and wiser and worthier than ], that he
snores awfully. In Q moment of irritation,
once, / was nash enough TO say ! never
would sleep with him until he broke him
self of this unfortunate habit. Ihaye kept
my word with bigoted and unwayering de-
termiAations tt t
Al half.past ii o'clock Mr., Greeley riaos
again. He ahaves himself He considers
that there is great virtue and economy in
shaving himself. he does it with dull
razor, sometimes humming a part Of
tune, Che knows part Of tune, and takes
an innooent delight in regarding it as the
first half Of Old Hundred; but parties ia
miliar with the hymn have felt Obliged to
confess that they could not recognize 1t,
and. therefore, the noise he makesis doubt
less an unconscious original composition OF
Mr.. Greeley,s,) and, sometimes, when the
razor il especially dull, be accompanies
himself with q formula like this: Damn
the damned razor, and the damned out
cast who made it. "-H. G;
He then goes out into his model garden,
and applies his vast store OF agricultural
knowledge to the amelioration OF his cab
baoes; after which he writes an able agri-
cultural article for the instruction of Amer
iean farmers, his soul cheered the while
with Che reflection that if cabbnges were
worth eleven dollars apiece his model farm
would pay.
: Tho next goes 10 breakfast, which is a
frugal, abstemious meal with him, and con-
.sisis Of nothing but just such things ast the
market affords, nothing more. He drinks
nothing but water nothing whatever but
water, and coffee, and tea, and Scotch ale,
and lager beer. and lemonade with a fly in
sometimes house fly and sometimes o
horse fly, according 10 the amount OF IN
spiration required to warm him up TO his
daily duties. During breakfast he reads
the Tribune all through, and enjoys the
satisfaction of knowing that all the brilliant
things in it, written by Young and Cooke
and Hazard, and myself, are attributed II
him by confding and internal public.
After breakfast he writes short edlto
rial, aud puts q large dash at' the begin
ming of it, thus (-), which is the samt
as If he put II. G. after it, and takes o saw
ace pleasure in rejecting that none OF Vi
understrappers can use that dash, excep
IN prof.ne conversation when chatting owe
the outrage. He writes this editorial IL
his own handwriting. He does it because
he is 30 vain of his penmanship. He al
ways did take an inordinats pride in hi
! penmanship. He hired out once, in hi
young days, as writing master, but thu
enterprise failed. The pupils could no
translate his remarks withany certainty
His first copy was Virtue ID its own re
ward" and they got it 'Washing with soaI
is wholly absurd" and so the trustees dis
charged him tor attempting to convey bat
morals through the medium OF worse pen
manship. But, as ] was saying, he writes hi
morning editorial Then he tries to reat
! il over, and G. n do it, and so sends it t
the printers, and they try to read it, an(
can't do it; and SO they set it npat ran
dom as you may say putting IN what word
they can make out, and when they ge
aground on long word they put in IRE
construction" or universal snffrage," ant
spar off and paddle aliead, aud next morn
ing, if the degraded public chn tell what i
is all about they saysH. g. wrote it, anc
if they can't, they say it is one of those
imbecile understranpers, and that is thu
end OF it. 2e.g
On Sundays Mr. Greeley sits in q promi
nent pew in Mr.. Chapin's church, and leti
on that he is asleep, and the congregation
regard it as an eccentrieity of genius.
When he is goingto appear IN public
Mr.. Greeley spends t.so honrs on his toilet
He is the most painstaking and elaborate
man about getting up his dress that lives
In America. This is his chiefest and hii
pleasantest foible He puts on his ole
white overcoat and turns up the collar
He puts on soiled shirt, saved from the
wash, '34d leaves one end Of the collar un
but'oned He puts On his most dilapida
ted hat, turns ii wrong side before, cants II
Oh 10 the back of hishesd, and jams an
exhe dent in the side Of it. He puts OF
his most atrocious boots, and spends fifteeI
minutes tucking the left leg Of his pants in
to the boot-top in what shall seem the
most careless and unstudied way. But his
crayat-it is into the arrangement o.
his cravat that he throws all his
soul, all the powers of his great mind,
After fixing at it for forty minutes befort
the glass it is ever perfect-lt is askeN
every way-it overAows his coat-collar on
one side and sinks into oblivion on the
other-it climbs and it delVes around about
his neck-the knot is conspicuously dis
payed under his left ear, and it stretches
one of its long ends straight Out
horizontally, and the other goes aftei
his eye, in the good old Toodles fashion
and then, completely and marvelously ap
pareled, Mr.. Greedy strides forth, rolling
like sailor, miracle OF astounding cos
tumery, the awe and wonder OF the nations
But | have not time to tell you the resi-
of his private habits. Suffice it that he ii
an upright and On honest mana practical
great Drained MANA useful man to his ma
tion and his generation--a famous mar
who has justly earned his celebrity-ant
withal the worst dressed man in this or any
other country, even though he does take sc
laundering much pains and puts on 80
many frills about it. = WateS' Spirit Of tn
Times.
A Wife Disguises her Lover as Woman
and Introduces Him to Her Husband
The GOssips Of GreenpOlnt Excited.
A curious phase in elopements was de
veloped last week in the northwestern
corner of Brooklyn, otherwise known q
Greenpoint. The particulars, as far as as
ceItained, are as follows:
A married woman, residing in Oakland
street, between Meserole and Normal
avenues, has for some time past frequentl
visited New York under pretence Of seeinI
her sistor. On tla,s23d Of last month, o.
returning from one of these visits, sh
brought home lady with her, who was in
troduced to her husband as Mrs. Cleveland
an old schoolmate Of the wife, who wishe
TO stay with the family for few days Th
generous husband acquiesced in eyerythin
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