The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-01-01
ODD YANKEEs.
Br 5AMEs PAnTeS

ODD FANKEEs.
Crc Br5AHEs PAHEeS.
/ From tbs Atlantic Monthly for JanasrTl
Aeunous thing about New England
Is the variety Of eccentric characters
to be found there. In almost every
town there is farmer or mechanic
Who has addicted himself to some kind
Of kDoEledge very remote from bis
1 occupation. Here you win 6ud
shoemaker, 10 little shop (which he
locks when he goes to dinner or 10 the
post Office, much 10 the inconvenience
Of customers), who has attained celeb
rity as a botaniss. In another village
there may be wheel-wright who
would sell his best coat for a rare shell;
and not far Of, farmer who IS q pret-
/ ty good geologist, and is forever peck
ing away at bis innocent rocks. Again
I you viii find a machiHist who IS enam
ored Of '1args paper copies Of stan
dard works and reioiees in the poses
sion Of rariEies 10 literature which he
cannot read. know an excellent
steeI-plate eDgraver, who besides being
universal critic, is particularly con-
yinced that the entire railroad system Of
The world is Wrong,--ties, rails, driving
wheels, sxles, oil-boxes everything,
---Snd employs his leisure in inventing
better devices Then there are people
who have odd achemes Of beDevolence,
such ~ that Of the Massachusetts, far
mer who went TO Palestine 10 teach the
0rientals the true system Of agriculture,
aud was two years in finding out that
they wouldn't learn il There are
morose men and families who neither
visit nor are visited; anil there is oC-
easionally, 4 downright miseT, Of tbe
ancient type, such a. we read Of in old
magazines and anecdOts books, There
are men, too of an extreme ecceHtricity
| of opinion. think there are in Boston
about dozen as complete, immoysble,
if not malignant Tories, as eau be
found this side Of COHstaaGinOple,
men who plume themselves upon
hstiDg everything that makes the glory
Of their age aud country. Aud, speak
ing Of Boston, sensible Boston,
what other city ever accomplished a
feat so eccentric IS the production Of
those twin ineo1gruities, Gsorgs Fran
els Train and The Count JohsHBess
A GOod Temperance story.
Judge Bay, The Temperance Lecture
/ in one his efforts, got of the following
hard bit at moderate Jrinkers.
"All those who IN youth acquire a
habit Of drinking whisky, at forty years
Of sgs viii be total abstsiners or
drunkards. No one can use hiskY for
years with moderation. If theirs is
person iu the audience whose eEperi-
ence disputes this, let him make it
known. l will account for It or ac-
knowledge that I labor under a mis-
take"
A tall, large man arose, aud folding
bis arms across bis breast said
~ offer myself as one whose expert
snce coutrsdicts your statement"
'Are you moderate driDkerT ask
ed the Judge.
g. 81 am
"HOw long have you drank IN mod
Grafton"
"FOrty years"
Sand were you never intoxicated 2"
"Never.H
"Wsll," remarked the Judge, scau-
ming his subject closely from head to
foot ''yOurs is singular case; yet I
think it easily accounted for. | Am re-
minded b. it Of little story: A col
ored man, with loaf Of bread and a
bottle Of whisky, sat down to dine on
the bank Of clear stream. In break
ing the bread he dropped some of the
crumbs into the water. These were
eagerly seized aud eaten by the fish.
That circumstances suggested h the
darkey the idea Of dipping the bread
into the whisky and feeding it TO them.
Hetried it. It worked well. Some Of
the fish ate it, became dunk, and float
ed helplessly on the surface. Iu this
way he easily caught large lumber
But in the stream was 4 large hsb very
unlike the rest. It psttook freely Of
the bread and whisky, with no percep.
tible effect 1t was shy of every effort
Of the darkey to take il He resolved
to have it at all hazards, that he might
learn its name and nature. He pro
cured net and after much effort
caught il, carried It to colOred neigh
Dor, aud asked his opinion in tbe mat
ter The other surveyed the wonder
moment, and then said ''Sambo, l
understand dis case. Dis fish is null
let head; It amt got any BRAIN r. In
other words, added the Judge, 'aIeohol
affects only the brains, and Of course
those bayiug none may drink without
INJURY
The storm Of laughter which follow
ed drove the moderate driuker sud-
denly from the house.-SontberR .S,oa.