Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-04-11
Peculiarities Of politicians.

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FROM the Herald OF Health.
| Everybody knows that the President
is smoker, and tremendous one, too.
He told me that while he was in the
field he smoked literally all the time;
but that in civil life, confined to the
house as he is many hours in the day,
he has been obliged to reduce the num-
Der of cigars thai he allows himself
Especially in walking does he smoke.
| He takes his solitary walks regularly,
every day, and graduates the length of
the walk to the length of the cigar
| When John Quincy Adams was Secre-
tary of State and President, he set an
enee to bathing. Every morning, early
during the summer months, he took his
plunge into the Potomac. In that form
OF hydropathie yea, the present oecu-
pant of the White House certainly does
not initiate Mr.. Adams. The Execu-
tive Mansion enables him to take his
iabultions in a more private and more
agreeable manner than by a swim in
the great river. But President Grant
has another habit, which is very whole
some, both for mind and body--be be-
lieves. in the sanitary value, of an occa-
sional journey, trip to the seaside, q
run across the continent. ,-,.,fi.f... I,
1t Is hard to find fault, even in the
mildest fashion, with man like Mr..
Colfax. Hissudden and alarming i'll
ness last year led to pretty wide dis
cussion of his health and habits. Some
very ridiculous and false. things We're
published on the subject, Mr.. Colfax
has always been a very healthy man.
He believes in health, He has tried to
take care of his health. He, is ia jolly
and an eloquent, advocate. of the sanf-
tary value of constant cheerfulness, of
resistance to bother the worry, of the
avoidance OF. personal quarrels, of mod
Grafton in ambition, of living at peace
with God and man. Morever, he takes
all the exercise he can get in rapid
walking about Washington; he is very
temperate in eating; and all his Ii fe he
wholly abstained from Intoxicating
drinks. ...i. ,.,.. :,
Charles Sumner is a prodigy OF. phys
ical endurance. I have it from his own
lips that tor many years, indeed for
nearly his whole life, he has worked
fourteen hours day. He has never
been smoker. He lives generously"
and, in very temperate fashion, is a
wine-drinker. In his younger days he
was famous pedestrian, striking off
for his dozen miles without the least
difficulty. He has given that up. He
literally takes no exercise. Living so
hearty, living so laboriously, shut up
to his pen and books for so many hours,
it's astonishing that he keeps so well.
But he is a man who viii go when he
does go. - -, q,
Senator Schurz is another interesting
figure in the Senate, What are his
health hahitss A glance shows you a
noble physical endowment. He has
muscular, active, vital frame; all his
movements are quick and vigorous, and
with proper care he ought to have
length of days and great honor. As to
drinking and smoking, he Is thorough
German-if we may still say if Ger \
many has any monopoly OF these grae7
es. I mean especially that he has a Ger.
mans faith In beer, aud a Germans
ability to flash intellectual light from
the midst of dense clouds Of tobocco
smoke. Z