Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-06-04
Cornwall Customs.

Among the annals of Edinburgh
medicine Is the following story, told
by the famous Doctor Cullen. lie
and two other physicians had an APP
pointment fora consultation about
the case Of Lord -, a Judge of the
Court of Session in Edinburgh. On
arriving ut the house they were me,
by the judges clerk, venerable oil
fellow, whose preternaturaliy grave
face beteken something unsual. GLOW
is his lerdship?p was the natural in
quiry. To which the clerk replied,
with apscnliar expression, al hope
he's weefw The judge was dead, but
the cautious scot was not, even under
the affecting circumstances, going to
commit himself to a decided opinion
with regard to his lato' masters well
fare in his present unknown place of
abode! The three physicians were
Of course exceedingly shocked at the
sad svent, and, after expression some
Of the commonplaces suitable for the
occasion, were about to take their
departure. But no; the old clerk
had another duty to perform. "Na,
gentlemen, you must na leave with
out takin' slittle refreshment." As
the judges cellar was as celebrated as
himself, no objection was nadc to
this hospitable invitation, and the
party were ushered ipto the dining
room, where their host for the time
being proceeded to decant one
of . half dozen of port standing
on the side-board. The port was ex-
cellent, and after a couple Of glasses
they ROSE to leave. The clerk, how
ever, put himself between them and
the door, and quietly locking it and
putting the key in his pocket, re-
marked, as he filled the decanter a
second time, "Na, na, gentlemen, yer
no gaun awa' yet. Among the last
words his lordship said to me were,
John, I'll have slipped AVA before
the doctors come, hut when they dae
come, jest ye sec that they no gang
GOT Of this hoose sober. Bring up a
half q dozen of my Earthquake port,
and e they dae their duty tot. It'll
no be said that the last quests in ma
loose went hame sober.' 1t was his
last wish, gentlemen, and maui lie
obeyedp"
"And to tell you the TRUTH" was
the doctors remark, as he related the
anecdote, "his lordship's wish was
strictly obeyed, long afore we left
the table there was ia ane o. us could
bite DOR thumb"
1t was a hard drinking time-a
time of bachanalian toasts and loyal
bumpers, when gentlemen" sat
downsearly to, and rose up late from
the dining-table; when at certain Pc
RODS of the evening boy was intro
duced under the table to unloosc the
l~ieckcloths Of gentlemen who fell
down drunk ; and when a remou-
STRANGE at some one more temperate
than another passing the decanter
thought to be more stringent if
1t was enforced by calling attention
TO the fact, "that the NIGHT was young
callant's no under the tablet"
All classes of society drank, and
drank frequently to excess, too. A
farmer would 60 into a tavern
when the landlady was "sctting" a
hen, and would never come out again
until the chickens were running about
His superiors might not carry things
to such All excess, but atwo days
drinking bout was thought the most
thing in the world, and the
capacity for standing q certain num-
Der Of bottles the test of q thorough
good fellow. These were the days of
men, and in st. Andrews
University was..a students club called
the Nine-Tumbler Club, the test of
fitness for entrance into which was
The ability Of the candidate, after
drinking nine tumblers of hot Wills
Key toddy, to pronounce articulatcly
Fhe words, "Bib-li-cal criticism" A
misery old laird used to make it his
boast, that SO POPULAR man was he
hat lie could 60 to market with six
'ence in his pocket, and come home
trunk with the sixpence still in his
Lord Marine, after returning from
ais long exile in Frahce, on account
II his adherence to the House of
stuart, expressed himself, in the COM
,any Of the friends who had gathered
'ound him to welcome him back
gain, thoroughly Disguised with tho
ober habits of, the Parisians. 81
anaa express to We, gentlemen, the
abstraction 1 feel in getting men of
ONE sense about me, after being SO
ang plagued WI q set o. fules nae
'stter than brute beasts, that Wilma
rink MAR than what serves them"
Another gentleman who had disin- 4
,erited his SON, reinstated himin his 8
igtts when he discovered, after al :
eparation Of some years, that the lad t
vas fair and sound drinkcr. Another '
\ baronet) observing that the family O