Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-07-25
NO. 80.

superiority, cOnspicuOusness of place
apart from the common herd; that
grandeur of soul and telescope COM
prehensiveness of eye which the rank
and file, the pawns, the vast unknown,
are accustomed TO associate with the
ideal of human greatness. When
Cassius desired To express his envy and
dislike toward the great triumvir, he
said, Upon what meat does this our
| Caesar feed that he is grown so great:"
Cesar, from all accounts, was rather a
spare man, and the allusion TO the style
of board enjoyed by the great conqueror
at that period must, OF course, have
been used in a figurative sense. Julius
was pretty good judge of character.
and when he expressed his partiality
for fat men over lean and.hungry ones.
he doubtless meant TO say that they
were less given to wire-pulling, plot
ting, lying and other political trickery.
Shakspeare's fattest man was certainly
his champion liar, but the prepOnder-
ance of evidence goes TO show that fat
There have been great fat men in the
world, many of them, but it is Il debst-
able question whether they did not
acquire their greatness before beginning
TO increase in adipose tissue. Napoleon
was fat man; so were Fox, Gibbon,
Arkwright. the elder Dumas. and many
others.
In the United States the Supreme
Court has generally bcasted prepond-
erance OF fat men, which may, of course,
be accounted for by the frequency and
length Of the sittings INDUCED in by
that remarkable body. Fat men have
not been uncommon sights in the
United States Senate. Perhaps the fat
test man who has ever graced that
honorable chamber is Senator Davis.
\ writer who has made a study OF the
matter insists that il is about as difficult
for an average $50 FOUNDER 10 become a
great man as for camel to 90 through
the eve of a needle. You may respect
a very TAT man, especially when he has
the upper and YOU the lower berth in 4
Pullman sleeping car or steamboats,
state-rOOm, but il is difficult TO discon-
meet his abdominal Totundity with
certain desire to laugh, and laughter is
the grave of awe. The ideal great man
is tall and massive. of muscular develop
ment and magnificent figure-head- 4
spare little man, like Thad Stevens or
Lord John Russell, has better chance
of being looked up 10 by the multitude
than a fat man little man, medium
sized fat man, or very tall fat man.
On the whole, we rather sympathize
with fat men. To De confidential We
know how it i Ourself. They are un-
able To tie their own shoes with any
comfort. and they cannot well run
away from an infuriated bull or bull
dozer. If they have feelings, which all
TAT persons have, these feelings are
derided. Their only hope upon human
sympathy is laughter. \ fat man who
cannot shake his sides i, a mistake.
Women pat him familiarlv on the cheek,
but avoid him matrimonially. He can
not 90 into solitude and do the romantic.
and who ever heard of fat man COM
hitting suicide: Everybody likes fat
man-''he i gentle. he i kind''-but
few would think of asking him 10 head
great movement or act as principle in
some heroic deed. Fat men have their
mission in the world, but with notable
exceptions. il Is more in the line oil
ioviality than greatness.