The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-01
THESE LIVE BY
RULE OF CONTRARY.
EccentricltIes Of Prominent People Of
Various Lands.

EccentrIctIes of Prominent People Of
Various Lands.
There IS IN the annals Of eccentricity
more than one instance Of men who, as
In the case Of Edgar Poes hero, M Du-
pin, turn night into day. Such one
was Herr Lowe, a man of good position,
Mho died a few months back at Berlin.
sunset and retired to rest at the first
flush Of dawn. his principal meal being
always partaken Of at midnight.
AT the present time there lives in one
OF our busiest midland towns as shrewd
g business man as one could find In
days march, and one whose life, 1t might
prosaic lines. And so it is save in the
matter OF meals, whereof dinner, with its
courses inverted. Is served at a. m,
luncheon at the customary hour, and
breakfast, which usually consists Of eggs,
tea and toast. three hours previous to the
hour fixed for retiring to rest.
Dean Swift, as is we'll known. kept his
plrthday as day, Of mourning-an ex-
ample followed and amplifed by a gen
tleman who formerly lived in one of the
only was his birthday an occasion for
sorrow, but Christmas day and other
popular festivals were observed as fast
versaries of his parents and wife's deaths
We're marked by jOvial gatherings, and he
left directions, which We're not carried
brated with especial rejoicing.
To Mr.. Charles J. Taylor, who died
some years back at Boston, u. 8. A, may
domestic arrangements which attained its
zenith in the celebrated topsy-turvey
house house that was exhibited at the Paris ex;,
Earis Court. Aitho aM TniiRe this ' latter
architectural alteration, Mr.. Taylor's
dwelling was on the outside normal, ev-
erything within was literally upside down,
the chairs, tables. etc;-all Of which. were
especially constructed to meet their &C.
centric owners requirements-being In
that anomalous position.
Perchance the municipal governm ent Of
the small Russian state OF BesJukovsch-
tschina, which is entirely in women's
hands, may have suggested to Herr Lam
pei, wealthy Syrian landowner, his own
domestic arrangements, whereby not only
Is his wife paramount, but in every de-
partment that is usually undertaken by
the stronger sex woman has superseded
man. There are female coachmen, fe-
male footmen, femal gardeners, while, on
the other hand. such duties as usually
pertain to girls and women are undertaken
by lads and men,.
A perfect paradise for domestics must
have been the service OF a French gem
environs Of Paris, and SO big bee in his
bonnet as to consider it his duty to wait
upon those whom he paid to do his bid
ding. At times he would invite his friends
TO partake of his hospitality and to these
he would allot such servile tasks as
cleaning his chefs boots or brushing his
,yalets clothes. Subsequently, however,
he was placed under restraint.
Another original whom the asylum ulti-
mately claimed, was q certain Mr.. Cooks,
who. although perfectly rational on all
else, conceived the notion that he had
been transposed, so that his feet were
where his head should be, and vice versa
To. remedy this he wore hat shaped like
q boot, while his feet were swathed IN
caps. AS his means enabled him to re-
main at home his eccentricity was borne
with by his family, until 1t suddenly en-
braced the household, and he was discov-
cred one morning endeavoring with con-
siderable vigor to ram the housemaid's
head into an old boot.
Equally perverse were the ideas Of a
Miss Wemm, rich spinster frequenter
of Bath during the early part Of the last
century. who imagined that all the women
servants who composed her household
were men and that her men servants
were women. Indoors, therefore, male at
tire was ordered to be donned by all her
maids, and female garb, made after her
own design, by the butler and footmen.-
Tit-Bits.