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Show QREELEY'AS A POSEUR;. (treat Editor Was Prone to Harmless-Affectation. Harmless-Affectation. There was a great deal of Innocence In Horace Greeley as well as not a llttlo llt-tlo nffoctatlon. Mo was rarely seen without one trousers teg carolossly caught In tho upper part of hta boot, and a necktie with a bow undor his oar. Once In tho public room ot a hotel a- friend ot Oreoley's kindly pulled down tho disarranged, trousers leg and straightened the necktie, Greeley thanked htm nnd soon after left tho room. When In the course of halt an hour ho appeared In tfio street the trousers leg and the necktie hnd boen carefully disarranged, and the 'mnn looked as negligent ot things earthly aa ho always looked. It was part r his poso a a roan ot genius to wear his trousers leg and his nock-tto nock-tto aa If ha had put them on- In. a hurry while absorbed In meditation. It waa a harmless eccentricity. |