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Show BWKAIllSii 'KltNO.N Al.H." Tljo New York Sun pet oft tho lul-. lul-. Iowiiik in it "1'cr.soimls" of a lute ' dale: Miij. t J on. Knink 1. Jilair Hwcurn roundly. Wr. iSumuol MoLaugldiu is noted lor proliinity. N'it'O-i'rcsident Collax was never heard to swear. Mr. Jtudcilplio hwearH in mixed ' French and iMiglish. Col. James Fisk. Jr. , linn reformed and swears no longer. Tho lion, l'oter 15. Sweeney never swears. Ho is a philosopher. Davis, the whisky man, was sent to prison lor false swearing. Tho most profano swearers are tho Custom llouso brokers. Maj. Gen, Ben liutler is tho most proliiiio su'earer in tho United States. George Alfred Towusend swears poetically po-etically and without meaning anything. Commissioner lien Wade is a very bad swearer, especially when ho is angry. an-gry. Gen. Dent, of Gen. Sherman's stall', swears with less sense than any other man. As a class, lawyers aro very profane. So aro surgeons. Fhysieians are the opposite. J udge MeCuun swears under provocation, provo-cation, and always with an effort to restrain himself. Geu. Sigel sworo in San Domingo when ho was not allowed to go out and attack Cabral. Mr. Samuel Sinclair, of Croton, X. Y.j swears as a porcupine raises his quills when he is mad. Commodore Vanderbilt has left off swearing, lie regularly attends the lxev. Dr. Deem's ehurcul Admiral l'orter swears during excitement. ex-citement. He swore when Grant lost his faith in human nature. Of all professions, those in which there is tho least profanity aro probably prob-ably the editors and actors. Murat Ualstead sometimes .swears. He does it with force and consistency, unlike Farmer Greeley. Gen. McQuade of Gov. Hoffman's staff swears moderately. Ho is gradually grad-ually conquering the habit. Judge Cardozo habitually abstains from swearing, but his friend James 11. Coleman swears sometimes. There are ladies who swear, but an oath from the lips of a woman is more shocking than from those of a man. James Gordon Bennett never swore more than to say "D nit!" which he pronounced with a Scotch accent. The New Y'ork Board of Aldermen never swore so hard as when Warren Leland didn't ''divide fair" on the Japanese swindle. Gen. John A. Logan used to swear, but does so no longer. He is a devout member of the Methodist Church. He has been talked of as a candidate for tha Presidency. One of tbe worst instanced of pro-faniiy pro-faniiy was when the Hon. Horace Greeley swore at Susan B. Anthony. It was worse than his swearing at Gen. Andrew Jackson Hamilton Duganne. |