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Show against tne cramp wnen ne piacea ms shoes on going to bed so that the right shoe was on the left of the left shoe, and the toe of the right next to the heel of the left. If he did not bring the right shoe round the other side in that way he was liable to the cramp. Dr. Johnson used always, in going up Bolt court, to put one foot upon each stone of the pavement ; if he failed he felt certain the day would be unlucky. Boffon, the celebrated naturalist, never wrote but in full dress. Dr. Eouth, of Oxford, studied in. full canonicals. A celebrated preacher of the last century could never make a sermon with his garters on. A great German scholar writes with .his braces off. Reiseg, the German critic, wrote his commentaries on Sophocles with a pot of porter by his side. Schybel lectured at the ago of 72 extempore . in Latin, with his snuff box constantly at hand; without it he could not get on. New York Ledger. Oddities of Great Men. The greatest een are often affected by the most trivia circumstances, which have no apparent connection with the effects they produce. An old gentleman of whom we knew something felt secure |