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Show l'eculiar Taste in Dress. Sir Humphrey Davy, it is said, "rarely washed himself; aud on tho plea of sav- . ingtimehe used to put on his clean linen over his dirty, so that he litis been known to wear at the same time five shirts and five pairs of stockings." Here is a rare example of the indifference of the man of genius to the mere husk, or series of husks, which keep that royal part of him, his mind, in working order. Yet wtis not Kir Humphrey a mere sloven, J content at nil times with the first article j of clothing upon which ho might lay his hand. Though ho was bo reckless in the matter of shirts upon common occasions, when he used to go fishing "he would wear green," to resemblo vegetable life as much as possible, so that the trout j might have some difficulty in distin- j 1 , guishing the biped from the mere roots of 1 W the field; and when shooting he wore a I scarlet cap, "to shield himself from acci-, acci-, dent from other guns." All the Year , Eound. |