Show A journalists eccentricity among the peculiar men of the newspaper fraternity of this thia city there is one who lias has a habit babit of uni Rual eccentricity lie he has I 1 as had occasion for or many years to trav arse daily and nightly up to a very vert late lour that part of the city between the postoffice post office and cooper union along chatham street and the bowery and he be lias has always made it a habit to give a sum of money ranging from two cents to ten to every beggar who accosted him along the route it must bo be a very expensive cla custom a I 1 f friend said to him one nig night bt as lie hande a I 1 nickel to a gray heard beard in the street not at all lie he replied I 1 you will be surprised when I 1 tell you that after keeping count for a while I 1 found that it cost me loss less than 1 a week all told I 1 now put 1 of change for charity every sunday in my my vest pocket and often haaf to hunt up a a beggar on saturday night to give him the quarter or half dollar that is left the newspaper man with this eccentric habit babit says he has but two regrets in liis his past life and they were impersonated in two street beggars to whom lie refused alms it would be easy to preach a sermon against such a habit babit A which aich however is not so generally prevalent as to make the sermon worth wort 11 our r ur while N new york sun |