| Show PERSONAL HABITS OF GREAT MEN I 1 I 1 several paragraphs have been going the rounds in relation to the habits of g great reat men which paragraphs as usual are all wrong inasmuch as we ive have bare had bad the pleasure of dining and hobnob bling ui u with i t h all the great j men of this and every other country on the I 1 face ot of the globek few illustrations illustration nai are given to prove this to the bau eal satisfaction of 0 everybody I 1 i rove doye mr ir seward generally rises fro froan m his bed in the about the time he be gets up he i rarely if ever eats his breakfast before he be gets ir it ile he is not particular what kind 0 of f food b he has if he is provided with what he calls for in hla hia dress he is plain never appearing a lie ife P earing in public without his pantaloons he never wears his vest outside of his bis coat he speaks his native dialect without any foreign accent and uses his tongue in all that he be utters when he walks he uses his feet which holcli are encased in boots or shoes As an evidence of the metho methodical lical precision with which he attends to business it is only nei cessare to allude to the fact that he be i bly draws his bis salary the moment it is due his memory in this respect is brodig prodigious lou iou S 1 he generally writes his bia leters or paper and uses a pen which at intervals he be dips into a at bt nd of ink that lie be keeps upon his table I 1 horace greeley is baid eaid to be the beau ideal of a man of style he dresses neatly and i elegantly his linen is faultless sometime since he shaved which operation has mater fally ialy faly altered his appearance his ills walk is firm and d like that of a soldier from the fact tact that all through his life he has kept hla hia arms well shouldered it is possible that nature intended him for the li fantry hla hia voice is peculiarly sweet and when he be whis pers one would almost imagine his bis words were the echoes of an eolian what inclined to obe ity of late years he be still maintains his hla reputation as a beau he reads from right to left contrary to the practice of his bis friend mr air bennett Bennet tx who owing to i a visual obliquity reads from left to right down the mid lies ties lie lle change hands mr greeley dines on vegetable soup and table beer he never dri ks porter his hearty sunday dinners are of crackers and cheese ile he retires to bed at an early hour and almost immediately composes himself hil biL self belf to slee blee sleep with a copy of the T abune sometimes when at a logs loss for a subject he varies the monotony of his editorials upon bennett by writing a pleasant and exhilarating novelty iivo ving personal and friendly allusions to the almighty his editorials are invariably short never elc eding four columns each pithy and devoid of verbiage general mcclellan will should he increase his flesh be more inclined to his age is at present somewhat greater than when he graduated at west point in disposition he ia is jocular when in a joking humor and exceedingly reticent when be he says nothing which latter fact is amply proved by the brevity and unsatisfactory nature of his dispatches after they have passed through the war office As a general he is cautious particularly so when he is careful ile he makes all his advances by going forward but never neven adopting the siame bame same meth method od of retreating a ting in his bis diet be he is particularly abstemious when there is nothing to eat and vice versa he is extremely approachable when you get near him otherwise you will be apt to keep your distance he does not exercise his tro troops with a two inch drill nor flor A 3 es he bore OM his friends in with an auer 0 f N Y YMon bar har |
