Show FOLK WHO LIVE BY THE RULE OF CONTRARY london tit bits there is in the annala of eccentricity more than one instance ot men who as in the u of edgar M dupin turn night into day such a one was kierr lowe A man of good position who died a few months back at berlin throughout the entire he rose with and retired to at the first flush of dawn his principal meal being al ways partaker partaken par taken of at midnight at the present time there lives in one of aur busiest midland towns IBS shrewd a business man es one meet in a days end one whose life it might bo supposed was ordered on the most line and so tt to save in the matter of lii cals whereof dinner with its courses inverted i served at 8 a in luncheon att the customary hour and alik h usually insists of egged tea and three hours to tho hour fixed for retiring to rest dean gwilt as it well knoer kept bis birthday a day of example followed and amplified by a gentleman who formerly for meily lived in the of tho metropolis not oly hafi hi birthday an for burrow but christina day and other festivals wore observed ft fast days the other hand the of his parent and deaths were marked by jovial gatherings gath eringi and he left diorec eions which were not carried out that ins own demise celebrated aitu especial rejoicing to sir charles J baylor who died some year back a orlou may perhaps be credited that perversion in domestic arrangements aich attained its in ahe celebrated topsy bouso that was exhibited at tho paris exhibition and a at earle court this lali tr architectural 19 ir tay lors dwelling was on tle bitti oitti ide normal everything within literally up aids down the chairs tables beds etc all of which were constructed to meet owners acquire in that anomalous position perchance the fi the wall busman state of beiji s entirely jn hand may have su seated to ampel a wealthy syrian land onar his own domestic arrangements whereby not only SA his fc paramount but in every department that ie usually undertaken by the ses woman has superseded imn there are female coachmen female foot nien ceroalo gardener while on aho other hand krucli duties as usually pertain to girls and women are undertaken by lads and perfect paradise for domestico domestics tnuett inive ben ahe bervi e of a french i inan who had ft villa in the i environs ot and so big in it his duty to hie bonnet ae to consider ho isaid to ao wait upon those nhom his bidding at time he his fronds to partake of lile hospitality and to hearld abot such i a cleaning his boots or brushing brus hing his valeta clothe subsequently became ly however ilia eo glaring that be was placed under restraint another original whom the asylum ultimately ti claimed was a bert ain mr cooka who although perfectly rational on all clae concel cd the notion that h had been transposed PO tant hi feet were where his head should be and vice versa to remedy he wore n hat shaped like a boat while feet were swathed in caps hil means enabled hini to remain at home hi eccentricity waa borne by hia family until it suddenly alie household and ho waa discovered one morning endeavoring with considerable vigor to ram the head into an old boot equally perverse were the idea of a hii n spinster a frequenter of bath during the early part of the last century taho imagined that all the women servants that composed her household were men and that her men eer vanta were women indoors therefore male attire vac ordered to be donned by all her maids and female garb made after her own design by the i butler and footmen |