Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1877 — The Latest Curiosity. [ARTICLE]

The Latest Curiosity.

Kentucky has her Mammoth Cave and other natural curiosities, and now comes a human curiosity that may be considered great in the nineteenth century. In Henderson county, in the State aforesaid, lives a man, “sober, sensible, and 42 years of age,” and in the enjoyment of a good common education. His neighbors regard him as an intelligent biped, and yet “he never wrote a letter in his . life, never owned a postage stamp, and never received but one letter,” and that he wore out carrying in his pocket. He does not know the contents of the sealed missive. This man could never have been in love, never have had any important business with other men, never have had but one friend, or relative, or acquaintance who thought him worth a drop of ink.