Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1879 — Orville Grant. [ARTICLE]

Orville Grant.

Almost any day about noon there can be seen about the Ebbitt House a man of square, compact build, rather shabbily clad. Hardly shabbily, either; but with a blue suit of clothes, showing the need of brushing and attention, his head covered with a black slouch hat, rather crumpled, and worn down over the eyes; on his feet a low-cut pair of shoes, the heels worn aslant, between which and the short pair of pantaloons is exposed a pair of white—once —halfhose. This comprises the outward make-up of Orville Grant, brother of the General and ex-President. In face and figure Orville is not unlike his distinguished brother. He is somewhat taller, but has the same oval face, wears his whiskers cut short, and has the same shaped head. When he walks the streets he carries his head down, and reminds one of a person trying to settle in his mind a knotty mathematical problem. If one says, “How do you do?” he returns the salutation pleasantly and passes on. Most of the time he is followed by a very ordinary black-and-tam dog, to which he seems to be much attached. Gen. Grant has no more enthusiastic admirer than his brother, though, strange to say, that, in speaking of the General, Orville always mentions him as the General, and not as his brother. Orville has a shambling, listless gait in walking that has given rise to the mistake that he is intoxicated. This is far from being true, for in late years he has not drank liquor at all.— Washington Star. Italy is afflicted with a champion pedestrian named Bargveri, who calls himself the “man locomotive,” and has a preference tor running races with horses. He lately invaded France, and walked from Montpelier to Bordeaux, a distance of 325 miles, in five days, for a wager of 3,000 franca,