Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — Too Fat to Walk. [ARTICLE]

Too Fat to Walk.

Sitting as a profession would seem a novelty, but that is the profession followed by a man in Indianapolis. His name is Harry Jennings. He weighs 360 pounds and his good nature is in proportion to his superabundance of flesh. So fat is he that walking is almost out of the question, but he manages to go from place to pjace where he serves at his profession. He has several customers. They are men who conduct offices, but employ no clerks, and in order to keep their offices open while they go to lunch or other meals, employ Jennings to occupy a chair and attend to business which may drop in during their absence. One of these offices has a telephone, and Jennings takes a seat at the telephone, where he will not have to stir during the houp he is on duty. His great pleasure is to sit in a reverse position in a chair with his chin resting on the back. He will sit this way for hours without hardly moving.- He draws a pension for obesity.—[lndianapolis Sentinel.