Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1895 — An Odd Man. [ARTICLE]

An Odd Man.

The eccentricities of Hen ry Stephen Fox, an early English minister at Washington, were the laugh of the town. Fox generally did not arise until people were about ready to go to bed. When duty compelled him to rise earlier. Fox was like a an owl in the day time. "How strange,” said he to Mme. Calderon, one morning at a State “function”—“howstrange we look to each other bydaylight.” His debts compelled him to economy, and he rarely gave dinners. He once invited a large party to his house —Mr. Clay, Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Webster, and all the giants—and when they were all assembled, he said 1 : “Gentlemen, now be good, enough to put on your hats and follow mq.” And thus saying, he led the way to a neighboring eating house.- [The Argonaut.