Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1900 — The Laziest Man. [ARTICLE]

The Laziest Man.

The laziest man in North America discovered himself the other evening in the sxvell bachelor apartments not far from Lafayette square, New York City, xvhere he lives. lie xvas lying on a couch in his lounging room, smoking a cigar, xvhen the cigar went out that is to say, the tire at the end of the cigar departed. The man raised himself on one arm with great effort, and snapped the messenger bell that xvas installed over the couch. Then he reclined and waited. After about ten minutes there xvas a knock at the door, and a messenger boy entered. “D’jou ring, sir?" asked the boy. “Yes, son,” said the laziest man in the xvestern hemisphere. “Just gimme a match off that table there, will you?" The boy handed the man on the couch a match and waited. The man relighted his cigar and smoked on. D jou xxant me to go sonicxx - hero, sir?” a skis! the lx»y, fidgeting. "No, that’s all." said the man. "Take that half-dollar on the table.” Then the boy went out, grinning.