Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1886 — A Brain You Could Almost Hear. [ARTICLE]

A Brain You Could Almost Hear.

I once knew a man whose brain was one of the most active of his time, and yet his name is not known beyond the limits of his own school district. When his brain began to act, and as it* were to give down, you could almost hear it He had a fine scholarly mind and yet his liver was torpid. To show how nature delights to deal with incongruities, I need only say that although this man was a poet and an artist in his mind, he .ate pip with a knife and finally died in obscurity. He was not practical with all his greatness, and he walked down the,, long vista of life holding up his pantaloons by means of a shingle nail! How often is this the case? Why should men with the greatest mental endowments be also most prone to gastric eccentricities? And yet it is so. lam that way myself V-Bill-Nye. \ -