Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1879 — Habits of Public Mem. [ARTICLE]

Habits of Public Mem.

The report that Senator Carpenter is killing himself with nicotine, bysmoking twenty cigars a day, is a reminder that others are suffering from the same sort of excess. Most of the smokers in Congress smoke too much. Some of them carry a cigar in their mouths all the time. There are Senators and members who never walk down the avenue without the stump of a cigar between their fingers. One prominent man in Congress is rapidly killing himself with opium, and one of the doorkeepers of the House is at the point of death from the same cause. The public man I refer to is a popular ana respected man, whose strange ways have long been a wonder to those who do not know his secret habit. He is a kind and genial gentleman, but he is liable to pass his test friend with a blank stare half an hour after he has met him pleasantly in conversation. His fits of abstraction and depression amount almost to craziness. At times he is so odd and queer that his associates are puzzled. " Opium is eating up his life and he will not last * long. It is a pity, tor he is one of this best intellects in Congress, and he might render much useful public service if he would.—[Washington Letter Boston Herald.

Richard Coeur de Lion was the most stylish man in England in his time. When he put pn his tin helmet and cast iron ulster, and a pair of laminated steel boots, and picked up a club with au iron knob and a steel spike in the end, and set forth on a crusade, the fashionable society of that day considered him just “dressed to kill.” And so he was. And one time when he was dressed up that Way a fellow killed him- i,