Stuart was an inveterate punster. Mr. Allston, calling on him a short time before his death, asked him how he was. "Ah!" said he, drawing up his pantaloons, and showing his emaciated leg, which in his youth had been his pride, "you can judge how much I am out of drawing."
STUART BORN IN A SNUFF-MILL.
Stuart was an inordinate snuff-taker. He used
to jocosely apologize for the habit, by saying that
"he was born in a snuff-mill," which was literally
true, for his father was a manufacturer of snuff.
He said, "a pinch of snuff had a wonderful effect
upon a man's spirits." An old sea captain once
observed to him, "you see, sir, I have always a nostril
in reserve. When the right becomes callous after
a few weeks' usage, I apply for comfort to the
left, which having had time to regain its sense of
feeling, enjoys the blackguard till the right comes
to its senses." "Thank you," said Stuart, "it's a
great discovery. Strange that I should not have
made it myself, when I have been voyaging all my
life in these channels."
STUART'S NOSE.
Stuart always maintained that a likeness depended
more on the nose, than any other feature, and in
proof of his theory, he would put his thumb under
his own large and flexible proboscis, and turning it
