Voi af GR Res MEN OF FAME, WIT AND CONGRESS Tam Men Who Deliver L List of the “Truly Great” Ouirkly Feed Runs Out Sledpe Hammer Verbal Dlows Yar Oras tors and Personal Pride me has his Tiered pec Harity. There is the a DI : which has beer of a bedragled | the gr draw) + Cannon, ‘the oan 14 never th It will} future, for VOieTS © and old comtine t on see reat (jues i rizhix, ; Men Who Are Famous. There or: not many really celebrated men in ce Of the 356 members of the Kense it wonld be a big estimate to say “hat one in ten is known outside ! irae each mem- ber is grea at in a his districi—or the people | think be is till he gets hére—bnt there | are eh state Gelegations without a man whose fare is nats mal. 1 was in a group the other evening of | maty 7s and members who make no jre- ipse to rational f@me when each one sade ont his list of the truly great men Pairing them on party ting the men of simiiar ther. the list with the lar- ri ran thus: Speaker Crisp and Villis arn Li Ww jlgon and J. C. AM lin and Miliixen, Ding ya, Tamer of Cis reia and szack nset! : Bland and Joe Lerson and Dalzell, Bouatelle : iis there are Repulbilie- ve voles. 3 : rae ch Ar- ¢ Breci RinTi ges, Springer, “John Alles, Bourke Coekran, $litt. Harter and some others. | » there are at least 23 men of | really natioval fame, or one in 135, and here comes in a fine : Je int of Washing-! ton etiquette. It fot considered ex- actly the t ainember's state im if ho i= at all famous. i 10 be K2 indepencent ily insert. it, kovwing very well there are mil- Lions of readers who cannot at once re- call the state even of a t lerably great man. At icsst hall the members are ctics ily never beard from. There is ai ; ! Jans pop men all’ the time, Fersonul Peculiarities. ‘speaker, as 1 said, has ais pe f delivery, but still more in thes nt vof his speech, and itis a con- vietion amoaz the Democrats that Tom | Read can speak with great force and | ability for just 30 minutes only, There-| oy hey say. ‘be runs out to a feather edge.” It is indeed true that Lis long | and set speeches do not rank as high as, his short ones in a running debate. . George Wise of the Ric ‘hmond district is jocularly known as the Talmage of the one MET EES. Oo nati after naming He is = a pRIEQ of its siate, but 1: a thing hi were { Jooked upon as “reg { subject comes up. Ger ‘a Populist. i of the : able -that *| Afraid of His Party.” al. Berry of Kentucky whe. gales man in the honse or the city, ee : ches high, and John ‘Wilsc azhington state i ED a hie the lightest, but doubtless the fail est in physical makeup. Henry U. i* usually consis ie red the tempered and is by ail odds 1 BLO AT AT a common fut And jhe re is Tiveedy oe oy and wak: eping member, who aross, and x his e Yes mi ade a motion tow . thers called in from the t were was pat, « loot rootie the eas” and no “noes,” and mnly flsd pad done a really impor- here seven “ye [ these savers of the nation sols out as if they tang thing. : : Specialty Orators. There are certain members wi niars” on oCeas that is, they invariably speak and great earnestness when their partic yeral Or of Ohio isa war orator. He always talks as if Lee's army were camped just the other cide of Bnll Run, and every hitch or snarl in current politics is explained or illnstrated by him by something done in the war. He loses no fair opportuni- ty to say that all this racket abont the tariff and onrrency is a contin the old southern programme. telle's specinlty is war and navy. Their great antitype is W. Jasper Tal bert of the Second South Carolina d trict. who réally caught t » ba eneonr- aged, for he has ion ed a great de: of quiet amusement to the house pecially to the lion 2. ‘He is called Demic i. ands! the one thoronghly “"nnre- = ig 1iAL SY ENROT fr. Bon- 3 ¢ » T:i} - rat if y Liiiman Aida eons Inet Some of has colieagnes sa) given up that the Sonthern was whi Tr « an 1] seen 10 misty wotioniths is only a begin again will whiy cotirse, | [emorrats who . rith some cause, for when the Ra bite ‘ stir hum up he pours out conside verbal venom, and itis of n kind can pe guoted and charged gener- ally to his party. un fact, any y kind} of a slurring r« ferouce fi to the sonth cr Somth Carolina gets him ans | hoofs™ immediately. Other Characteristies. General Sickles is known as “He says deal about being a Demis colleagues say that be never, never party wants. " The two men who take the most com- | fort in their positions are Lafe Pence of Colorado rnd “Old Man” sas, as he is affectionately called. satizfacticn in being membérs of - house. He breaks all to piee es in his fer- | wor ara doanbies around hike an acrobat. Old hubitnes of the gallery say thisisa characteristic of the Wise family. "A fiw aon speak as Sullivan and Cor: bett strike, as if they were delivering ponderous sledge hammer blows. Con-' spicuons among these are Bourke Cock- ran and Isider Rayner. A few gush in resistiess tose ois of words, most noted amopy then Dolliver of Iowa and Bro- “mas of Peneyiviaia. A few—a ‘very fow- there are whose speeches. both! 187 ERATE ad historians si pul in in their libraries he mouth of great warriors, snd at the bead of these stands Butrows of Michigun. “Artificial flowers under lass” was the description which Wilson ave of the foger’s tariff speech. Mr. va wrTUpLion. His Hivered as a ‘whole, and - of Governor ali his long service, thy mer] . SPELL dlls this was McRiz Tallest and Shortest. Amcng those wi bear mterrup- tion acd helpad by it, who are in fact happy at 1 i Tite. are ’ Rs ed, John Allen l anit Clark. And Jerr Banoo Ot bad, General Mon BY Bui i particularly apt at audwering questions All who were ii ghngress with lam res miler Ben Barterworth of Odo fo r Lis remark- able shibty ba los Hy Yn nerally genialqu £108 10 Leal | al 2 Xp Le Was LiL : ! ¢ house. hers sof CONEUess as onsiderably larger in in head and chest han do mankind in gener- a whole av sige, aud esp MeRSULTE ie read hike those the ancient’ HIleNES 8 good men, but know them yr are in al The ; beautiful walls al i vient and im conv ret: of the fact rthly ambition. is a seat in this house being as great an haaor as any 1 bn ire to on this earth. «f the house sometime Fe NCE We ld hardly heaven nnless a Imre #4: But as charge Te in] he were ans net | mnt 1: not fit to be 4 “6h nation of ‘ou the sh of hie, “(id Man | a good | rat. ad his i that | is, *ardly ever—votes for anythin 2 the Baker of Kan- | Their! Likewise Obuyed O ders and Feorablisbed aad a sncesssfng ax a collec ok ahont ax sw. He insists Pole itt, just 38 he Tignes When Oise ns apart and cl - . fie pied {hia ext " 3 Ag et ¥ * gu Pe the cogwn - 2 G ‘as RA LTAWer + RJT WON who La drawer gsed and whic the Tange Don't Crowd the \uet a maine BG \ FHE CROWN OF FAILURE. Yher ros han vel » When yrs have ! rag it i An Old Fashioned ging sort of on the red f water oe Lat A Cartious Ma. € Xislld No Good Reason Yet A . Bww 12 ey tre Dravrn Prem Yieilr Widing Places In the Fusests vo heard young women srhid Vv, mimicking ih 3 the blacxia pe pecbind aot feteh rate, «3 a of st. Be OWES When the us, he deg < ¥ gRftesty 1h WN arte i . 4 St Jauses Budget {iat Fun With the Policeman weldom thal ans of lhe fined sty {rant of man has nade ews lays wiki mmseil CXR TY I The driver nut ony the brake J¢ oh ’ ached the Lody. Just then ys rushed from the postaffice, 2 {na b x0 8, GhE GR al > E f Pel and fell street with f their ¢ com panicns, but much amnased Th 0 policeman fork San been silent witnesses of the joke. did act follow. — Nsw TRAINING got HANDS ALIKE. Shonid Not Be Done. In. one of his essavs in. a book em- titled * Brashwoosl, the late James T. Fields wrote: ere a boy again, 1 think I would learn to use my left hand ust as freely ag my night one, 39 that y wet wy 3.. ¢ianer all ready to r= ynst as friely And x aa of ns wonld th bands alike if we bad Of all the un der my in- of the School of. the lowa Ag- «cllege, not more than one in The * ad ocenrr ved. great many rT agait “ane 3 PES i t 1ui sweep properly. those who came « av oy 3 Ps an = 1 at Purdue aniver same. And as ond ext¢nds this ralic » Gon ard to women generall 3.4 Y »- id and young a hroe strained in eho be used at will demanded br th # the QA tiinetr 3 pears that « gion and eo Advanced Why IS = Tags of | pans mn a ater BranjiBesalt woatien's work that AisktoeR try 16: mention, aid so far as the use of the: left hand i» concerned mem are inno better condition than women, Mea and women ave ia this respect maimed and basdicappod alize Why shoubl sach «of things ext? Why, in this gal raining, shamld wp over leet {he edneativn of the and continne to friln sxpense of the left? r physeligist his evey wet hie = for so doing, i mlaore 35 coston sen 11 ses Bec carried down £ Wl ws a Tei SLi << the Cileatinie te Del Iseparie:l Apecstar f sends = auly nia “hing. B18, Gots ged Baal this money. it there are Med down » secre ined mi whes the np- the lower This is no wiFps 4 mechs Jong, m cighth of un mech if these SIDS are v0 A EMAINR, gether, ane on Wp of done and x held between o angers, when the workmin pro- coeds to hammer them out till he has #ne that they ih BOW ind a Sod broad and so thin ny = » wot thinker than the thin. rest paper This is next pasted on com- mont cardlvasd, which is thea out with » punching ‘gaekine to the iv of half ard tists paving ‘wea done 8 » cmt out pieces bi band . dies, cone represeniing the anid the other the meverse, bam. impressions of do Hass on them, 3 vady for wee. : ery curions, instante of the tice of cheating the gods iy record. 33 urngk |} Lot frum quite the conntry. ~ It ap- te of the Anbui prov- lately been ravaged by sh a many places the rend to the har An filémpt was HO iva » the geadx lip play- lay and pretend- 1 first day of the E x repaint ion for cele- ¢ year was made, noch recrackers amd past. nig Nappy sentences in red paper on the doors. The of sickness think that be bal made ns seasons and hud erred in an Snails gn the people at ulemics in the conse cheat SPpEAT. Asanvaction aatare dope by the gods is unnishiment by the king of setors in this fares thoaght : if Sc Rness would gather Bis evi] spirits back to him {ir fear of the displeasure=f his snperior divinity. This child's play received. the permis. ~operaiion of the local. an- thornes London Times. How the Solomen Islanders O%taln irs They select a stake of dry, soft wood. about as thick as a:nan’s writ. From - v slice off a few chips in ome place, 0 as to make a fat surface for rubbing. The stake is then placed on an front of the operator, as ope end of it ol olds it twren hig toes, He them. Gotiars toy lass and with two one side mers er AR =f 1a the 5 s ifferont ite bay od TBS nev *} Fos af DOG Rraing gay $e 13 the Fri wpe? takes a piece of hand wood. shaped like a pencil, and holding it with both bands begins rabbing up and down the Aart surface of the stake. A groove is formed ma the stake and a dark colored dust, which is pushed to the end of the groove. By and by this dast beaita to smolder. Next 3 piece of ried touchwond 13 applied snd blown until it glows. la this way, and with perfectly dried wood. a native will produce fire in something ! minute. But the art 3 S000 the island for dome ‘ime says that al- though he had tried anti] #ii shoulder * produce — New York World ached hs was ever shila . ore thal smoRe Two Foty Men. The Duc de Roquelaare was 2 man of great ugliness ated munch hazeor. One day be met in the street a ost anlove- lv leoking Anvergnat, who Lad some petition or nn oriat 70 presest at Ver : immediately. introduced nis XIV, re that he 1 special obligation to him. - king grarted the Savor asked for and then inquired of doe what might be the nature of the obligation. “Pug for hun, your majesty, 1 should be the ugliest man in yoar Juminiens!’ I am reminded of Hewdigger, the manager of the c¢pera house im the Haymarket w hen George 11 was king. 1 a wager with the Earl of Chesterfieid that he would not find in all! London an uglier face than bis After a long search the earl produced a woman of St. Giles’ who at frst seemed to cutvie the manage px bat when the latter put on the woman's i headz zEar his =u r ug: S as al mites 3 bo tae One day he lan Jiject was tomake the god to than sy learned, and a Enripean wk lived cn once igh a
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