Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-08

too much and does not sleep of nights
He was high roller for several wears
around Cincinnati, when he sudderlv
discovered he had stomach and since
that he has had no appetite to speak of
but he has enough dyspepsia for two
men. AT the Riggs House breakfasthe
worries down piece of toast and n
cup of coffee. During the day he takes
a bowl of soup and thin slice of roast
in the House restaurant, and later, at
the Riggs House, he takes moderate
dinner, knowing that if he goes beyond
the limit the demon of indigestion win
perch upon the headboard of his bed
during the long hours of the night.
Senator Edmunds is a good eater.
and, what may surprise some people. a
good drinker ut times Worry frequent
" the venerable Senator would have
found it very difficult to walk crack
in the floor. He usually takes his toddy
at John Hancock's, on the avenue.
where Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
punished great quantities of corn Juice.
Last Winter. Mr.. Edmunds awarded the
Senate restaurant to Francis, colored
attendant at Hancock 5, who had stood
behind the bar and mixed cocktails and
punches for the Vermont Senator for
the last thirty Years,
Senator Joe Brown, of Georgia. does
not look like it, but he is one Of the big
eaters Of the capital. His thin, wan
face does not bctray the formidable ap-
petite, for which you mustinquire with
in. A Georgia member said during the
last session, I'm tell you what makes
Joe brown so thin-he eats SO much it
makes him poor to carry it. The Geor-
gia Senator takes kindly 20 roast beet,
well done, and rice; hot biscuit for
breakfast, and corn bread and vege-
tables for dinner, with milk heavily
laden with cream He generally goes
three apples in his coat-tail pockets,
and ut intervals he retires to cloak
room and munchcs away on his fruit
1t was related OF Tom Corwin, the
great Ohio Congressional wit, that on
a certain occasion he called on a polit-
cal friend, but. finding him absent, ac-
cepted an invitation TO remain for dim
ner from the young lady of the house
This young lady, it seems, had mania
for using hard or uncommon words.
Looking ut the Senator from the head
OF til. table, She kindly inquired "Win
YOU take condiments in yourcotlee, Mr.
Corwn?N With q face OF marked
solomnity, and bowling gsavely to the
young lady, Mr.. Corwin replied: "Must-
ard and pepper, please, but no salt.
This story is brought to mind by Sena-
tor john Sherman's well-known pen
chant for ''condimentsm He is as fond
of pickles as girl of II, and the vine
gar he consumes will doubtless account
for the sour and singular quality OF his
yisage. Spiccd oysters are his delight
as we'll as picked herrings and breao
soaked in catchup. when Mr.. Sher-
Ean eats mutton chop said a waiter
at the Arlington, ''he wants it black
with pepper, and plenty Of sauce OF
mustard, and then, if he cant get bat.
termilk, he wants a sour lemonade.
Hon. Luke Pryor, of Alabama, is one
of our old-fashioned men, greatly in.
clined to primitive speech and habit.
He was strong Carlisle man durin,,
the Speakership contest. Being APP
preached by some Randall people who
wanted to convert him, be said: Con
tlemen, it is unnecessary to persuade
me. My mind is made up, We need
4 judgematic man and Kerlisle is the
man; | am for Kerlisle for Speaker
first, last and all the time This hon
est old member turns to fried bacon and
corn bread, with black coffee, unsweet-
encd, for breakfast, and for dinner the
substantial bacon and cabbage, roast
beef and a variety of vegetables, with
milk and butter There are not few
members to whom clearinghouse
with a frying-pan and corn-bread at
tachment and jug of old bourbon I'M
der the bed would appear as the chief
elements of comfort. 1t was Henry
Irving. the English actor, who said that
Congressman Reed, of Maine, bore .
striking resemblance to Shakespeare,
and, like Shakespeare, Reeds favorite
dish is enison steak or roast venison.
During the deer season he will put up
with nothing else With a cut of veni-
son, a glass OF celery, few slices OF
bread and bottle of claret the Maine
parliamentarian is oblivious to surround
ings,
Ex-Speaker Keifer, ofOhio, is pom
derous, beefy- looking maa, and he eats
like m n blowing. He means busi-
ness, and no mistake. 1t is q muscular
performance from beginning to end.
He assaults beef-steak as if he had
bitter antagonist in his grasp and was
determined to annihilate him. He CUPS
down a cup Of coffee as eXultantly as if
it We're an enemy he was burying out of
sight.
Senator Vance. of North Carolina,
likes a good dinner almost as well as
he does a good yarn. He is very fond
of roast beef, chicken and lamb, and
the dinner is the event of the day to
him. He never likes to dine alone. He
is fond Of company, and is never SO
happy as when he as three or four
congenial souls mt the dinner table with
him.
William Walter Phelps is the "dude"
of the House, but by no means an unin-
tellectual one; he is one of your steel
edge dudes, although actually and
emphatlcally he bangs his hair by comb
ing it over his forehead and clipping it.
He is intensely esthetic in his table
manners. He picks up piece of bread