The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-02-13


to be called upon to FIJI Che record. I
In 1926, 80 and "a eachj five Sena-
tors were born, every fourth year be-
ing propitious, From 1926 10 1886
inclusive, the Senatorial CROP flourish
ed greatly, forty-one of tn 3 seventy
six having been born in those years.
From 1910 to 1S48 the yield was slim,
AZ, '46, and AZ showing 40 returns
at all It is little early, however, for
this crop and the harvest wiz show in
later Senates. Five is the rAaximum
number Of births for any one gear.
Senator Logan, of Illinois, an Sen
ator Harris, of Tennessee, are thN honly
Senators too modest to tell theiv Nges,
but circumstances indicsssc that they
are in tile three score neighborhood
and old epeuSh to be less diff lent.
lTh- Florida Senators were born in the
same year, 1884, and the same may
be said of the Oregon Senators, who
came in in 1885. The greatest dis
parity in ages Of colleagues appears in
the Wisconsin duo, Mr.. Sawyer hay
ing twenty-nine years the start of Mr..
Spooner, who was born in 1945.
In the matter of occupation sixty.
I
two Senators are lawyers or studied
law and fourteen of them business
men. Several of them have edited
newspapers and taught school, and
one was a carpenter before he became
Senatorial timber. Railroad and bank
ing have not been neglected, and min
ing has paid some of them. Senator
Stamford is probably the richest
Northern Senator and Senator Brown
heads the list from the South. Sew
eral of them, North and South, are
the poorest.
OTHER POINTS.
Forty-one are serving their first
, term, twenty-seven their second, five
their third and three their fourth
Senator Sherman has just been fixed
D for his fifth. Forty-three have no war
|. record, twenty served in the Confeder-
ate army and thirteen were Union
soldiers, ranging from private to ma
l jor general, inclusive. AS to names,
a every letter of the alphabet is called
into service to spell them, and we find
two Wilson's, two Mitchells, two Mill
+ ers, three Joneses, one Brown and
u nary Smith. There are ten Johns,
e nine Jameses, five Williams, four
It Georges, three Charleses, two each Of
e Joseph, Henry, Thomas and Samuel,
u while Daniel, Ephraim, Eli, Jonathan,
/ Zebulen, Benjamin and Matthew tes-
y tify to the Scriptural training of the
u Senatorial parentage, as do Eugene
Dwight, Preston, Omar, Francis
Arthur, Randall, Warner, Austin, Mel
,e son and Wade to the patronymic and
r aesthetic
8. Fifty of the gentleman are accom-
ia panied by their wives or daughters, Oh
is both, and the only really and complete
g. ly bald-headed Senator in the body il
O. not. With one or two exceptions pos
e, sibly, every Senator shows a sprink
ID ling of gray in his hair. One or two
IS with good heads of hair part it in til,
it, middle. Moustaches of the most fash
ID ionable cut are worn by some. Chin
o. whiskers are not unpopular and tn,
a, smooth face is not entirely absent
e, 1t would be hard to say who is tn,
ia handsomest and harder ION the say
s. err to say who is the least handsome
n Take it by and large, there is not
s. Senator homely enough for his fac
It's to hurt him, and there isn't one VIII
IL doest nurse with tender care a stra,
L. thought that there is in his appear
gs ance one or two features worthy o
ne more than passing admiration
IN Whatever else may be said of then
,ly they are the a5lest assembly of mel
as in America, and the Goddess of Lib
III erty points to them with pride a
k the most important rs the Republi
,w has known since the original Y
nd made its initial appearance in Phil
nd adelphia, about one hundred an
elf ten years ago.-W. ]. L. in tn
ar Phila. Times.
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