Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-20

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There are seventy-six Of them, ant
the great majority Of these are over *
years OF age John Logan is G2, Sher
man 63, and Morrill, Of Vermont, the
oldest man in the body, is 76. Senator
Edmunds looks older than ether Shcr
man or Morrill,, and his hair is frosted
and crown bald at Sc, while Kenna Of
West Virginia. the Youngest member Of
the Senate, looks like boy and has yet
to see his fortieth year.
These Senators are, as o rule, big men.
Their average height is over five feet
nine, and their average weight about
Ito pounds. The fattest and heaviest
Senator is Philetus Sawyer, who,
though he is short, will pull the beam
at $50. Stanford of California, Eustis
Of Louisiana, Beck Of Kentucky, will
aggregate at least 600 pounds, while
Palmer OF Michigan, Jones Of Arkansas,
George Of Mississippi and the doughty
west Of Missouri have each about $50
pounds Of solid flesh in their anatomies.
John Sherman has not an ounce of fat,
but his bone, brain. and muscle weigh
about 16O pounds. Chase of Rhode
Island, the Quaker, weighs $50. and
John G. Spooner about 125 pounds.
John A. Logan has grown fat lately,
and he now weighs about $50, while
ingalls,, who sits back of him, though
he is six feet tall, will not weigh more
than 40. 1t would take twenty Ma
homes to make ton, and the weight of
these twenty would not amount to as
much as that Of eight men like Senator
Sawyer. Malone is the leanest man in
the Senate, though Eli Salisbury Of
Delaware, Henry B. Paine OF Ohio, and
ingalls, of Kansas, crowd him very
close.
Payne, Walthall, Sherman, Sauls-
bury, ingalls,, Eustis, Brown, and Blair
are each six feet high, while Vest is not
over five feet six, and Spooner about
five feet four. / forgot to mention
Evarts among the thin men.
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Washington he gets the least fat out of
his meals. He looks very small indeed
as he sits, but when he rises you find
that he is of good height, and as he
draws those long four-hundred- word
sentences out Of his anatomy during his
speech You imagine that he must be q
giant. Ben Harrison Of Indiana is short
and inclined to obesity. Gen. Hawley
is taller, with o slight tendency the
same way. George Hearst from Cali
fornia, is q six .footer. and Maxey of
Texas has to take off his hat when he
goes through an ordinary sized door.
Riddleberger is above the height of or
binary men. Eli Salisbury looks to be
six feet six on account of his thinness.
and Wilson, the new Senator from
Maryland, although he is about six
inches shorter than Salisbury, looks to
be . foot less by the contrast.
1t were Cannibal I would rather
eat slice of George Hoar of Massa-
chusetts than any other Senator. Hoar
is the personifcation Of cleanliness, and
his complexion shows that he keeps his
blood in good condition. He is fair
skinned, smooth faced, and he looks
like Horace Greeley. Allison is an
other man who would serve up we'll,
and Henderson of Nebraska, and Cor
man OF Maryland would make dishes fit
for the King of the Fijis. don't think
there would be much demand for either
Sherman, Ingalls,, or Evarts in the
cannibal market, and Conger, Eustis.
kenna, and Chase, with their brunette
compilations, would only be in demand
on the principle that the dark is some
times the sweetest.
There are number Of bald heads in
the Senate, and the most patriarchal of
these is Joe Brown, who, with his long
beard Of white hanging upon his chest,
looks like Mormon elder. philetus
Sawyer and Henry b. PAYNE are both
bald rs to their crowns, and Gibson of
Louisiana, and Harris OF Tennessee are
fast growing the same way. Inote that
Senator Hoar's locks have to be very
carefully combed to cover the white
skin on his Uranium, and Austin F.
Pike of New Hampshire has head
whose top is as bald as that of drum
head and as shiny as that OF George +.
Edmunds. Walthall, who takes La
mars seat in the Senate, is one of the
long haired Senators. Malone, who
has gray locks, which he throws back
like a name, is another, and Morrill, Of
Vermont third. Colquitt of Georgia
does not part his hair at all. 1t is very
thick, or iron-grey and he combs it 10
Logan's hair is black as