The Washington critic., 1888-04-14

MN 10 Napplc ullcOm1ortaDly. lie
chews tobacco without limit. and
hates idleness so badly that whenever
his hands are not serving some useful
purpose they are nerv6usly littering
the Senate floor with torn bits of
paper He shaves his big face
smoothly every morning before break
fast. He has been In the public ser
vice, with but slight interruption, for
fifty years, and has served under
three flags. lie was q surveyor in the
Republic Of Texas, a Congressman
when his state went out Of the Union,
Postmaster-General in Jefferson
Davis's Cabinet, but has been in the
Congress at Washington altogether
seventeen years. .n,
OLD REPRESENTATIVES,.
The more youthful House has only
six among its 325 members who have
passed into the seventies. OF these
Judge VIM. D. Kelley is the oldest,
both in years and in service. He Is
- this month, and has been in the
House uninterruptedv for twenty
seven years, and sill continue there
as long as he is able 20 take his seat.
His associates pay him the compli-
ment at the opening OF each Congress
to allow him 90 choose his own chair
without resorting 10 the general
raiie. He also swCars in the Speaker.
Judge Kelley was proof reader at
the outset, and for the succeeding
| five years iourncyman ieweler in
| Boston, while for the next ten years
| he was Judge ia Pennsylvania He
came to Congress In 1861 He las
been sick for eighteen years, and
three years ago the surgeons cut out
! his palate. This was made neccs-
sary 10y his long-continued habit
Of living night a. well as day.
with quid Of tobacco in his cheek.
| Now he never uses the weed in any
form. But strawberries and goose
berries will always hereafter taste
alike to him. His only beverage at
dinner and during the evening il
champagne, which he believes Is the
| preservcr of his life. Every now
and then even this stimulant fails,
and he has to inhale oxygen. lie IL
hard worker and sits up late with
his private secretary. lie needs very
little sleep, and is in his cold water
bath every morning before most OF
his fellow-members have opened
their eyes. He walks a good deal.
| and his strong, musical voice is un-
| impaired.
| EDWARD j. GAY OF LOUISIANA
is the next oldest Representative.
He was ~ in February and never
held public Office until he was 20,
when he took his seat in the House,
| but he has been merchant for fifty
years. He is Il lively old gentleman.
| COLONEL RALPH PLUME
Of Illinois Is another man who did
not enter Congress until ho was 70.
He became 72 last month, and stands
third among the six oldest Congress
men. He was 40 when admitted to
the bar, but has devoted himself
mostly TO commerce. lie is wonder
fully vigorous and is very careful of
his diet and in all his habits.
GENERAL WILLIAM vANDEyER
is fourth IN the list He has just
passed his list birthday. Few men
have done what he has done. He
was 81 years of age when he changed
his residence to California, and, in
two years, he was elected TO Congress.
where he had served in the four
years preceding the war as Repre-
sentative from Iowa. He was brew
eted q major-general of volunteers,
having left his seat to fight in 1861.
He can walk ten miles without tiriRg
and has climbed to the Capitol dome
several times this winter in his kind-
ness to visiting constituents.
MILES ToBEY GRANGER
of Connecticut will be II next August.
and he, too, first sat in Congress when
past his 10th birthday. He is Berk-
shire man by birth, but forty-five
years ago he was n Mississippi lawyer.
lie has been q Connecticut Judge for
nearly twenty years. He does not
like the turmoil of Congress. Judge
Granger is an extremely temperate
man.
EDWARD sCULL
of Pennsylvania, the sixth and last
, among these septuagenarians in the
House, did not come to Congress until
he was almost 20, to which age he has
Just attained He has been an editor
for thirty-siX years, and has also held
public Offices during most of the time.
, He looks ten years younger than he
really is.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
was 81 when he fell in his place on
the floor of the House. Henry Clay
, was q member of the Senate until he
died, at the age of Is years, and Thad.
Stevens clung to his seat in the House
until death overlook him in his 10Th
year. Morgan, in Boston Globe
5 The Proper Way to Drink Milk.
"What did you drink" asked the
doctor.
"Nothing that could have made me
SICK, / am sure" replied the patient
"0nly glass Of milk"
"Did you drink it quicklyY
"No quicker than usual"
, 81 thought so. Now, let me give you a
,, word of advice. Many persons complain
l. | that they cannot drink milk without
1 being distressed by it, The most COM
, mon reason why milk is not well borne is
due to the fact that people generally drink
il too quickly. If a glass of IL IS swal-
q | lowed too hastily it enters the stomach
: and then forms in one solid, curdled
mass, difficult of digestion. II, on the
! other hand, the same quantity is slipped,
and three minutes, at least, is occupied in
e Gthit''N The Stomach, It is So divided
1 that when coOgulated, as it must
always be by the gastric juice while
digestion is going on, instead of being one
!, hard, condensed mass, upon the outside
:, of which only the digestive iluid can act
: il Is more in the form of a sponge and in
and out of the entire bulk the gastric juice
S can freely play and perform its function.
Q | Milk may be rendered more digestible,