Tombstone epitaph., 1888-03-31
WHAT GREAT MEN EAT.

From the Chicago News.
 William L. Scott, of Pennsylvania, the 6ve-millionaire member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, great banker and railroad builder, is said to have reformed in the matter of lunches in the house restaurant. Up to this con. gress, MT. Scott has been the most fiber al diner of the lower branch of congress. He kept his own cha6ng dish in the house restaurant, and was always delight ed to have party of friends with him when he went down and personally cooked his own oysters. He liked few bottles of ale or wine to make the food go down we'll, and always occupied the whole table at his midday feast. MT. Scott's health has been delicate, and the fact that he has, during this season, con- tented himself with fifteen-cent lunch composed of piece of pie and glass of milk, is probably due to his having found out that so much eating between meals is not healthful. Delegate Smith of Ali. zona, one of the hardest worked, most effective and most brilliant young men in the house, breakfasts at the Ebbtt at 10 o'clock and takes lunch at the house restaurant at 3. Then he has his dinner at and writes letters in his room until I or o'clock at night. MT, Smith is an epicure. He was raised in Kentucky on farm, and looks back when he ate stuffed sausages and four-yearold hams cured by his mother in an old fashioned mt at.house as the most delightful days of his life. He makes lunch on a piece of very rare roast beef cut thin. He has little process of his own by which he makes it very tender and palatable. He puts half a ,easpoonful of table mustard on the meat first, and then spreads on it an equal amount of Olive oil. This he smears all over the beef, mixing it well, and then eats it with little bread. He is as hearty as buck, and the healthful condition of his mind is probably due to the attention he pays to his stomach. Mir. Stabinecker of New York, who is referred to as the Apollo Belvedere of the house, leads the list of well fed men at the capitol this session and has the best lunches of probably any man in the house. He has fancy dishes of meats, and game and oysters, prepared especially for him, and opens wine lavishly. He is a fine looking tall fellow about forty years old, and six feet high, with side whiskers, and i, chairman of the committee on Library. MT. Mills of Texas, who is chairman of the most important committee-Ways and Means-has dropped into the habit of Holman and drinks cup of tea and eats some bread and butter for lunch
 He does not take much time for it either, but gulps it down hls throat and is off in a jiffy. The comments recently made aboul the house and senate restaurants ne' being profitable concerns, and the bill of fare usually patronized by members and sen ators, in connect on with the op- positions which have been made against these ins itutons, have had the eff ct oi either driving the statesmen away from these places or persuading them to live more literally. The restaurants are very profitable now, for they are well crowded from II o'clock in the morning till } or 4 in the atternooon. During most of this time one has some difficulty in finding a place to sit. The prices are high, but the places are convenient.