Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-03-16
SENATORIAL WHISPERS.
How Some OF Our Statesmen Wear Thel
.. Hirsute Adornments.

How Some OF Our Statesmen Wear Their
.. Hirsute Adornments.
Wade Hampton has shaved off his
whiskers and with them has gone his
resemblance to Kaiser Wilhelm. His
rosy face looks smaller and fatter and
the only hair on it is the little whiskers
of frosted silver which shine from under
his nose. You would hardly know him
for the same man and his face loses
much of its character by the change.
Senator Hoar looks like Greeley, only
better dressed.
Cockrell, of Missouri, with his long,
struggling blonde beard. his tall frame,
is the counterfeit presentment of Uncle
Sam, save that his breeches are not
made of the American flag nor are they
fastened down under his patent leather
boots by straps.
Senator John w. Daniel has the face
Of Edwin Booth, save that the nose is a
trile larger and the forehead broader.
His hair is brown and his eyes are
gray.
Senator Joe Brown looks like a
Jewish patriarch or typical Mormon,
but his words show him TO be neither.
He is up to the times and his gray
head is full of practical brains.
Cullom has often been compared
with Abraham Lincoln, and he is fully
as tall and nearly as angular. His
resemblance, however, comes from his
characteristic gesture and expression.
Senator Cush Davis looks like Ben
Butler, and the two have been token
for one another.
Senator Dolph, of Oregon, with his
long, sable silver beard, would make a
splendid representative of Hamlet's
father. sss ....
Senator George Edmunds could
make his fortune by sitting as model
to painters for pictures of st. Jerome.
Blair, of New Hampshire, looks lik'
President Hayes, and he sympathizes
with him in his temperance principles.
Aldrich, of Rhode Island, Paddock,
of Nebraska, and Butler, of South
Carolina, resemble each other, and
!. s,,,i,. -. ''-- rosy face and gray mus
Matt Ransom is handsome, but ho
has no counterpart in history or public
life.
Chace, of Rhode Island, though he is
by no means a bad-looking Quaker,
could, in tho words of the old joke,
'Be worshiped without breaking the
Commandments, for he is like no one
in the heavens above or the earth be-
meath, or in the waters under the earth.
Speaking of boards, Senator Allison
wears a full set of reddish brown
whiskers into which few gray strands
have crept. They are stiff and straight
and about two inches long. Joe Black
burns chief ornament is n fierce mus
tache. Don Cameron had red mus
tache. Blair has hair of sand and
silver all over his face. Daniel is
smooth shaven, and Edmunds' whis-
kers are as white as the cotton burst
ing from the Post Department Eustis,
of Louisiana, has full beard of iron
gray. Frye sports a gray mustache.
George, of Mississippi, has blonde
whiskers, and A. p. German keeps his
face as smoothly shaven now as it was
when he attended the sessions of the
Senate as a page. Gray, of Detroit,
has black mustache. Eugene Hale
sports full beard. Harris wakes the
ends of his long mustache. Manderson
wears a brown imperial, and Mitchell,
of Oregon, has the longest, glossiest,
dearest brown beard in the Senate.
Senator Morgan's mustache is white.
Morrill, has side whiskers, and H. b.
Payne keeps his face as bare as the
crown OF Senator Sawyer's bald head.
Stanford has full beard, and ho
could probably cash $4,000 check
for every hair in it. 50
Stewards full whiskcrs are straw
mixed with frost.
John Sherman's' whiskers are stiff
and white. George Vests blonde mus
tache overhangs his mouth.
Walthal has glossy brown hair which
curls as it touches his collar. Quay
has dark mustache. Ingalls, shaves
every day and nurses tenderly his little
mustache and the bit of hair on his chin.
Looking Them all over and sizing up
their intellectual strength the amount
of whiskers seem to have nothing to do
with their amount of ability, and had
Delilah shaved Samson instead of cut
ting his hair he would never have been
conquered and blinded by the Philis-
tines. Washington Cor. Cincinnati
Times.