Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-10-11

'henna hSheS TO get hSh. Ills faV-
orite allurement is the phantom min
now. Every time he goes out home he
comes here and buys ten or a dozen for
the boys" Last summer, / find. he
bought several hundred, and / have
often wondered whether they had any
influence on effecting the wise decision
to which the legislature at list arriv-
ed.
Senator Beck is fond OF hunting and
bags good deal Of game In the course
of year.
Senator Platt is fond of trout and
salmon fishing and pursues the sport
with eager enthusiasm. He has a
cabin up in the Adirondacks where he
and Mrs. Platt enjoy a good deal Of
every summer. Three years ago
when he heard that Cleveland was
going there he said: well, there!
Now I'll pull up and go to Canada. -"
Platt has also a passion for botany and
studies the secrets OF the flowers
wherever he wanders.
Senator Blackburn is the crack shot
Of the western statesman, and he has "a
mild liking for hunting and likes TO 60
fishing occasionally, but he has been
RiONNlN lltu dDOul iuI llllSItDlCSCuL
by the newspaper man who set him up
as "A terror to the wild game OF Ken
lucky. 1t is understood that the game
does not regard him in that light.
Senator German is known in the
senate as the lone fisherman, being
given TO solitary hunts.
NJ. a. Tappan, our chief sporting
tackle merchant, tells me: Garland Is
an artistic sportsman. He knows just
what he wants. | have to load all his
cartridges for him according to model.
Each must contain twelve buckshO!
No. 3 with one single Il shot in the
center of each layer TO make it solid.
He goes on deer drive as often as he
can get away.
Edmunds has a fine billiard table in
the basement with the closet adjoin-
ing. for balls, cues, etc. He is thought
to resemble st. Jerome.
Evarts has fun farming. owing 800
acres among the Green mountains and
800 on the Potomac just below Wash
ington.
German has a passion for base ball,
and once played second on the Nation
ais here. Mills has the same frenzy.
Don Cameron and Sheridan secured
the battle-felds of Virginia on horse
back, and Spooner enjoys the same
recreation, generally accompanied by
Mrs. Spooner and his second son.
Palmer is fond of fishing, story tell
ing, singing, entertaining and rustic
roughing it; and he is passionately fond
OF bonfires and generally manages to
have one of Parnassus every night
L 1. l.. r. / 4 IL.
his favorite log cabin.
Manderson's chief recreation is din
ing out. He likes folks better than he
does anything else in the world. and
he is tremendously social and genial.
One meets him everywhere in 'the
season."
Beck likes everything that yields a new
and agreeable sensation, and he gen.
orally manages to getit.
Sherman's chief game is backgam-
mon, in which he is an expert. He al
so enjoys playing "Muggings" with his
daughter, who. it is understood, is now
nearly twenty games ahead.
Quay is "a great ofT-shore fisherman
and is therefore the pride and envy of
the senate. He has caught not only
sturgeon and cod, but shark and sword
fish-the captains of the sea.
The best base ball player in either
house is Ben Butterworth of Ohio, who
can pick the leathern sphere out of the
air with great deXterity. He is often
in the game at lie Droit park, where
he lives. About twenty members OF
congress are always found on the stand
when q league game is played here.
w. A. CRoFFUT.