Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
/ pounds, and his cheeks fairly bulge out with
ON OATMEAL AND MILK.

pounds. and his cheeks fairly bulge out with
good living.
ON OATMEAL AND MILK.
Gray. of Delaware, is much plumper than
when he came here, and George Frisby
Hoar, though he claims to live on oatmeal
and milk, is one of the best rounded-out
men in our House of Lords. George Vest
is heavier than he was two years ago.
Leland Stanford spent the summer at
the German Springs, in order to reduce his
avordupois, and Plumb, Vance and Vest
are putting on flesh. Edward Wolcott is
naturally portlv. Stock bridge, of Michi4
gan, weighs 2S0 poundsan Reagan,of Texas,
pulls the beam at 220. Quay is NO light
weight. Moody is gaining. and Eugene
Hale shows the effects of good living.
The only lean men in the Senate are
those who could not get fat under any con-
dition. ingalls, does not vary pound IN
weight from one years end to the other.
He is all muscle and grit. Evarts eats
enough for five men, but it all goes Into
brain, and the most lenient Shylock could
not find a pound of flesh on any part OF his
body. Senator Chandler is dyspeptic. He
worries too much to fatten, and Turple, of
Indiana, is made on much the same order.
Don Cameron looks better than he did
year ago
A VERY HIGH AVERAGE.
The average weight in the United States
Senate Is at least 175 pounds, and the easy
lite, the universal good fellowship and the
surety OF having 500 week for SIX years,
as a rule, tends to produce good health and
fatness 1t is not so much SO in the House.
Reverses like that of the recent election
come SO often that the tenure OF office is by
no means certain, and it is only old stagers
like Tom Reed who gain in weight.
The Supreme Court is even more OF fat
producer than the Senate. and there is not
Judge on the bench, with the exception of
Bradley who is not heavy weight. John
NJ. Harlan weighs at least 250 pounds. He
Is feet tall, and his complexion is rosy
as that of a 2-year-old baby. He has an arm
as big as the ordinary mans thigh, and he
appears to be healthy from in to out. 1t Is
the same with Justice Gray. Brewer is in
creasing in weight, Justice Field shows the
effects of good living, and our ChieI Justice,
MIR. Fuller, though he is short, is fast get
ting one of those fat, round stomachs which
has for years been the emblem Of his class.
EVEN PRESIDENTS GET FAT.
The White House, with ali its worries,
does not seem to make Its occupants thin.
President Arthur gained while be was in it.
Cleveland had to go through private gym
nastics in order to keep down his avoirdupois,
and President Harrison has become one of
the chief pedestrians of Washington for the
same reason. Whether it is cold or warm,
whether it is wet or dry, he takes his consti-
tutional at a three-mlle-an-hour pace every
day, and he appears to be as healthy as any
man in Washington.
The oldest man in Washington is sup
posed to be George Bancroft, who is just
as old as the century. and who, l am told, is
failing rapidly. He has given up his liter
ary work, and spends much more of his time
within doors than he has ever done before.
Three years ago he told me that he could
ride on horseback 80 miles at time without
tiring. He has been doing no riding at all
this fall, and he seems to have given up the
long walks that he took last winter. He is
not, however, the Oldest man in Washing
ton. There is a rare old character who
haunts the leading Washington hotels night
after night, who says he was born in 1892,
and who is now 9S years of age.
ONCE A CHEROKEE CHIEF.
This mans name is Arnaud, or Arnot,
and he has had life as wild and varied as
that of any hero of fiction. He was born in
West Virginia, and he tells me that he ran
away from the Block House, where his
parents lived, and joined the Indians at the
a
Chief, and he was contractor here at the
time that jackson was President. He has
seen all the Presidents back to Jefferson,
and Washington died when he was years
old.
Before the building of the Pacific Rail-
road he ran pony express across the
plains, and of late years he has been en-
ployed in the Government departments.
He is thrifty man, and appreciates, I am
told, the value of interest, and his chief
business now is lending money to Govern
ment employees at a high rate of monthly in
terest. One of the most remarkable things
about him is his dress. and this attracts at
tention to him wherever he goes.
A WONDERFUL DRESSER.
He wears an old-fashioned, shad .bellled
coat, with brass buttons, ruffled shirt, a
low cut vest and curiously cut pantaloons,
which come down over patent leather pumps
decorated with large silver buckles. He
wears silk hat, white collar and a white
stock, and ne hass gold watch fob hanging
out from under his vest, to which is alta ched
gold seal, as big around as trade dollar.
He is not pious old man, and he has not a
high opinion of the Presidents and the
statesmen of to-day. He saws they are
pigmies compared with the great men of his
youth, and he speaks of the abilities of
Cleveland and Harrison in terms that are
far from complimentary.
He attributes his ripe old age to a good
constitution and freedom from doctors. He
both smokes and chews, says he has drank
enough whisky to float a ship, and has mar
ried three wives and buried them all. He
! tells Inc that his health is perfect, and that
he expects to live to be at least ITO.
FRANK G. CARPENTER,