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have been started along the Chesapeake,
and Senator Bayard is said to be the propri-
etor of one of them. The biggest farm is
on the PatuXent river, and it consists of a
large salt water lake, which could accom-
modate thousands OF terrapin, if they
would breed as rapidly as was desired.
The farmer has surrounded this lake with
board fences to keep out the musk rats and
foxes, which are the terrapin's enemies
He has nurseries for young terrapin, and
he keeps the little ones IN here until they
are ten months old, in order to preserve
them from their fathers. The older terra
pin are as fond of good living as a justice
of the United States supreme court. They
are cannlbalS, and they sometimes eat their
own children when they are young and
juicy. After the young are ten months old,
they are able to take care of themselves.
and there is no danger of their being de-
stroyed. With the increase in the price of
terrapin, terrapin- farming ought to become
profitable. Years ago they were drug in
the market, and you could buy them at
Annapolis for twelve cents apiece. Twenty
years ago they brought only six dollars
dozen in Washington, and now there are
cases in which an extra fiue article sells
from six to eight dollars apiece. Senator
John M. Clayton, of Delaware, once bought
a cart load for dollar, and it is said that
ate terrapin dinner after the surrender at
Yorktown
OPTICAL LIFE AS A FAT-PRoDUCER.
The demand for such au expensive article
as terrapin in Washington, calls attention
to the fact that the most of our public men
are epicures. There is hardly a man in the
United States Senate who has not fat
tened up since he came to Washington
Senator Spooner weighed one hundred and
twenty-five pounds when he was elected.
Small as he is, he now weighs one hun
dred and sixty, and he still is not a circum-
stance to mis- colleague, Philetus Sawyer,
who is as broad as he is long, and whose
fiat, round belly shakes like bowl of
jelly'' whenever he laughs. Sawyer began
life working at less than dollar day, and
he can now get away with dinner at ten
dollars plate, with as much satisfaction
as Senator Eustis, who was oorn with a
silver spoon in his mouth, and who has
feasted like Lucullus from boyhood until
now. Senator Allison has gained fifty
pounds since he came here, and Senator
Henderson is fast developing front equal
to that of a supreme court justice.
Senator German is growing fat. Frank
Hiscock weighs two hundred and twenty
five pounds, and his cheeks fairly bulge out
with good living, 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 ne was
two years ago. Leland Stanford spent the
summer at the German springs in order TO
reduce his advoirdupois, and Plumb Vance
and Vest are putting on flesh Ed Wolcott
is naturally portly, Stockbridge, of Mich
lgan, weighs two hundred and eighty
pounds, and Reagan, of Texas, pulls the
beam at two hundred and twenty Quay is
no light weight. Moody is gaining, and
Eugene Hale shows the effects of good liv-
ing. The only lean men in the Senate are
those who could not get fat under any
condition. ingalls, does not vary a 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 Turpie, OF
Indiana, is made on much the same order.
Don Cameron looks better than he did a
year ago. Call is increasing in weight, and
Cullom, of Illinois, holds his own. The
average weight in the United States Senate,
is at least one hundred and seventy-five
pounds, and the easy life, the universal
good fellowship and the surety of having a
hundred dollars a week for six years, as a
rule, tends to produce good health and fat
ness. 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
a Judge on the bench, with the exception of
Bradley, who is not heavy weight. John
NJ. Harlan weighs at least two hundred
and fifty pounds. He is six feet tall, and
his complexion is rosy as that of a two
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, who sits down to
table de hote dinner every day and whose
cheeks swell out with fat. Brewer is in.
creasing in weight. Mr. Fuller, though he
Is short, is fast getting one of those fat
round stomachs, which has for years been
the emblem of his class. The White House
with all its worries does not seem to make
Its occupants thin. President Arthur
gained while he was in it. Cleveland had
to go through private gymnastics in order
to keep down his advoirdupois, and Presi
dent 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 con-
stitutional at three mile-an- hour pace
every day, and he appears to be as healthy
as any man in Washington.
SENATOR STANFORD.
Senator Stanford will be here on the first
day OF the session. He is one of the most
regular attendants among the Senators, and
he earns his salary as much as though it
was all he had to live upon. When he came
here, 1t was supposed he would spend only
about week or two session at the CAPT
tol, and it was also supposed that he would
be lobbyist In favor of all the bills regard.
ing the Pacific railroad and the other meas