Arizona republican., 1892-01-06

conspicuous in the public gossip than any other man in the country, lives rather peculiar life in Washington. He is really living life of retirement. At cessible than most public men. He rarely is seen in public, except driving or walking on the street. He takes no part in social activities, and the mem- bers of his family take very little. Mir. Blaine is, however, becoming a great pedestrian. Every day he may be seen taking stroll through Lafayette park and along the streets near by. Some times he walks as far as mile or q mile and half before returning home, and l am sure this habit of daily exercise is proving of great benefit to his health. He looks 90 per cent stronger and brighter than he did when he came from Bar Harbor two months ago.
 One of Mir. Blaine's favorite walks is to the magnificent new house which his friend, Senator Hale, has just occupied, but few blocks from Mir. Blaine's own residence. Another walk which Mir. Blaine often takes is to the house of John R. Mclean, three squares from the Red House, as the home of the secretary of state is popularly called in Washing ton. Now that Congressman Hit is back in Washington, a third house has been added to Mir. Blaine's list, and as often as not he takes in all three of them in one stroll. So far as l can ascertain, these three are about the only families in town with which he keeps mp any con tinued and familiar intercourse,
 Senator Palmer, of Illinois, is one of the most interesting of all the new men in congress. He has already become prime favorite with everybody about the Capitol. He is good deal such man as Mir Thurman was-plain, kindly, ap- proachable and as full of good humor as his old skin can stick. He has one re- markable characteristic, and that is a love for locality. Having become att tached to one particular seat in the sen ate chamber, suppose if General Palmer were to live fifty years, and remain in the senate all that time, nothing could induce him to give up this seat, When he gets in the habit of hanging his coat on particular peg that peg takes such hold of him that if the peg were to be removed he would think bright page had been torn out of his life's history. He likes the old things, the things which he knows. He always eats at the same table in the senate restaurant, and al- ways the same thing. When he goes out for little bitters to ward of the ma laria of this Washington climate, as most of the senators do, he always stands in one particular place and adheres strictly to one brand of medicine. At home he has one chair dedicated to his own use, and when it is occupied by some one he stands.
 Here is old Senator Morrill, with us again. The senate chamber would not look natural without this fine old head and those studiously bent shoulders. Mir. Morrill, is now the oldest man in congress, being nearly eighty-two An interesting meeting took place in the senate chamber yesterday. Senator Coke took over to the aristocratic end of the Capitol tall, lusty, western looking Mir. Bailey, a new member from the Lone Star State and introduced him to Senator Merrill. Extremes met in this instance, for Morrill, is the oldest and Bailey the youngest man in congress. The difference between their ages is more than half a century, or fifty-three
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 he question much mooted in Wash
 ,ton, Can a congressman ride a bicycle
 .l preserve his dignity? has been set tied in the affirmative. Two of the brightest and most promising of the new members of the house-Johnson of Cleveland, and Owen Scott of Bloom ington, Ills. brought their wheels with them when they came to Washington, and may be seen any fine day rolling up and down the avenue on their way to and from the Capitol Other congress men are talking of indulging in the same luxury, and the day may come when, if we speak of the wheels of legislation, it will be necessary to pause and explain whether wheels within wheels or wheels anu biiti dIt ilcdul.
 The Taylors We always have with us. It is becoming one of the standing jokes at the national capital that house of representatives without five or six Fay lors in it would be an indication that the universal cataclysm was approaching. In the last congress there were four Fay lors-one from Tennessee, one from Hi nois and two from Ohio, Now we have five, all that were in the last house, with one more from Ohio. An odd thing about it is that the three Ohio Taylors- Ezra B., John D. and Vincent A.-come from adjoining districts, are all Repub- hcans, and no two of them are of the same family WALTER WELLMAN.
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