Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-28
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the Forum and the Century and hin
| three annual reports to Congress Of
$500 quarto pages and 800 illustrations
and beside managing the complicated ma.
chinery of research in geology, ethnology and
irrigation, he has just finished popular volume
on the Colorado canyon, and is preparing an
| elaborate work of imagination not to be at pres
ent more specifically defined. And every word
of all this is dictated to stenographers, so that
his fun really comes out Of their inkstands in
stead of his own. He is much Of the time
on horseback, and with the bride over his
head he manages his horse well IL be
/ had two hands. In tenpins, too, he excels, and
several times this winter his left-handed ball
rolling has marked 2S8, leading the score in the
alley for the week. He has won any number OF
the prizes offered for beating 275, but, not
being prince royal he declines to make money
| in that way. He lost bis right arm at Shiloh,
and Gen. Hooker lost his left arm at Gettys-
burg. but on the other sidesof the discussion
and since they have become stesdfast friends
they furnish each other with gloves-whenever
one buys pair he sends the useless fellow to
his comrade. They are frequently seen on
horseback together.
| THE FUN OF KANsANs.
Senator Plumb seldom played any game
even euchre, the only gameof cards he knew.
| He was a hard worker 81 wish could have
some fun" he said to me year ago. sid 20
| TO Europe with my wife. Only the other day
| she reminded me that VIC had never yet had our
| bridal tour. When We married and went to
Kansas We were too poor, but promised her a
wedding trip as soon as we could afford it, and
she has lived on that promise for thirty years.
1 mean to fulfill it before long and have u zeal
bang-up good time" And just a week later he
died.
Last evening met Plumb's last colleague,
/ Senator PETER, and asked him what his sources
of amusement were
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theaters, or base ball. or dog fights, or cock
| fights, or horse races. I don't play cards.
don't play billiards"
Then he took in his hand as much Of his fus-
cous mahogany beard as he could grasp and
added after q minute: II get the most real fun
| in playing with children on the street. l never
60 out walking without finding children at
their games, and they let me join in to a certain
| extent. and there is an abandon and sincerity
about their fun that you never find in the sports
of folks that are old enough to be conscious of
their dignity"
WHAT SENATOR BARBOUR LOVED.
Senator Barbour was my next-door neigh
bor-only door yard between our houses
His house was burnt by the British in 1914,
after a red coat had been shot from one Of the
windows. 1 was sitting on his porch three
evenings before the night of his death and he
| told me that the chief pleasure of his life was
going down to the farm and staying there as
long as possible" The farm is twelve miles
down the river in Maryland, near the Surratt
place. where Wilkes Booth paused in his flight
great expanse of acres-and it was the stalwart
| Senator's delight to drive his fine team
down there and personally superintend the
planting and stock raising at keeps me WELL "
he said; there is nothing better than such ex-
ercise. / am dreadfully afraid Senator Kenna
is breaking down, he went on; II offered him
a case of champagne if he would give up smok-
r. - L.
spare such men as he is" And five days later
Senator Kenna walked as pallbearer beside his
coffin.
SENATOR KENSA's PLEASURES.
But smoking is not Senator Kenna's chief
amusement, by good deal. All physical sports
attract him. He likes to see brisk game Of
base ball, and has taken part in it before now
He Is one Of the most expert hunters and fish
ermen in the Senate, and enjoys nothing so
keenly as to follow a pack Of hounds. The
trout OF West Virginia, il is said. early teach
their young to look out for the bad man. John.
And Kenna stands near the head of the class in
amateur photography. He has made thousands
Of negatives Of West Virginia scenery and
groups, and in the fourth story Of his resi-
dence opposite the Capitol he has fitted up and
thoroughly equipped spacious gallery with a
developing closet and facilities which profess
siOnal might covet. He has caught his six chill
tesque, and has used the cOmical expressions of
the Youngest tot to illustrate Hamlet solioquy
IN a very funny way. Several humorous photo
graphs of these alternate with Autographs Of
Landseers dogs on the walls of the library.
Prof. Langley of the Smithsonian is not ex-
actly making balloon in his leisure moments,
but he is solving certain difficulties in the way
Of the practical aeronaut, and he does not hesi-
tate to express the opinion that men will sail
around in the air in a very few years in a ma
chine which will be quite comfortable. Already
he has elaborated certain principles concerning
the movement of planes through air which were
but dimly known before, and which will be in
dispensable to the first man who confidently
spreads his wings without initiating Darius
Green. did the reader ever see Heller skim
playing cards from the stage Of theater to
the far-of upper galleries with the slightest
twist of his forefingerO
OTHER LEGISLATORS PLEASURES ETC,
Senator Henderson is a strong chess player,
but he has no time nowadays to play any thing
except fortuitous game Of euchre. Now that
he is President Of the Senate he has less time
than ever. me? Amusement he said: INV
chief amusement is derived from seeing how an
insignificant and frivolous trifie can be dressed
up and vitalized and made interesting by q
skillful newspaper man."
have never asked Senator Mitchell what he
played, but / have seen him at parties when
he was sitting up solemnly behind five fiat pic
torial parallelograms, and in his eyes was a far
of, pensive look as if he were dreaming of YER
dant pastures and rustic foliage and running
brooks. sndthe other people who sat at the same
table have confidentially informed me next
morning that they thought Mitchell played
cards.
Cabot Lodge. author Of the dead "force bill. ~
Is a strong. alert. firmly built man. and one Of
the athletes Of the House. He can ride anv
horse in every known way. He loves to chase a
fox and will compromise on a bag of aniseseed.
In summer he lives at Nahant and joins his bows
in all the sports and exposures Of the seaside
swimming, boating rowing. fishing. He is a
devotee of base ball. too, and has PLAYED hockey
from Congress more than once to see q good
game on the diamond. W. A. CRoFFUT.
SLEEK SrEEDs, saddles. sabers, soldiers.
sweethearts, spurs, steeplechase severally sur
veyed. Benning, May 30.-Adrt.
Regarded q Slight to the English.
The news from America that the author
tiles Of New York refused to raise the
British flag on the queens birthday has caused
a decided sensation in London, as it is generally
considered in England as a reflection not so
much upon the queen as the English people, in
view Of the fact that other foreign flags are
said b<a