The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-06-19

didate. Mr.. Sullivan was born in Can.
ton, Mass, in 1867 and is paper max.
er by trade, but has spent some time
in the clothing business as clerk. =.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
"President Roosevelt said al orator
at banquet here the other night, will
go down to history ongslde OF ash
lngton.'
"Whlch one?" queried an irrelevant
listener. George or Booker T.?
Senator Iloar has one famous Joke.
a friend of his thought he had appendl-
citis, but afterWard discovered 1T was
only Indigestion that allied him.
''Well," said the senator when he
met his friend, Il am glad the trouble
was in your table Of contents rather
than in your appendix"
Dennis Mullaney, restaurateur of
much local renown, is i'll with cirrhosis
of the liver, and ''Pinkie, his chief OF
staff. is lnconsolable.
',Pinkie. what's the matter with Den
MIS-" asked visitor last night,
Deed sab, | don know" replied
"Pinkie," disconsolately, but dey tell
me de doctahs call it ferocious of de
livah.
senator Hoars brother, who is a dis
tinguished jurist, has as pretty a wit
as the venerable statesman himself.
There was funeral short time ago III
the town where he lives of man who,
while very rlch had been mean and
mlserly.
Are you going to the funeral:' a
man asked Mr., Hoar
NO" he replied, but am i'll favor
of it,
Senator Mason, who is round and soft
and fat, went to Cuba to see Palma
inaugurated. lie had trouble getting a
place to sleep, but was finally given a
wire cot over which a blanket had been
spread.
'IIow did You Sleep" Senator Jones
asked next morning.
''PIetty we'll Senator Mason re-
piled, but | looked like a waffle When
! | got up"
Senator Mallory of Florida, bald as a
door-knob. sat III the Democratic cloak
room the other morning. He called for
a page. A boy came in who had a big
bunch of hair standing straight up
from his forehead.
son" said the Senator, why don't
you get that coWlick of yours fixed?
! y on should train it down, or when you
get married it will give your wife fine
| place to grab hold of.
'fSp,lat0r - aSl, cd the how noel, Y sis
that the way you lost your hair
/ A determined woman came into the
! room Of the House Committee on Pen
sions this afternoon.
/ Il want to inquire about the pension
, bill Of John Blank. she said
That bill is dead, replied the clerk.
Nv hat do you mean"
Il mean the committee will not re
! port it out
How long will it stay here"
Il ntil the end of this Congress, and
! then it dies with the Congress-
'Now see here Mr.. Man" said the
woman Cant | get it out with a
writ of labeas corpus?'
The Second Cavalry, which is at Fort
Myer, has been turned out to several
funerals lately Capt. Ralph Harrison,
of Troop G, was i'll command on the
day of the Rosecrans interment at Ar
lington, and while waiting for the ser
vices had his men stretched along n.
street. Two negroes passed. One of
them touched his hat respectfully to
Capt. Harrison and inquired what was
going on.
This is Gen. Rosecrans funeral, y
replied the Captain.
''Rosecrans?" said the negro. '1s
that so?"
Then he looked at the long line of
soldiers and said:
''I'll bet, from the size of the gather
ing, that he's Republican.
| "Uncle Joe" Cannon has hard prop
osition on the Naval Appropriation bill,
and he went to see Speaker Henderson
about it. The speaker was stern and
unbending.
Il want to be recognized on this
item" said 'Uncle joe
"Well," replied the Speaker, 81 will
recognize you exactly as long as you
| keep your left hand in your pocket
'"Ihat will suit me" replied Cannon.
The time came. The Speaker recognized
Cannon. He began to talk, with his
left hand in his pocket. After he had
been talking about minute the left
hand flew up in the air in characteris-
tic Cannon gesture.
The gentleman time has expired, -
said the Speaker, banging with his
gavel, and Uncle Joe" was obliged to
sit down.
For twenty years Cannon has been
gesticulating with that left hand, and
habit was too strong for him.