Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01
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Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin is
one of the closest students of Shakespeare
in the Senate and the only vegetarian in
that body.
Congressman Olmsted of Pennsylvania
expressed this opinion at takes man
about four terms to familiarize himself
with his Office
The late Senator Henry L. Garrett,
once the ablest Republican member of the
Virginia Legislature, was a first cousin
of United States Senator Foraker of
Ohio.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier will be one of the
guests at the Erie, Pa, chamber of COM
merce banquet, where he will meet Vice
President Fairbanks and Senators Pen
rose and Knox, who will be the other
guests.
Congressman Victor Murdoch of Kan
sas is credited with being the most pro-
fcient pianist in the House 1t is his
ruling passion. Next to this he loves
newspaper work, which he understands
thoroughly.
James B. Mclaughlin is the only mem
Der of the District of Columbia bar with
two distinct professions. lie is an ex-
ceilent lawyer and breaches regularly to
Washington congregations, being an Or
dained Methodist minister.
Henry Labouchere retires from paria-
ment without regret from the women of
Great Britain, for whom he had no SYM
pathy 1t was he who referred to the
aristocratic danes of the Primrose
league as the Primrose Pollies.'
Having stepped out of politics, former
United States Senator w. A. Harris of
Kansas is negotiating for the purchase of
his old Linwood farm, which he sold
while in straitened circumstances,
brought on by dabbling in politics.
John Burns, the English cabinet mem
Der. writes of himself in who's Who"
that he "came into the world with a
struggle, struggling now, and prospects
of continuing it." 1t was penned, Of
course before he entered the cabinet.
Senator Crane of Massachusetts is an
expert judge of paper. When he opens
his letters in the Senate he may be seen
crinkling the paper between his fingers
and holding it up to the light to OBJ
serve the water mark before reading the
communication.
John Rouse has been in charge of the
main door of the House at Washington
for thirty years. He is the youngest
veteran of the Mexican war on the House
list and was a drummer boy at the battle
of Vera Cruz, where ! lost a part of
his left arm.
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, in COM
menting on the amount of work that he
had to do as United States Senator. said
that he would never have undertaken the
lob if he had known Of the strenuosity.
He is compelled to answer on an average
12j letters a day.
John Morley's notes of his speeches
are always interesting owing to his pow
er of condensation. He has devised some
condensations that would not pass mus
ter with the printer. One of these CON
sists of a dot in the middle of a capital
90" This represents lin the middle of
the world"
Thomas Burt, who has seen recently
returned to the House of Commons, went
to work as a trapper boy in a cOlliery
in Hazewell, in Durham, at practically
20 cents day. MY home was two or
three miles from the pit" he said, in
a chapter Of autobiography, some years
ago. Il had to get up at / in the morn
ing to walk the distance. and the work
was so hard during the day that l may
really say that l spent my whole time
absolutely between work and sleep"