Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-04-26
CAPITAL PERSONALS.

Richard olney has been reappointed
regent Of the Smithsonian institution
In Washington for term of six years
Secretary Taft has reduced his weight
nearly so pounds. When he gets rid
of II pounds more one of his ambi-
tons will have been realized, as that
will bring him down to the even 200.
Justices Harlan and McKenna, of
the United States supreme court, play
golf together. There's McKenna, /"
says Justice Harlan, commenting on
his colleagues game; he has magnih-
cent form, but he can't hit the bali"
William G. Clark, a patrolman on
the Washington %. c. police force
has received notice from Mexico tat
gold mine in which he is interested
has turned out to be a fine property,
and that the stock that he owns Ia
worth 100000.
When Senator ]. T. Morgan was
asked at what college he graduated he
replied that the first time he was ever
on a college campus in his life was in
the civil war when, with his command,
he took refuge from the Yankee bull
let's behind the brick walls of the Col.
lege OF William and Mary in Virginia.
Senator Knox has his legal resi-
dence in Pittsburg, but he owns one OF
the finest farms in all Pennsylvania.
1t is located near Valley Forge and
there he spends most of his summers.
From his earliest childhood Mr.. Knox
evinced a fondness for agricultural
pursuits and his taste in that direction
is still strong.
Quentin, the eleven-year-old son of
the president, is a pupil at one Of the
public schools Of Washington. He in
herits considerable of his fathers get
Observation-Disclosures qualities and al
ways has a ready reply. who can
bring me some old gloves for cleaning
on the blackboards?" the teacher ask
ed the other day Il can" promptly
said Quentin. Mick gave me two
pairs"
Senators Spooner and Knox are COM
ing to be regarded as the Damon and
Pythias of the senate The rate ques-
ton has brought them close together.
One day last week Alger came sud-
denly out ofO the cloakroom and ran
against Dolliver. Where's Spooner?"
asked Alger do you want to find
him?" said Dolliver. Sure" replied
Alger. well, find Knox then and
you'll have Spooner."
Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, was
the apple eater of the senate. Now he
has retired and Senator Blackburn, OF
Kentucky, is making a brave effort to
gain the title.
Don't worry about me-" says Sena-
tor Plat, of New York, when friends
pity him about his very shaky legs. 81
have brother up in New York state
who has had legs like these for a
years and he's over 80 and doing bus
mess every day."
One of Senator Beveridge's favorite
expressions is that he OF she con-
tributes to the "gayety of nations.
Wise book folk say the phrase was
first used by Johnson, who, in refer.
ring to the death of Garrick, said:
His death eclipsed the gayety of ma.
tions and impoverished the public
stock Of harmless pleasure"
Next to DR.. Andrew ]. Brachfeld, oil
Pittsburg, who is the tallest man in
the fifty-ninth congress, in height is
"Cy' Sulloway, of New Hampshire
who is six feet three inches, two inches
less than Brachfeld. 1t is said when
Sulloway saw Brachfeld sworn in ne
sought a corner of committee room
and refused to be comforted.
Il am not one of those who think
congress has deteriOrated," said Jus
tice Harlan. Il maintain that the pres.
emit congress is as high grade as any
congress. The Congressional Record
is remarkable publication. If a mar
were cast on desert island and had
the Bible, Shakespeare and the Con.
gressional Record he would have al
the reading matter he wanted"
Ex-Speaker Keller, of Ohio, in max
ing a speech in the house Of represent
atives the other day remarked thai
the leaders, Republican and Demo,
cratic, and their followers have adopt
ed the principle Of the legal maxim
de minimis non curat lex-the Law
pays no attention to small things. a
western judge gave a free translation
to that maxim and said that it meant:
THE law goes with head and tail up. =
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