The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-16

I abs on the F amous
By Fred c. Kelly

. w Heidelberg, John Sharp viii
liams was regarded as having
the most robust Imagination In the
student body. That truth Is stranger
than fiction, however, was proved one
day at his boarding place, when the
future United States Senator CHANGED
TO describe the kind of potatoes he
had been raised on in his native Mis-
Sissippi. They We're so unlike pota.
toes as the German people knew
them, that the whole proposition was
beyond belief. Yet John Sharp had
done nothing but describe the ord-
nary sweet potato of everyday com.
mercc.
Senator Lippitt of Rhode Island is
a man of wealth and owns a costly
yacht or two Yet when he plays
golf he carries only one stick. He
could easily afford many more and
without depriving himself of any
thing else, but he finds that golf with
more than one stick is so compli-
Gated that 1t ceases to be a sport. He
desires to reduce the game to its
lowest common denominator.
Victor Murdoch, the Bull Moose
floor leader in the House of Repre-
sentatives, says that the best advice
he ever received in regard to public
speaking was from a hack driver.
After making one of his maiden
speeches. out in Kansas. he was being
driven TO the railway station by the
polite liveryman.
Like the speech?' asked Victor.
"Yeh,' answered the driver, "only
you'd get more hand claps If you'd
always put the names at the last
when you say anything"
Victor didn't understand, so the
driver explained:
You spoke of Henry Clay and
Grant. and James G. Blaine, and then
went on to tell about what they did.
You ought to go over the things they
did, and then say: That's what was
done by Clay and Grant and James
G. Blaine Always put the names
last and the crowdll take more in
tercst"
Representative Clarence b. Miller
of Minnesota has a peculiar hobby.
1t is battletields. Whenever he has
day or two to spare, he packs in
kit couple of pairs of holeproof
socks and other accessories, and sets
out for tramp over some battlefield
He probably knows more about the
details of the battles of the Civil
War than any man in Congress
even though he wasn't born until
some years after the affair at Apo
mattoX.
Miller has another hobby-books.
He will buy almost any book at any
time or place. and IL is said that
book agents leave secret signs on his
door to denote that he is an easy
book mark.
Representative Bell of Georgia
once spent about two weeks carrying
a law case through the courts to
| obtain writ of habeas corpus to
free man from Jail down in his
county. When he finally got the writ,
after much difficulty, and handed It
to the sheriff, the latter took one
| look and then remarked disgustedly:
| Huh. That Teller broke out o. here
a month ago and amt seen him
| since"
Senator Works of California Is
fond of horseback riding, but rarely
humors his hobby in Washington. \
| friend asked him why
"Oh. | don't feel like going to the
expense of bringing my horse clear
on from California" replied Works,
and | don't want to buy another"
But why not hire horse when
you want one?"
"Why, there's no sport in riding
horse unless you own him. I'd
just as soon hire dog to go walking
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