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MEN OF MOUTH AND MUSCLE ,
The Windy Bobs and Pugilistic Jims on
the Floor of Ooneress.
GOSSIP ABOUT POLITICAL BORES
ThoCobbsnnd LiairdsancUngalls and
Millers jiruT Other Museum At
tractions The Uellows
of Both Houses.
WASHINGTON , July 28. [ Correspond
ence oil the BEE. ] Nebraska roust feel
royally proud of her fighting congress
man ; he certainly has distinguished him
self with a Cobb. No doubt Indiana feels
equally proud of her "bully boy. " Well ,
these little side shows help to make the
closing scenes of congress interesting to
lookers on and decidedly attractive to
the small boy who is ever ready and
SDoiliug for a fight of some kind. You
have no idea how comforting it is to us
folks here in Washington to be assured
there are a few lighting men in congress ,
and c'-pecialjy is it comforting and sooth
ing to the unprotected female who looks
upon the M. C. as her natural guardian.
Of course that's what they are here for ,
to look alter the people's rights and
throw a protecting arm about the help
less innocents. They all make noise
enough , but like pop-guns , don't go off
dangerously , and so it can be rendilly un
derstood how much wo appreciate two
such brave men as Cobb , of Indiana , and
Laird , of Nebraska , and if the worst
comes to the worst , as is often the case
here at the national capital , we shall
have noble defenders in the above named
gentlemen. It would be a pity not to reelect -
elect these grand plug-uglies. Visitors
at the capital no longer ask the guides to
point out vVilliarn Walter Thelps nnd
Tom Heed , but inquire about the light
ing gladiators and are willing to pay n
liberal price for photographs of these
classic heroes of the forty-ninth congress.
THE SENATE SIDE SHOWS
arc also interesting but of a more digui-
Hud naturc.Euch as Senator Miller of New
Yoik twitting Senator Ingalls of Kansas
nbout wearing a rod necktie : just as
though Ingalls hadn't a right to wear a
rod neektie. Conkliug used to be very
fond of red neckties and red handker
chiefs and ho looked awful pretty in
them , but Miller is different , very differ
ent from Conklinsr in his choice of colors
as well a ! > quality of brain , and the sigh )
of Ingall'e rod necktie infuriates him and
W.U him to bellowing like a bull. Ingalls
can twit on facts as > well as any other
ft'low in that senate , and he just let
drive at Miller on Im color , the coloring
he. Miller , uses in his butter to make u
sell well.-j'hD way Ingalls talked about
that ' 'iRmer color" made fun for the
galleries. You see Miller has a farm of
his own out in York State and loses no
opportunity to turn an honest penny on
liis garden sass and things as well as the
few pounds of butter he takes to the
country store in exchange lor tea , ooffoe
sugar and strimid penpurmmt candy to
iwcften the rural maiden.
S-ESATOK SIIU.EU , Or NEW VOUK ,
looks like a man who wuukl be very fond
of rat and ivliitc papperrauu candy , ant
ho has that unmistakable something
about him u hicti suggests inolassos. vin -
gar and pump water to the farm hands
on n hot July day. From temixiranoe
principles he wouldn't give them sj ked
lemonade for fear that it might make
them droWfrY in the hot noonday sun
thereby losing a uiluiite from the labor
hat is earnin < r the bread by the sweat of
he brows. Miller well understands that
a second lost bears no interest. " \ alua-
) le man to have in the United States sen-
ite. In personal appearance Senator
Miller looks pnlpv. caused no doubt by
close attention to his business profession ,
hat of grinding chips into pulp to make
irown paper , such as is used for wrap-
jing up beef-steaks and yellov ? soap ,
jigalls likened Miller unto a "hippopot
amus dancing on a slack rope. " Now
.his is one of Ingalls' sly jokes. Ingalls
n't as unkinti as he talks ; he really
didn't raean anything cruel to Miller ,
even if Miller did twit him about his red
necktie. You see it is close on to elec
tion time and Ingalls was gen-
erouslv disposed and wished to
give Miller a friendly boost , eh.
He did. Miller has a round full
harvest moon like face and full as
expressive. His head is large and roving
like a country house with several empty
chambers , and like all distinguished men
slightly bald fromt scratching for ideas.
He wears a htftivy iHJsd with crisp , short
student-like side whiskers which reminds
one of letting down the top blinds. Not
in the least English , yon know , although
he has a swaggering drawling gait , but
his speech gives him away , so to speak ;
that is not in the least English , nor is it
Knickerbocker Dutch , but pure un
adulterated York Suite talk. He is n
pretty good sized fellow , larger than the
common run of men , and he Knows n.
Thinks a good deal of himself , nnd
measures people and things by that
standard. He may have ardent admirers
among the divine sex. presume he has ,
but the senate pages don't gather about
his desk like nies about a sugared dish.
Takes a good deal of hard clapping on
the part of Miller to bring one of these
little ungodly rascals to his desk this
hot weather , and then they don't mind
playing truant on the way to swope a
lly off of some kind old bald pate. The
senate page stamlirig in front of Miller's
desk always looks two ways for Sunday ,
as it were , and in the most indiQcrcnt
manner possible takes the order , careful
not to break his neck hurrying. Miller
is not the man to attiact the small boy to
his side affectionately. Boys like and re
spect men they can iook square in the
face , 1 he senate small boy never looks
Warner Miller square in the face. Miller
dresses business-like usually , but his
clothes have a shop fit the seams are not
exactly in the right place and at times the
skirt of his coat has the appearance of
tryiiiz to perch on his. shoulder bJaJes.
One hears very severe criticisms in the
galleries-sometimes. Said a plain-spoken
New Yorker , who was sitting beside me
during Miller's attack upon .Ingalls , in
language more forcible than elegant ,
"W .irner Miller is a born itssl He can't
help being a tool. Evrats has some
brains , therefore the bigger fool lie
makes of himself sometimes. Ho
has more self-conceit to the square
inch than any public man in Now 1 ork.
The difference between Miller and
Evarts is that the senate is twice too
large for Evarts ; he lacks the power to
fill it. Miller is twice too large for the
senate ; it can't nil him. " "Misapplied
greatness , " i modestly remarked.
"Evan's expects to bo the HBXt nominee
for the presidency , " I said , "and is
posing to that elloct It would take a
stronger electric force than that man pos
sesses to send the presidential lightn.ng
in that direction " "Will New York ru-
eleot Miller ? " 1 asked."N9t br a good
deal. There is a smouldering fire ready-
to burst out for Conk ling ; ho is our next
man or I am no politician. " ' 'Ob , tuen ,
you belong to the ring , do you ? " " 1 be
long to the ring that makes the people
circle aA > und a man that will give New
York some position in the Unit&d States
eonate. Conkling mar have his faults ,
Uut w wore always proud of him as a
statesman and an honest man. " "With
all ULS faults , Washlumoa loves Coal-ling
still and will bo ready to receive him
with open arms , " said I. In the monu-
limu Ingalls had rakya over Milter and
disappeared in the cloak room. COM.
NO ELEPHANTS WANTE D.
The Present Condition of the Curi
osity .Market.
"The elephant market is overstocked. "
This is the alarming statement made oa
Wed nesday by Dr. Oscar Kohn to a representative -
resentative of the New York Times , and
the doctor ought to know what he is talk
ing abou t. He went into the show busi
ness twenty-eight vears ago -with the
great and only Barnum , and has had
something to do since then with every
circus , side show and museum from Port
land , Me , to Portland , Ore , and from
Lake Ene to the Gult of Mexico. He
sat in a small office in the old building at
the southeast corner of Broadway , and
seemed to be a very busy man. When
the reporter first entered the office and
asked Lr. ) Kohn whether he had anything
new in curiosities , the doctor hung his
head in shame as lie replied : "Tiiere is
nothing new. It is the same old story. "
"Hov about mid animals , " asked the
reporter , ' 'arc they in demandi"
"Well , " was the answer , "a good lion
or tiger is alwavs in demand. "
"How about elephants * "
The doctor laughed until he was tired.
It was then that he said ; "The elephant
market is overstocked. " He added :
"Why. there are more elephants in this
country than showmen know what to do
with. Barnum has thirty of them up ? n
Central park and he would be glad of an
opportunity to sell them. If you want
an elephant I can get one for you at a
very low figure. "
' How about giraffes t"
"Well , it's too bad about giraffes. The
poor fellows don't live very long in this
country. If one of them should last for
two years he would be a rare old
bird. I remember when Barnum
first purchased four of them. He paid
? 10OvK ) apiece for them nnd they were
drowned whi.c on their way to New
Orleans. In those davsgiraffes were car
ried about in class cases. They are very
'delicate birds , but Barnum drives them
about the streets now just the same as
though they were elephants.
" \ \ here is the tattooed Greeki"
"He's stone blind , and is living in Eng
land , lie made a great deal of money
while hero and hoarded it away. Oh , he
was the greatest of them all. Now I
can furnish you tattooed men and girls
just as fast as you want them. 1 can
give yon a wnole regiment of them if
you want one "
"Where is the two-headed colored
woman who \ised to sing in the museum ! "
"She is down south on a farm. We
can't ptt her out for lees than $000 a
week now , "
"Whut has become of O'Brien , the
Irish giant , who married a giantess in
PUtsburgJ"
"The giantess gave birth to a young
giantess last week. Mother and daugh
ter are doing well , and the old man is
feeling pretty well himself.1'
Then the doctor talked of the other
old familiar freaks which had graced the
museum from time to time. Some of
them are at Coney Island or in the Bow
ery , but the majority of them are scat
tered over the country.
Ills Coal was Delivered at His Door.
Buffalo Express : Dennis Keagan is now
living in a flat which overlooks the Lack-
awannn tracks. Across the street lives
an Italian nobleman in reduced circum
stances who ekes out his poor existence
with the aid of a poor monkey and n
worse hand organ. To Garibaldi coincs
Dennis one evening and , after passing the
time of day , warms up to the subject in
hana.
'Av ye plaze , Mislher Garabaldi , " says
Dennis in his most unctions and wheed
ling tone , "wad ye have any objections
to loaniu' me yer munkey fer an hour or
two ivry rnonuu * ! " ,
"What-a for you. want-a mnnkJ" -r in
quired the count. * * jf
4'Niyer je niiad , " replied Dennis , ' -i
wud ye charge me amornin' fer the use
avhimV"
The count suggested that 10 cents an
hour-would be tne proper figure , after
vainly attempting to find out what Den
nis was going to datirith the monkey.
Dennis Tiaggied and tried to beat the
Italian down , but Gtnbaldi wouldn't
have it that way , and tne deal was closed
at his figure. ,
Everything went beautifully for a few
days. Tne money was paid promptly
and the monkey was returned regularly
in time not to interfere with the require
ments of the count's profession. To be
sure the animal looked a little hollow-
eyed and care worn , But in the main was
in good condition
J-mally , however , the Italian's curiosity
got the better of his avarice , and he told
Dennis that the monkey would not be
loaned any more. This announcement
had a most depressing effect on Dennis.
His megathenan intellect rose to the
emergency , tnough , and he proceeded to
effect one of those masterly financial
coups which dazzle people who are not
familiar with the workings of the capital
istic mind.
"Garrybaldy , " said Dennis , "av ye'11
promise to act square and not give the
racket ' I'll after takin'
awaj' be ye into
pardncrship and gin 3 e half the profits
for the use of the munkey. "
"All-a right-a , " said the Italian.
At this the new partners shook hands ,
and each took anot her pull ont of the
can of beer which Dennis had warily
provided to lubricate the negotiations.
Then Dennis in his cuetomary lordly
manner , put ills arm through the Italian's ,
and together they sauntered over to the
back yard of the house where Dennis
lived.
"D've see thet ther pole , Garry * " in
quired Dennis , pointing to a pole some
hfteen feet high , surmounted by a cross
piece.
The Italian couldn't very well help see
ing it , nnd remarked that it was within
the range of his vision.
"D'ye know phwat ther is beyant the
fence * " said Dennis. "Thiin's the rail
road thracks. Now , thin , Garry , this is
the snap : Eurjy jn the mornin' whin the
coal trains begin to come in I jmt the
munkey on the pole. The brakesmin is
all out on the cars riddy to go up the
thnstles. Ivery mother's son of them
flings two or three pieces of coal at the
munkey. I've laid un tons away in the
cellar , and civil a wnn o' thim's hit the
munkey yet"
EDUCAT10XAU
The thirty-fifth annual meeting of the
American society for the advancement of sci
ence will meet in Btutaio fiom the l&tb to
the 24 th of August.
A Los Angeles , CaL , ' woman forty years
old sells truit an dvAeuibes ! to procure the
means with \\uicu to educate herself In
muMc , i ;
School-teachers are lee numerous for their
own welfare this vear on the Pacific coast
Over twenty applications have been made
for ea-h school in Solaiio county , California ,
up to date. .
The countrv is becoming rich In schools
and collejes. Public Opinion ( Washington )
ncnres out that tbe aistincthelywleiiUfio
schools number Scj ; manual schools , 123 ;
medical colleges. 145 ; Institutions for the
higher education ot nvomf n , 281 ; law schools ,
57 , There are 310 universities and colleges In
the United States , vith OS.S.'i students in at
tendance.
The Legislature of Ohio has provided for
the establishment of an Industrial sehooltor
the education of the bilnd in that state. It is
not to take the pltoe of tbe asylum In which
blind children are Infrtructtxl in the ordinary
branches ot education , fthics and music , but
is designed to instruct them In meciiaulcal
industries that will enabfe them to tarn their
o\\n living.
As regards tbe effects of electric lighting.
esi edsJly upon tbe evca of wbool children.
Prof. H. Cohnsajsthat the arc lights , even
when surrounded by n "opaque" glass
globe , v hich reduces tne light by a ) or more
per cent , are hurtrul to Uie ej es ben the
latter are exposed for a IOUK time tolls
.unerts. lie suggest } tbat the lamp should
sal ways be placed &l such an eletation that
' the ej e is not bound Hi IUOK directly into it.
SOME SIMILES.
Often a Slippery Thlntj to
Deal With.
Chambers'Journal- child of the
past and the parent of the future" is not
an unhappy simile for the present.
Happiness has been likened to a ghost ;
all talk about it , but few , if any , have
ever seen it. Ambition's ladder rests
against a stai , remarks a clever writer ,
wno also tells us that a proverb is a short
truth sandwiched between wit and wis
dom.
Eloquence is a coat of many _ colors
judiciously blended. No one thing will
make a man eloquent. Flatterv has bjca
termed a kind ot bad money to which
our vanity gives currency. Society , like
shaded silk , must be viewed in all situa
tions , or its colors will deceive us. Kind
ness is the golden chain by which society
is bound together , and charity is an angel
breathing on riches , while graves have
been poetically called the footsteps of
angels.
Language is a slippery thing to deal
with , as some may find when selecting
their similes. Savs a writer : "Speak of
a man's marble brow , and he will glow
with conscious pride ; but allude to his
wooden head , and he is mad in a minute. "
The young lecturer's "similes were gath
ered in a heap" when he expressed the
whole body of his argument on deceit in
the following : "O , my brethren , the
snowiest shirt-front may _ conceal an
aching bosom , and the stiffest of all col
lars encircle a throat that has many a
bitter pill to swallow. "
Plagiarists are a species of purlomers
who filch the fruit that others have gath
ered , and then throw away or attempt to
destroy the basket.
It has been truly said that the abilities
of man must fall short on one side or
other , like too scanty a blanket when you
are in bed , if you pull it upon your
shoulders , you leave your feet bare , if
you thrust it down upon your feet , your
shoulders are uncovered. The man , we
are told , who has not anything to boast
of but his illustrious ancestors , is like a
potato the only good belonging to him
being under ground.
A man at dinner in evening dress has
been likened to a conundrum ; you can't
tell whether he is a waiter or a guest. A
Yankee , describing a lean opponent ,
said"That doesn't
man amount to a
sum in arithmetic ; add him up and
there's nothing to carry " An American
critic , in reviewing a poem , said. "The
rythm sounds like turnips rolling over a
barn fioor , while some lines appear to
have been measured \vith a yard-stick
and others with a ten-loot pole. "
An amusing illustration was given by a
parent when asked by his boy , "What is
understood by experimental and natural
philosophy * " The answer was , * Lnnv
one wants to borrow money , thaffls ex
perimental philosophy. If the other man
knocks him down , that is natural philos
ophy. " Curious and comical illustrations
seem natural to many children , A little
girl , suffering from the mumps , declared
she felt as though a headache had slipped
down into her neck. "Mamma , " said
another joungster , alluding to a man
whose neck was a series of great rolls of
flesh , "that man's got a double chin on
tbe back of his neck. " A little three-
year-old , in admiring her baby brother
is said to have exclaimed , "He's got a
uoiled head , like jiapa "
Talking of curious similes among the
southern languages of India i the
Tejoogoo or Telinga , so rough in pronun
ciation that a traveler of tire nation
speaking it before a ruler of llokhara ,
admitted that its sound resembled "the
tossing of a lot of pebbles in a sack. " A
simile for scarlet stockings is fire-hose
laughter is the sound you hear when your
hat blows off and trying to do business
without advertising is said to bo "like
winking at a girl in the dark. " An un-
pofctieal Yjinkee has described ladies'lips
as the glowing gateway of beups , port ,
sau'trknTct and potatoes. This would
provoke Merryat'sexclamation of , ' 'Such
a metaphor I never met afore. " Much
more complimentary was the old darky's
neat renly to a beautiful voung lady
whom he Offered to lift over the gutter ,
nnd who insisted she was too heavy.
"Lor , missy , " said he , "I'sc used to lift
ing barrels of sugar. " Wit from a man's
mouth is like a mouse in n hole ; yon may
watch the hole all day , and no mouse
come out ; but by-and-by , when no one is
looking for it , out pops the mouse and
streams across the parlor.
Marrying a woman for money , says a
philosophe'r , is very much like setting a
rat-trap and baiting it with your own
finger.
An American writer says : "A man with
one idea always put me in mind of an
old goose trying to hatch out a paving
fctnne. "
An editor's simile of man's career is
summed up in the line : "Mac's a vapor
full of woes , and starts a paper , busts ,
and coes. "
We all recollect how tne Bath waters
were associated in 'U elltr's mind with the
"flavor of warm.flatiron3."j.T.he humor
ist who created that character was often
reminded of a printer's parenthesis by
the appearance of a bow-legged child ;
and tne elongated pupils of a cat's eyes _
before a bright light were likened by him
to "two notes of admiration. "
Kin ? LutUvljj's Bedchamber.
Correspondence London News : It is
divided into two parts by means of a
golaen balustrade , the back part being
rounded. Here the king's bed stands on
a raised dais , up to which lead five broad
steps , covered with ruby velvet , on which
are embroidered large golden suns. The
bed is of guilt bronze , a work of art as
we meet it once in a lifetime , It is cov
ered with a counterpane of gold cloth ,
embroidered in colors , the centre rep
resenting King LouisXIY without his wig
a large emerald on his breast , a sapphire
in his hair. The bed is surmounted by a
canopy of gold , with"a high crown of
gold in the center and four enormous
bunches of white plumes at the four cor
ners ; from the canopy descend the cur
tains , to examine which a lover of art
will devote several weeks. The outside
is ruby velvet embroidered in gold , BO
that of the ground color scarcely any
thing is peen ; the inside is covered from
top to bottom by pictures from the Bible
at first sight the product of the minia
ture painter's brush , but on close inspec
tion the. triumph of the needlewoman's
skill. The center of the background is
occupied by a sun embroidered
in diamonds and pearls. The walls
of the room are entirely hung with
red velvet embroidered in gold , the
children holding garlands of flowers
Deiug to soiid that a real baby held to the
wall cannot stand out from it more
boldly than do these works of the needle
On one side of the bed , within the space
confined by the golden balustrade , is the
washing stand , a tall mirror in gold
arabesques , the table ol inai ble supported
bypilt orcnze figures the basin , ewer
and ven vases in gilt Jbronze of a size
that would astonish c\en a giant , nnd of
a boautv tnat it is impossible to describe.
The other fcide of the bed is taken
up by a prayer stool in ruby
gold-embroidered velvet. the back
ground filed by a St. Michael in colors ,
of such splendid workmanship that the
original by the miniature painter , upon
nhicb the stitches were worked , must be
less beautiful , Above the prayer stool
thera is tiny altar with a copy of Ha-
phael's "Annuziata , " which , with the
prayer book it adorned , was sold by the
P&rugiun family that had owned it since
Itaphael s time to the empress of Russia ,
who in bor turn lent it to King Louit , one
of the great favorites in the years that
preceded r.er illnoss.
In low * , when n omnwercisl UmrUt Jr )
lus crlpfcaek in a holoJ of a protiiMtiua town ,
u LrJu Mhiek IUMII dkl
yousJi ) 1 could ftiwl > uy li/Uenf . "I will
' Moxv you uiyei . " sn > i tbe lin'Jlori , &s They I i
up tUiri.
THE INVENTOR OF THE LIFEBOAT *
Struggles and Success or Joseph
j Frauds Ail * * "
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'V" " *
Old JUan.r " *
Joseph Francis , who became famous as
the inventor of the h rst practical life-snv-
ing car and whose Cervices congress pro
posed to recojrnize witii a gold medal ,
says the New York Tribune , has lived for
many years at the Stevens house in lower
Broadway. He is a cheerful old gentle
man of 80. His gray hair is smoothed
carelessly over his square ample brow ,
while his gray mustache and small im
perial give a pleasing expression to his
mouth. His pale blue eyes twinuJt be-
ueath shaggy eyebrows and beam to
everybody and everything with merry
cheerfulness , as if he were on good terms
with the whole world He wear old-
fashioned broadcloth trousers sutd an
old fashioned collur encircles hie throat.
He lives quietly and modestly , and many
had forgotten that he still lived until the
chamber of commerce called the fact to
the attention of congress lat fall , and
urged that the services of this venerable
inventor be fitly recognized
Mr. Francfs began "the study of lifesaving -
saving methods wnen he read about t < r-
rible shipwrecks in his school days.
When only eleven years of ago he made a
small boat with compartments in tbe
bow and stern.which he filled with blocks
of cork. He was almost beside himself
when he filled the boat with water , and
found that not only did it not fcink but
that it floated with four men in it. It
was the lirst real lifeboat built in the
country. He improved uuon this and
sent his invention to the Massachusetts
mechanic's institute and received a re
ward. It was the first bit of public en
couragement that the boy inventor had
received , and then men of brains arid
money became interested in him. In
1 ° 25 he made a lifeboat with air cham
bers along the side in addition to the '
cork compartments of the bow and stern , *
When he launched it it struck the water 1
heavily and went down out of sight. It
came up again instantly and right side
up , and several men got into it , but were
unable to upset or sink it. He then took
the boat to Philadelphia , to exhibit it , but
England was the first to order two boats
of this pattern for service on the Canada
coast. Orders tncn poured in for life
boats of tbe same pattern , and ho re
ceived orders from the emperors of Bra
zil and Russia for state barges.
Frasicis continued his experiments , find
in 188S perfected a covered life-car for
taking people from n wreck to the there
on n naw&er. This was made of wpofl ,
and when he found that it could not with
stand the banging on rock * and ledges
ho set to work to build one of iron , un < !
got a patent on his successful invention
in 1643. He tried to get the secretary of
the treasury to take an interest in the in
vention , but the official gave him no
more than if " .
encouragement Jrfp .new
fangled contrivance" WAS found success
ful at a wreck on th.e New Jersey coast
the governaient wouJd then look into it.
Francis was not disheartened , hut took
his boat to the Jersey coast and waited
till the Btrandmj : of the British ship Ayr
shire in a furious storm on Jan. 12 , IH.TO.
She had 20-3 people on board , and after
the life-savers had secured a haw r to
her the life car was sent out Its lirst
trip brought five persons to the shore.
Within the next two hours even body
save one man was lended on the beach.
This one man jumped on the.oAr as it
w g le u ing the ship and was etvcnt < n er-
board by a tea. This success niaue Fian-
cia well known. Shortly alterward ho
gave n * .peoial exhibition of his Jiff-ear
on the Seine before the Emperor Njirol-
con , who knighted hui ] nnd a\r > him a
gold snuff-box , nhicli pore tha imperial
initial and a crown sat in blue cnunul
and bluddod with QteUty-slx diamonds.
He was also honoinu wiUi medals and
diplomas of merit from other crowned
hands , md whan he rotunidd home the
government had adopted his life-car and
pontoon wagon * .
