The men, on their side, were of all professions and arts, and of every grade of celebrity, from senator to merchant,each distinguished by some personal attribute or talent; and in all was the gift, so rare, of manners and conversation.

"Senator D, perhaps," suggested Denslow, whose ideas, like his person, aspired to the senatorial.

Denslow was certain of the popular and county votes; he needed only the aristocratic support, and the A people would have made him Senator.

" An old lady in Bangor, Maine, sends the following entertaining anecdote of one of our most distinguished fellow-citizens: The late Senator R-, who, by the way, was a very portly man, was in the habit of riding over the fields to consult Judge B-, his wife's cousin, on points of extra-judicial import.

"Well," said the Judge, "what would you do then?" "I don't know," said the Senator.

But Senator Charles Sumner had the final word: "Whether he becomes an actor or not is immaterial: I can assure you that this young man's ultimate destiny is in the political arena.

A despatch from the Honorable Silas Wright, then United States Senator from New York, refusing to accept the nomination for Vice-President, was read in the National Convention and produced an extraordinary interest from the fact that very few of the delegates had ever heard of the telegraph, and it required much explanation to satisfy them of the genuineness of the alleged communication.

He was given the degree of Bachelor of Arts by the Kirksville (Missouri) normal school in 1880; graduated at West Point in 1886; was made Bachelor of Laws by the University of Nebraska in 1893; married Francis H. Warren, daughter of Senator Warren of Wyoming, at Washington, January 28, 1905.

And one, Silicius Corona, a senator, voted outright to acquit Marcus Brutus.

The chief leading the troops, cried out in a rage, and with the voice of a senator, "Fools!

he who crossed into Dalmatia with thee once, as a supernumerary, the time he was suspected of having aided the young Frenchman in running away with a senator's daughter?" "Do I remember the last famine?

His gondola has been run down by an Ancona-man, who passed over the boat as if it were a senator stepping on a fly.

"It may have been lucky for the Ancona-man that it so fell out; for they say the Roman was one of influence enough to make a senator cross the Bridge of Sighs, at need.

" "I very well know, Signor Don Camillo, that the honor of a noble is more tender of reproach than that of his followers, and that the stain upon the silken robe of a senator is seen farther than the spot upon a velvet jacket.

General Andrew Jackson, military commander of that region, was disabled by a wound received from a brilliant but brutal ruffian named Thomas H. Benton, who was afterward United States Senator from Missouri.

Mr. Sumner, the Free Democratic senator from Massachusetts, had visited me in prison shortly after his arrival at Washington, and had evinced from the beginning a sincere and active sympathy for me.

"You have killed him," said a senator as two men promptly seized the victim's arms to drag him out.

he exclaimed, clapping the back of the senator whom he had scurrilously insulted a moment ago.

A flush of anger swept over the senator's pale face.

A senator gave Commodus his cloak.

He let his cloak fall and a senator tripped over it.

Bring that lamp here!" Bolder than the others, having recently been praised, the senator Tullius brought the lamp and, kneeling, held it near the culprit's face.

The curule officers were the consuls, the praetors, the aediles, the quaestors, the tribunes; so that an able senator was sure of a great office in the course of his life.

A man could scarcely be a senator unless he had held a great office, nor could he often have held a great office unless he were a senator.

A man could scarcely be a senator unless he had held a great office, nor could he often have held a great office unless he were a senator.