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Show ONE-LEGGED GIZNAlOflS. Voar of Tlivm Wro Together at On 'rlmn In WkiUIukCuii. Say what they will, says a Washington Washing-ton letter, the associates of Senator Berry, of A'kansas, rnnnot persuade him to try n cork leg. At ono time thero were four one-legged senators. Three of them half concealed tho loss with nu r.rtlflclnl substitute. They used tj get together In tho cloak-room aud tell each other how much mora comfortable they felt, but they uover convinced Senator Berry. Ho clings to his crutches, notwithstanding they havo failed him moro than once, and tcnthiui headforemost downstairs almost al-most to his death. Thero aro funny things about this onedegged business, Henderson, of Iowa, tho Dubuque veteran, manages man-ages them so well that penploform his acquaintance and see him n round for wcoks without learning that ho la part cork. Once In nwhllo tho btump becomes be-comes sensitive, nnd Mr. Hendcrtou leaves thu artificial leg at homo for n few days to rest hlmr.elf, while ho hob. bles about the haueoof representative) on crutches, to tho umu?en'e:it of thoso who havo not known him long. A senator sen-ator who manages nn artificial leg without awkwardness Is Builer, ot South Carolina. Hu curries u ciiuoiuid moves with bomo deliberation, but not one person lu ono hundred passing him on tho street dotccts any btlfTnvss In his gait. |