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Show Senator's High Ideas. Senator W. A. Clark of Mouinna would liavo rondo an .artist If lie lutl not liatl tlio luck to be a millionaire. "I run fond of art nnd nrtlsts," said tho senator lOBt night at the reception recep-tion at tho Corcoran Art (Jalleiy on tlio occasion of showing tho fifty-nix pictures of his collection, which Is n most Interesting one. It has cost tho owner moro than $700,000. "I sometimes wish," ho continued, "thot I had studied art." "What would havo been your lino, Scnator7" ho wan asked. "Oh, I should have chosen great subjects. I would ncvei havo painted sheep or cattlo or peasants. I Bliould have chosen to paint lions." Now York Sun. |