Show tile autobiographies contains a brief sketch of every kenag and congressman usually the sketch Is vv ritten by the subject thereof and is in fact an autori A perusal of notices gives one a very fair idea of the men who make laws for the nation as the 8 tat camen are as a rule allowed to say they please of themselves though in remote instances the compiler is obliged to temper egotistical or utterance A washington correspondent of the cincinnati gazette has unearthed some c f the original manuscripts for past issues of the Dire dory and ho makes several entertaining revelations one arkansas congressman in aner ow to the usual request for a sketch of his I 1 lie wrote enough to fill a dozen pages history of his own and his cifes families the characteristics of ill children the names of ilia husbands And wives and children of those married trod aced several illustrated in bear and bee and coon hunting ile introduced a poem on spring written by his second oldest son gave the names of two young fellows rivals for the hand of one of his daughters named pink and described the distress he wae suffering over ill 0 question of which she would choose the compiler cut the biography down to eighty lines A member from georgia described adoll g other things an infliction he had endured in the form of a skin dia ease ld named the patent medicine man in ills state by which lie was ared and advised all his prospective ice prospect brother coda gressmen to use the same medicine if they became a similarly imil arly affected this advertisement was cut out of course a performance that cut tile off from a handsome mum probably which he would have received from the enterprising firm of of ilia beoo A kentucky an once in his blo graphy described a stock L arm owned by him named the horses gave chstr pedigree records and prices another kentuckian I 1 mentioned amon g other eouts of his eventful lifo the number of fights he had been in and gave descriptions of two in macyll of had killed a man and gave the names of the men he bad slaughtered one ohio man gave the numbs of 8 beep lie ened tile fluctuations in the prices of wool in an elaborate table and introduced a strong protest agail the reduction of the duty on w ool all of which was sacrificed A congressman from iowa sent in his in verse and very W verse too another from the same state living separate fron this w lie but in a detailed statement laid all the blame upon tier and appealed to his brother congressmen to overlook the mitter and to the speaker not to allow himself to be influenced by it in assigning him to committees I 1 |