The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23
Bad Manners In Parliament,

There was a time when manners were
very bad in the English Parliament, but
this was when Parliament had not estab-
tablished its supremacy, and it is worth
remarking that manners improved from
the time when Parliament grew SUI
preme, and when it came to be recog-
nized that this supremacy could only be
m aintained if on many great questions
both parties acted in concert. Pepys,
writing on the 18th of December, 1866,
describes a queer scene which he wit
messed in the House OF Lords: "My
Lord Buckingham, leaning rudely over
my Lord Marquis Dorchester, my Lord
Dorchester removed his elbow. The
Duke asked whether he was uneasy.
Dorchester replied YES, and that the
Duke burst not do this if he were any
where else. Buckingham replied. yes,
he would, and that he were better man
than himself. Dorchester said that he
lied. With this Buckingham struck of
his hat, took him by his periwigg, and
pulled it aside and held him." There
is nothing so bad as this in the Parlia-
mentary annals of the Georgian er,,.
Chatham is said to have been more
feared than any orator of his time, but
his invective was carefully measured.
Speaking of Newcastle, then Prime
Minister, he once asked whether Parlia-
ment sat only to register the edicts of
one too-powerful subject. Hereupon
Newcastle is reported to have been
frightened almost out of his wits. But
this was fair fighting. There was nc
imputation on Chatham part of ignoble
motives; he simply accused his adversary
of the splendid sin of ambition.
Our Parliamentary history abounds
with encounters Of this sort, in which
the thrusts delivered, whether in earnest
or in jest, were often heard, but always
bestowed according to fair rules, and
with an absence Of that implacable ami
mus which leaves combatants enemies
when the fight is over. Everybody
knows the story of Sir Robert Walpole
having a dispute with Pultney about a
quotation from Horace. The Minister
beta guinea that his own version was
right; q Horace was sent for, and Sir
Robert proving to be in the wrong,
threw down a gSinea, which PultEey
pocketed with the remark that it was
the only money ever paid by the Min.
lister which member could accept
without shame. The words were not in
the best taste, perhaps; but how English
the whole thing was, and how sugg estive
of good-humored sparring with the
gloves on!--London Times. 81 rre- 's
The parrot is an initiative bird.
When it lives near church it becomes
bird of prey. 1t will also acquire crude
profanity, with which it delights to shock
the sensibilities of people coming out OF
going into church. The parrot is an
evergreen. 1t never drops its foliage in
the fall of the year, but retains its YER
dure from one years end to the other.
The parrot will i've on ALMOST anything.
1t will live on to 100 years of age. un.
less something extraordinary happens
N. o. Tfmes.ly ea'i r3Yu .,H-F.f..
The woman spectators of New York
city increase in number, but the brokers
are fighting shy OF them. They have
about as much of an idea of business as
a mule has of the aurora borealis. II
they gain they are gigglingly delighted;
if they lose, they plead so tearfully and
that they may not be made
to suffer, that the broker will give their
back and close all woman &C.
counts in his books, forever.-Detroii
Post. ,,.-T