Arizona republican., 1899-05-18
BULLS IN PARLIAMENT.
Whither ElOquence Sometimes Hur-
 i7ies the Honorable Members.

Tie house of commons produces
 quality; in fact, Great Britain's legis
 laJtors appear to keep in stock specia,
 brands of these commodities. Here
 are 9 few samples:
 One night during his last term as
 prime minister, Mir. Gladstone rose tc 1 luis feet and calmly accused conserv-
 atiYe leader of an astounding feat. He
 told the right honorable gentleman l that 'fhe shook his head in the !!setll of his own words!" Thcse words must have been very biting ones.
 | B L. Cohen, M. P. on one occasion told an opponent that the sheet an cIhor of his argument is not enc which lies in the mouth of this house. At the period when continual refer ence was being made to the Gladstone
 umbrella a conservative orator, i'll the course of debate, informed the fol- lowers of Mir Gladstone that i've. also, have an umbrella, which will socn Ee heard, and when it speaks, it will be with no uncertain sound.' A couple of nights later, another member, seemingly in a spirit of emu faition, asltonished a bewildered house by exclaiming: ''I see a vision float before my eyes-it is the car of prog ress, rolling ch in its majesty, gnash- ing its Heeth as it goes" The honor able member appears to have been quite carried away by that vision of a car.
 Undoubtedly a combination of ex- citement and nervousness accounts largely for the glorious mixture some orators pour out upon their listeners. cO i'm Of fho to,r member whose speech had drawn it's slow length along for nearly an hour, when suddenly he startled the house by an eloquent outburst: "Sir, look aj- lJhe great cities of an6iquity-where are they now? Some have perished so completely that it is doubtful if they eyer existed" Then there went up such a roar of laughter as the house has very rarely heard-and the orator resumed his seat.
 Here are trio of delightfully."- mixed metaphors, which made the speaker almost hold his sides with laughter The subject under discussion was bi- 1neltaIlism and the intricate ramifica- tions of the topic were intensified by three members, who wished to give in- strucition to their felLow legislators. The first orator let eff this original aphoTism: ''All along the untrodden paths of the past we discern the foot prints of an unseen hand
 Then there was dash of members to leave the house, but these who re- m8ined were charmed by another member describing several recent bye elections as a 'fhaysi13ck of straws, showing which way the wind blows" Ten minutes Calter the commons were 1u in cid net in any way refer ito the debate by the member for north of Eng land city. that he had in his constit- uency scores of destitute childrent'' Of course laughter p1md and long greeted this, whereupon the honorable member haStened to explain that he did not mean exactly what he had said
 Lord Curzon, when plain MT George Curzon, was once, and once cnly, known to .hopelesz-y mix his meea- rEhbrs- On the occasion in question he highly amused the house elf commons by saying: we are not yet cut of the wood in South Africa, and to get out the ship of state requires most careful steering."
 An Irish member, MT Murnaghan. dc wit, delivered himself of this de- Nghtful remark: 3'I am net going to reIter2i-e what I was going ito say" This "bulP' brings to mind tw12. strangely mixed metaphors uttered in the house by another member from the Emerald Isle, MT. William Field.
 On one occasion he told the speak CT that the time has come, indeed is rapidly arriving, when," etc, and an- other night he informed parliament thal5, in certain eventualities, .'the pop ulasion of Ireland will be decimated by Ewo-dairdsi" These two delightful expressions have made the honorable member famous at St Stephen's.-. London Mail.
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