Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-04-06

get IN Immediately afterwards
The chaplain. by the way, has cut
his prayers down from the five min
utes be used to devote to them 10
about 30 seconds
Clerk Wise Of the House had mar
row escape one day this week from
dislucating his jaw. Some one care
icssly let q couple Of Latin words slip
into bin aud passed II mp to the
clerk without any warning Of the OBJ
structions to articulation. Wise read
along mouotonuusly until he came TO
"ferae naturae." when he stopped alb
ruptly and AN expression of agony
spread over his face.
But he was game. lie grasped the
bin firmly and made an attempt To
pronounce the words. lie emitted
something between grOm and q cuss-
word and the House let II 10 at that.
But some of the members are still
wondering why the author OF the bill
wrote of birds "ferae naturae' instead
of simply wild birds.
Some one played ON April Fool
trick on Representative Long aud he Is
still looking for the ucrpctrator with
blood in his eye and sand-bag up his
sleeve.
Whenever the House goes into Com
mittee of the Whole. some devotce Of
My Lady Nicotine always moves that
the rules be suspended. The members
then shed their coats. loll back In
their chairs, stick cigars or cigarettes
between their teeth and prepare to be-
comfortable.
In preparation for the next seance of
this kind. Long last Monday brought
into the House chamber large tin of
choice cigarettes. which he placed In
his desk and then went out into the
hall To button hole some refractory
member who didn't agree with him on
educational matters.
When he came back the cigarettes
We're gone. Long was wrathy. He
rushed out to look for the Culprit. An
hour passcd,-twO hours. and still the
member from the Fourth District re-
turned not. Bills came up for dis
cussion. members talked: notes were
taken-but Long was not there for he
was short--a box OF cigarettes.
II Is stated authOritatively that the
bereayed Representative Is still going
about. examining with microscope
the cigarette ashes dropped In the
Legislative halls, In Sherlock Holmes
attempt to locate the culprit.
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One Of the most impressive cere-
monies Of the Legislature Is the re-
ceipt III "A message from the Governor
II Is liable To break oui az any mo-
ment. and when II does the wheels that
go round 10 grind out laws, stop with
u sudden jar. II Is as II stick were
showed into the wheels of a little red
Wagon.
For Il message from the Governor
takes precedence over all business eX-
cept the third reading of bills Some
member will he ON his feet filling the
startled air with words when suddenly
the big voice Of the Sergeant-at- Arms
will boom out, MI Speaker, a mes
cage from the Governor" and the or
atOr will collapse into his seat like a
sOap-bubble pricked by a hat-pin.
Aud then Secretary Jack, his bosom
swelling with pride until he looks like
Il pOuter pigeon, importance and au-
lhoriiy radiating from him like heat
waves from red-hot stove, will ad-
vance up the aisle with majestic tread.
deliver the message TO the clerk, turn
ON his heel aud march out again. The
Office boy could do the job rs effective
ly, but as impressively-no: there Is
only one Jack.