Life — February 22, 1894 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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TP RRES- Tue following story is told of Congressman Dan Lockwood of Buffalo: Mr. Lock- wood, it appears, is the director of a company which proposes to span the Hudson River with a bridge. Some time ago, it was during the last days of the Fifty-second Congress, the house got into a snarl and an all-night session was the result. Mr. Lockwood, with many others, went into the cloakroom about three o'clock in the morning, and, stretching out on the lounge for forty winks, was soon fast asleep. He did not wake up until six o'clock, when Doorkeeper Coakley shook him by the shoulder and remarked : “Come, Mr. Lockwood, the house has adjourned and you are the last man here.” ‘Have ‘they passed that bridge bill yet?” the congressman asked Mr. Coakley, rubbing his eyes. “Oh, yes," replied Mr. Coakley ; ‘that was two days ago."— Troy Press. Durie the year 1883, threatening letters were sent to many public men in England. Among others, Lord Salisbury received a letter from the Chief Constable of Hertfordshire informing him that his life and that of the late Mr, Smith, First Lord of the Admiralty, were to be attempted the following Monday. This letter Lord Salisbury sent to Mr. Smith, with the accompanying grimly comical little note : , My Dear SmtTH: The enclosed may interest you. Iam afraid 1 am, in point ot superficies, the biggest mark of the two. SALISBURY." —Argonaut. For sale by all Newsdealere in Great Britain. The Intew patiooal News Company, Dream's Bullding, Chancery Lane, London, £. C., England,’ AoExrs DvrIne the Russo-Turkish war, while relations were very strained between En, and the Czar, a member was indiscreet enough to put a question to Disraeli, who then prime minister, as to the policy of the government in the event of the Emperor df Russia doing a certain act. Disraeli, with a most fui lowly advanced to the table. The question, declared in a slow, measured v one of such perilous moment, that the honorab member acted most unwisely in putting it on the paper; yet it was a question of such importance that the only course now open to the government was to accept the incvit \d boldly answer, ‘*1f," declared Disraeli, ‘the emperor takes this step, all I can —and I am speaking after a prolonged consultation with my colleagues—the government will then give the policy they are to pursue their very best consideration."—Argonavt, Lord Nortn, who was premier of Great Britain during our war with the mother country, often indulged in real or seeming slumber. One day he said toa friend at the beginning of a speech on the British navy = ill give us our naval history from, the beginning, not forgetting Sir Francis Drake and the Armada, Let me sleep on, andi wake me when we come to our own time.” At length the friend roused him, and Nora exclaimed : “* Where are we now?” ** At the battle of La Hogue, my lord.” ** Oh, ay dear friend, you have waked me a century too soon!" On another occasion an opponeat stopped in the middle of an invective to exclaim: ‘Even now, in the midst of thee penis, the noble lord is asleep!" ‘I wish I were," rejoined the sleeper, fervently. — Argonaut. MAN OF FASHION (reading in @ newspaper that a village schoolmaster had shet himself because he could not pay a debt of fifty marks): Ridiculous! Why if 1 wereto shoot myself for every fifty marks that I owe, I should be kept at it all the year round Fliegende Blatter, |, EUROTEAN AGENTS—Mewre. 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