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“I rise for information,” said one of the dullest of the members of the American Legislature.—“I am very glad to hear it,” said one, who was leaning over the bar; “for no man wants it more than yourself.” Another member rose to speak on the bill to abolish capital punishments, and commenced by saying, “Mr. Speaker, the generality of mankind in general are disposed to exercise oppression on the generality of mankind in general.” “You had better stop,” said one, who was sitting near enough to pull him by the coat-tail; “you had better stop, you are coming out of the same hole you went in at.”
A New York paper says that a man the morning after he has been drunk with wine feels as though he had the rheumatism in every hair of his head.