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Show Innovation In Parliament. An innovation Is said to havo crept Into tho English Houso of Commons recontly, when hand-clnpplng, faml liar tho world ovor, but forbidden In tho mother of parliaments, was for tho first tlmo heard. Tho custom of tho houso calls for "Hear! Heart" as the expression of approval, ofton Ironical, "Hear! Hear!" according to learned authorities, Is a modern shortening of "Hear htm) Hear him I" the regul lar parliamentary shout of approval down to the early part of the last century. |