Show TALES QF THE DAY Samples of Repartee T PQonnor rtn The Rumors of Parliament fOr 11 A P and in the current article tellS this of Daniel OCon nell A certain member named Thomas Masse who had his eye always on the pope brought ln a bill jto obliterate the Popish affix mas or oblerate substitute sub-stitute the good old Saxon word tide In all instances m Christmas worl MichaclmaS1 Ig ni cWl so that they nhould tngdor ChriSttide and lcbnelt respedtlvely ocon nell listened attentively to all themember had to say in favor of his scheme and then got up ad saId Slnc tqelpna able gentleman h so axious to wipe out the obnoxious mas from the English vo i l II t m I cabulary why does he not mae com enecment by Saxonizing his own namel In that case he would be known t Tho tide Tfdey The bill wits fairly laugbe out of the house He foHows wIth these two anecdotes Lord MOlCk at one time governor tf Canada Bat In the bouSe of commons for an English constituency An Irishman himself he was very patronizing to the Irish members Meeting VIncent Sculy the member for Tipperry in the lobby one night he slapped him on the shoulder and said familiarly Well Scull how are you The other annoyed by this form or address rejoined I vI thank you my lord not to deprive my name or the last letter or If you do pray add i to your own add call yourselfMon keVincent Vincent Sculy once gave utterance In the house to a ludicrous cOnfison of tlugt A landlord had been murdered at Tlperao and during a discussion In regard to that crime an attempt was made to prove that it was agrarian 1r Sculy spoke of the murdered man In tcrmof the highest praise He wa3 much belayed belay-ed said he he distrIbuted food to the staring peoiIo and no mali lad a less rIght to be murdered Anxious For the Queen Professor Wilson of Edinburgh Unler sity was recent appointed honorary physician phy-sician to the queen On the morning of bin appointment ho Informed his pupils of tIle honor ho had received by means of a NaClloarLln the latortor thus hLO I lessor V1son informs his 3tuaents that he has been this day appointed honorary physician to the queen During his tem poro absence front the room one of his students to the amusement ot the class added the words God save the queen |