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Show Senator Conklino's Valentine. We were seated in the senate gallery looking down upon the fog bank, when a page gave to the honorable Roscoc Oonkling a square enveloped letter that spoke the valentine at once. We borrowed bor-rowed an opera glass from a lady and brought it to bear upon the senator. We saw the look ot astonishment as Uoscoc opened this letter with his senatorial air, which always seems as if he were unfolding somebody's death warrant where deaths are common. This look broke out about his chin and worked gradually up his intellectual face until it covorcd the entire expanse, lingered for a second, and then seemed to disappear in that region where the one lock, like some tall promontory, wanders out into a sea of brain. The look was like that of a disgusted owl caught out in daylight by a jay. We could see the valentine distinctly, and it consisted of a bit of looking-glass. looking-glass. The lines underneath we couid not decipher, but we suppose they wcro some miserable doggerel in which some infatuated individual tried to get a rhyme flaConkling. Capital, Feb. 18. ' i - - - l |