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Show The Two Webstcbs. When Mr. Webster visited England, after he had attained fame enough to precede him, an English gentlemen took hitn one Jay to-see Lord Brougham. That eminent Briton received our Daniel with such coolness that he waa glatl lo get away and back to hia rooms. Tno friend who had taken him at once returned to Lord Brougham in baste and anger. "My lord, how could you behave with such unseemly rudeuess and dise.mrtesy to so great a lawyer aud statesman? It was insulting to him, and has liiled me with mortification." "Why, what on earih have I done, and whom have I been rude to?" "To Dauiel Webster, of the senate of the United States." "Great Jupiter, what a blunder! I thought it waa that fellow Webster wiio mado a dictionary and nearly ruined the English language." Then the great Chancellor quickly hunted up tho American senator, and, hav'ing other tastes in common besidea law aud politics, they made a royal night of it. Editor's Drawer, in Harper's Mayaztne lor June. |