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Show plied in which, should lje devotee to serious reflections, doughnut and cider hard cider, owing to Its stimulating effects barred. Itep.escnta'.lve Ferry departs Monday next for a rust a much needed rest although al-though KcprcsentatiTe Ferry is a "right smart" of c prima donna himself when it comes to grinding out music for the audience audi-ence on the other side. Since the session hciran no i;h has ' :i upon the floor oftener than he the wary colonel from the cloud-capped cloud-capped city and bis colleagues hope to aee him return with his vitality and vocal plumage plum-age fully restored. Now, Mr. Sargent, no 1 remarks. Representative Arnett whose duty it is to se, that the wheels of jurisprudence In tl)e house are kept wi 11 oiled Is un indefatigable worker, and while he has not yet found oc- ! casion to unbosom himself he is said to be f one of the most fiery young orators that ever j .sprung from the fertile soil of Virginia. i ii Benediction by the chaplain. LEGISLATIVE SNAP SHOTS. No, Close Observer, lir'er Olsenll not In. dating his lungs when he makes that e-pulchral e-pulchral piiusu before speaking. lie is simply tryiug to release a deep-thought tliuuklet from its abdominal moorings. The bouse has been hit by a ware of piety that cam In through H, l BO, a moral j measure that socks to tOiake up the gin mills from stem to gudgeon, and compel the observance of at least oue day in seven by j loading it up with a line of penalties, any I one of which will bo fatal to the culnril j Tho nutritious milk punch, the exhilarating j cocktail and the whisky sour must conllne ; their desolating ravages through homes ai.d I over hearthstones to six days p.mi delist on : the seventh. What thrill and cheer too will Its enact-moot enact-moot bring to the dull heart of the car. pouter who has learned how to make a spacious alleyway out of a six-inch spni'c, aud to tbe magic locksmith who has in- I rented a patten to which every man but I the spy aud spotter carries a key. I Representative Tuttlc, in the shadow of I whose dense and impregnable wisdom stands ' j newspaper row, may not bo very CO&aplcu. ous in the dress parade and gaud of house i debate, but when it comes to voting on a measure that looks to the relief of "Blue i Pete" pardou 3au Tote, he is a tithe. fed ' "corker." The house consumes at least to hours; each day to "chewing the raj" nnd to j gaseous in that are i rmain to notb- i in' unless they be to a yet unborn bill pro- j Tiding for the bate keeping aud repression of "down-right idiocy." lu these windy and tiresome, if not stit'dd. inanities they bnw ; permitted the sai;e of the council to dis- j tance them and themselves to block legisla- ; tion that, if it should been "legislated" at all, should have cleared the calendar long bufoie this. No offense, B'rcr Speaker, but you aro at the stop-cock aud it becomes your duty to , call "time" when time is being wasted with such extravagant prodigality. e Over in the upper house on the same j floor H'rcr King wilds the thu gavel and w hile he draw s tho lino at gag methods or iuipcrioiinoss he kn.iws when to take out his "Waitham mover.-.ent" and equally Well how to call time. Before retiring toniirht B'rcr f peakcr, take four sixty .grain capsule of President King's discovery for prevent- i ing the esc ape of gas and if the desired result re-sult is not obtained swallow H'rer King himself, him-self, following it up with a light eniltic. Ml House Kick No. 0O.", by K'rcr Sargent A j kick against night sessions, the hours im- ' ,vj-' 1 |