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Show Balfonr's Unintended Joke. The other day Mr. Balfour, in a speech in the house of commons, alluded al-luded to the once current notion that nobody was competent to legislate for the country unless he had a stake in it, "That, no doubt, was overdone." The house roared with laughter pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw to the astonishment of the orator, who did not know that he. had said anything any-thing funny, and who did not even appreciate the joke of the "overdone stake" when it was explained to him by a colleague. Household Words. |