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Show SHORT SHRIFT FOR SORES Japanese Engineer's Clever Device for Getting Rid of Garrulous Speak ers in Parliament. A Japanese engineer named Yamas-iawa Yamas-iawa has conceived a method of silencing silen-cing parliamentary bores, and fror-his fror-his invention he is entitled to be considered con-sidered a benefactor of the humaD race. Attached to each seat in the house 3f parliament he propose'- to have a metal tube, the top being about the size of a franc piece or shilling. Each member of the house is to receive a leaden ball or hullet on entering. These balls can be easily passed into the tube, which, carried under the floor, leads to a receptacle immediately under un-der the place where a member stands when addressing the assembly. This spot is like the traps on the stage of a theater. The trap is so arranged ar-ranged that when r. certain number of balls not less than one-half the number num-ber of members of a full house have reached their receptacle the trap Is made to descend automatically, carry- ing with it the garrulous speaker or bore, as the case may be. No points of order have to be raised. The displeasure of the house is manifest in silence. Away goes the bore and another speaker is called upon. up-on. London Globe. |