Show col ingersoll outdone I 1 the franklin inn club of philadel phia Is an organization composed ei of literary men at the quaint clubhouse there arose one day a discussion about drunkenness and about various happy and well known descriptions of the state of inebriety some one cited col ingersoll s epi gram about a man so drunk that he lay on his back in a field and felt up in the air for the grass john luther long lovelist said but I 1 have heard of a man drunker even than ingersoll s this chap after frying vainly for a long time one night to open his door with a latch key nut to himself with a hiccough cough some one must have stolen the key hole |