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Show Long Talks. Parliamentarians and orators in general gen-eral claim that no man could talk coherently co-herently on a single subject for mors than six hours, yet hundreds of cases to tbe contrary could be cited. When De Cosmos defended the settlers' land bill in the lower house of the British Columbian Co-lumbian parliament, he talked continually contin-ually for 26 hours. The act confiscating confiscat-ing the property of De Cosmos' constituents constit-uents had to be passed by noon of a certain cer-tain day; De Cosmos was tha only defender. de-fender. He took the floor at 9 :55 o'clock the day previous to the date when the law would become a dead letter and kept it until 12:05 the following day. It is said that his tongue and lips were cracked in hundreds of places and his shirt front covered with blood. A speech 11 hours longer than the British Columbian's famous argument was delivered de-livered in the Roumanian chamber of deputies in 18S7. It was on the occasion occa-sion of the impeachment of ex-Minister Bratiano, the leading deputy supporting support-ing the articles of impeachment talking continuously for 37 hours. Exchange. W,W-''lii,at'''"'i'',"' PROBATE NOTICE IN THE PROBATE Court in and for Utah county, territory of Utah. In the matter of the estate of James Q. PoweH, deceased. Ordr to jshow cause why decree confirming commissioner's report should not be made. Joseph Goatee the commissioner to mak partition of the e6tare of James Q. Powell, deceased, having filed his report herein parti-tioning;the parti-tioning;the estate of said decedent, and asking ask-ing contlmation of the same. It ia therefore ordered by the probate judge of said court that all persons interested in the estate of the said deceaseo, appear before the s-' id probate court, on Saturday theblst day of March 1894, at 1U o'clock in te forenoon fore-noon of said day, at courtroom of said probate court, at the courthouse, in Provo cit. county of Utah; to show cause why an ord"r ehould n-t be granted confirming said report of the said commissioner. And a copy of this order be published at least once a week for three weeks successively succes-sively in The Dispatch, a newspaper printed and published in said Utah county, Territory of Utah. JrD. Jones. Probate Judge Dated March 5th, 1894. Te rritory of Utah, I COUNT OF UTAH. J 1, V. L, Halliday, clerk of the Probate court in and for Utah county, Territory of Utah, hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of the original order to show cause why decree conflming commission' commis-sion' r's reports in the estate of James Q. Powell, deceased, should not be made, and now on ou file and of record in my office, WitnesB my hand and the seal of said court at my office in Provo city this 5th seal day of March, A. D. 1894. V. L, Halliday, Clerk of the probate court Utah county TJ.T. |