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Show To Abolish Toasts. A report for which some people in all civilized countries have been longing for years has at last come from of all places in the world Hungary. It is an agitation against after dinner speech-making. speech-making. The Pesther Lloyd publishes in-facsimile in-facsimile an invitation to dinner which bears a note to the effect that guests are desired to use their influence toward abolishing all toasts. It appears, however, how-ever, that such is the force of habit that one of the company got up in the middle mid-dle of the repast to propose a toast, "To the genial idea of our Amphytrion. " |