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Show I Our National Cok roaches. j Hemt heml hem! cough! cough! 1 cough! Tho hall of the house of repre-1 repre-1 Bentatives sounded like an asylum foi I consumptives. Thesenatewas in execu-1 execu-1 tive session, and the hundreds of vi titors who thronged the Capitol on Saturday afternoon, being debarred from thai end ! of tho Capitol, thronged tho house side, j There was a Btrange odor in tho air. It tickled the nostrils and irritated the throat. As It grew stronger and stronger , the crowds gathered nround the big tonka of ice wnter and helped themselves 1 most liberally, while tho ladies bmighi i up all the caramels at the candy struid. The guides, usually so fluent of Bjoech, grew husky, and finally spoke in disjointed dis-jointed sentences. Everybody coughed and wondered. The cause of the strange odor was lo cated la the restaurant. Half a dozen employes were burning red paper by tht ream, and thousands ofcockroache . cn succumbing to tho fatal smell. The mi nual campaign of extermination -..-as in progresfl. Washington Post. |