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Show llalfoar. Unlateiiit.tl Joke. The other day Mr, Halfour, In a speech In tbo bouse of commons, alluded al-luded to tho onco current notion that nobody wni competent to legislate for tho country unlets ne bad a stako In It, "That, no doubt, was overdone." The bouse roared with laughter pleated with a rattle, tickled with a straw to the astonishment of the orator, who did not know that he had suld anything any-thing funny, and who did not even appreciate the Joke of the "overdone stake" when It was explained to Mm by a colleague. Household Words. |