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Show IRREVERENT INSECTS. How Filet Interfered With the Stoning of the Declaration. Congress on July It), 177IS, ordered the Declaration passed on the Fourth, fairly ciigi'o.scd on parchment, with the title ami style of "The unanimous Declaration of tije 1SI United States of America, aud that thu same, when en grossed. U (iguod by every luemher of congress." It was a sultry day In Atigti-t .let-ferbou.' .let-ferbou.' when In a genial, roiylnlscunt mood, was accustomed to hay that the signing was hastened by swarms of Hies that came Into the hall through the open windows of the statehouse from a livery stable near by. The dny'-s business had been arduous It was hot nnd Micky, and the tiles assaulted as-saulted the silk stockinged legs of the honorable members with vigor nnd real X'ory vliidlctlvenes-s. With handkerchiefs handker-chiefs nu.l nil available p.ipers the fathers fa-thers of liberty lashed the Hies, but with no avail. The oiisU.,t became unendurable, and the menibers, i-aplMi Intliig, made haste to sign and h.-iiig thu momentous business to u clo-v of tho tlfty-slz signatures not nil vverv attached at-tached even nt this date. Washington Star. |