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Show Privileged Guest. Of a prominent lecturer of London an acquaintance says: "On ono occasion occa-sion ho was tho guest of n friend of mino, a busy Liverpool merchant, and when tho popular lecturer returned from tho hall ho asked for all sorts of Impossible dishes and liquid concoctions con-coctions peculiar to abstainers a do-mnnd do-mnnd which somowhnt upset tho routine rou-tine of the household. When In bod his nervous tompornment was tried; he could not bear the ticking of the clocks, so ho pnraded tho houso In the small hours of the morning and stopped them all. In consequence of this tho servants had to bo rousod by violent boll-ringing; but tho guest was not to be distressed, so ho aroso again and ordered the servants back to their rooms and locked them ! and then went back to bod." |