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Show Young Members of Parliament. Our "youngest congressman" is necessarily neces-sarily more than twenty-five years old, in accordance with the provisions of the constitution, but the British house of commons has members several years younger. One of the newly returned' members, William Allen, is twenty-one, and Frederick Smith and Mr. Dalziel are not yet twenty-four. They do not break the record of political precocity, however, for William Pitt was only eighteen when he made his maiden speech in the house the speech that led Bmke to say that the young orator "was not a chip of the old block, but the old block itself."-Chicago Herald. |