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Show H V fr IS 'I ! '! '( l '!'! t (,", , . , , , , , ( x . I BBflH fA A SOCIABLE BODY i, Lonorcss p storytell. H A i 1NGl STRONG, - is Amiable g issn J I tth' l ' ! !t t ' 't t . n ! .'t l l ! x Iho congress of the United Btatos Hflflj la a sociable, amiable, story-teltlng fljflj body of men, a well n ti group ot Hflfll! Jttrong and brainy statesmen, If wo can Hflflj Judge of tbcm from tho report that Hflfll, como from their assembly ball and Hflflj tho cloak room Thero Is also a frco- fljflj dom ot personal Intercourse which fljHJ soon make all tho member friend. Hflfll, or nt least acquaintance According H to T. I O'Connor In tho Ixmdon Mall Hflfl!! there Is very little sociability tn tho fljflj' lltltlab, parliament. He saya that there Hflfll' Is probably no nasembly In Ilia world fl where so little social and pcrsonnl In- fljflj tercourso take place I was for Iho fljflj yean In tho housu of commons wlth- fljpJ: out knowing halt n dozen men oi-Uldo flflflB tho small body ot thirty-fire to forty fljflj member with whom I acted. Thoao Bflpfl were, of course, stormy times, nnd It BjHBJ iwa dldlcult to any whether an Irish- B 'man In tho ejioch between 18S0 and H 1883 had a fiercer hatred for t.lbernU ,or Tories. Things, of courao, havo greatly chaured, but ven now I seo every day tncmbera of tho house ot common who must havo been thero for tho samo twenty year a myself, nnd not only have I never spoken to them, but I do uot know somo ot them by name. Amid all It grrgarloiisncis tho I ousa ot common ha Its Isolation, Member retain thero tho eccentricity or tho lo of solitude which aro characteristic char-acteristic ot rcrtala temperament. Mr. Chnrrlngton, tho member tor Mile-Knd, Mile-Knd, for Instnnce, who I ono of tho most unlvcrsnlly generous men In the house, and who I never iloaf to a true talo ot undeserved auffcrlng, hn rarely been seen to talk to n single human being Tho rnmo Instinct, perhaps, which made, him rctuso both a baronetcy baron-etcy and peerago keeps him apart from his fellow. Ho dine nlone, ha takes hi ilngla cigar In tho emokcroom nlone, ho slta on n back bench In thl house, still nnd ever nlono. |