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Show SHORT SHRIF1 FOR BORES Japanese Engineer's Clever Device tor Getting Rid of Garrulous Speakers Speak-ers In Parliament. A Japanese engineer named Yamas-kawa Yamas-kawa baa conceived a method of slitn-clng slitn-clng parliamentary Lores, and from bis Invention be la entitled to be considered con-sidered a benefactor of tbo buniaa race. Attached to each scat In the house of parliament he propoton to have a metal tube, the top being about the size of a franc piece or shilling. Each member of the house l to receive a leaden ball or bullet on entering. Those balls can be easily pafsed into iho tubo, which, carried under the floor, leads to a receptacle Immediately under un-der the place where a member ttands when addressing the assembly. This spot Ls like the traps on the stage of a theater. The trap Is bo arranged ar-ranged that when a certain number of balls not less than one-half the number num-ber of members of a full house have reached their receptacle the trap Is made to descend automatically, carrying carry-ing with It the garrulous speaker or bore, as tho case may be. No point of order have to b raised. The dljpleanuro of the house ls manifest In silence. Away goes the bore and another speaker ls called upon. up-on. London Globe. |