THE FUN OF THE "HOUSE."

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 140, 15 June 1877, Page 4

THE FUN OF THE "HOUSE."

The European Mail aaya :— By the late paetage of arms between Captain Nolan and Mr Bennet-Stanford, it would appear that coughing in the House is forbidden to any one who is not a Home Ruler. The Parliament of the Dominion of Canada will probably wieb. that it numbered a few Home Rulere amongst its members, to restrain the exuberant expression of oppinion indulged in on the Government side of the House. A Toronto newspaper informed us that, while an Opposition member was speaking Mr Cheval, who sits on the back benches to the right of the Speaker, raised the lid of his desk aad commenced to play a hornpipe on a Jew's harp- Inspired by the anisic, an old gentleman of the name of Snider, the representative of North Grey, sprang to his feet, and com* menced to dance to the dulcet tones

evoked by his confrere. This un- : seemly conduct continued until Sir John Macdonald called the Speaker's > ' attention to it, when Mr Snider j vanished by the side door. Captain Nolan's remark to the Speaker on ! account of Mr Stanford's cough re- ' minded us of the dialogue b'efwesn trj(e retainers of the Montagues and C/aputets '■ — Do you bite your thumb at me, sir ?" ' " No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at ; you, sir, but Jf,, bite my thumb, sir." But although we musi; regret the! reverberation of coughing in, the House I of Commons, we have not yet de- ; scended to Jew's harps and hornpipes, j We have only got as far as iniermina- • ble twaddle and unceasing boredom.