Iced bath 110
Cold bath 98 Blood heat.
COAT OFF 90
Stock loosened 88
Cuffs turned up 85
One waistcoat 80
Morning coat all day 75
ONE COAT 65 Summer heat.
Spencer 55 Temperate.
Ditto, and "Comfortable" 52
GREAT COAT 50
Ditto, and Macintosh 45
Ditto, ditto, and worsted stockings 43
Ditto, ditto, ditto, and double boxcoat and Guernseys 35
Ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, and bear-skin coat 32 Freezing.
Ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto and between }
two feather beds all day } 0 Zero.


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THE SPEAKERSHIP.

The Parliamentary _lucus a non lucendo_--the Speaker who never speaks--the
gentleman who always holds his own tongue, except when he wants others to
hold theirs--the man who fills the chair, which is about three times too
big for him--is not, after all, to be changed. But the incoming tenants of
office have resolved to take him as a fixture, though not at a fair
valuation; for they do nothing but find fault all the time they are