Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1878 — Canadian Statesmen at Fisticuffs. [ARTICLE]

Canadian Statesmen at Fisticuffs.

In the Canadian House of Commons, while Mr. Bunster, member for British Columbia, was speaking, Mr. Cheval, a Canadian member, began playing a jewsharp, and imitating the cry of a cat in distress. The British Columbian became enraged, and dared the owner of the musical instrument to meet him outside. They met shortly afterward in one of the corridors, when the hirsute British Columbian struck Cheval a savage. )>low on the side of the head. The plucky little Frenchman seized his burly assailant by the beard With his left hand and vigorously struck out with his right. The noise attracted the members, who ruSehd out and separated the pugilists, the Frenchman carrying off as his trophy a huge bunch of Bunster’s hair. Bunster is the member who brought in the resolution that no one whose hair was over five and a half inches long should .be employed pn the Canada Pacific railway.— Ottawa (Canada) telegram. Clock-work has been successfully applied as a motor to sewing-machines by a mechanician of Vienna. It can be wound up in a few minuteß, and it will run for several hours,- its speed being meanwhile fully p.Jlder the control of the operator, •.