Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1880 — Disfranchisement in England. [ARTICLE]

Disfranchisement in England.

Guizot, while on a visit to Lord Aberdeen in Scotland, was talking to him in the park one day about the English system of elections, when his host stopped before a modest cottage. “This little house,” he said, “ recalls to me a shameful deed in my political life.” “ What! an act of violence?” “You shall hear. I had a tenant here, an independent fellow, who annoyed me horribly. In every election he strenuously opposed me. I made up my mind to be' rid of him.” “Ha ! you turned him out?” “No. I reduced his rent by a guinea and destroyed his qualification—a mean trick, and I’ve always been ashamed of it.”— Fall Mall Gazette.

The American show at the Berlin Fish Fair is already the subject of admiring comment for its fullness, variety and rarity. But it must be a puzzle for the Prussian observers to determine to what department of pisciculture belongs the fire engine, with horsts yoked and men seated, which appears among the exhibits.

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