Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1885 — One Man Counted as Ten. [ARTICLE]

One Man Counted as Ten.

Bishop Burnett relates a curious circumstance respecting the original passage of that important statute, the habeas-corpus act. “It was carried,” he says, “by an odd artifice in the House of Lords. Lord Grey and Lord Norris were named to be the tellers. Lord Norris, being a man subject to vapors, was not at all times attentive to what he was doing; so, a very fat Lord coming in, Lord Grey counted him for ten, as a jest at first, but, seeing Lord Norris had not observed it, he went on with this misreckoning of ten; so it was reported to the House, and declared that they who were for the bill were the majority, though it indeed went on the other side, and by this means the bill passed. It is probable that there never was a dentist so amiable of disposition but, if any one went to buy his wares, he would show his teeth. g The great diaphoretic and anodyne, for colds, levers, and inflammatory attacks, is Dr. Fierce’s Compound Extract of SmartWeed; also, cures colic, cramps, cholera morbus, diarrhoea, und dysentery, or bloody-flux. Only 50 cents. Don’t undertake to kiss a furious woman; risk not a smack in a storm.