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Evening Star, Issue 7361, 5 November 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

Mr Wilbur P. Steele, a Dakota legislator, takes no interest in woman suffrage—except when he is obliged to do so. Once the Woman Suffrage Bill was before the House. A call was made for a vote, and the clerk proceeded to call the roll. When Steele's name was reached, he rose with the dignity of a Demosthenes, and commenced—"■ Mr Speaker, I am sorry that I cannot support this Bill; but " At that moment a well-dressed lady was seen to bend over the crallfii'V-r.ail. Tn a \nnrl vn!™ oVio cv/>lni'me<) " W-i-l-b-u'-r!. He glanced upward. It was enough. He turned and said: w Mr Speaker, I vote ' Aye.'" The lady was Mr« Steele. Some of the bets made during the reign of George 111. wa,s rather oomioal. Lords Alvquley and Dye Rosa onoe made a wager overnight in the partridge season as to who would make the bigger bag on the morrow, it being part of the bet that each should carry what the other shot. Alvanley,, at the close of the day, finding that he had i\ft chance of winning, shot a donkey.