FOURTEEN MILES OF PRINT.
Mr. Gladstone has, of course, long ago lowered all legitimate records achieved in the field of exuberant verbosity, Few are aware, however, of the fearful and wonderful rate at which he continues to add to the pages of Hansard. It ia nearly twelve months since an enthusiastic statistician, who is also a devoted Gladstonite, spent nix hours each day during over fifty days in the library of the House of Commons, and sixty-five days overhauling the newspaper files in the British Museum, in the task of tracing the Prime Minister back to the first recorded syllable of his political vote. This victim of hero worship found that Mr. Gladstone had talked, up to July, ISS3, fourteen and one-half miles of print ; he ha* added 700 yards in the interval. He can hardly hope to put a girdle round the earth, but he has far excelled other windmills of his age iu articulation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7222, 10 January 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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