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approved parliamentary language, that the “ noes’ 
have it. But against this prominent feature of the 
argument we get the somewhat sophistical blow, that 
there exist individuals who, like the blind deprived 
of sight, the deaf of hearing, and, it may be added, 
the unfeeling of the sense of touch, are equally 
bereaved of the olfactory attribute. Man, as a general 
tule, possesses a greater perceptive sagacity in this 
facial organ for the detection of coarse and objection- 
able odours than the gentler sex, while the latter, 
apparently ignorant of the presence of much that is 
offensive to the ruder nature of man, can analyse 
shades of difference in the essential odours arising 
from a flower almost to the extent of determining 
thereby the exact period of the day. There are few 
of us but are acquainted with some one or other of 
our fellows who will faint at the smell of a rose, be- 
come pale and sick in too close proximity to a melon, 
who cannot sit down to table if there be vinegar at 
the board ; and, on the other hand, have a vigorous 
relish for exhalations unbearable to the rest of the 
community. We knew a young lady once, whose 
delight (when in the country) was to lean over the 
balustrades and blow out the lamps, the fumes from 
the viscous gases of which she thought exquisite, as 
reminding her of the opera! Again, with us, a pass- 
ing “sniff” will recall the minute details of some 
scenes of interest long past, or remind, us of circum- 
