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 Rh Some lady visitors, going through a penitentiary under the escort of the superintendent, came to a room in which three women were sewing. "Dear me! " whispered one of the visitors, "what vicious-looking creatures! Pray, what are they here for?" '' Because they have no other home. This is our sitting-room, and they are my wife and two daughters," blandly replied the superintendent. A juryman in one of the western counties in New York State, at the close of a case in which damages were claimed in consequence of the defendants' swine making an inroad upon a potatopatch, rose and intimated to the Court that there was a point upon which he wished for a little information. "I 'd like to ask that ar witness jest one ques tion, and that 's a question right unto the p'int. Was them ar potatoes rooted up afore they was planted, or arterwards?" A judge and a lawyer were conversing about the doctrine of transmigration of souls of men into animals. "Now," said the judge, " suppose you and I could be turned into a horse or an ass, which would you prefer to be?" "The ass, to be sure," replied the lawyer. "Why? " rejoined the judge. "Because," was the reply, " I have heard of an ass being a judge, but of a horse — never!" Ant attorney said to an Irishman, his client : "Why don't you pay me that six-and-eightpence?" "Why, faith, because I do not owe it to you." "Not owe it to me? Yes, you do; it's for the opinion you had of me." "That 's good, indeed," rejoined Pat; " when I never had any opinion of you in all my life."

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throw himself — or I mean his case — out of court on the ground of insufficiency of evidence." "Well, that 's pretty good," responded another eminent member of the bar; " but what do you think of a justice who acted in the dual capacity of judge and jury? It was up in the country somewhere, in a case of horse-stealing. I think. The lawyers on both sides agTeed to dispense with the 'twelve good men,' and requested the judge to act as jury. He took the request literally. Mount ing the bench, he considered for a long time, and finally consented. He then began the proceedings. Leaving the bench, he filed himself into the jurybox, had himself sworn by the clerk, and heard the evidence. When an objection was made or a law point raised by the lawyers, the 'jury ' left the box, mounted the bench, and passed on it as judge, returning to the jury-box in time to hear the testi mony. After the evidence was all in, he wrote out his instructions as judge, and handing it to one of the attorneys, requested him to read it to the jury. After listening to the instructions in his capacity of jury, he had himself conducted from the room by the sheriff and locked up in the jury-room to consider the case and prepare a verdict." "How long did he stay out?" "Six hours." "What was the verdict?" "He reported that the jury could n't agree, and as judge he discharged himself." Eastern Man. So they caught the murderer? Westerner. Yaas. Eastern Man. Have they tried him yet? Westerner. Not yet. Ain't had time; they've only just got through the lynching. — Harper's Bazar. Lawyer Scriitum is dead. Poor profession the law is t He has left few effects, For he had but few causes. — Judge.

"Talking about justices of the peace," said a well known lawyer, " I heard the other day of a justice, a German with an unpronounceable name, up in Franklin County somewhere, who presided in a case brought by himself for divorce from his wife. After testifying in the case himself and hear ing all the evidence, I '1l be hanged if he did n't

NOTES. In the Romish procedure relating to the canoni zation of saints, one prominent official who takes part in the business is called the Devil's advocate. When the canonization is proposed, it lies on the