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 « Editorial Department. and a young girl, — the judge remarked that this was another instance of the evil effects of " engage ments contracted between May and December." Shortly afterwards the learned judge received a letter from a statistical society intimating that that body would be much obliged if he would favor them with an account of the facts from which he had derived the singular rule enunciated by him as to the infelicity of engagements contracted during certain months of the year, and adding that some of the members wished to utilize the infor mation which might be thus afforded them in the shape of a paper to be read before the society with a view to public discussion. Legal Object Lessons. — II.

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though cut from marble, he replied that he was stabbed an inch and a half to the left of the medi cal line, and about an inch above the umbilicus. And yet we have proved, by three unimpeach able witnesses, that he was stabbed just below the railway-station." The late Lord Eldon had occasion to discharge a coachman whom he suspected of purloining his corn. In a few days after he received a letter from a merchant, inquiring into the man's character, and his lordship's reply was that he was a sober and a good coachman, but he entertained suspicions that he had cheated him. The man came the next morning? to thank his lordship for procuring him so excellent a place. " My master," said he, " was contented to find I was sober and a good coach man; but as to cheating your lordship, he thought it would puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer to do it."

NOTES. Why do American law journals — for instance, the "Weekly Law Bulletin " — write " syllabi " for the plural of " syllabus," instead of " syllabuses "? It is quite doubtful whether " syllabus " can prop erly be called a Latin word, or even a Greek word. On the other hand, there can be no doubt what ever about its having somehow become an Ameri can word, and entitled as such to have " es" added to it to denote its plural. We may hear yet of " omnibi " for " omnibuses," and " ignorami" for " ignoramuses," and " cauci " for " caucuses." — The Indian Jurist.

A COMMON CARRIER.

"Gentlemen of the jury," said a Belfast law yer, " what kind of swearing has been done in this case? Here we have a physician, a man who, from his high and noble calling, should be regarded as one who would scorn to stain his soul with per jury, or be guilty of giving utterance to an untruth. But what did he testify, gentlemen? I put the question to him plainly, as you all heard, ' Where was this man stabbed? ' And what was his reply? Unblushingly, his features as cool and placid as

A recent decision of Chief-Justice Faxson of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania holds that the shooting at live pigeons from traps is not illegal. His honor says, — "It is doubtless true that much pain and suffering is often caused to different kinds of game by the unskilfulness of sportsmen. A squirrel, badly wounded, may yet crawl to his hole, and suffer for many hours or days and die. So with birds. They are often badly wounded, and yet manage to get away only to suffer. It was not pretended that the act applied to such cases. The sportsman in the woods is not responsible for the accuracy of his aim under the Act of 1869. At the same time it is manifest that much