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 Rh without extending to him a helping hand. A mere act of omission in certain cases is indictable. "Whoever has refused," says the Danish law, " to help another person in mortal danger, when he could have done so without peril to his own life, and that person has perished in consequence, is liable to either imprisonment or fine." At a large banquet of Irish judges and lawyers two of them sat down before a dish containing only one small fish. One of them drew the fish towards himself, remarking, "This is a fast day with me." The other speared the fish with his fork, and transferred it to his own plate, saying to his pious neighbor : " Jasus! do you think no one has a sowl to be saved but yourself?" — Ibid.

The plaintiff, wife of an attorney at Cartersville, Ga., by her husband as her agent and attorney-at-law, filed a bill to enjoin the water-works company from cutting off the water from their premises, alleging that their bath-tub, which was put in at great ex pense, would be useless, and their ducks, of which it seems they were raising quite a number, would be a great trouble to water, etc., and their shrubbery in the yard would dry up and die. The following is an extract of the answer filed by the defendant's (the water-works company) attorney : — "Without the revenue from the city defendant could not operate its works except at almost a total loss. "Defendant did not build its water-works for the mere purpose of supplying plaintiffs duckpond. "Defendant is anxious to encourage that clean liness which ensues from bathing, but it did not build its water-works for the purpose of supplying plaintiffs one bath-tub. "Plaintiffs shrubbery flourished and was green before defendant began to supply plaintiff with water, and it will continue so, regardless of the water supplied by this defendant, for 'the rain falleth upon the just and the unjust.' Defendant certainly did not erect its water-works at a great expense for the purpose of watering plaintiffs shrubbery, which would hardly make a meal for a hungry cow. "Defendant avers its willingness and desire to

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serve plaintiff and other citizens of Cartersville, Ga., on reasonable terms, but it is not willing to be forced into unreasonable and unconscientable con tracts, however much it may desire that plaintiffs dirty puddle ducks may bathe, and plaintift's agent and attorney may himself wash and be clean, in the pure salubrious water which defendant furnishes at $30.00 per year."

Accent SDeatfjg. Associate Justice Joseph J. Davis, of the Su preme Court of North Carolina, died at Louisburg, N. C, on August 7. Judge Davis was in the sixty-fifth year of his age. His grandfather, William Davis, was a Revolutionary patriot, who lived in Franklin County, where his father, Jona than Davis, was born and resided, dying there, after a long and useful life, in 1842, and where Judge Davis himself was born on April 13, 1828. He was educated at the Louisburg Male Acad emy at Wake Forest and at the University of North Carolina, where in 1850 he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Coming to the bar in that year, he first located at Oxford, but three years later returned to Louisburg, where his prac tice was good until interrupted by the war. When peace was declared, he returned to Louisburg and entered again upon the practice of the law. In 1874 he was nominated for Congress in the Fourth District and was elected, and again in 1876 and 1878. Declining to seek a fourth election, he returned to the practice of the law in 1879. In 1887 he was appointed by Governor Scales to the Supreme Court bench, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Ash, to which position he was elected by the people the following year. Judge Levin T. H. Irving, of the Maryland Court of Appeals, died August 24. Judge Irving was bora on April 8, 1828, in Salisbury, then in Somerset County, and at the age of nineteen graduated from Princeton College. He studied law with his uncle, William W. Handy, who was then a practitioner in this town, and in May, 1849, was admitted to the bar. After practising here for a short while, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he followed his profession successfully. After remain