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THE GREEN BAG. Д PHILADELPHIA lawyer is responsible for •** the following : — Editor of the " Green Bag " : The following lines tell of an actual experience of mine in my practice. Owing to something that oc curred I wrote my client, a German, to bring his wife to my office. It transpired that he had no wife; and when he came he really asked me if it would be necessary for him to get married. Sn-v hn Way out.

Achí Vot is dis? Oh, mine Gott, I vish dot my proberty Vas gone to pot. Mine liar says I must bring My vife down to his office To sign someding. Und says, also, dot he von't Go furter mit de matter, If I yust don't.

BROOKLYN, X. Y., Feb. 18, 1893 Editor of the " Green Bag'' : DEAR SIR, — I notice in your February number of the "Green Bag," on page 102, you state that "at the time of his death General Hutler was the only surviving Volunteer General officer who had served in the war." In this you made an error, for there are many Vol unteer General officers who served in the war alive to-day, and hope to be alive a good many years hence. To make a rough estimate, I should judge there are at least from fifty to one hundred such. In this city there are now, to my knowledge, the following : Tracy (Secretary of Navy), Catlin, Fowler, Molineux, Cullen, Woodford, Pratt, and others I can not now name. Generals Slocum and Howard were volunteers, but were educated at West Point. In New York City I could also mention some names; but I have stated enough to call attention to the error. A READER.

LEGAL ANTIQUITIES. THE "Massachusetts Centinel" in April, 1788, calls attention to the following law of the town of Boston : — To prevent Excess and vain Expense in Mourning, ofc.

Veil, now, dot makes me feel sad. I have n't got me no vife, Und never had. But vaite; ha! I have it now. Dot dere sale vil! not bust for Vant of a frou. I 'II splice mit a gal, und I don't care who, Dot sale of mine proberty must go trou. Yours truly,

WE are indebted to a Brooklyn subscriber for the following correction of an error in our obituary notice of Benjamin F. Butler : —• '9

IT Is HEREBY ORDERED, That in future no scarfs, gloves or rings shall be given at any funeral in this town, nor shall any wine, rum, or other spirituous liquor, be allowed or given at, or immediately before or after, any funeral in this town, under pain that the person or persons giving, allowing or ordering the same shall respectively forfeit and pay the sum of twenty shillings for each offence. And it is further ordered, That whatever male person shall appear or walk in the procession of any funeral in this town with any new mourning or new black or other new mourning coat or waistcoat, or with any other new black apparel, save and except a black crape around one arm, or shall afterward on account of the de cease of any relation, or other person or persons, put on and wear any other mourning than such piece