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 Rh obliged to work 305 days to satisfy an insatiable landlord, when his cousins across the Channel get off with 30 less, and " be gorra no betther mon, bad luck to the likes of them!" LAW-OFFICE LYRICS. I Cujus Solum. "Vno owns the ground owns up to the sky," Saith the old law book, ' therefore build high, Ye Babelites, nor heed the warning That once confounded Pagans, scorning Nature's just great law of gravity. "Fire-proof," quotha? Earthquake-proof? oh, no! A little tremble, and down you go; — Dame Nature 's not to be cheated so. But worst of all, weariness to eyes, The tiresome bricks tier on tier arise; Dwarfing the homes of modest people, O'ertopping venerated steeple; Monopolizing sun, air, and skies; Leaving below damp obscurities, — What shall I call 'em? (Problem most solemn,) Ah! cujus solam monstrosities.

A MOST curious rent-audit take» place yearly, on November n,at Breitemberg Castle, near Itzehoe. Long ago a Count Rantzan, whilst hunting, nearly sank into a morass. He was rescued by a peasant, whom the count rewarded by the gift of the boggy piece of land, upon the condition that he paid a rent of one Danish silver penny every year. The land, arable now, goes by the name of " Penny Meadow." As Danish silver pennies are becom ing very scarce, the peasant's descendants will probably some day find it difficult to pay the tribute. IT is reported that the Attorney-General of Indiana, in submitting his brief on appeal to the Supreme Court in a recent murder case, said that an examination of the record had left him in doubt as to the prisoner's guilt, and there fore he did not feel it his duty to make any special effort to procure an affirmance of the con viction. This unusual action on the part of the official representative of the State was naturally followed by a reversal of the judgment. This Attorney-General's conduct will, in the popular mind, offer a sharp contrast to that of ' Cujus solum est, ejus usque ad cœlum.— HI.ACKSTONE

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the District Attorney in the Borden case. On ac count of the baseless prosecution of Miss Borden, the current of feeling is now running somewhat against public prosecutors, and the opinion is entertained that they should be more judicial and less like paid advocates in the discharge of their duties. In the Borden case very probably undue zeal of advocacy was shown, and undoubtedly a beset ting fault of District Attorneys is to " make a personal matter " of the case. But, considering the constitution of human nature, a certain amount of failing in this direction is almost inseparable from the discharge of the duties of their office. The Borden case would seem to demonstrate that a District Attorney, who presses a weak case with all the energy due to a strong one, loses in pro fessional standing, and, in the end, in popular prestige — yV Y. Law Journal.

THE career of Seymour D. Thompson, ex-judge of the St. Louis Court of Appeals, reads like a romance. Twenty-five years ago he was an ob scure policeman wearily treading the streets of Memphis, Tenn., and to-day he is the best known law-book writer in the world, and enjoys a yearly income of $25,000 from his books. Wher ever you go in England or Am -rica Thompson's law text books are a familiar sight on every promi nent lawyer's table. — St. Loins Chronicle. Here 's to you, brother Thompson! We wearily tread the streets of Boston, and we have written some books, but there the comparison ends. The $25,000 yearly income lias been diverted from us into another channel. We wondered where it had gone, and are glad to find it in such worthy .hands

CONTENTS OF THE AUGUST MAGAZINES.

The Atlantic

His Vanished Star. III., IV'., Charles Egbert Craddock : Washington the Winter before the War. Henry L Dawes : The Meeting of the Ships. Walter Mitchell; Little Boy Blue. Olive Thorne Miller; The Teaching of the Upanishads, William Davies; A Strategic Movement. Ellen Olney Kirk, Jonathan Belcher. a Royal Governor of Massachusetts. George Edward Ellis: A Boston Schoolgirl in 1771, Alice Morse Earle; The First Principal of Newnliam