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 Rh NOTES.

THE "Philadelphia Telegraph" is responsible for the following : — "Judge Wallace, afterwards Chief-Justice of Cali fornia, examined ex-Speaker Reed for admission to the bar. It was in 1863, when the Legal-tender Act was much discussed in California, where a gold basis was still maintained. Wallace said: 'Mr. Reed, I understand that you want to be admitted to the bar. Have you studied law?" Yes, sir; I studied law in Maine while teaching.' 'Well,' said Wallace, ' I have one question to ask : Is the Legal-tender Act constitutional?" Yes," said Reed. ' You shall be admitted to the bar,' said Wallace. Tom Bodley, a Deputy Sheriff, who had legal aspirations, was asked the same question, and he said 'No.' 'We will admit you both,' said Mr. Wallace; 'for anybody who can answer offhand a question like that ought to practise law in this country.'"

SOME years ago in a Richmond court, the judge, in passing sentence upon a man who had been convicted of improperly influencing a trial, said : "I owe it to you and others — perhaps more to you than any other — that I am sitting here a Vir ginia judge. You elected me to administer the laws of the Commonwealth with an upright and impartial mind, and to keep pure the courts of justice in Virginia. I know not how better I can justify your expectation and vindicate the wisdom of your choice, believing you to have offended against the laws of the State, than by imposing upon you the highest penalty of the law, — a fine of 500 dollars and costs."

THE advice of Judge Pryor of New York to the jurors in a recent case to read the newspapers reminds us of an incident in the life of the late Gen. A. C. Niven, when he was defending a man indicted for murder in the adjoining county of Orange, fifteen or twenty years of age. The Gen eral reversed the usual practice, and rigorously ex cluded by challenge every man from the jury who had not read the papers containing the full account of the killing, declaring that he wanted only intel ligent men on the jury. He won the case and cleared the man. In this county, some four years ago, counsel in a case examined and re-examined jurymen, as ihey were called, until they succeeded in getting a jury

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who swore they had neither read nor heard any thing about the matter in issue, one member assert ing that he took no papers, had never taken any, and didn't want to take any, and that he had never read anything about the case, although it had been published and commented upon in every paper in the county. The jury decided the case by beating the side whose lawyer had made the most persistent efforts to get a jury of know-nothings. — Monticello Watchman.

CONTENTS OF THE OCTOBER MAGAZINES.

The Arena. The Psychology of Crime, Henry Wood; A Ready Financial Relief, W. H. Van Ormun; Judge Gary and the Anarchists, M. M. Trumbull; Silver or Fiat Money, A. J. Warner; Mr. Ingalls and Political Economy, William J. Armstrong; The South is American. Joshua W. Caldwell; A Continental Issue, Richard J. Hinton. The Atlantic. The Man from Aidone, I. -11 1., Elizabeth Carazza; The Undertime of the Year, Edith M. Thomas; The Isthmus and Sea Power, A. T. Mahan; The Tilden Trust, and why it Failed, James L. High; Two Modern Classicists in Music, in Two Parts : Part One, William F. Apthorp; Tone-Symbols, III., John Hall Ingham; His Vanished Star, VI.-IX., Charles Egbert Craddock; The Hayes-Tilden Elec toral Commission, James Monroe; The Gothenburg System in America, E. R. L. Gould; The Permanent Power of Greek Poetry, Richard Claverhouse Jebb. The Century. Life among German Tramps (illustrated). Josiah Flynt; Plague on a Pleasure-boat (illustrated), JStuart Stevenson; The Cold Meteorite, William Reed Huntington; Taking Napoleon to St. Helena, John R. Glover; Walt Whitman in War-time: Fa miliar Letters from the Capital, Walt Whitman; The Cats of Henriette Ronner (illustrated), Thomas A. Janvier; Frederick Law Olmsted, Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer; The Vanishing City, Richard Wat son Gilder; The Pratt Institute (illustrated), James R. Campbell; Balcony Stories: I. A Delicate Affair, II. Pupasse, Grace King; Street-Paving in America (illustrated), William Fortune; Béranger, С. Coquelin, translated by Walter Learned; The Heir of the McHuIishes. Part II., Bret Harte; Leaves from the Autobiography of Salvini (Conclu sion), Tommaso Salvini; Benefits Forgot, XI. (Con clusion), Walcott Balestier.